Theoni V. Aldredge Collection, 1959-2006 1972-1990.

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Theoni V. Aldredge Collection, 1959-2006 1972-1990.

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This collection includes preliminary sketches, completed designs, and fabric samples for costume designs, mainly for the American Ballet Theatre productions. Additionally, it includes Aldredge's portfolio and her notes about the productions. There are also a few supplementary materials (programs, a record album, and a DVD), which were donated to the collection from other sources.

4 linear feet (24 boxes).

DePaul University Library

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DePaul University Library

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DePaul University Special Collections and Archives.

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Aldredge, Theoni V.

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Theoni V. Aldredge, alumna of the Goodman School of Drama, (now The Theatre School at DePaul University) is an award-winning Broadway costume designer. She has designed costumes for Regional, Pre-Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Broadway plays and musicals. She has collaborated extensively with producer Joseph Papp in bringing Shakespeare and other historically important plays to mass audiences through her work with the Public Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival. From the descri...

DePaul University Theatre School.

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American ballet theatre

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The American Ballet Theatre is an American ballet company founded by Oliver Smith and Lucia Chase in 1940. From the guide to the American Ballet Theatre Programs, 1940-1979, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Ballet Theatre, an outgrowth of the Mordkin Ballet which started in 1937 as an outlet for the students from Mikhail Mordkin's school, was inaugarated with Richard Pleasant as director in the fall of 1939. Its stated goal was to ...