{"value"=>"<p>This series is arranged alphabetically by file title and contains material documenting the administrative and governing functions of the American Place Theater, including audience development, fundraising, programming, and the activities of the Board of Trustees. There is a small amount of subject files, as well as legal and financial material.</p> <p>Audience development was a constant undertaking by American Place Theatre staff and is represented by yearly membership campaigns that sought to keep current members and attract new sponsorship, and to generate group sales with schools and cultural organizations. Development files include the production files for benefits, a 'diaspora' letter sent out to Wynn Handman's former students requesting support, and foundation files. The activities of the board of trustees are represented in minutes that contain annual reports, budgets and balance sheets provide a broad overview of the American Place Theatre's activities from 1963 to 2008.</p> <p>Administrative staff maintained an almost complete run of programs from American Place Theatre productions, including programs from series like the American Humorist Series, Hearing Impaired Project, Literature to Life, SubPlot Cabaret space, and The Women's Project. From the 1970s until the late 1980s, the American Place Theatre promoted the recognition of playwrights by putting a photograph of the playwright on the cover of each program. In addition to the programs, there are administrative files on many of the above series. The file on the American Humorists' Series contains material relating to humorists like Hank Bates, Roy Blount, Jr., and Bill Irwin.</p> <p>Additional material consists of files on collaborations with other organizations, partial alphabetical runs of reader reports and contracts, and licensee files regarding space rentals of American Place Theatre's performance spaces by other theater companies and cultural organizations, and staffing files. Files on organizations include mass mailings, publications, memoranda, and press releases from local and national theaters and professional organizations. The Harold Clurman file contains typescripts of the opening remarks Clurman made concerning various playwrights at Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: A Celebration of Fifteen Years of Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships for American Playwrights. Photographs document the exterior and interior of the American Place Theatre's 111 West 46th Street location, special events, and mock-ups of program covers. Notable subjects include Wynn Handman, Harry Jackson, Donald Jones, and Myrna Loy, and unidentified members of The Women's Project.</p> <p>Additional administrative files are held in Series VII: Electronic Records.</p>"}