Princeton Playgoers, Inc. records, 1941-1942
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Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...
Princeton Playgoers, Inc.
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Princeton Playgoers, Inc. was a theater production company formed in 1942, during the wartime period when the engagements of Triangle Club were limited. Princeton Playgoers, Inc. leased McCarter Theatre for the summer of 1942, and staged an impressively busy string of shows, the highlight of which was a weeklong production of Othello starring Paul Robeson. Tickets for the summer theater series were sold on a subscription basis and many of the shows were sold out. The following year McCarter ceas...
McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, N.J.)
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The McCarter Theatre, Center for the Performing Arts, of Princeton, New Jersey offers over 200 performances of theater, dance, music and special events each year. Built in 1929 for Princeton University, in 1973 operation of the theater was transferred to the McCarter Theatre Company, a separate corporation. In 1994 the McCarter Theatre won the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater, the first professional theater in the mid-Atlantic region to be so honored. A non-pr...
Princeton University
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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...
