Dramatic Workshop records, 1939-1950.

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Dramatic Workshop records, 1939-1950.

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Source material file includes four scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings (Codes 1-4) from 1939 to mid-1950; Bulletins (Codes 5-21) from 1940 to 1950; and programs, playbills, and cast lists for the Studio Theatre, March of Drama, and Dramatic Workshop presentations (Codes 22-101). Many of the programs are undated. Individual card file includes a list of approximately 2,000 people involved with the Dramatic Workshop or its productions in any type of artistic function--as students, teachers, guest lecturers, performers, creative personnel, or technical personnel. Some of the known names include Erwin Piscator and Maria Ley Piscator.

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Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966

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Piscator had emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, settling in New York City, where he founded and led the Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research, and the associated Studio Theatre. From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1943, 1945. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864619 Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 in Greifenstein-Ulm - 30 March 1966) was a German theatrical director and producer who, with Be...

Ley-Piscator, María, 1905-

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New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.). Dramatic Workshop.

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The Department for Dramatic Art of the New School for Social Research became the Dramatic Workshop in 1939. It separated from the New School in 1949, and continued independently into the 50's under the name: Dramatic Workshop and Technical Institute. From the description of Dramatic Workshop records, 1939-1950. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58662749 ...