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Lucille Lortel papers

Title: Lucille Lortel papers

The papers of Lucille Lortel relate the details of her life and career from teen years to her death in 1999, and include correspondence, production files, scripts, programs, production photographs, personal and family photographs, organization files, clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. Lucille Lortel's life spanned the twentieth century, so in addition to providing details of her family and personal life her papers encompass many aspects of the theatrical history of her era. Lortel is credited with fostering the Off-Broadway movement and providing a forum for avant-garde and experimental work at her Theatre de Lys. Lortel's productions at the White Barn and the ANTA Matinee Series at the Theatre de Lys brought works by Jean Genet, Sean O'Casey, Athol Fugard, and others to a wider audience. Many of these productions are represented in the collection by correspondence, programs, photographs and clippings. Over the years Lortel also worked closely with several non-profit theaters as a donor and mentor. Her affiliations with Circle in the Square, Circle Repertory Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Yale Repertory Theatre, and other companies are documented in the organization files.

ArchivalResource: 49.61 linear feet; 37 vols. (150 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21631 View

Goodman, Dean,. His life in theatre : an oral history : transcript, 2004 / Dean Goodman ; interviewer, Jeff Friedman ; editors, Sheryl Flatow ... [et al.].

Title: His life in theatre : an oral history : transcript, 2004 / Dean Goodman ; interviewer, Jeff Friedman ; editors, Sheryl Flatow ... [et al.].

Dean Goodman is an actor, director and theatre critic in the Bay Area. His acting career took him to Hollywood, Broadway and on a tour of the United States and Canada. He was acclaimed for his Shakespearian roles. He also performed in musical comedies, in films (Coppola's Tucker, among others), and in television. To recognize the work of other theater professionals in the Bay Area, Goodman created the Dean Goodman Choice Awards. Also, he has been involved in various writing projects, including a comprehensive history of Bay Area theater, a memoir called "Maria, Marlene and Me" (Goodman married Marlene Dietrich's daughter Maria Seiber) and twenty years of weekly columns for Hollywood Drama-Logue.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 1 v. (xxxvi, 81 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm.Original interviews : 3 sound cassettes.

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Ben Shaktman Papers, 1949-2009

Title: Ben Shaktman Papers 1949-2009

Papers of the American playwright and director. Correspondence subject files; production material comprising research, notes, costume sketches, and drafts for plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Ben Shaktman Arnold Wesker and others; manuscripts; printed material (posters, playbills, programs, more); audiovisual material including audiotapes, photographs; material pertaining to The Berliner Ensemble, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and The National Endowment for the Arts; more.

ArchivalResource: 54 linear feet

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Actor's Workshop ephemera, 1955-1966

Title: Actor's Workshop ephemera 1955-1966

Promotional materials, programs, business records, reviews, and other ephemera from the Actor's Workshop, San Francisco.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21786 View