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Performing Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Arts Calendar

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000744
Scope and Contents

Monthly arts newsletter.

Dates: 1982-1985

Patrick T. Bakman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS182
Scope and Contents The collection documents the career of theater director Patrick Bakman. It contains notes on a myriad aspects of production, including cast and technical staff contact lists, rehearsal schedules, costume and prop lists, script revisions and cuts, scene summaries or breakdowns, as well as printed reviews and programs relating to the performance. In addition, there are resource files regarding opera histories, period costumes, furniture and culture, which Bakman used to research and...
Dates: 1891 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1990

John L. Brown Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS205
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The John L. Brown Papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques...
Dates: 1940 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1970

Valerie Lynn Playbill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-161026
Content Description

Playbills and performing arts programs collected by Valerie and Kenneth S. Lynn. Primarily from New York and Washington, D.C., especially Kennedy Center.

Dates: 1950 - 2009

Donn B. Murphy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130630
Scope and Contents note

The Donn B. Murphy Papers contain correspondence, scripts, articles, photographs, and other material relating to the career of Donn B. Murphy as teacher and director of dramatic theater at Georgetown University, primarily, with some material relating to work as director of the National Theater, Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1956 - 2004

Nomadic Theatre: "Lend Me a Tenor" Cast Photo

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030728532]
Identifier: GTA-20220831
Content Description

One color photo of cast members from the Nomadic Theatre's production of "Lend Me a Tenor" posing together, one of whom is in blackface. A statement from Joseph Ravago, Nomadic Theatre's Executive Producer, on the photo and the use of blackface in the production is included.

Dates: 1994

Performing Arts

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030721107]
Identifier: GTA-191126
Content Description

Contains a scrapbook for the 1963 production of Bonaparte! (Calliope IV). The scrapbook includes a program, fliers for the production and for tryouts, cast lists, seating charts, publicity and production photographs, press releases, and hand-written thank you notes to Donn Murphy from students. Also includes 6 black and white photographs from the Stalag 17 production in 1955.

Dates: Event: 1955; 1963

Performing Arts Posters

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-030707b
Dates: 1968, 1988-1994

Performing Arts Posters

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-050831

Performing Arts: Posters

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-060131

Performing Arts: Posters

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-060217

Performing Arts Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-111101

Leonard Reed Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-850101a
Scope and Contents note The Leonard Reed Collection consists of 11 typescripts of various plays and musicals, a book of play synopses, and related materials. These items are contained in 12 folders and arranged in two boxes.The Collection is largely a group of mimeograph typescripts which were in the possession of Joseph Kaye (1898 - 1975). Kaye, a native of the Ukraine and educated in Glasgow, Scotland, was the New York correspondent for The Kansas City Star for more than forty years beginning in the...
Dates: 1925 - 1956

Scrapbooks: Georgetown University Glee Club, 1951-1955 and 1962-1963

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000066-DS
Scope and Contents Two scrapbooks documenting Glee Club activities and containing photographs, concert programs, tickets, flyers, and clippings. Included are: photographs of concerts in Gaston Hall; the program from a concert in McDonough Gym by the National Symphony Orchestra assisted by the Glee Club, November 14, 1952; a clipping announcing the appointment of Vincent Bellwoar, S.J., as Club moderator, ca. 1954; the program from a concert held to benefit the crew team, May 23, 1963; and photographs of Glee...
Dates: 1951-1963; Majority of material found within 1951 - 1963

Serials: Thespian Organization of Georgetown Alumni (TOGA) Newsletter

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000844
Scope and Contents Three issues.Spring 1993 issue includes description of aims of TOGA, article on Black Theatre Ensemble (with photograph of BTE Executive Producer Sylvia Brooks), and article by Donn Murphy re Mask and Bauble lighting work at the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.Winter 1994 issue includes photograph of John Mirvish and article about Nomadic Theatre.Spring 1995 issues includes profiles of Joe Banno and Kathryn Farley and timeline of...
Dates: 1993-1995