Theater program collection. [1972]-1998.

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Theater program collection. [1972]-1998.

Theater programs collected by Vaughan during his employment as theater critic for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Some programs contain his annotations and folded posters and postcards announcing some productions are included for some theaters.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6646900

Related Entities

There are 13 Entities related to this resource.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Lakeshore Players (White Bear Lake, Minn.)

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Illusion Theater Company

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Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (Chanhassen, Minn.).

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Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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The Children's Theatre Company (CTC), a professional theatre company for young audiences, began as The Moppet Players in 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a loan of $100, a room donated by an Italian restaurant and a crew of volunteer artists, technicians and administrators. It was the first full-time children's theatre company in Minnesota. The following year the company moved to an abandoned police station and introduced a program of instruction in creative dramatics, dance and theatre prod...

Old Log Theater (Excelsior, Minn.).

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Chimera Theatre Company (Saint Paul, Minn.).

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Brave New Workshop (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Actor's Theatre of St. Paul (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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Penumbra Theatre Company (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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The Penumbra Theatre Company was founded in 1976 by Lou Bellamy, a St. Paul resident and a professor in the University of Minnesota's theater and dance department. Bellamy was prompted to found the theater in large part because of the paucity of work available in the Twin Cities area for African American performers. Perhaps best known for launching the career of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, the theater's mission is to present productions from an African American perspective a...

Vaughan, Peter

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Guthrie Theater

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The idea of the theater began in 1959 during a series of conversations among Tyrone Guthrie and two colleagues -- Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler -- who were disenchanted with Broadway. They wanted to create a theater with a resident acting company that would perform the classics. In Minneapolis/St. Paul a steering committee was formed to bring theater to the Twin Cities. The T.B. Walker Foundation donated the land behind the Walker Art Center for a building and contributed $400,000 fo...