Research Catalog

Title

Twelfth night programs, 1820-1962.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

6 bound volume of programs : illustrations; 38 cm or smaller

Summary

Programs and broadsides in six volumes for Twelfth night by William Shakespeare documenting productions mainly in New York and London and regionally in the United States and England, including touring, amateur, college, and university productions, from 1820 to 1962. A few programs for productions in Ireland, Germany, and Poland can be found in MWEZ+ n.c. 19,803.

Donor/Sponsor

In honor of George Freedley

Subjects

• Maxine Elliott's Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.)
• Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
• New York Shakespeare Festival Productions
• Birmingham Repertory Theatre
• Tickets
• Christ's Hospital (Horsham, England)
• Habimah
• Hollis Street Theatre (Organization : Boston, Mass.)
• Marginalia
• Dublin Shakespeare Society
• St. Bride's Church (London, England)
• Sam S. Shubert Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
• Ben Greet Players
• Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Theatre Guild
• New England Woman's Press Association
• Amateur theater > United States
• Playbills
• American Laboratory Theatre
• Elizabethan Stage Society
• Theater programs
• Selznick Distribution Corp
• Amateur theater > England
• Middle Temple (London, England)
• Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, England)
• Golders Green Hippodrome (London, England)

Genre/Form

• Theater programs.
• Playbills.
• Tickets.
• Marginalia.

Note

• Of note in MWEZ+ n.c. 7587 (1864-1919) are performances by Mary Frances Scott-Siddons, the great granddaughter of Sarah Siddons, billed as "Mrs. Scott-Siddons"; Helena Modjeska with Tully Marshall and Mary Shaw; Henry Irving and Ellen Terry; the Ben Greet Players in a few outdoor productions; Ada Rehan; Annie Russell; and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Item #16 is a program for an 1884 production by the City Middle Class Corporation School (Finsbury, London). Item #19 is a program for an 1888 benefit at the Hollis Street Theatre (Boston) for the New England Woman's Press Association. Item #27 is a program for a 1900 production by the Chesterton Girls' Club (Hackney, London) at St. Bride's Hall, Fleet Street.
• Programs in this collection belong to the Stead, Players Club, and Robinson Locke collections.
• A number of the programs in MWEZ+ n.c. 7588 (1920-1931) document Andrew Leigh's 1930 production at Maxine Elliott's Theatre (N.Y.), starring Jane Cowl, produced by Kenneth MacGowan and Joseph Verner Reed. Of note is program for Margaret Cheney's 1925 production by the American Laboratory Theatre. Item #3, a program for a 1920 repertory production by E. H. Southern and Julia Marlowe at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre (N.Y.), contains a ticket for a seat in the orchestra and advertising for William Faversham in The man who lost himself, a film distributed by Selznick Pictures.
• The bulk of programs in MWEZ+ n.c. 7589 (1940-1945) document Margaret Webster's 1940 production for the Theatre Guild starring Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans. Item #1 is a program for a 1940 production by the Jane Manner Drama Studio (N.Y.). Item #22 is a program for Theodore Fuchs's 1945 production at Northwestern University Theatre featuring Patricia Neal.
• MWEZ+ n.c. 7590 (1910-1939) includes programs for productions by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Percival Vivian's Shakespeare Theatre (N.Y.), the Habima Theatre (Tel Aviv), the Federal Theatre Project, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford on Avon, and others. Item #9 is a program for the Shakespeare Playhouse's 1920 production of scenes at the Rosemary Open Air Theatre (Huntington, N.Y.) to benefit the Huntington Hospital. Item #11 is a 1932 program for Sydney Carroll and Lewis Schaverien's "black and white" production with music at the Golders Green Hippodrome (London). Item #33 is a program for Tallulah Bankhead in Brewster Morgan's adaptation broadcast live for the Columbia Shakespearean Cycle radio program, later released as a sound recording called Shakespeare in Hollywood. Item #47 is a program for a 1939 production by the Dublin Shakespeare Society.
• MWEZ+ n.c. 7591 (1820-1944) contains larger format broadsides and programs along with a few full issues of The Stage, The Season, The Figaro, The Globe, Booth's Theatre Playbill, Daly's Theatre Playbill (poor condition), and others. Item #3 is a broadside for a 1821 production at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden, seen February 3rd by an unidentified theatre-goer who annotated the item with a drunken appreciation of Ann Maria Tree's performance as Viola. [The cataloger's transcription of the marginalia has been included with the material.] Item #47 is a program for William Poel's 1897 production for the Elizabethan Stage Society at the Middle Temple of the Inns of Court (London), the site of the play's first production in 1602. Item #67 is a program for an evening of scenes as part of Erwin Piscator's dramatic workshop demonstration, including a lecture by John Gassner, at the New School [for Social Research] (N.Y.), with Marlon Brando in a number of roles throughout the evening, including Sebastian in Twelfth Night. Elaine Stritch is also featured.
• Of note in MWEZ+ n.c. 19803 (1904-1962) are three productions with all-male casts at boys' schools--one, the Christ's Hospital Elizabethan Players (Horsham, England), under the direction of Michael Marland (other all-male or all-female productions are scattered throughout these volumes); Viola Allen at the Colonial Theatre (Boston); Granville Barker's production at the Savoy Theatre (London); two productions under the aegis of Erwin Piscator at the New School [for Social Research] (N.Y.); Joseph Papp for the New York Shakespeare Festival; Jules Irving and Herbert Blau for the San Francisco Actor's Workshop.
• Compiled and bound by The New York Public Library.
• The Christ's Hospital program is the gift of Michael Marland.

Source (note)

• The papers of the elocutionist and drama teacher Jane Manner, born in New York as Jennie Mannheimer, are held by the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 7587-7591

OCLC

974705901

Title

Twelfth night programs, 1820-1962.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Some items within are fragile or have come loose from the library binding. Please handle with deliberate care.

Source

The papers of the elocutionist and drama teacher Jane Manner, born in New York as Jennie Mannheimer, are held by the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Research Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 7587-7591

MWEZ+ n.c. 19803