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Jean Stock Goldstone papers, 1937-1949

Title: Jean Stock Goldstone papers 1937-1949

The Jean Stock Goldstone Papers consist mainly of scripts, letters telegrams and postcards between himself and agents, producers and playwrights. His correspondents include Frieda Fishbein, John C. Flinn, George Freedley, Irving Hoffman, Walter F. McCaleb, Albert Maltz, Stuart Mims and Otto Preminger, among others. Scripts include a revised copy of the musical BARNUM!, an Equity Library adaptation of FAUST, a script by P.G. Wodehouse, and various plays by Marcus Bach. The collection spans the years 1937-1961.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21303 View

George Grosz papers, 1893-1981 (inclusive) 1919-1959 (bulk).

Title: George Grosz papers, 1893-1981 (inclusive) 1919-1959 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, speeches, autobiographies and other papers of the German artist George Grosz.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00452/catalog View

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). War and Peace / by Leo Tolstoy ; adapted by Erwin Piscator, translated by Robert David MacDonald, 1988 - Teacher's Study Guide.

Title: War and Peace / by Leo Tolstoy ; adapted by Erwin Piscator, translated by Robert David MacDonald, 1988 - Teacher's Study Guide. 1988.

ArchivalResource: 2 copies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627420235 View

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). War and Peace / by Leo Tolstoy ; adapted by Erwin Piscator ; translated by Robert David MacDonald ; directed by Duncan McIntosh, 1988 - Production Photos.

Title: War and Peace / by Leo Tolstoy ; adapted by Erwin Piscator ; translated by Robert David MacDonald ; directed by Duncan McIntosh, 1988 - Production Photos. 1988.

ArchivalResource: 3 files : 1 b&w photo, 20 x 25 cm. ; 12 b&w contact sheets, 21 x 28 cm. ; 433 col. slides ; 25 col. transparencies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627420232 View

Living Theatre records, 1945-1991

Title: Living Theatre records 1945-1991

The Living Theatre was founded by Judith Malina and Julian Beck in 1947. The records consist of scripts and related performance papers. Also included are business papers, financial records, clippings, diaries, photographs and correspondence. There is little material reflecting the personal lives of Malina and Beck.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21263 View

George Grosz papers, 1893-1981 (inclusive) 1919-1959 (bulk).

Title: George Grosz papers, 1893-1981 (inclusive) 1919-1959 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, speeches, autobiographies and other papers of the German artist George Grosz.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00452/catalog View

Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.). Living Theatre records, 1945-1991.

Title: Living Theatre records, 1945-1991.

The Living Theatre Records consist of correspondence, financial papers, legal papers, production files, notebooks and calendars, scripts, programs, photographs, promotional materials, clippings and oversized files relating to its evolution, management and history.

ArchivalResource: 22.5 lf. (63 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122314106 View

H. A. Condell papers, 1929-1969

Title: H. A. Condell papers 1929-1969

H. A. Condell was a stage and costume designer in Germany and in the United States. He received his early training under the notable Max Reinhardt and his early work was under the auspices of the Berlin Civic Opera and the non-Aryan theater (also known as the Jewish Kulterbund), of which he was co-founder. Condell emigrated to the United States in 1938. His first major production after emigrating was SAINT JOAN directed by Erwin Piscator and starring Luise Rainer. In 1944 he began his affiliation with the New York City Opera which continued until his death in 1951. Besides working as a designer, Condell also taught stage design at the Dramatic Workshop and the Technical Institute where he was art director under Erwin Piscator. The H.A. Condell Papers consist of correspondence, contracts, publicity and promotional materials. His papers reflect Condell's professional career as a stage and costume designer for opera and theater in Germany and the United States from 1929 until his death.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 lin. ft.(5 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21288 View

Huntington, Catharine Sargent, 1886-1987. Papers, 1919-1973

Title: Catharine Sargent Huntington papers, 1919-1973 (inclusive).

Collection contains personal and professional correspondence, scripts, actor's sides, journals, minutes, accounts, contracts, original designs, photographs, posters, programs, publicity, clippings, a sound recording, and a scrapbook relating primarily to the Little Theatre movement in New England, particularly in the Boston area and on Cape Cod.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612378972 View

Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1929-1937.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1929-1937.

This correspondence concerns Dreiser's dealings with Piscator through several agents. Because it is overwhelmingly legally oriented, it has been filed with other legal matters and not in the alphabetical correspondence file.

ArchivalResource: 253 items (545 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155895926 View

Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of portraits, ca., ca., 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Theatre Arts Monthly collection of portraits, ca. ca. 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Portrait and group portrait photographs of theatre-related people.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02021/catalog View

Wolfgang Roth Collection, 1910-1960s

Title: Wolfgang Roth Collection 1910-1960s

The collection is primarily made up of photographs from circa 1930s-1950s of family, friends, and colleagues of the set designer Wolfgang Roth.

ArchivalResource: 7

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=481379 View

Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984, inclusive

Title: Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya 1890-1984, inclusive

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the German-American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and the German-American actress and singer Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)

ArchivalResource: 107 boxes (47 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0030 View

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). War and Peace / by Leo Tolstoy ; adapted by Alfred Neumann, Erwin Piscator and Guntram Pruefer ; translated by Robert David MacDonald ; directed by Duncan McIntosh ; technical drawings by John Ferguson, 1988.

Title: War and Peace / by Leo Tolstoy ; adapted by Alfred Neumann, Erwin Piscator and Guntram Pruefer ; translated by Robert David MacDonald ; directed by Duncan McIntosh ; technical drawings by John Ferguson, 1988. 1988.

ArchivalResource: 10 drawings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627420228 View

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.). Dramatic Workshop. Dramatic Workshop records, 1939-1950.

Title: Dramatic Workshop records, 1939-1950.

Source material file includes four scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings (Codes 1-4) from 1939 to mid-1950; Bulletins (Codes 5-21) from 1940 to 1950; and programs, playbills, and cast lists for the Studio Theatre, March of Drama, and Dramatic Workshop presentations (Codes 22-101). Many of the programs are undated. Individual card file includes a list of approximately 2,000 people involved with the Dramatic Workshop or its productions in any type of artistic function--as students, teachers, guest lecturers, performers, creative personnel, or technical personnel. Some of the known names include Erwin Piscator and Maria Ley Piscator.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58662749 View

John Randolph Papers, Bulk, 1940-1999, 1918-1999, (Bulk 1940-1999)

Title: John Randolph Papers Bulk, 1940-1999 1918-1999, (Bulk 1940-1999)

Born Emanuel Hirsch Cohen in the Bronx, New York on June 1, 1915, Randolph was renamed Mortimer Lippman at the age of 12 when his mother remarried, and finally emerged as the actor, John Randolph. He began his acting career in the 1930s with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway role came courtesy of the Project when he appeared in in 1938. His final Broadway appearance was as a replacement for the lead in in 1991. He won the prestigious Tony Award for his performance in Neil Simon’s . In January 1942, while on the road with a production of starring Canada Lee, John married actress Sarah Cunningham of Greenville, South Carolina, Shortly thereafter he was drafted into the Army Air Corps where he served for the next four years. Television found Randolph in 1948 and lost him in 1951 when he was blacklisted. During the blacklist period he continued to work in theatre and developed new performance opportunities with his fellow blacklistees’ actress Phoebe Brand, educator Frederic Ewen, and his wife, Sarah. In August of 1955 John and Sarah both appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) where they both invoked the Fifth Amendment. Randolph’s television career began to revive slowly in the early 1960s. His film career got off to a strong start in 1966, when he played a banker who undergoes surgery and awakens as Rock Hudson in John Frankenheimer’s . He made his final film appearance in 2003. A champion of civil rights, a fighter for more opportunities for performers of color, a lifelong supporter of progressive causes, John Randolph, actor and activist, was silenced by death in Los Angeles, California on February 24, 2004. The collection consists of Randolph’s personal and professional files, reflecting his passions for acting, activism, social justice and his intense relationship with his wife, Sarah Cunningham. The materials range from their correspondence during World War II, to opening night telegrams for various Broadway productions, to performance pieces used during the blacklist period and Randolph’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) file. Coriolanus Prelude to a Kiss Broadway Bound Native Son Seconds

ArchivalResource: 9.0 linear feet; (9 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/wag_255/wag_255.html View

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

Title: The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

The Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya contain manuscript scores and sketches of Weill's music, including 8 American stage works, 2 German stage works, and other major compositions and smaller pieces. The Papers also hold photocopies of holograph scores from Weill's German period which are housed in the Archives of Universal-Edition, Vienna. The careers of Weill and Lenya are documented by: correspondence to and from their families, friends, and collaborators; programs; photographs, including pictures of musical productions by Weill and Lenya's film appearances; personal documents; and 20,000 newspaper clippings from the Berlin years.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear ft. (107 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501258 View

Sam Jaffe Papers, 1915-1991, (bulk 1925-1984)

Title: Sam Jaffe Papers 1915-1991 (bulk 1925-1984)

Actor. Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating to Jaffe’s career as an actor and his personal life including his experience as a blacklisted actor in the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 1,175 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007023 View

Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966. Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1943, 1945.

Title: Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1943, 1945.

2 items comprise an exchange subsequent to Piscator's having expressed interest in producing Werfel's play Jacobowsky and the Colonel. 1 item concerns a memorial service for Romain Rolland.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155864619 View

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

Title: The papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1890-1984 (inclusive).

The Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya contain manuscript scores and sketches of Weill's music, including 8 American stage works, 2 German stage works, and other major compositions and smaller pieces. The Papers also hold photocopies of holograph scores from Weill's German period which are housed in the Archives of Universal-Edition, Vienna. The careers of Weill and Lenya are documented by: correspondence to and from their families, friends, and collaborators; programs; photographs, including pictures of musical productions by Weill and Lenya's film appearances; personal documents; and 20,000 newspaper clippings from the Berlin years.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear ft. (107 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702188923 View

Klein, Robert, 1892-1958. Robert Klein papers, 1909-1957.

Title: Robert Klein papers, 1909-1957.

The Robert Klein papers consist of both personal and professional correspondence, papers from organizational affiliations in the United States and Europe, materials regarding projects, articles written by Klein and ephemera documenting his careeer both in the United States and in Europe.

ArchivalResource: 3.13 lf. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346260 View

Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966. Erwin Piscator papers, 1930-1971.

Title: Erwin Piscator papers, 1930-1971.

The Erwin Piscator papers document Piscator's work during the periods 1936-1951 when he was in France and the United States and 1962-1966 when he was in Germany. The collection contains a large amount of correspondence to and from Erwin Piscator; manuscripts by Erwin and Maria Piscator, as well as various other authors; play and production manuscripts; records of various kinds (financial, educational, publicity, miscellaneous, photographic); and a guide, Classification and Arrangement of Papers, for further details. The manuscript collection includes Erwin Piscator's papers, influenced by and concerning to a great extent the problems and main figures of the international theatre. The collection also includes manuscripts of various authors (1920-1970) which concern theatre matters. The collection also contains financial records, a large number of educational records from 1940-1961, publicity records (1930-1970), and large number of photographic records as well as printed ephemera and Picastor's diaries which begin in August 1912 and end approximately in 1917. The beginning marks the time when Piscator left school (Gymnasium), at which time he was confronted with the question of the choice of a profession. The diaries end with the time when Piscator served as a soldier in the trenches of Flanders. There are about 280 loose pages of poems and prose. These pages had been bound in different copy books but were ripped out later apparently by Piscator himself when he wrote the fair copies. There are many poems in loose pages which reappear later in one of the diaries.

ArchivalResource: 201.00 boxes : (97.5 linear feet; 11 packages)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318993029 View

Delafield, Eugene. Eugene Delafield collection on American poetry, 1904-1968.

Title: Eugene Delafield collection on American poetry, 1904-1968.

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, and other material by or relating to the writers Laura Benét, William Rose Benét, Alfred Kreymborg, and Leonora Speyer. Most correspondence in the collection concerns literary matters. The Laura Benét material consists of outgoing letters, writings, and printed ephemera. There are letters from Benét to Eugene Delafield, Alfred Kreymborg, Henry Goddard Leach, and Marianne Moore. The writings include drafts, some heavily corrected, and printed versions for approximately thirty-five poems; poems include presentation and publication dates, possibly in the hand of Eugene Delafield. The William Rose Benét material consists of correspondence and drafts of three poems. There are outgoing letters from Benét to Eugene Delafield, Alfred Kreymborg, family members, and others, and one third party letter from Norman Corwin to Eugene Delafield. The Alfred Kreymborg material consists of correspondence and printed ephemera. There are single letters and small groups of letters with the following individuals: Conrad Aiken, Katharine Lee Bates, Maxwell Bodenheim, David Diamond, Archibald MacLeish, Martha Millet, Erwin Piscator, Paul Rosenfeld, Lew Sarett, Elie Siegmeister, Genevieve Taggard, and Ridgely Torrence, among others. The Leonora Speyer material includes correspondence, copies and printed versions of nine poems, and other papers. The Speyer material also includes outgoing letters to Eugene Delafield, Alfred Kreymborg, and Henry Goddard Leach.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702183758 View

Condell, H. A. (Heinz A.). H.A. Condell papers, 1929-1969.

Title: H.A. Condell papers, 1929-1969.

The H.A. Condell Papers consist of correspondence, contracts, publicity and promotional materials.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 lin. ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571072 View

Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records. 1927-1949.

Title: Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records

The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars was formed in New York City in 1933 by American academicians for the purpose of employing refugee German scholars in American institutions. Many of these refugee scholars were Jews displaced by the National Socialist government. The collection consists chiefly of grant files on refugee scholars who applied for aid from the Committee. The records also include correspondence with other refugee and philanthropic organizations and with the educational institutions which accepted refugee scholars.

ArchivalResource: 98.46 linear feet (222 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/922 View

Lania, Leo, 1896-1961. Papers, 1916-1959.

Title: Papers, 1916-1959.

Papers of the journalist, propagandist, and writer Lazar Herrmann who worked under the pen name Leo Lania.

ArchivalResource: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes); plusadditions of 0.4 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145771112 View

Robert Klein papers, 1909-1957

Title: Robert Klein papers 1909-1957

The Robert Klein papers consist of both personal and professional correspondence, papers from organizational affiliations in the United States and Europe, materials regarding projects, articles written by Klein and ephemera documenting his careeer both in the United States and in Europe. The materials are in English and German and there is much in the collection from the 1930s dealing with Max Reinhardt. Later materials in the collection document his career as a professor of drama in United States colleges.

ArchivalResource: 3.13 lf. (8 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21325 View