Theater
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Records of the Practical Theatre Company
Collection
Identifier: 55/47
Abstract
The Practical Theatre Company (PTC) was a Chicago-based theatre company founded by Northwestern University students and active throughout the 1980s. Its productions included new plays, satiric agitprop, rock and roll events, and a series of successful improvisational comedy revues. The PTC, whose motto was “Art is Good”, is notable for the fact that the entire cast of its 1982 improvisational comedy revue, “The Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee” (Brad Hall, Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus,...
Dates:
1979 - 2011; Other: Majority of material found within 1979 - 1989; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/2012
University Theatre Production Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 20/48
Abstract
This series is comprised of photographs from University Theatre productions from the period 1928-2003. Formats include negatives (boxes 1-6), prints (boxes 7-12), oversize prints (boxes 13-15), and slides (boxes 16-27).
Dates:
1928-2003
University Theatre Production Records
Collection
Identifier: 20/20
Abstract
This series comprises University Theatre production reports prepared by various production crew heads. The production reports for productions staged between 1934 and 1955 include such information as names of crew members, set and prop renderings, ground plans, reports of hours worked by student crew members and their grade evaluations. Reports without production numbers appended are interfiled chronologically within the series. These records correspond to the University Theatre Prompt Books...
Dates:
1934-1955