{"value"=>"<p>This series is arranged alphabetically and contains material in regards to the administrative and governing functions of the Cocteau. The bulk of the documents represent work done by the Board of Directors. Files include minutes, budgets, funding reports, and memoranda. Topics covered are theater staff dynamics, maintaining the artistic integrity of the Cocteau, obtaining funding for the theatre and the ongoing cash flow issues, of which the Board members often had to make personal loans to allow the theater to meet its payroll obligations.</p> <p>Alpert Podell, a board of director member from 1988-1997, and for many years president, maintained separate files that are a more complete representation of the Board's work for those years, and include development files, correspondence, minutes and agendas, budget and financial statements, and publicity material. Podell's correspondence includes letters documenting Eve Adamson's resignation as creative director.</p> <p>Robert Hupp, artistic director from 1989-1999. maintained separate files which document his role as the creative leader of the organization as well as its practical manager. These files consist of business correspondence, memos, grant applications, job descriptions, budgets, fund-raising plans, calendars, schedules, press kits, reviews, season plans, notes regarding play selection, meeting minutes, and a feasibility study prepared for the Board of Directors. Hupp's files include materials pertaining to Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre's collaboration with Eric Bentley and to the Thetare's residency at Baruch College.</p> <p>Other material in this series includes letters from audience members, files on group attendance programs, files regarding the Cocteau's history and budget, and files regarding the Bouwerie Lane Theater, often highlighting plans to move to a larger theater. Correspondence with critics includes correspondence between Craig Smith, the acting publicity director, and <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span> editor A.M Rosenthal, regarding Smith's petition to reinstate critic Mel Gussow's Off-Off Broadway column, after the <span class=\"title\">Times</span> canceled it. The file on <span class=\"title\">Marie Antoinette</span> regards a co-production with The Independent Eye, an ensemble from Philadelphia, and the file on <span class=\"title\">Six Characters in Search of an Author</span> contains plans for the Cocteau's trip to Brazil.</p> <p>Files on Edvard Radzinsky and Tennessee Williams do not contain correspondence from the playwrights- the Radzinsky files include legal agreements and an unproduced, translation of Radzinsky's play <span class=\"title\">Sporting Scenes</span> (1981) and the Williams file includes clippings and publicity material.</p>"}