Skip to main content

SCOUT

Special Collections Online at UT

Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Broadway Playbills Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2800
Abstract Collection contains playbills, almost exclusively from Broadway productions, from 1956-1967. Among the playbills included are: Long Day's Journey into Night, West Side Story, Look Homeward Angel, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and All the Way Home (the Broadway play based on James Agee's A Death in the Family). Most playbills include a ticket stub and a...
Dates: 1956-1967

Broadway Playbills Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3059
Abstract

This collection contains Broadway playbills from 1926 and 1948 through 1981. Titles include The Boy Friend, Cabaret, Cole Porter's Can-Can, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hair, The King and I, My Fair Lady, Seven Year Itch, South Pacific, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, among many others.

Dates: 1926, 1946-1981

John S. Van Gilder Playbill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0915
Abstract

This collection contains a large selection of playbills, programs, and travel books collected by John S. Van Gilder.

Dates: 1956-1967

LeRoy Graf Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2899
Abstract

This collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles concerning theatre from the 1930s-1980s and Dr. LeRoy Graf's papers, including documents for a 1980 history class.

Dates: circa 1930s-1990s

Theater Playbills

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2804
Abstract

This collection consists of Broadway playbills from the early 1920s into the 1960s; the collection also contains playbills from other theaters around the country, including the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, the Barter Theater in Virginia and the Bijou, Carousel, and Staub theaters of Knoxville, Tenn., some of which date as far back as 1890.

Dates: 1890-1969