Contents


Collection Overview

Historical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Organization of the Collection

Search Terms

Series 1: DRAMATIC PRODUCTIONS

Series 2: THEATERS

Series 3: THE MASQUERS

Series 4: DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC ARTS

Series 5: HISTORY OF DRAMATICS AT AMHERST COLLEGE

Series 6: FIVE COLLEGE THEATER AND DANCE

Series 7: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECT FILES

Series 8: SCRIPTS AND MUSIC SCORES

Series 9: POSTERS

Series 10: SLIDES

Series 11: AUDIO RECORDINGS

Series 12: VIDEO RECORDINGS

Series 13: COSTUME DESIGN

Series 14: OBJECTS

Dramatic Activities Collection, 1826-ongoing

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Ralph McGoun, Jr., Peter Nelson, Claudia Gunter, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Daria D'Arienzo.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

© 2003

Collection Overview

Title: Dramatic Activities Collection
Dates: 1826-ongoing
Abstract: The Collection includes surviving programs, scripts, photographs and slides, set and costume designs, publicity material and posters, clippings, audio and video material, and an odd object or two that chronicle the conceptualization, creation, production and review of hundreds of College dramatic performances during the last 180 years.
Extent: 37 records storage boxes, 12 map case drawers, 5 flat boxes, 6 slide drawers, 1 slide album (2 v.), 1 scrapbook(45.5 linear ft.)
Language: English.

Historical Note

Professor Ralph C. (Tuffy) McGoun (AC 1927) is responsible for creating the Dramatic Activities Collections between 1978 and 1984. McGoun, who was professor of Dramatics and the lighting and technical director for College productions, had been responsible for ensuring much of the 20th century documentation was saved in Kirby Theater. After McGoun retired, he became a dedicated volunteer in the College Archives. McGoun facilitated the transfer of the material preserved in Kirby. He worked with the Theater Department to transfer appropriate material. He added many items he had personally saved during his more than 60 years at the College. McGoun identified 19th century material from what has been the College's memorabilia in the former Hitchcock Memorial Room and brought it together into the developing Dramatic Activities Collection. While arranging and describing the collection, McGoun searched contemporary accounts of productions in College and local and national publications and added those accounts to the collection. He searched scrapbooks, bound volumes and photograph albums kept by students and identified and added any items that chronicled the dramatic arts at the College. He also arranged for ongoing transfer of material documenting College productions from the Department of Theater and Dance. Thus the Dramatic Activities Collection is a growing collection.

Between 1978 and 1984, Professor McGoun collected, arranged and described the nucleus of this comprehensive collection. Since different items were received at various times from different sources and were pulled together to form a collection, there was no original order to maintain. Additional items are added regularly and the listing amended. The original guide to the collection was in the form of a card catalogue providing alphabetical access by title of production to a chronological arrangement of material. The original card catalogue also included access to material by format and by general subjects relating to dramatic activities at the College. In 2002, the original card file was transferred into machine readable format. The collection was organized into 14 series reflecting the different formats and subjects represented in the collection. Access to the primary series, Dramatic Productions, was expanded to three access points - author of the play, title of the production and date of the performances.

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Historical Note

1822 Commencement exercises featured formal 'dialogues.' The 1822 program featured 'The Turkish Oppression' and 'The Gospel Carried To India'
1832(?) Literary Societies, especially the Athenian Society, began to include short comedies or farces in their programs.
1870 Jun The Naval Dramatic Association presented two short plays on a program with music to raise funds for rowing. Only one show was given.
1874 Unsuccessful attempt by the students to form a Thespian 'Society'
1879 Jun Glee Club produced (Gilbert & Sullivan's) HMS Pinafore in College Hall. It was the first full-length production at Amherst College, with town women.
1881 Senior Dramatic Company held joint production with Glee Club.
1882 W. Clyde Fitch (AC 1886), future distinguished American playwright, entered Amherst as a Freshman. He established a reputation as an actor playing the leading female parts in the College dramatic productions.
1883 Sole musical production by Glee Club Dramatics.
1883-1905 Yearly full-length plays produced by Senior Dramatic Company. At first these plays were produced and acted entirely by members of the senior class. Later a few lowerclassmen were used, especially in female roles.
1906-1916 Dramatic Association organized plays that were produced and acted by members of all classes.
1914 Amherst Stock Company started by members of the Class of 1914 in their freshmen year. The company continued until March 1915. The Class of 1914 also made one final production at their 25th reunion.
1916 Everett Glass (AC 1914) appointed first full-time dramatics coach.
1917 Feb The Amherst Masquers were formed by Everett Glass (AC 1914) to include all students of the college. It introduced women in female roles.
1922 E.A. Richards (AC 1922) succeeded Glass as dramatics coach
1926-1954 F. Curtis Canfield (AC 1925) served as Director for the Masquers (except during his service during WWII)
1933 Summer: Masquers travel to Vienna to perform three plays in the Schönbrunn Theatre
1937 Work begins on the new Kirby Memorial Theater, named for Philadelphia surgeon, Dr. Ellwood R. Kirby whose estate provided the fund through his charitable trust
1938-1971 Ralph C. (Tuffy) McGound (AC 1927) served as lighting and technical director for college dramatic productions.
1938 Nov 3 First performance in the new Kirby Theater, 'High Tor'
1939-1970 Charles E. Rogers designed sets and costumes for College dramatic productions.
1939 Mar 17 Formal opening and dedication of Kirby Theater
1943 Oct-1946 Mar Kirby Dance Guild and Kirby Theater Guild formed and managed by Professor Charles E. Rogers.
1949 Masquers appeared in 5 performances of 'Julius Caesar' in the Elizabethan Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The April 3, 1949 performance was televised by the National Broadcasting Company, making it the first American televised full-length performance of a Shakespeare play
1955 Dec The Drama Association was formed by a group of students to give play readings. No record of any performances.
1968-1974 Stone Theater Group performed plays in Stone Basement Theater.
1968 Apr First performance by '70 Players,' a student group formed by James Andrew Kalter '70 to give students more opportunity to produce plays outside of the direction of the Department of Dramatic Arts.
1973-1974 New Cell Theater Ensemble was formed by Christopher Torch '74 to produce Avant-garde and experimental plays.
1976 Feb Gilbert & Sullivan Society produced 'The Sorcerer' in Cole Assembly Room. The group later performed 'Ruddigore' at Mount Holyoke College.
1986 Nov 'Spectrum III,' the first program of original plays, performed by Black Students in Backroom.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Dramatic Activities Collection documents the history of dramatics at Amherst College, beginning in 1822. The Collection includes surviving programs, scripts, photographs and slides, set and costume designs, publicity material and posters, clippings, audio and video material, and an odd object or two that chronicle the conceptualization, creation, production and review of hundreds of College dramatic performances during the last 180 years. The collection grows as the College creates new productions. The Collection occupies approximately 41 linear feet of shelf space plus 12 flat file drawers.

The breadth of this collection is unusual - documenting all student performances, from the earliest "dialogues" performed at the first commencement in 1822, to the ceremonial prank burnings of mathematics textbooks in effigy after surviving the sophomore year; to complete set and costume designs for the Masquers performances for 30 years; to the extensive photographic documentation of performances beginning in the 1880s; to the masks used in several of the performances. In addition to this documentation of performance, the collection chronicles the history of student dramatic groups, documents the relationship of the theater in the Five College environment, and contains records of courses offered in the dramatic arts at Amherst for 50 years.

While the Dramatic Activities Collection is most useful in its relationship to the history of Amherst College, is it also an excellent source for studying the history of student activities and dramatic expression during the 19th and 20th centuries and the changing attitudes toward such things during that time.

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into fourteen series:

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Series 1: DRAMATIC PRODUCTIONS

Series 1, DRAMATIC PRODUCTIONS, makes up the bulk of the collection and includes programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials documenting particular dramatic productions.

Arranged chronologically.
Credulity and Quackery 1826 Jul


Major Andre 1826 Jul


Cranioscopy: A Colloquy 1831 Aug


Athenae Society - One Act Plays 1832 Jun


Two One-Act Plays 1832 Jun


Athenae Society - One Act Plays 1832 Nov


Two One-Act Plays 1832 Nov


Author In A Quandary, The 1836 Nov


Novae Res 1836 Nov


Family Pride 1837 Nov


Human Nutur (?) 1837 Nov


Rivals, The 1843 Jun


Prometheus Bound, a scene in translation 1845 Jul


Woman of Trachis, The- A scene in translation 1846 Apr


Miser, The 1852 Jun


Cattle Show 1858


Funeral Services and Wake at the Burial of S. Gunn, X-Member of the Class of 1860 1858 Oct


Nocturnal Cattle Show 1860 Fall


Wacks Phigs 1866 Jun


Burial Rites of ye Classics and Mathematic 1866 Jul


Picture Play 1867


Funeral Ceremonies of Ye Much Revered Conics 1867 Jul


Robert Emmet, A Dramatic Colloquy in Two Acts 1867 Nov


Burial of Alcestis 1868 Jul


Columbus A Dramatic Colloquy 1869 Feb


Ici on Parle Francais 1870 Mar


Concrematio Geometriae atque Algebrae 1870 May


Minstrels 1870 May


Menagerie 1870 Jun


Minstrels 1870 Jun


Naval Dramatic Association 1870 Jun


Regular Fix, A 1870 Jun


Turn Him Out, or, Out Damned Spot 1870 Jun


Boots at the Swan 1871 Feb


Funebria Matheseos 1871 Jul


Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The 1872 Jan


Ululatio Pro Sepulchro Mathematicorum 1872 Jul


Dramatic Recitations and Readings 1873 Feb


Crematis Mathematicorum 1873 Jul


Mrs. Jarley's Great Moral Wax-Works and Shadow Pantomimes 1873 Oct


Christmas Carol 1873 Dec


Cinderella 1873 Dec


Little Bo-Peep 1873 Dec


Crematio 1874 Jul


Michael Erle; or, the Maniac Lover! 1875 Jan


That Rascal, Pat 1875 Jan


Math. E. Matica! Obit 1875 Jul


Hour in Fairy Land, An 1875 Sep


Dramatic Recitations and Readings 1875 Oct


East Lynne 1875 Nov


Cricket on the Hearth 1876 Feb


Limerick Boy, The 1876 Feb


Among the Breakers 1876 May


Persecuted Dutchman 1876 May


Cox and Box 1876 Jun


Sleeping Queen, The 1876 Jun


Cox and Box 1876 Oct


Son and Stranger 1876 Oct


New Entertainment 1877 Oct


Golden House 1877 Nov


Picture Play 1878


My Turn Next 1878 Nov


Pickwick 1879 (?)


H. M. S. Pinafore 1879 Jun


Dramatic Recitations and Readings 1879 Nov


Dramatic Recitations and Readings 1879 Dec


Cremation of "Chicky Red tape" 1880


Mock Trial 1880 Feb


Box and Cox 1880 Dec


Class Day 1880 Dec


Lord Lovel and Lady Nancy Bell 1881 Mar


Class Day 1881 Jun


Cox and Box 1881 Jun


Romeo and Juliet, a New Travesty 1881 Jun


Final Gathering of the Class of '84 For the Furtherance of Mathematical Inquiry and the Solution of Abtruse Geometro-Algebraico-Trigonomical Formulae 1881 Nov


Dramatic Recitations and Readings 1881 Dec


Babes In The Woods, The 1881-1883


Convivial Onion, The 1882 (?)


Ici on Parle Francais 1882 Mar


Social Young'uns 1882 Jun


Anna Lytt - Funeral Pageant 1882 Nov


Minstrels 1882 Dec


Who is Who, or, Bound to Be a Masher!; Who's Who, or, All in a Fog 1883 Feb


Who is Who, or, Bound to Be a Masher!; Who's Who, or, All in a Fog 1883 Feb


Amateurs and Actors 1883 Mar


Desperate Game, A 1883 Mar


Minstrels 1883 Mar


Turn Him Out 1883 Mar


Who is Who, or, Bound to Be a Masher!; Who's Who, or, All in a Fog 1883 Mar


New Rip Van Winkle, a Travesty of College Life in the Olden Time, The 1883 May


Hamlet, a Travesty 1883 Jun


My Uncle's Suit, or, In Possession 1883 Jun


Fair Barbarian, A 1883 Nov


Mattie Matix, the Cremation of Mathematics 1883 Nov


Parlor Theatricals at Professor E.P. Crowell's 1883 Dec


Cremation of Miss Algie Bra 1883 Dec 17


Minstrels 1884


Picture Play 1884


Comedy Concert 1884 Feb


I Shall Invite the Major 1884 Feb


Turn Him Out 1884 Feb


Betsy Baker 1884 Mar


Love in Ambush 1884 Mar


Minstrels 1884 Mar


On and Off 1884 Mar


Pyramus and Thisbe 1884 Mar


She Stoops to Conquer 1884 Mar


Il Jacobi 1884 May


Comedy in the Dark, A or, Who Pasted the Bills? 1884 Jun


Freshman Circus (AC 1886) 1884 Jun


Humorous and Dramatic Recitals 1885 Jan


Il Jacobi 1885 Jan


Pyramus and Thisbe 1885 Jan


Thos. Nash's Artistic Entertainment 1885 Jan


Boots at the Inn 1885 Feb


Rivals, The 1885 Feb


Coal-Heavers Revenge, The 1885 Mar


Minstrels 1885 Mar


Mock Trial 1885 Mar


Sleeping Car, The 1885 May


Freshman Bonfire- Relics and Ruins 1885 Jun


Goodrich's Grand Dime Circus 1885 Jun


Tennyson Evening 1885 Jul


Summer School Shakespeare Company 1885 Aug


Electra 1885 Oct


Turned Head, The 1885 Dec


Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The 1886


Bamboozling 1886 Feb


Country Girl, The 1886 Feb


Histoire de l'Amour de Marie Jeanne 1886 Feb


Afrikado 1886 Mar


Garroters, The 1886 Mar


Peculiar Proposals 1886 Mar


Mikado, The 1886 Apr


Bloods 1886 Nov


Dramatic Recitations and Readings 1887 Feb


My Turn Next 1887 Feb


Turn Him Out 1887 Feb


Home 1887 Mar


Sullivan the Slugger 1887 Mar


Suspended Animation, or, Freezing a Mother-in-Law 1887 Mar


Esther, the Beautiful Queen 1887 May


Private Secretary, The 1887 Jun


Much Ado About Nothing 1887-1888


Second Sight, or Your Fortune for a Dollar 1888


Minstrels 1888 Feb


Minstrels 1888 Mar


Minstrels 1888 Apr


Old Heads and Young Hearts 1888 Jun


What Is It! 1888 Jun


Anna Lytic G. Ometry 1888 Dec


Picture Play 1889


Irish Dragoon, The 1889 Jan


Freezing a Mother-in-Law, or, Frightfully Frosty Front 1889 Mar


Minstrels 1889 Mar


Suspended Animation, or, Freezing a Mother-in-Law 1889 Mar


Katharine, a Travesty on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" 1889 Jun


Minstrels 1890 May


Mock Trial 1891 Mar


Pygmalion and Galatea 1891 Mar


Mock Town Meeting 1891 May


Button, The (German) 1891 Aug


The Kaffe Klack (sic) correct spelling is "Der Kaffee Klatch" 1891 Aug


Lend Me a Wife 1892


Case of Eviction, A 1892 Feb


Minstrels 1892 Feb


Mock Conversation 1892 Mar


David Garrick 1892 Jun


Letre Chargie, La (in French) 1892 Aug


Sleeping Car, The 1892-1895


Minstrels 1893 Jan


Lend Me Five Shillings! 1893 Feb


Mignon 1893 Feb


April Fools 1893 Mar


Two Buzzards, or, Whitebait at Greenwich 1893 Mar


Minstrels 1893 May


Night Off, A, or, A Page From Balzac 1893 Jun


Pipes and Perdition 1894 Feb


Two Bonnycastles, The 1894 Feb


Under A Spell 1894 Feb


He's a Lunatic 1894 Mar


Rehearsal at the Pudding, A 1894 Mar


Minstrels 1894 Apr


Under the Laurels 1894 May


Woman Hater, The 1894 May


Souris, La 1894 Jul


Un Crane Sous une Tempete 1894 Jul


Retour du Japon, Le 1894 Aug


Une ou l'autre, L' 1894 Aug


Picture Play 1895


Greatest Show on Earth, The 1895?


My Lord in Livery 1895 Feb


Minstrels 1895 May


Miss Jerry, a Picture Play 1895 May


Their Mother-in-Law 1895 Jun


Grammaire, La (in French) 1895 Jul


Knopf, Ein (in German) 1895 Aug


Dummy, The 1896 Feb


Bicyclers, The 1896 Mar


Rivals, The 1896 Mar


Slasher and Crasher 1896 Mar


Vaudeville 1896 Jun


Visite aL'Exposition de Chicago, Une 1896 Jul


Eigensinn (in German) 1896 Aug


Trinummus 1896 Nov


Minstrels 1897 Jan


I've Written to Browne 1897 Feb


Tulu 1897 Feb


Private Secretary, The 1897 Jun


Eine Tasse Kaffee 1897 Jul


Petit Magicien, Le 1897 Jul


Revolving Wedge 1897 Dec


Irish Tutor, The 1898 Mar


All the Comforts of Home 1898 Apr


Einer Musst Heiraten (Einer Mußt Heiraten) 1898 Aug


La Cicale Chez Les Fourmis 1898 Aug


Serment D'Horace, Le 1898 Aug


Class Day 1899 Feb


Poison 1899 Feb


Magistrate, The 1899 Mar


Letre Chargie, La (in French) 1899 Aug


Retour du Japon, Le 1899 Aug


Six to One 1899 Aug


Captives, The 1899 Nov


Engaging Position, An 1900 Feb


Double Shuffle, A 1900 Mar


Hunting for Hawkins 1900 May


Mouse Tamer, The 1900 Jun


Les Deux Sourds 1900 Aug


Nein (in German) 1900 Aug


Phormio 1900 Nov


Hector 1901 Jan


Scientific Experiment, A 1901 Jan


Dandy Dick 1901 Mar


Ici on Parle Francais 1901 Mar


My Awful Chum 1901 Mar


Monks of Chartreuse 1901 Apr


Minstrels 1901 May


Trinummus 1901 Nov


Family Affair, A 1902 Jan


Bachelor's Request, The 1902 Feb


Minstrels 1902 Feb


Minstrels 1902 Feb


Minstrels 1902 Mar


Professor Robinson 1902 Mar


Royal Guest, The 1902 Mar


Slight Mistakes 1902 Mar


Einer Muss Heiraten (Einer Mu Heiraten) 1902 Jun


Günstige Vorzeichen (in German) 1902 Jun


Köpnickerstrasse 120 (in German) 1902 Jun


Vaudeville 1902 Jun


Captives, The 1902 Dec


She Stoops to Conquer 1902 Dec


Gilded Youth, A 1903 Feb


Guilded Youth, A 1903 Feb


Class Day 1903 Mar


Irish Tiger, The 1903 Mar


Poudre Aux Yeux, La 1903 Apr


Köpnickerstrasse 120 (in German) 1903 May


How to Tame Your Mother-in-Law 1903-1906


Adelphoc 1904 Feb


Rank Deception, A 1904 Feb


Poison 1904 Mar


School for Scandal, The 1904 May


Bogus Detective, A 1905 Feb


Ici on Parle Francais 1905 Feb


On and Off 1905 Mar


Private Secretary, The 1905 Mar


Ripping Off a Few Yards, or, The Bat and the Ball 1905 Mar


Einer Musst Heiraten (Einer Mut Heiraten) 1905 May


Les Deux Sourds 1905 May


Poison 1906 Feb


Rivals, The 1906 Feb


It Was Torrid in Timbuctoo 1906 Mar


John Smith 1906 Mar


Minstrels 1906 Mar


Mock Trial 1906 Mar


Julius Caesar 1906 May


Er Ist Nicht Eifersüchtig (in German) 1906 Jun


Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, Le 1906 Jun


Trinummus 1906 Nov


Ben Greet Players, The 1907


Twelfth Night 1907 Mar


Ten Fights in a Barroom 1907 Apr


Vaudeville 1907 Apr


L'Anglais Tel Qu'on le Parle (in French) 1907 May


Meisterschaft (in German) 1907 May


Meisterschaft (in German) 1907 Aug


Taming of the Shrew, The 1908 Jan


Hotel halfback, The 1908 Feb


Uncle Tom's Cabin, a burlesque 1908 Feb


Relieving Richard 1908 Mar


Flaschmann Als Erzieher 1908 May


Precieuses Ridicules, Les 1908 May


Power of Music, The 1908 Oct


Richard III 1909 Jan


As You Like It 1909 Feb


Miss Civilization 1909 Apr


Trinummus 1909 Apr


Die Ferne Prinzessin (in German) 1909 May


Medecin Malgre Lui, La 1909 May


Sleeping Car, The 1909-1912


King Henry the Fourth, A Reading 1910 Jan


Macbeth 1910 Jan


Much Ado About Nothing 1910 Feb


Garroters, The 1910 Apr


Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (in French) 1910 May


Utter Success, An 1910 Nov


Trinummus 1910 Dec


Doctor Quartz, the Arch-Fiend, or Nick Carter's Hardest Case 1911


Louis the Sand King, or Desperate Fisque's Downfall 1911


Study in Scarlet, A 1911


Scenes from Dickens 1911 Jan-Jun


Romeo and Juliet 1911 Feb


Rich Miss Brown, The 1911 Apr


Patelin, Pierre 1911 May


Captives, The 1912 Jan


Tracked 'Cross the Continent, or The Lure of Gold 1912 Mar


Man from Way East, or, O. Tread's Latest Socialistic Endeavor 1912 Apr


Editor-in-Chief, The 1912 May


Precieuses Ridicules, Les 1912 Jun


Pied Piper (from Robert Browning's poem) 1912 Dec


Fruits of the Wine Cup, The 1912-1913


Doomed by the Danites, or The Black Rider of the Plains 1913 Feb


Taming of the Shrew, The 1913 Feb


Michael Erle; or, the Maniac Lover! 1913 Mar


You Can't Get Away With It 1913 Apr


May Festival (An Old-Time English May Day) 1913 May


Spreading the News 1913 May


Revivale of Lernying at Amherst College, Ye 1913 Jun


Bank Cashier, The 1913 Dec


Villian Foiled !!!, The 1914


Shackles of Fate, The, or The Great White Eye of Buddha 1914 Jan


Everyman 1914 Feb


Sophomore Bat 1914 Feb


These College Boys, or, They Do Beat the Devil 1914 Apr


Her Husband 1914 May


May Festival (La Fiesta) 1914 May


Vaudeville (Her Husband) 1914 May


Everyman 1915 Feb


I.O.U., An 1915 Feb


Trinummus 1915 Nov


Mysterious Mr. Q., The 1915 Dec


Sword of Destiny, The, or The Edge of the Abyss 1916 Feb


Fussing in the Elderberry House at Smith College 1916 Mar


Ready Money 1916 Mar


Gammer Gurton's Needle 1916 Apr


Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil 1916 Apr


Divine Venus, The, or The Nemesis of the Deep 1916 May


Shooting of Dan McGrew, The 1916 May


Philoctetes 1916 Jun


High Cost of Living, The 1916 Dec


Food 1917 Feb


Melon-Theif, The 1917 Feb


Pet of Parson's Ranch, The 1917 Feb


Teja 1917 Feb


Friday the Thirteenth, or Isle of Sheltered Lives 1917 Apr


City, The 1917 May


Aula Road, The 1917 Jun


Beyond 1917 Jun


Hun, The 1917 Jun


Intervention 1917 Jun


Ebenezer Crosby 1917 Oct


Deserter, The; adapted from Richard Howard Davis' novel 1918 May


Importance of Being Earnest, The 1918 May


Vaudeville (The Deserter) 1918 May


His Last Spree 1919 Feb


Way Out, A 1919 Feb


Desmond's Downfall, or Foiled by Radium Rays 1919 May


Florist Shop, The 1919 May


Hundredth Trick, The 1919 May


Lost Silk Hat, The 1919 May


Musical Show (never performed) 1919 May


Shadow, The 1919 May


Vaudeville (Desmond's Downfall, The Shadow) 1919 May


Bonds of Interest 1920 Feb


Cordelia 1920 Feb


Crimson Cocoanut, The 1920 Apr


Interest on Bonds, The or, The Cutters of Melons (Student Musical) 1920 Apr


Escape, The (adapted from Mieux Ici Qu'en Face) 1920 May


Laugh of Waters, The 1920 May


Neighbors O'Mayo 1920 May


Oh, What a Chance 1920 May


Pierette and Pegasus 1920 May


Carrots 1920 Oct


French Players, The 1920 Oct


Olla Podria 1920 Oct


Overtones 1920 Oct


Rip Van Winkle 1920 Oct


Rose and the Ring, The 1920 Oct


Suppressed Desires 1920 Oct


Asaph 1920 Nov


Bright Morning 1920 Nov


Maiden Over the Wall, The 1920 Nov


Uncle Tom's Cabin 1921


Cosmic Urge, The 1921 Mar


Great Divide, The 1921 Mar


New Lady Bantcock, The 1921 Apr


America Passes By 1921 May


Aria Marina 1921 May


Avenues 1921 May


Mystery of the Eligible Man, The, A Musical Fantasy 1921 May


Sham 1921 May


Steady, Eddie! 1921 May


Amherst Milestones, a pageant, 1821-1921 1921 Jun


Patelin 1921 Oct


Rising of the Moon, The 1921 Oct


Glittering Gate, The 1921 Nov


Proposal, The 1921 Nov


Very Naked Boy, The 1921 Nov


Boccaccio's Untold Tale 1921 Dec


In the Shadow of the Glen 1921 Dec


Night at the Inn, A 1921 Dec


Fantasy, A 1922


Easy Mark, An 1922 Jan


Glittering Gate, The 1922 Jan


Patelin 1922 Jan


Auerbach's Cellar (from Faust) 1922 Feb


Bear, The 1922 Feb


Ile 1922 Feb


In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe 1922 Mar


Devil's Disciple 1922 Apr


Truth, The 1922 Apr


Fog, The 1922 May


Gold of the Gods, The 1922 May


Golden Doom, The 1922 May


In for a Night 1922 May


Not Foiled, By Heck!, or, Curse You, Rovers! 1922 May


Pot Boilers, The 1922 May


Choir Rehearsal, The 1922 Oct


Robbery, The 1922 Oct


Brothers 1922 Nov


Sun, The 1922 Nov


Sweeps of '98, The 1922 Nov


Angel Intrudes, The 1922 Dec


Brothers 1922 Dec


Guest for Dinner, A 1922 Dec


Lima Beans 1922 Dec


Sophomore Bat 1923


Greadian Urn, A 1923 Jan


Noble Lord, The 1923 Jan


Box and Cox 1923 Feb


Brothers 1923 Feb


Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh 1923 Feb


Andre 1923 Apr


Box and Cox 1923 May


Don't Do The Van 1923 May


Monkey's Paw, The 1923 May


Tropisms 1923 May


Box and Cox 1923 Jun


Brothers 1923 Jun


Hooligan, The 1923 Nov


How He Lied to Her Husband 1923 Nov


Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The 1923 Nov


Rosencrantz (Rosenkrantz) and Guildenstern 1923 Nov


In the Zone 1924 Feb


Touch of Truth, The 1924 Feb


Wurzel-Fummery 1924 Feb


Three Wise Fools 1924 Mar


Androcles and the Lion 1924 May


Conquest of Yap, The 1924 May


Dr. Fu Manchu, or The Yellow Claw 1924 May


H. M. S. Pinafore 1924 May


Hooligan, The 1924 May


In the Zone 1924 May


Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 1924 May


Dover Road, The 1924 Dec


Mikado, The 1925 Apr


New Sin, The 1925 Apr


Let 'Er Go 1925 May


Oh! The North Countree! (sic) 1925 May


Brotherhood 1925 Nov


Enlightened Monarch, An 1925 Nov


Lost Silk Hat, The 1925 Nov


Moonshine 1925 Nov


You Never Can Tell 1926 Mar


Pirates of Penzance, The 1926 Apr


Oh Mr. Bandit! 1926 May


Saust 1926 May


Hell Bent fer Heaven 1926 Dec


Aria da Capo 1927 Feb


Bumblepuppy 1927 Feb


Crowsnest, The 1927 Feb


Doctor in Spite of Himself, The 1927 Mar


Man with the Flower in his Mouth 1927 Mar


Iolanthe 1927 Apr


March Hares 1927 May


Guardsman, The 1927 Oct


Dear Brutus 1927 Nov


Liliom 1927 Nov


Blind, The 1928 Feb


March Hares 1928 Feb


Pygmalion and Galatea 1928 Feb


Magic 1928 Mar


Patience 1928 Apr


Doctor Faustus 1928 May


Arms and the Man 1928 Dec


Movies 1928 Dec


Hairy Ape, The 1929 Mar


Aria da Capo 1929 May


Epicoene or, the Silent Woman 1929 May


Beggar on Horseback 1929 Dec


Wild Duck, The 1930 Mar


Mikado, The 1930 Apr


Playboy of the Western World, The 1930 May


Escape 1930 Dec


Doctor's Dilemma, The 1931 Mar


Show to End Shows, The 1931 Apr


Ten Nights in a Barroom 1931 Apr


Good Natured Man, The 1931 May


Journey's End 1931 Dec


Richard III 1932 Mar


Genius of the Moment, The 1932 Apr


Imbecile, The 1932 Apr


Iolanthe 1932 Apr


Shadowy Waters, The 1932 Apr


Front Page, The 1932 May


Berkley Square 1932 Dec


Amature Night 1933 Feb


Alcestis 1933 Mar


Enemy of the People, The 1933 Mar


Among Black Hills 1933 Apr


Demagogues, The 1933 Apr


Page Two, Column One 1933 Apr


Emperor Jones, The 1933 May


Iphigenia in Tauris 1933 May


Adding Machine 1933 Jul


Emperor Jones, The 1933 Jul


Front Page, The 1933 Jul


Vienna Tour 1933 Jul


Dance 1933 Oct


Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers 1933 Oct


Animal Kingdom, The 1933 Dec


Moon in the Yellow River, The 1934 Mar




Sauce for the Gander 1934 Apr


Alcestis 1934 May


Hamlet 1934 May


Yellow Jack 1934 Dec


Cinderella 1935 Feb


Ivory Door, The 1935 Feb


Bright Blade, The 1935 Mar


One for the Money 1935 Apr


Old Lady Says 'No'!, The 1935 May


Whistling in the Dark 1935 Nov


Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1935 Dec


Paths of Glory 1936 Mar


George Dandin 1936 Apr


Minstrels 1936 May


Tobias and the Angel 1936 May


Ballet Caravan, The 1936 Oct


Dance 1936 Oct


Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1936 Dec


Green Grow the Liliacs 1936 Dec


Bound East for Cardiff 1937 Feb


In the Zone 1937 Feb


Long Voyage Home, The 1937 Feb


Murder in the Cathedral 1937 Mar


Burrow, The 1937 Apr


Late Christopher Bean, The 1937 May


Three Sisters, The 1937 Dec


Contrast, The 1938 Jan


Grammaire, La (in French) 1938 Jan


La Comedie de Celui qui Epousa une Femme Muette (in French) 1938 Jan


Henry IV, Part I 1938 Mar


Golden Dustman, The 1938 May


Trojan Women, The 1938 May


High Tor 1938 Nov


What Price Glory? 1938 Dec


Movies 1939


Dance 1939 Mar


Mary of Scotland 1939 Mar


Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers 1939 Mar


Winterset 1939 May


Black Rider Rides Again, or Shuttlecocks of Fates, The 1939 Jun


Juno and the Paycock 1939 Nov


Minstrels 1939 Nov


Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1939 Dec


Movies 1939-1940


Movies 1939-1940


Movies 1940


Movies 1940


Peer Gynt 1940 Jan


Peer Gynt 1940 Jan


Iolanthe 1940 Feb


Waiting for Lefty 1940 Feb


Very Warm for Maisie 1940 Mar


Fashion, or Life in New York 1940 May-Jun


No Time for Comedy 1940 Jun


Amherst Drama Festival 1940 Jun-Sep


Biography 1940 Jul


Captain Brassbound's Conversion 1940 Jul


Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The 1940 Jul


Springtime for Henry 1940 Jul


Tonight at 8:30 1940 Jul


Ah, Wilderness 1940 Aug


Our Town 1940 Aug


Private Lives 1940 Aug


Pursuit of Happiness, The 1940 Aug


Jonah and the Whale 1940 Nov


Proposal, The 1940 Dec


They That Mourn 1940 Dec


Movies 1940-1941


Movies 1940-1941


Movies 1940-1941


Movies 1941


Cyrano de Bergerac 1941 Mar


Tono-Bungay, or, The Madder the Badder 1941 Mar


Dance 1941 Apr


Martha Graham and Dance Group 1941 Apr


Aria da Capo 1941 May


Bed Rock 1941 May


In the Shadow of the Glen 1941 May


Sparkin 1941 May


Dance 1941 Oct


Graff Ballet 1941 Oct


Macbeth 1941 Nov


Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (in French) 1941 Dec


Movies 1941-1942


Movies 1942


Girl of the Golden West, The 1942 Mar


Grotesque for November 1942 Apr


Happy Journey, The 1942 Apr


Snow 1942 Apr


Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play 1942 Apr


Knickerbocker Holiday 1942 May


Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning 1942 Aug


Devil and Daniel Webster 1942 Aug


Happiest Years, The 1942 Sep


Eve of St. Mark, The 1942 Nov


Cherry Orchard, The 1943 Jan


Play's the Thing, The 1943 Oct


Inspector General, The 1944 Sep


Theatre of the Soul, The 1944 Sep


Marriage of Figaro, The 1945 Mar


My Heart's in the Highlands 1945 Dec


Orphee 1945 Dec


Movies 1946 Mar


Pursuit of Happiness, The 1946 May


Seed and the Sowers, The 1946 May


Hasty Heart, The 1946 Aug


Devil's Disciple 1946 Nov


Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1946 Dec


Movies 1946 Dec


Jinxed 1947 Jan


Thread of Scarlet 1947 Jan


Home of the Brave 1947 Mar


Volpone 1947 Mar


Cheese Will Have It All, The 1947 Apr


UrFaust 1947 Apr


Anatol's Wedding Morning 1947 May


Birthday, The 1947 May


Minnie Field 1947 May


Petrified Forest, The 1947 May


Sky is Falling, The 1947 May


Summer Afternoon 1947 May


Wait Up for Me 1947 May


Movies 1947 Sep


Highland Fling, A 1947 Nov


Movies 1947-1948


Movies 1948 Feb


Lamp at Midnight 1948 Mar


Paracelsus (in German) 1948 Mar


Rip Van Winkle 1948 Apr


Happy as Larry 1948 May


If Men Played Cards As Women 1948 May


Midsummer Night's Dream, A 1948 May


Shadowy Waters, The 1948 May


Glittering Gate, The 1948 Jun


Grotesque for November 1948 Jun


Happy Journey, The 1948 Jun


Weep No More My Ladies 1948 Jun


Hansel and Gretel 1948 Oct


Faculty Show for Chest Drive 1948 Nov


Doctor's Dilemma, The 1948 Dec


Movies 1948-1949


How He Lied to Her Husband 1949 Jan


Nude Curriculum, The 1949 Jan


Thunderstorm, The 1949 Jan


Julius Caesar 1949 Mar to Apr


I'll Get Along Without You 1949 May


Importance of Being Earnest, The 1949 May


P.O.E. 1949 May


Ziegler Follies of 1949, The 1949 Oct


Wind Was North, The 1949 Dec


Movies 1949-1950


Amherst With Music 1950


Case of the Crushed Petunias 1950 Jan


Keep the Change 1950 Jan


O' Distant Land 1950 Jan


Front Page, The 1950 Mar


Oedipus Rex 1950 Apr


Androcles and the Lion 1950 May


Fumed Oak 1950 May


Great Christopher 1950 May


Hope is a Thing With Feathers 1950 May


Moon in the Yellow River, The 1950 May


That Amherst Feeling 1950 May


Scotty's Scandals 1950 Nov


Time of Your Life 1950 Nov


Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1950 Dec


Movies 1950-1951


Hamlet 1951 Feb


Movies 1951 Feb


Respectful Prostitute, The 1951 Mar


Stay Loose 1951 Mar


Two Gentlemen of Soho 1951 Mar


Trial By Jury 1951 Apr


Intruder, The 1951 May


Love and How to Cure It 1951 May


Riders to the Sea 1951 May


Room Service 1951 May


Ways and Means 1951 May


Tempest, The 1951 Nov


No Exit 1951 Dec


Norris Plan, The 1951 Dec


Sunny Morning, A 1951 Dec


Movies 1951-1952


Red Two 1952 Feb


H is Silent, The 1952 Mar


Movies 1952 Mar


Cox and Box 1952 May


Henry IV, Part I 1952 May


Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The 1952 May


Lady's Not for Burning, The 1952 May


Masque of Mercy, A 1952 May


Muletail Prime 1952 May


Rising of the Moon, The 1952 May


Keep it Clean 1952 Nov


Midsummer Night's Dream, A 1952 Nov


Bon Vivant 1952 Dec


Movies 1952-1953


Movies 1952-1953


Amherst Confidential 1953


Trifles 1953


Fisherman, The 1953 Jan


Phoenix Too Frequent, A 1953 Jan


Undecided Molecule, The 1953 Jan


Beggar's Opera, The 1953 Feb


Drums of Oude 1953 May


Game of Chess, The 1953 May


Late George Alpey, The 1953 May


Medium, The 1953 May


Sound of Dreams, The 1953 May


Death of a Salesman 1953 Nov


Big Julie Cezer 1953 Dec


Movies 1953-1954


Emperor Jones, The 1954 Jan


Play With a Busted Balloon 1954 Jan


Cymbeline 1954 Feb


Pontem Perdent 1954 Mar


Back to Methuselah (In The Beginning) 1954 May


Bumblepuppy 1954 May


Crowsnest, The 1954 May


Dinosaur's Nest, The 1954 May


In the Beginning 1954 May


In the Shadow of the Glen 1954 May


Mister Roberts 1954 May


My Enemy, My Son 1954 May


Petruchio and Katheriana (scenes) 1954 May


Reach Out in Silence 1954 May


Taming of the Shrew, The 1954 May


Trial By Jury 1954 May


Man and Superman 1954 Nov


Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1954 Dec


Movies 1954-1955


Movies 1954-1955


Hello Out There 1955 Jan


Long Goodbye, The 1955 Jan


Love and How to Cure It 1955 Jan


Dance 1955 Feb


Greek to ME 1955 Feb


Othello 1955 Feb


Revue-in-the-Round 1955 Feb


Smith College Dancers 1955 Feb


Soldier of the King 1955 Mar


Dance 1955 Apr


Candida 1955 May


Enemy of the People, An 1955 May


Glass Menagerie, The 1955 May


Golden Cuckoo, The 1955 May


Great Catherine 1955 May


Heartbreak House (Scenes) 1955 May


Land of Heart's Desire, The 1955 May


Liliom 1955 May


Queen's Gambit 1955 May 13


Take Back Your Monks 1955 May


Ten Blocks on the Cmaino Real 1955 May


Oedipus Rex 1955 Nov


Dramatic Association Play Readings 1955 Dec


Movies 1955-1956


Doctor in Spite of Himself, The 1956 Jan


Shewing-Up of Blanco Poanet, The 1956 Jan


Miser, The 1956 Feb


Over 21 1956 Mar


Henry Street Playhouse Dance Company 1956 Apr


Androcles and the Lion 1956 May


Miss Julie 1956 May


Pot of Broth, The 1956 May


Proposal, The 1956 May


Rising of the Moon, The 1956 May


Roadside 1956 May


Thor With Angels 1956 May


Antigone 1956 Oct


Cry the Beloved Country 1956 Nov


Hedda Gabler 1956 Nov


Movies 1956-1957


Amherst -1984 1957


Cyclops, The 1957 Jan


Ile 1957 Jan


This Proprty is condemned 1957 Jan


Doctor Faustus 1957 Feb


Androcles and the Lion 1957 May


Candida 1957 May


Five Days 1957 May


Nauscisa 1957 May


Nostia 1957 May


Swamp Scene 1957 May


Up and Adam 1957 May


Survivors, The 1957 Nov


Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1957 Dec


Movies 1957-1958


Declunk and Fall of Old Pawnbroker Women and Their Sisters 1958


Romeo and Juliet 1958 Feb


Cyclops, The 1958 Mar


Ronde, La 1958 Mar


Malade Imaginaire, Le 1958 Apr


Jar, The 1958 May


Marriage, The 1958 May


One Day More 1958 May


Salome 1958 May


Thieve's Carnival 1958 May


Henry IV, Part I 1958 Nov


Movies 1958-1959


Henry IV, Part II 1959 Mar


Movies 1959 Apr


Movies 1959 Apr


Bald Soprano, The 1959 May


Beaux' Stratagem, The 1959 May


Inheritance 1959 May


Jinxed 1959 May


Portrait of Madonna 1959 May


Well Cudgeled Cuckold, The 1959 May


Movies 1959 Oct


Lower Depths, The 1959 Nov


Apollo of Bellac, The 1959 Dec


Shadow of a Gunman, The 1959 Dec


Movies 1959-1960


View From the Bride, A 1960 Jan


Orestia, The 1960 Mar


Measures Taken, The 1960 May


Trap is a Small Place, A 1960 May


Unfortunate Example, The 1960 May


You Never Can Tell 1960 May


Don Quixote 1960 Oct


Jacques and Jacueline (sic) 1960 Oct


Thomas and Sally 1960 Oct


Movies 1960-1961


Crucible, The 1961 Mar


Fumed Oak 1961 May


Harlequinade 1961 May


Right You Are 1961 May


Richard III 1961 Nov


Wild Duck, The 1961 Nov


Movies 1961-1962


Saint Joan 1962 Jan


Good News 1962 Mar


Clearing in the Woods, A 1962 May


Fisherman, The 1962 May


Jubilee, A 1962 May


Moon Shines on Kylenamoc, The 1962 May


Purification 1962 May


Twelve Pound Lock, The 1962 May


Uninvited Tea Party 1962 May


Jubilee, A 1962 Jun


Movies 1962 Jun


Twelve Pound Lock, The 1962 Jun


Uninvited Tea Party 1962 Jun


Good Woman of Setzuan, The 1962 Nov


Movies 1962-1963


Hamlet 1963 Jan


Cyclops, The 1963 Mar


Duello, Ill (Commedia dell' Arte) 1963 Mar


Dance 1963 Apr


Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The 1963 May


It is Necessary to Cultivate Our Garden 1963 May


Love of Don Perlimpin for Belisa in His Garden, The 1963 May


Midsummer Night's Dream, A 1963 May


Movies 1963 May


Rivals, The 1963 May


Sand Box, The 1963 May


Fiddledeedee 1963 Oct


Visit, The 1963 Nov


Movies 1963 Dec


Waiting for Godot 1963 Dec


Movies 1963-1964


Bennington College Dance Group, The 1964 Jan1966 Feb


Dance 1964 Jan


Jacques ou la Soumission 1964 Mar


Act Without Words 1964 May


Andersonville Trial, The 1964 May


I. H. Stamps 1964 May


Learned Ladies, The 1964 May


Movies 1964 May


Pedestal, The 1964 May


Lon Day's Journey Into Night 1964 Oct


Hostage, The 1964 Dec


Movies 1964-1965


Gulling of Malvolie, The scenes from Twelfth Night 1965 Jan


Dance 1965 Feb


King Lear 1965 Feb


Station Champbaudet, Le 1965 Apr


Two Parties in a Playroom 1965 Apr


Antigone 1965 May


Chee-Chee 1965 May


Drums of Oude 1965 May


Kitchenjohn, The 1965 May


Krapp's Last Tape 1965 May


Marriage, The 1965 May


Painting Day 1965 May


Caretaker, The 1965 Sep


Macbeth 1965 Nov


Lover, The 1965 Dec


Movies 1965-1966


Tale of the Queer Barkeep, The 1966 Jan


Dance 1966 Feb


Drunkard, The 1966 Mar


Adam Plays from the Medieval York Cycle 1966 Apr


In the Shadow of the Glen 1966 Apr


Lesson, The 1966 Apr


Pot of Broth, The 1966 Apr


Press Cuttings 1966 Apr


Proposal, The 1966 Apr


American Dream, The 1966 May


Evening with Raymond Eisenstark, An 1966 May


Fantastics, The 1966 May


Tiger, The 1966 May


Happy Journey, The 1966 Jun


Arsenic and Old Lace 1966 Aug


Male Animal, The 1966 Sep


You Can't Take It With You 1966 Sep


Film Society 1966 Oct


Movies 1966 Oct


Marat/Sade 1966 Nov


Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1966 Nov


Movies 1966-1967


Murder in the Cathedral 1967 Jan


Revenger's Tragedy, The 1967 Mar


Zoo Story, The 1967 Mar


Boor, The 1967 Apr


Dock Brief, The 1967 Apr


Escurial 1967 Apr


Informer, The 1967 Apr


License, The 1967 Apr


New Tenant, The 1967 Apr


Not Enough Rope 1967 Apr


Passion, Poison and Petrifaction 1967 Apr


Dummy, The 1967 May


Man with the Flower in his Mouth 1967 May


Miss Julie 1967 May


Pinky, or the Death of the Boss 1967 May


Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen 1967 May


Typists, The 1967 May


Arms and the Man 1967 Aug


Charley's Aunt 1967 Sep


Knack, The 1967 Sep


Twelve Angry Men 1967 Oct


Tempest, The 1967 Nov


Glass Menagerie, The 1967 Dec


Movies 1967-1968


Endgame 1968 Jan


Billy Budd 1968 Feb


Dumbwaiter, The 1968 Feb


Escurial 1968 Feb


Team, The 1968 Feb


Man's a Man, A 1968 Mar


Buffalo Meat 1968 Apr


Hitler the Stud, or Sex and the Single Fueher 1968 Apr


Madness of Lady Bright, The 1968 Apr


Beard, The 1968 May


Look Back in Anger 1968 May


Luv 1968 May


Mandrake Root, The 1968 May


Movies 1968 Jun


Flea in Her Ear, A 1968 Aug


Tartuffe 1968 Aug


Balcony, The 1968 Sep


Exit the King 1968 Nov


Hollow Crown, The 1968 Nov


Six Characters in Search of An Author 1968 Nov


Threepenny Opera, The 1968 Dec


Scapin 1969 Feb


Camino Real 1969 Mar


Dream Engine, The 1969 Apr


Farce of Patelin, The 1969 Apr


Lon Day's Journey Into Night 1969 Apr


Caesar at the Rubicon (Act III, Scenes 2 and 3) 1969 May


Chairs, The 1969 May


Dwarfs, The 1969 May


Indian Wants the Bronx, The 1969 May


Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool, Dry Place 1969 May


On Baile's Strand 1969 May


Student and the Servant-Girl, The 1969 May


Sunny Morning, A 1969 May


This Proprty is Condemned 1969 May


Juno and the Paycock 1969 Aug


Pygmalion 1969 Aug


Importance of Being Earnest, The 1969 Sep


Twin Menaechmi, The 1969 Oct


Maries de la Tour Eiffel, Les (in French, ballet-pantomime) 1969 Nov


Three Sisters, The 1969 Nov


Hollow Crown, The 1969 Dec


Movies 1969-1970


I, A rock ballet 1970


Ligeia 1970 Feb


Morning 1970 Feb


Night 1970 Feb


Noon 1970 Feb


Oedipus Rex 1970 Feb


Botticelli 1970 Mar


Lechery! Based on William Wycherly's The Country Wife 1970 Mar


Rats 1970 Mar


Tour 1970 Mar


Andorra 1970 Apr


Madman and the Nun, The 1970 Apr


Tango 1970 Apr


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1970 Apr


Dracula 1970 May


Eh? 1970 May


Great American Desert, The 1970 May


Movies 1970 May


Sherlock Holmes 1970 Aug


Birthday Party, The 1970 Sep


Room Service 1970 Sep


Rosencrantz and Guildentstern Are Dead 1970 Nov


Peter Pan: A New Musical Version 1970 Dec


Woyzeck 1970 Dec


Lower Depths, The 1971 Jan


Richard II 1971 Mar


Hero 1971 Apr


Sand 1971 Apr


Time of Your Life 1971 Apr


Under Plain Cover 1971 Apr


Vicitims of Amnesia 1971 Apr


Waiting for Godot 1971 Apr


Blacks, The 1971 May


Desperate Hours, The 1971 May


Out at Sea 1971 May


Police, The 1971 May


Caretaker, The 1971 Aug


What the Butler Saw 1971 Aug


Harvey 1971 Sep


Iceman Cometh, The 1971 Nov


Hedda Gabler 1971 Dec


Joe Egg 1971-1973


Alice In Wonderland 1972 Jan


Don Juan in Hell (from Man and Superman) 1972 Jan


Good Woman of Setzuan, The 1972 Mar


Much Ado About Nothing 1972 Mar


Cocktail Party, The 1972 Apr


Letter, The 1972 Apr


Tom Paine 1972 Apr


Visit, The 1972 Apr


Press Cuttings 1972 May


Seed and the Sowers, The 1972 May


Ubi Roi 1972 May


Zoo Story, The 1972 May


Charley's Aunt 1972 Sep


Oliver! 1972 Sep


Threepenny Opera, The 1972 Sep


Taming of the Shrew, The 1972 Oct


Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The 1972 Nov


Cage, The 1972 Dec


Knacker's ABC, The 1972 Dec


Movies 1972-1973


Don Tomaso's Last Supper 1973 Jan


Shadow, The 1973 Jan


That a Simple Light May Rise Out of Complicated Darkness 1973 Jan


Madman and the Nun, The 1973 Feb


Hamlet 1973 Mar


Aria da Capo 1973 Apr


Lesson, The 1973 Apr


Eddie 1973 May


Jewish Wife, The 1973 May


Salome 1973 May


Switchman, The 1973 May


Velveteen Rabbit 1973 May


West Side Story 1973 Sep


Indians 1973 Nov


Movies 1973 Nov


Camino Real 1973 Dec


Dumbwaiter, The 1973 Dec


Red Cross 1973 Dec


Movies 1973-1974


Proposion, The (sic) 1974 Jan


Look Back in Anger 1974 Feb


Rider's Ward 1974 Feb


Dance 1974 Mar


Fourberies de Scapin, Les (in French) 1974 Mar


Interrupted Act, The 1974 Mar


Mime Show, A 1974 Mar


Pioneer Valley Ballet Guild with Berkshire Ballet and Walnut Hill School 1974 Mar


School for Wives 1974 Mar


In a Cold Hotel 1974 Apr


Nine O'Clock Mail, The 1974 Apr


Pendragon 1974 Apr


Christopho 1974 May


Improvisations 1974 May


Laing: Improvisations 1974 May


Paul Bunyan 1974 May


Portrait of Madonna 1974 May


Seven Meditations on Political Sads-Masochism 1974 May


Strangers 1974 May


The New Cell Theatre Ensemble 1974 May


This Proprty is Condemned 1974 May


Two Penny Circus 1974 May


What Did You Say That For? 1974 May


Sister Son/Ji 1974 Sep


Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A 1974 Oct


Movies 1974 Oct


Ceremonies in Dark Old Men 1974 Nov


Life is a Dream 1974 Nov


Guerre de Troie N'aura pas Lieu 1974 Dec


Henry IV 1974 Dec


Movies 1974-1975


Movies 1974-1975


Movies 1974-1975


Little Murders 1975 Jan


Laroque Bey Dance Theater 1975 Feb


Mime 1975 Feb


Cattle Show 1975 Mar


Cymbeline 1975 Mar


Endgame 1975 Mar


Fin de Partie (in French) 1975 Mar


Apollo of Bellac, The 1975 Apr


Love Scene 1975 Apr


All God's Chillun Got Wings 1975 May


Maids, The 1975 May


Real Inspector Hound, The 1975 May


Creditors 1975 Oct


Native Son 1975 Oct


Stronger, The 1975 Oct


Bacchae, The 1975 Nov


Plough and the Stars, The 1975 Dec


Movies 1975-1976


Movies 1975-1976


Rich Ruben Review 1976


Threepenny Opera, The 1976 Jan


Capuletta, or Romeo and Juliet Restored! 1976 Feb


Contemporary Dance System 1976 Feb


Dance 1976 Feb


Sorcerer, The 1976 Feb


Ajax (in Greek) 1976 Mar


Julius Caesar 1976 Mar


Contemporary Dance System 1976 Apr


Dance 1976 Apr


Thousand Clowns, A 1976 Apr


Collision Course, Scenes From 1976 May


Is Uncle Jack a Conformist? 1976 May


Metaphors 1976 May


Private Ear, The 1976 May


Public Eye, The 1976 May


Slight Ache, A 1976 May


Thoughts on the Instant of Greeting a Friend on the Street 1976 May


Unexpected Memoirs of Bernard Bergendeiler, The 1976 May


Whacked Out on Route 116 1976 May


You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown 1976 May


Sleuth 1976 Jun


School for Scandal, The 1976 Oct


Belle of Amherst, The 1976 Nov


Meadea 1976 Nov


Interview (from America Hurrah) 1976 Dec


Woyzeck 1976 Dec


Contemporary Dance System 1977 Jan


Dance 1977 Jan


Play With a Tiger 1977 Jan


Contemporary Dance System 1977 Feb


Dance 1977 Feb


Drying Up 1977 Feb


Tempest, The 1977 Mar


Ballad of Svejk, The 1977 Apr


C'mon Back to Heavenly House 1977 Apr


Contemporary Dance System 1977 Apr


Dance 1977 Apr


Family 1977 Apr


Antigone 1977 May


Godspell 1977 May


Oh Coward! 1977 May


Where's Charley 1977 Oct


Architruc 1977 Dec


Chiaroscuro 1977 Dec


Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The 1977 Dec


Gas Heart, The 1977 Dec


Glory in the Flower 1977 Dec


Great Nebula in Orion, The 1977 Dec


How Do You Do 1977 Dec


Lesson, The 1977 Dec


Lovers and Other Strangers 1977 Dec


Passionella (from The Apple Tree) 1977 Dec


Saroyan, Scenes From 1977 Dec


Merchant of Venice, The 1978 Jan


Dance 1978 Feb


Daniel Lewis Dance Repertory Company 1978 Feb


At the Hawk's Well (in the Cuchulain Cycle) 1978 Mar


Boys in the Band, The 1978 Mar


Cuchulain Cycle, The 1978 Mar


Death of Cuchulain, The (in the Cuchulain Cycle) 1978 Mar


Finta Semplice, La (in Italian) 1978 Mar


Green Helmet, The (in The Cuchulain Cycle) 1978 Mar


Oedipus Rex 1978 Mar


On Baile's Strand 1978 Mar


Only Jealousy of Emer, The (in the Cuchulain Cycle) 1978 Mar


Sticks and Bones 1978 Mar


Deux Farces Medievals: La Tarte et Le Pate, Le Chaudronnier 1978 Apr


Eccentric Theatrics Created Improvisation Troupe 1978 Apr


Every Father's Child 1978 Apr


Hogan's Goat 1978 Apr


Homecoming, The 1978 Apr


Le Chandronnier (The Tin Smith) 1978 Apr


Tarte et le Pate, La 1978 Apr


Nice Faces of 1943 1978 May


Wager, The 1978 May


Scapino! 1978 Oct


Don't Bother We're Here 1978 Nov


Harvey 1978 Nov


Black Comedy 1978 Dec


Brick and the Rose, The 1978 Dec


Contribution 1978 Dec


Dance 1978 Dec


Golden Fleece, The 1978 Dec


Holy Night, The (A Masque) 1978 Dec


Majo 1978 Dec


Mojo 1978 Dec


Sexual Perversity in Chicago 1978 Dec


These Cornfields 1978 Dec


Ceremonies, A Mime Suite 1979 Jan


Henry IV, Part I 1979 Jan


Bystanders 1979 Feb


Krapp's Last Tape 1979 Feb


Molloy 1979 Feb


Noorwoods, The 1979 Feb


Cabaret 1979 Mar


Dance 1979 Mar


Daniel Lewis Dance Repertory Company 1979 Mar


Movies 1979 Mar


Short Eyes 1979 Apr


Agamemnon (in Greek) 1979 May


Side by Side 1979 May


Found Sounds 1979 Aug


Hippolytus 1979 Aug


Molloy 1979 Aug


Measure for Measure 1979 Oct


Comings and Goings a theatre game 1979 Nov


Herbert III 1979 Nov


Riders to the Sea 1979 Nov


Wine in the Wilderness 1979 Nov


Adaptation 1979 Dec


Alligation, The 1979 Dec


American Dream, The 1979 Dec


Dutchman 1979 Dec


Gallows Humor 1979 Dec


Great Goodness of Life (A Coon Show) 1979 Dec


Measures Taken, The 1979 Dec


Michael 1979 Dec


Miracles of Saint Nicholas 1979 Dec


Purgatory 1979 Dec


Time and the Witch Vivien 1979 Dec


White Liars, The 1979 Dec


White Whore and the Bit Player, The 1979 Dec


Purlie 1980 Jan


American Buffalo 1980 Feb


Day of Absence 1980 Feb


Exchange, The 1980 Feb


Happy Ending 1980 Feb


Ramayana 1980 Feb


Dance 1980 Mar


Dance 80 1980 Mar


Dr. Jekyll and the Mr. Hyde Bar: A Contemporary Musical Fantasy Loosely Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1980 Mar


Essential Facts of Life, The 1980 Mar


Cradle Will Rock, The 1980 Apr


Manos de Dios, Las 1980 Apr


Don't Bother We're Here: The Last Judgement 1980 May


Rogers and Hart: A Musical Celebration 1980 May


Aeis and Galatea 1980 Sep


Clouds, The 1980 Oct


Flea in Her Ear, A 1980 Oct


Crickets 1980 Nov


Loose Ends 1980 Nov


Who's Latent 1980 Nov


Aria da Capo 1980 Dec


Collection, The 1980 Dec


Dance 1980 Dec


Holy Ghostly 1980 Dec


Long Goodbye, The 1980 Dec


Message from Cougar, A 1980 Dec


New York Baroque Dance Company 1980 Dec


New York Baroque Dance Company 1980 Dec


Real Inspector Hound, The 1980 Dec


Selchie's Seed, The (Dance performance) 1980 Dec


Twelve Pound Lock, The 1980 Dec


Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play 1980 Dec


For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf 1981 Jan


Balcony, The 1981 Feb


Beggar's Opera, The 1981 Feb


Bonjour, La, Bonjour 1981 Mar


Catch a Falling Star 1981 Mar


Don't Stop Now 1981 Mar


For Better of For Worse 1981 Mar


Glass Menagerie, The 1981 Mar


Portraits: A Dance Concert 1981 Apr


Re-Life 1981 Apr


Trouble in Mind 1981 Apr


Joke's on Them, The 1981 May


Meadea 1981 May


Otherwise Engaged 1981 May


Sea Gull, The 1981 May


Alcestis 1981 Oct


As You Like It 1981 Oct


Talent Show 1981 Oct


Lon Day's Journey Into Night 1981 Nov


Boogie-Woogie Landscape 1981 Dec


Death in Scarsdale 1981 Dec


Deathwatch 1981 Dec


Gloaming, Oh My Darling, The 1981 Dec


Helen 1981 Dec


Not Enough Rope 1981 Dec


Private Ear, The 1981 Dec


Public Eye, The 1981 Dec


Anything Funny 1982 Feb


Impressions 1982 Feb


Misanthrope, Le 1982 Feb


West Side Story 1982 Feb


Importance of Being Earnest, The 1982 Mar


Oedipus Rex 1982 Mar


Asian Festival 1982 Apr


Curse of the Starving Class 1982 Apr


G. R. Point 1982 Apr


Godspell 1982 Apr


Ian McKellan Acting Shakespeare 1982 Apr


Movies 1982 Apr


Thesmophoriazusae 1982 Apr


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1982 Apr


Starting Here, Starting Now 1982 May


Misanthrope 1982 Oct


Enter Desiree Jones 1982 Nov


Action 1982 Dec


Countess Cathleen, The 1982 Dec


Feathertop 1982 Dec


Good Neighbors 1982 Dec


Great Theatre of the World, The 1982 Dec


Saliva Milkshake, The 1982 Dec


String 1982 Dec


Suppressed Desires 1982 Dec


Ways and Means 1982 Dec


Movies 1983 Jan


Player Breaks 1983 Jan


Cabaret 1983 Feb


We Could Get Arrested 1983 Feb


You Never Can Tell 1983 Feb


Antigone 1983 Apr


Birthday Party, The 1983 Apr


Rasin in the Sun 1983 Apr


Vatzlav 1983 Apr


African Dance and Drumming 1983 May


African Dance and Drumming 1983 May


Belle of Amherst, The 1983 May


Cenci, The 1983 May


Five College Dance Concert 1983 May


Prisoner of 2nd Avenue, The 1983 May


Graces of Love, The 1983 Jul


The Graces of Love 1983 Jul


Antigone 1983 Oct


Frogs, The 1983 Oct


Showcase Concert 1983 Oct


Taming of the Shrew, The 1983 Oct


Play's the Thing, The 1983 Nov


Boor, The 1983 Dec


Coyboys II 1983 Dec


He's Dead All Right 1983 Dec


Hopscotch 1983 Dec


Impromptu 1983 Dec


Jalousie du Barbouille, La 1983 Dec


Servant of Two Masters, The 1983 Dec


Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You 1983 Dec


Chattahoochie 1984 Jan


June Moon 1984 Feb


Threepenny Opera, The 1984 Feb


Travisities 1984 Mar


Bury the Dead 1984 Apr


Documents: 3 Plays & Some Fragments of the Early Thirties 1984 Apr




Pullman Car Hiawatha 1984 Apr


Spring Arts Weekend 1984 Apr


Waiting for Lefty 1984 Apr


Winter Glass 1984 Apr


Zoo Story, The 1984 Apr


Servant of Two Masters, The 1984 May


Spring/Dance 1984 May


Hamlet 1984 Oct


Elisa Monte Dance Company 1984 Nov


Elisa Monte Dance Company 1984 Nov


Fall/Dance 1984 Nov


Helen 1984 Nov


Lysistrata 1984 Nov


Bus Riley's Back in Town 1984 Dec


Collection, The 1984 Dec


Dark Pony 1984 Dec


Kentucky Marriage Proposal, The (based on "The Proposal" by Anton Chekhov) 1984 Dec


Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The 1984 Dec


Turista (Act II), La 1984 Dec


Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton 1984 Dec


Hitchcock's Hobby 1871 Dec


Elisa Monte Dance Company 1985 Feb


Mime 1985 Feb


Mirror Stage, The 1985 Feb


Southgate Porter, The 1985 Feb


Waiting for Godot 1985 Feb


Angels Fall 1985 Mar


Charles Moulton Dance Company 1985 Mar


Moulton, Charles 1985 Mar


Second City Comedy Troupe 1985 Mar


Beckett - Scenes 1985 Apr


Crimes of the Heart 1985 May


Dance Amherst 1985 May


Price, The 1985 May


Southgate Porter, The 1985 May


Suicide in (unintelligible) 1985 May


Vision of Children, The 1985 May


2x2, The Art of Solo Dance 1985 Sep


Belle of Amherst, The 1985 Oct


Dialectic of Enlightenment 1985 Oct


God 1985 Oct


Kate Kasten 1985 Oct


Self-Accusation, A Speak-In 1985 Oct


Slight Ache, A 1985 Oct


Talking With -- 1985 Oct


Tim Caranagh- Comedy 1985 Oct


Five College Faculty Dance Concert 1985 Nov


My Acquaintance 1985 Nov


Thesmophoriazusae 1985 Nov


Sand 1985 Dec


Sexual Perversity in Chicago 1985 Dec


Movies 1986 Jan


Trial, The 1986 Jan


Landscape 1986 Mar


Red, Balck and Ignorant 1986 Mar


Ain't Misbehavin' 1986 Apr


Belle of Amherst, The 1986 Apr


Jazz Tap Ensemble 1986 Apr


Jazz Tap Ensemble 1986 Apr


Mother Courage and Her Children 1986 Apr


Dance/AmherstAmherst College Student-Faculty Dance Concert 1986 May


Last of the Dandies, a Play Created from the work of Clyde Fitch 1986 May


Bacchae, The 1986 Sep


To Heaven in a Swing 1986 Sep


Earl Okin, British Comedian 1986 Oct


Jeff Justice, Comedian, Magician, Dancer 1986 Oct


Seventy Scenes of Halloween 1986 Oct


Trish Brown Company 1986 Oct


Trisha Brown Dance Concert 1986 Oct


Conduct of Life, The 1986 Nov


Notes on Invisibility 1986 Nov


Prisims 1986 Nov


Somehow We Survive 1986 Nov


Charrians, A (a reading) 1986 Dec


Jus de Robin et Marion 1986 Dec


Arms and the Man 1987 Feb


Dinner, The 1987 Mar


Footfalls 1987 Mar


I, Uh, Come Here a Lot 1987 Mar


Rough for Theatre I 1987 Mar


Tongues 1987 Mar


Toy 1987 Mar


Virgins I 1987 Mar


At the Exit 1987 Apr


Baby 1987 Apr


Claire Porter Dance Concert 1987 Apr


Day of Surprises, A 1987 Apr


Doctor's Duty, The 1987 Apr


It's Baby 1987 Apr


Piece of Bread, A 1987 Apr


Portables: Claire Porter 1987 Apr


Portables: Dances for Small Places 1987 Apr


Between Choruses 1987 May


Third Person 1987 May


Tour of the Valley, A 1987 May


Virgins II 1987 May


Evening of Elegance, An 1987 Sep


Alcestis 1987 Oct


Mud 1987 Oct


Sankai Juku 1987 Oct


Other Boston Tea Party, The 1987 Nov


Six Characters in Search of An Author 1987 Nov


Sweeney Todd 1987 Nov


Endgame 1987 Dec


Close Like Lovers 1988


Virgins IV (V4) 1988


On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning 1988 Jan


Cameraman 1988 Mar


Lust and Betrayal in Disneyland 1988 Mar


Virgins III 1988 Mar


Who Really Cares? 1988 Mar


Amherst Dance 1988 Apr


Jose Limon Dance Company 1988 Apr


Jose Limón Dance Company 1988 Apr


Woodson, Wendy 1988 Apr 15-16


Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris 1988 Jun


Cocktails in a Georgia County Jail 1988 Oct


Pioneers of the Puppet Theater Revival 1988 Oct


No Mercy 1988 Nov


Speak 1988 Nov


Studio Performance, works in progress 1988 Dec


Go into the Chapel 1989 Feb


Miss Julie 1989 Mar


Taming, The 1989 Mar


V5: Soil, Sons Of, Still in Motion 1989 Mar


Another War 1989 Apr


Dance Theater 1989 Apr


Kindness 1989 Apr


V6 1989 Apr


Branch of the Blue Nile, A 1989 May


Purgatory Project, The 1989 May


Mass Moves 1989 Jun


Duck Variations, The 1989 Oct


Informal Talk With Marcus Olson 1989 Oct


Apart from the Noise 1989 Nov


Figaro Gets a Divorce 1989 Nov


Lecture, Demonstration, Performance 1989 Nov


Fire Drill 1989 Dec


Five College Faculty Dance Concert 1989 Dec


Circles 1990 Feb


Monk, Meredith 1990 Feb


Abingdon Square 1990 Feb


Rain 1990 Mar


Tavern, The 1990 Apr


Whitewash 1990 Apr


Performance Project 1990 May


Miser of Mexico, The 1990 Oct


Maleczech, Ructh: Acting Creating, Living 1990 Nov


Mud 1990 Nov


Language of Movement Final Projects 1990 Dec


Odissi Dance Presentation 1990 Dec


Performance Project 1990 Dec


Talley's Folly 1990 Dec


Betrayal: One-Act PlaysThe ViseThe Lover 1991 Feb


Speed the Plow 1991 Feb


Woodson, Wendy and Present Company, Inc. 1991 Feb


Liliath's Legs 1991 Mar


Beautiful Black Us 1991 Apr


Confusions 1991 Apr


Successful Life of 3, The 1991 Apr


V8: Shelton's Dream, When the Water Comes 1991 Apr


Hunting of the Snark, The 1991 May


V9: Pursuing Lucy, Mark My Words 1991 May


Henry IV 1991 Nov


Performance Project 1991 Dec


Harm's Way 1992 Feb


Directing Studio: Life Under Water, A Separate Peace, Tango Place 1992 Mar


When Failure Succeeds: Inscriptions of Failure in European Performance 1992 Mar


Directing Studio #2: Rough for Theater Monologue, Moon, Daddy's Home 1992 Apr


Scripts and Scores 1992 Apr


V10: Skirt, Special Bed, Just Between Friends 1992 Apr


Video and performance 1992 Apr


Anywhere I Lay My Head 1992 May


Scripts and Scores: Final Presentation 1992 May


Geese Dreamer, The 1992 Sep


Long Goodbye, The 1992 Oct


Woyzeck/Amerikan 1992 Nov


Argos 1992 Dec


Performance Project 1992 Dec


Eiko and Koma 1993 Feb


Directing Studio: Backroom Series 1993 Feb-May


Hey Baby 1993 Mar


Via 1993 Mar


Tell It Like It Is 1993 Apr


Caligula 1993 May


Love Letters 1993 May


Blood Relations 1993 Nov


Kazuo Ohno 1993 Nov


Servant of Two Masters, The 1993 Nov


Performance Design 1993 Dec


Performance Project 1993 Dec


Directing Studio: Backroom Series 1994 Feb


Tis Pity She's a Whore 1994 Mar


Five College Faculty Dance Concert 1994 Apr


Immunity 1994 Apr


Swan, The 1994 Oct


Performance Design 1994 Dec


Performance Project 1994 Dec


Directing Studio: Backroom Series 1995 Jan to May


You Could Be Home Now, Too 1995 Feb


Boy's Life 1995 Mar


Yerma 1995 Mar


Macbeth 1995 Nov


Directing Studio: Backroom Series 1996 Feb-May


Amherst College Alumni Artists in Performance 1996 Mar


Spring Awakening 1996 Mar


Bare Bones 1996 Apr


Dark Ride 1996 Apr


Performance Project 1998 Dec


My Sister In This House 1999 Feb


Betrayal 1999 Nov


Misogyny 1999 Nov


Ms. Julie 2000 Feb


Destination Immortality 2000 Apr


Cartesian Split 2000 Nov


Pericles 2000 Nov


The Doctor in Spite of Himself 2001 Feb


The Lonely Minutes Project, Preserved 2001 Mar


Desdemona 2001 Apr


Dig 2001 May


Books and Water 2004 Oct


La Cage aux Folles 2005 Jan


The Vagina Monologues 2005 Feb


City of Angels 2007 Feb


The Winter's Tale 2007 Apr


Golden Screw, The n.d.


Second Shepherd's Play n.d.

Series 2: THEATERS

Series 2, THEATERS, 1827-1988, includes clippings, photographs, notes and other materials documenting the many spaces used for dramatic performances at Amherst throughout the College's history.


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Folder
MISC-1 1
Poor Facilities n.d.

2
Palmer's Hall, Amherst, Mass. - Palmer's Opera House n.d.

3
College Hall 1827-1962

4
College Hall - Portmanteau Theatre (also called Fitch Theater) 1917 Feb

5
College Hall - lighting control board 1954 Oct

6
Amherst Town Hall n.d.

7
Amherst Town Hall n.d.

8
Northampton Opera House n.d.

9
Academy of Music Northampton: seating charts and newspaper clippings n.d.

10
John Davenport Memorial Theater (proposed, never built) 1931 Apr

11
Kirby Memorial Theater - clippings 1937-1938

12
Kirby Memorial Theater - photographs 1937-1938

13
Kirby Memorial Theater - 25th Anniversary Celebration 1963

14
Kirby Memorial Theater - 25th Anniversary Celebration 1963

15
Kirby Memorial Theater - 50th Anniversary Celebration 1988

16
Folger Shakespeare Library - Elizabethan Theatre n.d.

17
Octagon n.d.

18
Stone Theater 1966-1974

19
Fayerweather Theater 1974 Apr

Series 3: THE MASQUERS

Series 3, THE MASQUERS, 1898-1962, includes organizational records, meeting minutes, three scrapbooks documenting a 1933 trip to Vienna, production summaries and other records kept by the College's student dramatics organization.


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Folder
MISC-1 20
Officers and members 1919-1930

21
Officers and members 1930-1959

22
Officers and members 1940-1949

23
Officers and members 1958-

24
Constitutions n.d.

25
Membership lists n.d.

26
Minutes 1919-1922

27
Minutes 1926-1938

28
Minutes 1938-1944

29
Minutes 1948-1953

30
Minutes 1953-1962

31
Membership charms, seal n.d.

32
Masquers scrapbook, vol. 1 - trip to Vienna and other activities 1933

33
Masquers scrapbook, vol. 2 - trip to Vienna 1933

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OS-1
Masquers scrapbook - trip to Vienna 1933

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Folder
MISC-1 34
Trip to Vienna - reviews 1933

35
Olio (yearbook) photographs 1927-1945

36
Raymond Keith Bryant Prize 1954

37
Production summaries, F. Curtis Canfield (AC 1925)'s directorship 1925-1954

38
Senior Dramatics scrapbook - "All the Comforts of Home" 1898

Series 4: DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC ARTS

Series 4, DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC ARTS, 1930-1986, includes departmental records relating to theater courses, student productions and other activities of the department.


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Folder
MISC-2 1
Accounts summary 1985-1986

2
Alumni visiting committee 1962-1967

3
Audio-visual equipment and services (Frost Library) 1974-1975

4
Courses - Acting Class 1980

5
Courses - Elementary ca. 1930-1949

6
Courses - Dramatic Arts 11 and 23 - Introduction to the Theater - information concerning course 1971

7
Courses - Dramatic Arts 11 and 23 - Introduction to the Theater - lecture notes, schedules, exams 1952-1972

8
Courses - Dramatic Arts 11 and 23 - Introduction to the Theater - assignments for discussion 1952-1972

9
Courses - Dramatic Arts 11 and 23 - Introduction to the Theater - schedule and assignments 1958-1971

10
Courses - Dramatic Arts 11 and 23 - Introduction to the Theater -assignments, handouts, etc. 1958-1971

11
Courses - Dramatic Arts 11 and 23 - Introduction to the Theater - assignments, handouts, etc. 1971

12
Courses - Dramatic Arts 21 - Classical Drama (dramatic literature courses) 1972

13
Courses - Dramatic Arts 25 - Theater History and Literature course notes 1960-1963

14
Courses - Dramatic Arts 45 I - Theater History - course notes for Greek, Roman and Medieval periods 1955-1959

15
Courses - Dramatic Arts 45 II - Theater History - course notes for Renaissance period 1955-1959

16
Courses - Dramatic Arts 45 III - Theater History - course notes for English Restoration, 18th century English, 19th Century Europe, Wagner, 18th and 19th Century US, Realism, Appia, Craig, Modern 1955-1959

17
Courses - Stage Lighting ca. 1958-1971

18
Dance 1976-

19
Department policies n.d.

20
Fellowships and prizes 1964

21
Name change to "Department of Theater and Dance" 1984 Jul

22
Proposals to Committee on Educational Policy 1974-1984

23
Space needs 1972-1976

24
Stage Manager's Guide to Amherst College 1976 Jun

25
Student Productions - Guidelines 1972-

26
Teachers and staff n.d.

26a
Miscellaneous clippings 1956, 1973

Series 5: HISTORY OF DRAMATICS AT AMHERST COLLEGE

Series 5, HISTORY OF DRAMATICS AT AMHERST COLLEGE, 1870-1979, is a mixed series consisting of general retrospective histories of dramatics at the College, subject files on specific aspects of it, and general chronological files. It includes two folders of material related to oral history interviews of Professors of Dramatics Ralph McGoun (AC 1927) and F. Curtis Canfield (AC 1925) conducted in 1979. See also Series 7, Miscellaneous Subject Files.


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Folder
MISC-2 27
Amherst Phantom Club - constitution (photocopy), with accompanying correspondence, 1975 1800s

28
Literary Societies 1870-1871

29
Pre-1870

30
1870s 1870-1879

31
1880s 1880-1889

32
1890s 1890-1899

33
1900s 1900-1909

34
Alumni Dramatic Association 1909

35
1910s 1910-1919

36
1920s 1920-1929

37
Everett Glass (AC 1914) correspondence 1959-1963

38
Gilbert and Sullivan at Amherst College n.d.

39
General histories n.d.

40
Oral history interview - F. Curtis Canfield (AC 1927) 1979

41
Oral history interview - Ralph C. McGoun (AC 1927) 1979

Series 6: FIVE COLLEGE THEATER AND DANCE

Series 6, FIVE COLLEGE THEATER AND DANCE, 1977-1986, includes printed announcements and news items related to Five College theater and dance events, including film studies.


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Folder
MISC-2 42
Five College Dance - general 1979-

43
Five College Dance - Mount Holyoke 1981, n.d.

44
Five College Dance - Smith 1979

45
Five College Film Studies 1983-1985

46
Five College Theater course lists 1977-1979

47
Five College Theatre News 1979-1986

48
Five College Theatre News 1987

49
Five College Third World Seminars on Theater 1981-1982

Series 7: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECT FILES

Series 7, MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECT FILES, 1880-1979 and n.d., includes notes related to specific subjects on dramatic activities at Amherst College. Subjects include alumni in theater, Clyde Fitch (AC 1886), (ceremonial) book burnings, Charles Rogers' costume designs, and various productions. Arranged alphabetically by subject. See also Series 5, History of Dramatics at Amherst College.


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Folder
MISC-2 50
Alumni in Theater (incomplete list) n.d.

51
American College Theatre Association 1957-1958

52
Amherst College performing groups, notes on n.d.

53
Amherst Players - play list for 1922-1923 n.d.

54
Amherst Stock Company 1910-1917

55
Book burnings (ceremonial), notes on, for period 1858-1888 n.d.

56
Costume collection - clipping 1987

57
Fitch, Clyde (AC 1886) - general notes on n.d.

58
Fitch, Clyde (AC 1886) - Clyde Fitch Fund 1932-1948

59
Fitch, Clyde (AC 1886) - his room in Chi Psi Lodge (with photograph) Ca. 1885

60
Fraternity productions - play list, 1870-1941 n.d.

61
Language Summer School - play list, 1885-1907 n.d.

62
Lectures on theater - incomplete list, 1911-1957 n.d.

63
Literary Societies programs - play list, 1826-1871 n.d.

64
New Cell Theater Ensemble 1973-1974

65
Performances by non-Amherst College groups - list for 1872-1986, incomplete n.d.

66
Radio performances 1952 May

67
Rogers, Charles E. - watercolors and costume designs 1980

68
The Seventy Players 1968-1970

69
Shows written by Amherst College students n.d.

70
Theater Collection in Amherst College Library n.d.

71
Sophomore Latin Class play - production photographs ca. 1880-1899

72
Fraternity play - production photograph ca. 1880-1899

73
"The 1001st Night" - unidentified production ca. 1910-1929

74
Student play scripts, unidentified n.d.

75
Production photographs, unidentified 1940-1949

76
Production photographs, unidentified 1950-1969

77
Production photographs, unidentified 1960-1979

78
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - unidentified production [Lake Regions Playhouse?] n.d.

Series 8: SCRIPTS AND MUSIC SCORES

Series 8, SCRIPTS AND MUSIC SCORES, 1921-1977, consists of working copies of plays (usually published editions) used as prompt books for Amherst productions, as well as several scores for musicals.

Arranged chronologically by the date of the Amherst production.


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Amherst College Centennial Pageant - script 1921


Shaw, You Never Can Tell, fragment 1926 Mar


Gribble, March Hares (The Temperamentalists) - prompt book (Edition: Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., 1921) 1927 May


Chesterton, Magic- prompt book (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913) 1928 Mar


O'Neill, The Hairy Ape- prompt book (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925) 1929 Mar


Jonson, Epicoene or, the Silent Woman- prompt book (London: Fisher Unwin) 1929 May


Kaufman and Connelly, Beggar on Horseback- prompt book (New York: Liveright, 1924) 1929 Dec


Synge, Playboy of the Western World- prompt book (Boston: Luce, 1911) 1930 May


Galsworthy, Escape - prompt book (New York: Scribner's 1928) 1930 Dec


Goldsmith, The Good-Natur'd Man- prompt book (Cambridge University Press, 1921) 1931 May


Ibsen, An Enemy of the People- prompt book , edition unknown 1932 Mar


Balderston, Berkeley Square- prompt book (New York: Samuel French, 1931) 1932 Dec


Milne, The Ivory Door- prompt book (New York: Samuel French, 1928) 1935 Feb


Howard, Paths of Glory- prompt book (New York: Samuel French, 1935) 1936 Mar


Bridie, Tobias and the Angel - prompt book (London: Constable & Co, 1931) 1936 May-Jun


Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. - prompt book(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935) 1937 Mar


Anderson, Mary of Scotland- prompt book , edition unknown 1939 Mar


Anderson, Winterset- prompt book (Washington, DC: Dramatists Play Service, 1935) 1939 May


Ibsen, Peer Gynt- prompt book (London: Dent, 1921) 1940 Jan


Bridie, Jonah and the Whale - prompt book (London: Constable, 1932) 1940 Nov

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Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac - prompt book (New York: Holt, 1923) 1941 May


Belasco, The Girl of the Golden West -prompt book (New York: Samuel French, 1915) 1942 Mar


Benét, The Devil and Daniel Webster - prompt book (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1938) 1942 Aug


Anderson, TheEve of St. Mark -prompt book (Washington, DC: Anderson House, 1942) 1942 Nov


Jones, Summer Afternoon - script, mimeographed typescript 1947 May


Merrill, The Birthday -script, mimeographed typescript 1947 May


Mosel, The Sky is Falling- script, mimeographed typescript 1947 May


Royce, Wait Up for Me - script, mimeographed typescript 1947 May


Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma - prompt book (New York: Brentano's, 1909) 1948 Dec


Shakespeare, Julius Caesar - prompt book (Edition: ed. By George Lyman Kittredge. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1939) 1949 Mar


Shakespeare, Hamlet -prompt book (Ed. By George Lyman Kittredge. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1939) 1951 Feb


Murray and Boretz, Room Service -prompt book (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1937) 1951 May


Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream -prompt book 1952 Nov


Gay, A Beggar's Opera -score, new musical version realized from the original airs by Benjamin Britten. (London: Hawkes & Son, 1949) 1953 Feb


Miller, Death of a Salesman -prompt book (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1948) 1953 Nov


Shakespeare, Cymbeline -prompt book (London: Macmillan, 1951) 1954 Feb


Aeschylus, The Oresteia - cut script 1960 Mar


Black, The Marriage - script, mimeographed typescript 1965 May


The Drunkard - various scores 1966 Mar


Canfield, The Seed and the Sowers -prompt book (In: Canfield, The Seed and the Sowers: A Series of Chapel Talks on the History of Amherst College and a Play about Its Founding. Amherst: Amherst College, 1955) 1972 May


Bullins, C'mon Back to Heavenly House 1977 Apr


Fisher, Jack. Inauguration: A New Musical Play. Music by Edwin London. Freely adapted from The Contrast by Royall Tyler. (Never produced at Amherst College?) n.d.

Series 9: POSTERS

Series 9, POSTERS, 1894-, consists of more than 150 posters announcing Amherst College productions. Arranged by format and filed chronologically. All posters are cross-referenced in the Series 1 folder pertaining to the relevant production.


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Folder
POS-1A 78
Posters - oversize 1894-1963

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Folder
POS-1B 78
Posters - oversize 1964-

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Folder
POS-2A 78
Posters - large oversize 1902-1966

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Folder
POS-2B 78
Posters - large oversize 1967-1980

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Folder
POS-2C 78
Posters - large oversize 1980 Oct-

Series 10: SLIDES

Series 10, SLIDES, 1938-1985, contains photographic images that document College productions or to support teaching in the Department of Dramatic Arts. The slides are organized into three sub-series: A: 35 mm. Slide Trays, 1938-1980 B: 35 mm. Slide Albums, 1975-1985 C: Lantern Slides, 1938-1966

Sub-Series A: 35 mm. Slide Trays

35 mm. Slide Trays (sub-series A) contains 1,195 photographs of Amherst productions, 1938-1980, stored in 8 metal tray cases and arranged chronologically. A handwritten list in each tray case describes slides individually. See also Sub-series C (lantern slides).


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Folder
SLT-1 1
Productions (slides #1-150) 1938 Nov-1948 May

2
Productions (slides #151-300) 1948 May-1958 Feb

3
Productions (slides #301-450) 1958 Feb-1964 Feb

4
Productions (slides #451-600) 1964 Feb-1966 Mar

5
Productions (slides #601-750) 1966 Mar-1968 Sep

6
Productions (slides #751-900) 1968 Sep-1972 Mar

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Folder
SLT-2 7
Productions (slides #901-1050) 1972 Mar-1976 Jun

8
Productions (slides #1051-1195) 1976 Jun-1980 Jan

Sub-Series B: 35 mm. Slide Albums

35 mm. Slide Albums (sub-series B) contains photographs of Amherst productions, 1975-1985, housed in several 3-ring slide albums and arranged chronologically.


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Folder
AL-1 1
Cymbeline 1975 Mar

2
The Plough and the Stars 1975 Dec

3
Julius Caesar 1976 Mar

4
Where's Charley? 1977 Oct

5
Merchant of Venice 1978 Jan

6
Scapino 1978 Oct

7
Herbert III 1979 Nov

8
Wine in the Wilderness 1979 Nov

9
Henry IV, Part I 1979 Dec

10
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? 1980 May

11
A Flea in Her Ear 1980 Oct

12
The Sea Gull 1981 May

13
As You Like It 1981 Oct

14
The Curse of the Starving Class 1981 Oct italic">

15
The Misanthrope 1982 Nov

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Folder
AL-2 1
Cabaret 1983 Feb

2
Vatslav 1983 May

3
The Belle of Amherst 1983 May

4
The Taming of the Shrew 1983 Oct

5
TheDialectic of Enlightenment 1985 Oct

Sub-Series C: Lantern Slides

Lantern Slides (sub-series C) contains teaching slides that were used by the Department of Dramatic Arts, stored in 5 slide drawers. These are organized by historical era into sub-groups. This sub-series also includes lantern slides documenting major Amherst College dramatic productions and student productions in Kirby Theater from 1938 to 1966, which are arranged chronologically.


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Folder
LS-1 1
Greek n.d.

2
Roman n.d.

3
Medieval n.d.

4
Renaissance Art & Street Shows n.d.

5
Renaissance Façade Theater n.d.

6
Renaissance Perspective Theater n.d.

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Folder
LS-2 1
Renaissance Commedia dell'Arte n.d.

2
Renaissance English Court n.d.

3
English Restoration n.d.

4
18th and 19th century n.d.

5
Richard Wagner n.d.

6
New Realism (late 19th c.) n.d.

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Folder
LS-3 1
Appia & Craig n.d.

2
Modern Styles in Production n.d.

3
Additional Slides for Examination n.d.

4
Additional Slides - Greek n.d.

5
Additional Slides - Roman n.d.

6
Additional Slides - Medieval n.d.

7
Additional Slides - Renaissance n.d.

8
Additional Slides - Restoration n.d.

9
Additional Slides - 19th century n.d.

10
Additional Slides - 20th century n.d.

11
Additional Slides - American n.d.

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Folder
LS-4 1
Additional Slides - American (cont'd) n.d.

2
Design Elements/Directing n.d.

3
Composition in Paintings n.d.

4
Technical n.d.

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Folder
LS-5 1
Kirby Theater n.d.

2
Major Productions - Kirby Theater (slides arranged chronologically) 1938-1966

3
Student Productions - Kirby Theater (slides arranged chronologically) 1942-1964

Series 11: AUDIO RECORDINGS

Series 11, AUDIO RECORDINGS, 1953-1971 and n.d., consists of ten 1/4-inch tapes on 7-inch reels. The tapes include sound effect recordings and dialogue recordings relating to various dramatic productions.


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Folder
AU-1 1
The Beggar's Opera - recording edited from multiple performances (4 reels) 1953 Feb

2
Giotto's Frescoes of the Nativity 1957 Dec

3
Time of Your Life - show sound effects 1961 Nov

4
Lechery - Music from 1970 Mar

5
Time of Your Life - Tape A, Part 1 1971

6
Time of Your Life - Tape A, Part 2 1971

7
Time of Your Life - Tape B 1971

8
Arturo Ui - beginning theme - Ubi Roi n.d.

9
Indians 1 n.d.

10
Indians 2 n.d.

Series 12: VIDEO RECORDINGS

Series 12, VIDEO RECORDINGS, 1984-1987, contain motion-picture recordings of Amherst dramatic productions and a small number of dance performances. Tapes from 1984 to 1986 are in U-Matic format; tapes after 1986 are chiefly in VHS format. In addition, there is one commercially produced teaching video (in Beta format) on acting Shakespeare.


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Folder
VID-1 10
Hamlet, Tape 3 (U-Matic) 1984 Oct


Hamlet, Tape 4 (U-Matic) 1984 Oct


"Mambo" lecture and slide show (Dance Dept.) (U-Matic) 1984 Oct


The Mirror Stage, Act 1 (U-Matic) 1985 Feb


The Mirror Stage, Act 2 (U-Matic) 1985 Feb


The Southgate Porter, Act 1 (U-Matic) 1985 Feb


The Southgate Porter, Act 2 (U-Matic) 1985 Feb


Angels Fall, Act 1 (U-Matic) 1985 Mar


Angels Fall, Act 2 (U-Matic) 1985 Mar


The Vision of Children [VHS] 1985 May


The Vision of Children, Act 1 (U-Matic) 1985 May


The Vision of Children, Act 2 (U-Matic) 1985 May


The Vision of Children, Act 3 (U-Matic) 1985 May

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VID-2 10
The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Act 1 (U-Matic) 1985 Oct


The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Act 2 (U-Matic) 1985 Oct


The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Act 3 (U-Matic) 1985 Oct


Sandglass Theatre: Sand, Part 1 (U-Matic) 1985 Dec


Sandglass Theatre: Sand, Part 2 (U-Matic) 1985 Dec


Sandglass Theatre: Sand [VHS] 1985


The Trial, Part 1 (U-Matic) 1986 Jan


The Trial, Part 2 (U-Matic) 1986 Jan


Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children, Part 1 (U-Matic) 1986 Apr


Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children, Part 2 (U-Matic) 1986 Apr


Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children, Part 3 (U-Matic) 1986 Apr


Dandies, Part 1 1986 May


Dandies, Part 2 1986 May

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Folder
VID-3 10
Seventy Scenes of Halloween (U-Matic) 1986 Oct


Seventy Scenes of Halloween (U-Matic) 1986 Oct


Arms and the Man, Acts I, II (VHS) 1987 Feb


Arms and the Man, Act III (VHS) 1987 Feb


Virgins I (VHS) 1987 Mar


Virgins II (VHS) 1987 Apr


Baby (VHS) (VHS) 1987 Apr


Porter, Claire, "Portables: Dances for Small Places" (VHS) 1987 Apr


McKellen, Ian, "Acting Shakespeare" (Beta) n.d.

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VID-4
Sweeny Todd Act I 1987 Nov


Sweeny Todd Act II 1987 Nov


On the Verge Act I 1988 Feb


On the Verge Act II 1988 Feb


V.3 Lust and Betrayal in Disneyland (2 copies) 1988 Mar


V.3 Cameraman (2 copies) 1988 Mar


V.3 Who Really Cares? 1988 Mar


No Mercy 1988 Apr


V.4 Close Like Lovers 1988 May


V.4 Unwrap 1988 May


V.4 The Persistence of Inconsistency (2 copies) 1988 May


The Twelfth Night Part I 1988 May


The Twelfth Night Part II 1988 May


Cocktails in a Georgia County Jail 1988 Oct


Ms. Julie 1989 Mar


The Taming of the Shrew 1989 Mar


V.6 1989 Apr


Purgatory (2 copies) 1989 May


Henry IV 1989 Nov


Duck Variations 1989 Nov


Apart from the Noise 1989 Nov


Sally’s Gone 1989 Nov


Identity Crisis 1989 Dec


Fire Drill 1989 Dec


Rain (3 copies) 1990 Mar

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VID-5
Whitewash (2 copies) 1990 Apr


The Miser of Mexico 1990 Nov


Speed the Plow 1991 Feb


In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe 1991 Mar


The Successful Life of 3 1991 Apr


V.8 1991 Apr


Confusions 1991 Apr


The Hunting of the Snark (2 copies) 1991 May


Harm’s Way (2 copies) 1992 Feb


Life Underwater, A Separate Peace, Tango Palace 1992 Mar


V.10 (2 copies) 1992 Apr


R. Lee Project 1992 May


Geese Dreamer 1992 Sep


The Long Goodbye 1992 Oct


Argos 1992 Dec


Hey Baby, Via 1993 Mar


Anywhere I Lay My Head 1993 Mar


Tell It Like It Is (one full, one partial copy) 1993 Apr-May


A Servant of Two Masters 1993 Nov


Blood Relations 1993 Nov


Performance Project 1993 Dec


Tis Pity 1994 Mar


You Could Be Home 1995 Feb

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VID-6
Yerma 1995 Mar


Boys Life 1995 Apr


Macbeth 1995 Nov


Cradle Will Rock 1995 Dec


Spring Awakening (2 copies) 1996 Mar


Performance Project (2 copies) 1996 Jun


Angel City 1997 Mar


Revisionist History 1997 Mar


Phaedra 1997 Apr


Big and Little (2 copies) 1997 Oct


Lips (2 copies) 1998


The Becker Sisters 1998 Mar


Performance Project 1998 Dec


The Flies 1998 Dec


Tofu and Potatoes 1999 Jan


My Sister in this House (2 copies) 1999 Feb


Bill and Jones 1999 Apr


Five College Dance 1999 Apr


Betrayal 1999 Nov


Misogyny 1999 Nov


The Lion in the Winter 2000 Feb


Destination Immortality 2000 Nov


Pericles 2000 Nov


Cartesian Split 2000 Nov


Performance Project 2000 Dec


The Doctor in Spite of Himself 2001 Feb


The Lonely Minutes Preserved 2001 Mar

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VID-7
Desdemona (2 copies) 2001 Apr


Blood Knot 2001 Apr


Dig 2001 May


Dance/ Theater 2002 Sep


Memory of a Body of Water (2 copies) 2002 Sep


Unknown n.d.

Series 13: COSTUME DESIGN

Series 13, COSTUME DESIGN, 1938-1965, consists of sketches of costumes designed for specific productions. Many sketches have fabric swatches attached. The designs for each production are housed together. The overall arrangement is chronological by date of production. All costume designs are cross-referenced in Series 1 (Dramatic Productions).


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COS-1 10
Costume designs 1938-1958

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COS-2 10
Costume designs 1958 Nov-1965 Nov

Series 14: OBJECTS

Series 14, OBJECTS, 1929-1963, consists of several masks and props used in productions. All costume designs are cross-referenced in Series 1 (Dramatic Productions).


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AU-1 10
Scroll used in production of Beggar on Horseback and signed by cast members 1929 Dec

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OBJ-1 10
Masks for Peer Gynt used in 1940 Jan. and 1951 Nov. 1940, 1951

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OBJ-2 10
Cyclops mask #1 used in The Cyclops by Euripides in 1957 Jan., 1958 Mar. and 1963 Mar. 1957, 1963

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OBJ-3 10
Cyclops mask #2 used in The Cyclops by Euripides in 1957 Jan., 1958 Mar. and 1963 Mar. 1957, 1963