{"value"=>"<p>The production files are arranged chronologically by season. Within each season, files are first arranged alphabetically by play, and followed by series, such as the American Humorists' Series, the Jubilee!: Festival of Black Culture, the Women's Project, Works-In-Progress, as well as productions staged for the Subplot Cabaret space, later called the First Floor Series. The production files reflect both the administrative and the creative aspects of the productions and may contain box office reports, budgets, correspondence, contracts, programs, reviews, as well as casting files, photographs, scripts, set designs, sheet music. The files document the development of a playwright's work at the APT. Often productions were first performed as a work-in-progress and then produced in full later that season, like Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman, or in the following season, like Elaine Jackson's Cockfight. The files also contain works that the APT began to develop, but were ultimately unproduced. This occurred more frequently in later seasons as the APT moved away from performing straight plays to adapting works of fiction for its Literature to Life program. Additionally, the files contain special events, such as memorial or laudatory productions.</p> <p>The files for productions produced in the 1970s to the 1990s are the most complete. Most of the files do not contain correspondence with the playwrights with the exception of files for Cockfight, The Fuehrer Bunker, Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry, The Grinding Machine, The Kid, Letters Home, Memory of Whiteness, Seduced, and all of Frank Chin's plays. The 1975-1976 Season files for The Old Glory contain photocopies of Robert Lowell's notes regarding casting and the files for Juana La Loca contain Mary Lee Settle's rehearsal notes. Files for Do Lord Remember Me, Five on the Black Hand Side, The Old Glory, The Radiant City, Seduced, and Zora Neale Hurston contain study guides geared towards elementary and secondary school audience members. Black Boy, The Karl Marx Play, The Old Glory, and Who's Got His Own toured and arrangements for theses tours can be found in their files. The files for Coming Through include paper leaves with audiences' responses to the play that share stories of their own ancestors' immigration to the United States. Journey of the 5th Horse files contain fan letters written to the male lead, Dustin Hoffman. The files also demonstrate the controversy surrounding certain productions by the number of negative and positive letters APT received regarding Black Bog Beast Bait, Cowboy Mouth, and La Turista.</p> <p>Photographs, as noted in the following container list, can be found throughout the production files and include works by Betty Brown, Philip Bruns, Martha Holmes, and James Matthews. Subjects include Lloyd Battista, Marilyn Coleman, Michael Douglas, Virginia Downing, Alice Drummond, Faye Dunaway, Laura Esterman, Vincent Gardenia, Philip Baker Hall, Leonard Jackson, Bella Jarrett, Robert Earl Jones, Raul Julia, Patrick McVey, William H. Macy, Norman Matlock, Gene Reynolds, Andrew Robinson, Marian Seldes, Martin Shakar, Lilia Skala, Lois Smith, Michael Tolan, and Rip Torn. Unsorted photographs and slides are of various APT productions such as Baba Goya, The Chickencoop Chinaman, Fingernails Blue as Flowers, The Karl Marx Play, The Kid, Lake of the Woods, Metamorphosis, The Old Glory, and Sleep.</p> <p>Additional production files are held in Series VII: Electronic Records.</p>"}