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Box Contents List
Box 1:
National Theatre Conference
Correspondence, 1936-1938
[See also: Papers of Edward Charles Mabie, box 22]
Box 2:
"The Federal Theatre,” 1936-1938 (incomplete)
Federal Theatre correspondence
Midwest states
Box 3:
National Theatre Conference
Box 4:
Federal Theatre
Correspondence, 1935-1938
"Play Bureaus”
Applications
Proposals
Box 5:
Federal Theatre
"Play Bureaus”
Box 6:
Federal Theatre on peripheral
Phone calls
Miscellaneous
Box 7:
New theatre budget estimates
New theatre bills
Counter weight plans
Requests for information
"Two Hundred were Chosen,” by E.P. Conkle (production details)
"Blue Jeans,” by Marvin Flavin (criticisms)
Box 8:
Archives of Speech [See also: Papers of Edward Charles Mabie, boxes 14 & 34]
Notes and minutes of Committee on Communication
Box 9:
National Theatre Conference minutes, 1935
American Educational Theatre Association, 1946
Box 10:
"Western theatre,” 1935
Outline for "An Introductory Course in Dramatic Production”
Experimental play production
"Drama in Theory and in Practice”
"A Survey of Drama Study in the High Schools of Illinois”
"Treatment of Stuttering”
Box 11:
W.P.A. materials
Box 12:
Play production festivals in order from 1926
Box 13:
Correspondence, A-Z, 1956-59
Staff meeting minutes, 1959-1963
Box 14:
Correspondence, A-Z, 1960-1962
Box 15:
Correspondence, A-L, 1945-1955
Box 16:
----. M-Z. 1945-1955
Box 17:
Miscellaneous
University Theatre Dramatic Art Play Programs Series
Box 1:
1889-1951
Box 2:
1952-1971
Box 3:
1972-1983
Box 4:
1983-
Box 5:
Untitled
Addenda:
THEATRE PRODUCTION CARD FILE SERIES:
Arranged by four sub-series: title, date, author and director.
PROGRAM-PICTURE FILES SERIES:
Includes files about virtually all productions arranged alphabetically by name of production, from 1920s to 1990s. These files include programs, playbills, photographs of sets and actors, etc. A very rich source of information about play productions at UI.
BUILDING SERIES:
Pertains to development and management of the Theatre Building, constructed in 1936.
SCRAPBOOKS SERIES:
Covers the 1920s-1980s, arranged by year. Newspaper clippings, playbills, programs, etc.
OTHER SERIES:
University Theatres Newsletter
University Theatres Mainstage (includes programs)
Iowa Shakespeare Festival Records; 1.0 ft.
Scripts; 48.0 ft.
