Found 5 collections related to Traveling theater

Junior Programs, Inc., brought good cultural entertainment for children. Founded as a part of the National Music League in 1933, it became its own organization in 1937. A nonprofit arts organization, it sent out traveling companies-opera, stage and ballet-to schools and communities, first in the Eastern United States and then throughout the country. less

The Theatre Guild, established in 1919 by Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner, Philip Moeller, and Helen Westley, is an American theatrical association. Since its inception, the Theatre Guild has produced over 200 original theatrical productions, many of which have become Broadway classics. The Theater Guild records (1949-1952) document the Theatre Guild's administrative activities during the planning and execution of the production of Carousel at the Stoll Theatre in London in 1950, and Oklahoma! for the 1951 Berlin Arts Festival. less

The Jitney Players were an American travelling theatre troupe founded in 1923 by Horace Bushnell Cheney (1899-1930) and his wife Alice Keating Cheney (1894-1981). The records, dated 1914 to 1977, mostly document the Jitney Players' theatrical performances through photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence and playbills. less

The May Sarton photographs, dating from the 1930s, documents the Associated Actors Theatre (formerly the Apprentice Theatre), which was founded by May Sarton. The collection holds candid, non-commercial black and white photographs taken by Sidney Ball. less