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{"value"=>"1990-1991", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1990/1991"}
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{"value"=>"Trinity Repertory Company Oral History Tapes"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"157 cassettes"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"The collection contains interviews with many people that were actively part of, or associated with, The Trinity Repertory Company. Recorded in the early 90's it exemplifies an organization during a transitional period; the tapes were recorded during the search for a replacement for long-time Artistic Director Adrian Hall."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>*L(Special) 92-15, Trinity Repertory Company Oral History Tapes, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Trinity Repertory Company", "type"=>"corpname"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Since its founding in 1964, Trinity Repertory Company (TRC) has been considered one of the most respected regional theaters in the country. Adrian Hall led the company as Artistic Director until 1989 and transformed it from a small community theater to a nationally prominent resident theater. Now under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Managing Director Edgar Dobie, TRC presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works, including seven major productions, an annual production of <span class=\"title\">A Christmas Carol</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Trinity Summer Shakespeare</span>, for a total annual audience of over 200,000.</p> <p>Local, national, and international recognition has come to TRC consistently. In 1968, it was the first American theater company to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland. The company received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater Company in 1981, produced four television productions for PBS, and toured India and Syria.</p> <p>TRC has a strong commitment to the development of new works and has presented nearly 50 world premieres. Artistic Director Eustis has a national reputation as both a director and dramaturg; he commissioned Tony Kushner's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning <span class=\"title\">Angels in America</span>. Trinity's Providence New Plays Festival has presented some of the theater's newest voices to New England audiences. Summer finds TRC actors gathering with playwrights and directors at the Bread Loaf Writer's Colony in Middlebury, Vermont, to write, rehearse, and present workshops of new plays.</p> <p>From its roots in Providence's Trinity United Methodist Church, TRC moved in 1973 to its present home, the Lederer Theater Center in downtown Providence. Formerly known as the Majestic Theatre, the historic building houses two performance spaces: the 500-plus seat Elizabeth and Malcolm Chace Theater and the 300-seat Sarah and Joseph Dowling, Jr. Theater, as well as offices, production shops, rehearsal halls, and Conservatory studios.</p> <p>As Rhode Island's largest arts organization, TRC has a significant impact on the community, and is a linchpin of Providence's arts and entertainment district. With an annual budget of $7 million, the theater employs 130 artistic and administrative staff, and generates more than $24 million in economic activity each year. The theater enjoys support from the region's leading corporations as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, The Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, and the City of Providence. [Cf. http://www.trinityrep.com]</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains interviews with many people that were actively part of, or associated with, The Trinity Reperatory Company. Recorded in the early 90's it exemplifies an organization during a transitional period; the tapes were recorded during the search for a replacement for long-time Artistic Director Adrian Hall.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Trinity Repertory Company Oral History Tapes are arranged in nine series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664586'>I. Adrian Hall - Artistic Director</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Adrian Hall, born in 1927, is a actor, director, writer and founding artistic director of TRC, a position he kept from 1964 through 1989. Hall is an honorary life trustee of the company. Hall also served as Artistic Director of the Dallas Theatre Center from 1983 to 1989. The interviews took place in Providence, RI, Cambridge, MA and Van, TX.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664600'>II. The Company</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664682'>III. Board Members</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664700'>IV. Playwrights</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664709'>V. Educators</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664718'>VI. Dallas Theatre Center</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Hall began his tenure as Artistic Director of the Dallas Theatre Center (DTC) in 1983. He served both TRC and DTC posts for throughout the 80's. With his managing director, Peter Donnelly, fresh from the Seattle Repertory Theater, Hall first addressed the most pressing physical needs of the theater: a renovation of the original Wright building to improve the backstage area, the basement floor facilities and the traffic flow; to find, or build a second playing house with wide open space to accommodate innovative productions; to develop broader audiences and to keep more actors working with simultaneous or overlapping play runs.</p> <p>The new Arts District Theater, designed by Hall`s associate, the distinguished stage designer, Eugene Lee, opened in 1985 and turned out to be an engaging metal barn which adapts to virtually any staging a director may devise. It is the most flexible performance facility in the country.</p> <p>The idea of a permanent company was another major priority and Hall assembled DTC`s company by bringing some people from Trinity Repertory, using some local actors and importing others. He opened with a brilliant production of Brecht's <span class=\"title\">Galileo</span> in the Kalita Humphreys Theater and, as soon as he could, staged his own adaptation of the Robert Penn Warren novel <span class=\"title\">All the King's Men</span>, which inaugurated most of the facilities the new Arts District house could provide. [Cf. http://www.dallastheatrecenter.org]</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664725'>VII. American Repertory Theatre</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) occupies a unique place in the American theatre. It is the only not-for-profit theatre in the country that maintains a resident acting company and an international training conservatory, and also an association with a major university. Over its twenty-two year history the A.R.T. has welcomed American and international theatre artists who have enriched the theatrical life of the whole nation. The theatre has garnered many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. Since 1980 the A.R.T. has performed in eighty-one cities in twenty-two states around the country, and worldwide in twenty-one cities in sixteen countries on four continents. It has presented one hundred and sixty productions, over half of which were premieres of new plays, translations, and adaptations.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664732'>VIII. National Endowment for the Arts</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The National Endowment for the Arts is the largest annual funder of the arts in the United States. An independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Arts is the official arts organization of the United States government.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/rha/20496#c664743'>XI. Other Key Observers</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The series have been left in the original order they were received. The recordings are organized by the relationships the interviewees had with the Company.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by the Trinity Reperatory Company</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Donald R. Mennerich; machine-readable finding aid created by Donald R. Mennerich.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Access to original items by permission only. Some items may be available as service copies. Other items which need preservation work may require advance notification for use. Refer to item descriptions in individual catalog records for more information. Users never directly handle sound recordings. Listening selections are transmitted through a playback system.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>No copying of private, non-commercial material is allowed without the written permission of the proprietary rights holder. For further information contact the Curator, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.</p>"}
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1990
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1990
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1991
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1990
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1991