Records, 1963-1979.

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Records, 1963-1979.

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Contains production records (e.g., scripts, pilot production materials and script revisions, correspondence with producing theatres, financial records, royalty and miscellaneous reports, promotional materials); also scripts submitted for review; theatre subscription records; general correspondence; business and financial documents; minutes, notes and audiotapes of board members' meetings; audiotapes of sound effects used in productions; press releases; publicity materials; news clippings; photos; historical and miscellaneous materials. Includes production records for many of the most successful plays offered by APT to subscribing theatres including: And people all around (George Sklar), The days between (Robert Anderson), Echoes (Richard Nash), Ivory tower (Jerome Weidman and James Yaffe), Jabberwock (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee), Lady House Blues (Kevin O'Morrison), The night Thoreau spent in jail (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) and Summertree by (Ron Cowen).

ca. 40 cubic ft.

Ohio State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7012873

Ohio State University Libraries

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Sklar, George, 1908-1988

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Playwright. From the description of Reminiscences of George Sklar : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481303 George Sklar, playwright. From the description of Brown pelican : typescript, 1972. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122627064 From the description of And people all around : typescript, 1966, August. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652456 ...

Cowen, Ron

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Weidman, Jerome, 1913-1998

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Epithet: playwright and novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x000274 Jewish American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and essayist; also author of screenplays and creator of the television series "The Reporter." Best known for I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE and the Pulitzer Prize-winning FIORELLO! From the description of Papers, 1934-1990. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Cente...

Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004

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In 1925 high school teacher John T. Scopes was arrested and tried for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow, while the prosecution was represented by William Jennings Bryan. The historical characters' names were changed for this dramatization, which originally premiered on Broadway in 1955. From the description of Inherit the wind / by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, 1996. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: ...

Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994

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Nash, N. Richard

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O'Morrison, Kevin

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American Playwrights' Theatre.

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A non-profit organization of professional playwrights, the American Playwrights' Theatre was established in 1963 at The Ohio State University under executive director David Ayres. APT arranged for new scripts by well-known playwrights to be presented nationally and for the first time by university and local theaters outside New York City. Playwrights instrumental in promoting the American Playwrights' Theatre included Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee and Robert Anderson. From the descr...

Anderson, Robert, 1917-2009

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Robert Woodruff Anderson was born in New York City on April 28, 1917, the son of Myra and James Anderson. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy (1931-35), and at Harvard University, where he received both his A.B. (magna cum laude) in 1939 and his M.A. in 1940. He became a prolific playwright, remembered chiefly for All Summer Long and Tea and Sympathy. From the description of Letters to his parents, 1931-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79392211 Robert W...

Anderson, Robert, 1917-2009

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Robert Woodruff Anderson was born in New York City on April 28, 1917, the son of Myra and James Anderson. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy (1931-35), and at Harvard University, where he received both his A.B. (magna cum laude) in 1939 and his M.A. in 1940. He became a prolific playwright, remembered chiefly for All Summer Long and Tea and Sympathy. From the description of Letters to his parents, 1931-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79392211 Robert W...

Ayres, David

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