- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.26 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1987-014", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18842", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1968-1977", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968/1977"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1968
- date_inclusive_end
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1977
- keydate
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1968
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Cubiculo Theatre records"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Cubiculo Theatre opened in 1968 as an off-off Broadway experimental theater and home for the National Shakespeare Company. This collection consists of fliers, press releases, programs, and reviews that record the various dance, theater, poetry, music, and multimedia performances held at the theater from 1968 to 1977. The collection also includes correspondence, biographical information on artists, and a few photographs."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Cubiculo Theatre records, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Cubiculo Theatre", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>In 1968, Philip Meister (1932-1982) and Elaine Sulka (1933-1994) opened the Cubiculo Theatre in a Hell's Kitchen brownstone in New York City. Meister and Sulka, who were married, co-founded the National Shakespeare Company in 1962, a touring troupe that presented plays at schools and universities across the country. The Cubiculo served as a home for the National Shakespeare Company as well as an off-off Broadway experimental theater. Meister named the theater after a line from Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night and also as a reference to the cubical shape of the theater.</p> <p>Meister and Sulka ran \"The Cube,\" as it was known, as a nonprofit with the help of John T. Dudich and then Maurice Edwards, who served as program coordinators. Programming included experimental plays, films, music, poetry, choreography, dance, and mixed media performances. They billed The Cube as a showcase theater, a place where artists could try out new ideas and works in an atmosphere that encouraged creativity and growth. The spaces, a seventy-five seat theater and a studio theater, were given to artists rent-free with promotion and lighting included. The Cubiculo fostered the careers of many artists including playwright Israel Horovitz.</p> <p>In 1969 the Cubiculo was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and later one from the New York States Arts Council. Philip Meister died in 1982 and Elaine Sulka continued to run the theater until her death in 1994.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Cubiculo Theatre records document the programming of the theater from 1968 to 1977. The collection consists of programs, fliers, press releases, and some press reviews. Other items include correspondence with poets, playwrights, and other arts professionals, information on casts and crews of productions, and a few photographs. Some handmade promotional posters and signs are also included in the collection.</p> <p>Play files consist of biographical and contact information on the cast and crew, press releases, fliers, programs, correspondence, and notes.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection was arranged alphabetically by performance type and then document type. The play files were arranged alphabetically by title.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Elaine Sulka, July 1987.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Boni Joi Koelliker, Pratt, 2013.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>The items were kept in their original folders with new folders added as needed. The collection was arranged alphabetically by performance type and then document type.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Cubiculo records, 1970-1977. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span>"}
- extent_statement
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1.26 linear feet (3 boxes)
- date_start
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1968
- date_end
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1977