Playwrights' Producing Company records 1930s-1960

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Playwrights' Producing Company records 1930s-1960

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Press Department files (1930s-1960) of the Playwrights' Producing Company (also known as the Playwrights' Company), a theatrical producing company founded in 1938 by playwrights Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert Sherwood, and Sidney Howard.

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6312567

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Fields, William

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Playwrights' Producing Company

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The Playwrights' Producing Company, a theatrical production company also know as the Playwrights' Company, was founded in New York in 1938. The original group of partners were playwrights Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman (withdrew in 1946), Elmer Rice, Robert Sherwood, and Sidney Howard (d. 1939). John R. Wharton supplied legal and management advice. Kurt Weill joined the Company in 1946 and Robert Anderson joined in 1953. The group produced plays written by its members and other playwrights. The ...

Alford, Walter

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