Sigmund A. Lavine Boston theatre collection 1827-1960

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Sigmund A. Lavine Boston theatre collection 1827-1960

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The Sigmund A. Lavine Boston Theatre Collection consists of over 150 photographs, programs, playbills, newspaper articles, and ephemera that relate to the Boston theatre community between the years 1827 and 1960. The collection materials provide visual images of people involved with the production of and acting in plays in the Boston area, programs of performances in theatres local to Boston, materials used in the production of plays, and papers and newspaper articles in dialogue with the theatre and its community during the specified time period.

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Emerson College, Iwasaki LIbrary

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Emerson College, Iwasaki LIbrary

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Lavine, Sigmund A.

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Sigmund A Lavine was a theatre arts advocate and enthusiast throughout his life. His father was not only the personal representative for John Craig at the Castle Square Opera Repertory Theatre, but Managing Director of the Boston Opera House for the Schubert Organization and general manager for a chain of theatres operated by the forerunner of the General Cinema Corporation. Thus, Lavine grew up and spent his life around literary and theatrical figures such as Edwin Edgett, literary editor of th...