Found 20 collections related to Photographs

The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival that was held between 1997 and 2019 in New York City, and was one of the largest fringe festivals in North America. The New York International Fringe records document the submission process of productions that were eventually staged at the festival, as well as select administrative materials. This collection is dedicated primarily to the application materials of shows that were accepted to the festival, consisting of jury evaluations, participant agreements, press releases, marketing materials, programs, correspondence, photographs, slides, scores, scripts, blurbs, bios, resumes, audiovisual materials, and tech survey forms, sometimes with diagrams attached. less

Vincent Canby (1924-2000) was a film critic for The New York Times and also a playwright and novelist. The Vincent Canby papers, dated from the 1930s to 2000, hold mostly scripts from his career as a playwright and novelist. The collection also includes correspondence (mainly between Canby and his mother during World War II); college papers from Dartmouth College; military records from the Navy, and photographs from vacation trips. less

The Broadway Bound production materials, dating from 1994 to 2005, chronicle the process of creating musicals performed by Broadway Bound, Inc. on Queen Elizabeth 2, a luxury ocean liner that sailed between Southampton, England and New York City. The collection holds administrative files, correspondence, costume and set designs, photographs, playbills, a poster, scripts, scores, and audio and video recordings. less

Carol Channing (1921-2019) was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known for her leading roles in the Broadway musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! The Carol Channing papers, dating from the 1910s to 2010 (bulk dates 1940s-2010), trace her career as an entertainer through project files, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, publicity materials, scripts, drafts for her memoir, notated music and lyrics, and audio and moving image recordings. less

Martin "Marty" Pakledinaz (1953-2012) was an American costume designer known for his work in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater, opera, and dance. His designs, dated 1981 to 2011, contain costume bibles and production files for over thirty-five productions. Focusing primarily on his work in New York City, the collection showcases the evolution of Pakledinaz's creative process and style throughout his career. less

Joseph Stein (1912-2010) was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his book for the musical Fiddler on the Roof. The Joseph Stein papers (1943-2017) document Stein's professional life with scripts, production materials, and business correspondence. Stein's musicals The Baker's Wife, Fiddler on the Roof, and Rags are extensively represented in this collection. less

George E. Joseph (1922-2013) was the staff photographer for the New York Shakespeare Festival/the Public Theater from 1956 to 1993, photographing many productions at the Delacorte Theater, Public Theater, and other locations around New York City. Actors of note represented in the collection include James Earl Jones, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, Raul Julia, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, and many more. The George E. Joseph photographs include prints, negatives, contact sheets, color slides, and paper material chronicling the production and institutional history of the New York Shakespeare Festival/the Public Theater. less

Harry Hershfield (1885-1974) was an American cartoonist, humorist, and radio personality. The Harry Hershfield collection, dating from 1896 to 1979, documents his career and contains photographs, writings, letters, programs, scrapbooks, clippings, awards, certificates and a framed portrait. less

Barnard Hughes (1915-2006) and Helen Stenborg (1925-2011) were prolific stage and screen actors. Hughes was best known for his award-winning turn as the titular character in Da, and Stenborg performed extensively with the Circle Repertory Company. Their papers date from the 1880s to 2011, and chronicle their professional careers and personal collecting interests through posters, programs, photographs, correspondence, engravings, scripts, manuscripts, and award trophies. The collection also contains theater memorabilia that Hughes inherited from Thelma Chandler, a stage manager. The Chandler memorabilia includes correspondence from Margaret Webster, the American director, producer, and actress. less

The Hugh Fordin collection, dated 1908 to 2005, documents the career of writer and record producer Hugh Fordin (1935-2019). The collection primarily chronicles his research for Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II(1977) and The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals (1975). less

The Foundry Theatre, an Off-off-Broadway theater, was established in 1994 by Melanie Joseph and ceased operation in 2019. The collection, dating from the years 1984 to 2019, documents all major Foundry productions and events and provides a comprehensive portrait of the creative, financial, and logistical history of an experimental theater company. less

J. Peter Happel was an American photographer known for his work photographing mid-20th century television productions. The J. Peter Happel photographs includes negatives, proofs, and prints from across his career, with emphasis on his work covering early CBS television productions including The Jackie Gleason Show and The Garry Moore Show. less

Elizabeth Swados (1951-2016) was a theater composer, musician, director, writer, poet, and illustrator. The Elizabeth Swados papers, Additions (1950-2015) document her career and works through scripts, scores, contracts, photographs, publicity materials, posters, artwork, and audio and moving image recordings. less

Walt Witcover (1924-2013) was a director and acting teacher who worked primarily in New York City. He founded the Masterworks Laboratory Theatre (MLT) company in 1969 after staging a modern revival of La Traviata (Act I) with the Actors Studio in 1968. The collection, dated from 1926 to 2011, illustrates Witcover's fifty-year theatre career via correspondence, scripts, director's notes, class outlines, published and unpublished writings, and photography. less

Robin Wagner (1933-2023) was a Tony Award–winning American set designer, known for his work in Broadway theatre, opera, and ballet. The collection, dated from 1968 to 2016, illustrates Wagner's artistic range via research files, sketches, paint elevations, design drawings, set model photographs, scene-to-scene schematics, and correspondence. less

The Builders Association is a New York City-based multimedia theater company founded in 1994 by Marianne Weems. The company creates original productions that examine contemporary human life. The Builders Association records, dating from 1983 to 2014, consist of production files from the company's works; administrative and financial materials; recordings of performances and rehearsals; audio and video components used for sound and video design; and production files from projects in which Weems was involved outside of the Builders Association. less

Baoting Chang (1929-2015) was a Chinese Xiang Sheng ("cross-talk comedy") comedian and performer whose career spanned seven decades. He grew up in a family of well-known Xiang Sheng performers. Chang's daughter Grace Chang made and compiled a collection of video and document files about Chang and the Chang family's performing careers. Although the files were created in 2020s, they reuse scripts, books, photographs, and video and sound recordings from the 1920s to 2018. less

James McMullan (1934-) is an Irish Canadian illustrator and designer of theatrical posters. His collection compiles posters he created to promote theatrical productions and some special events at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City. The collection also holds paintings, sketches, notes, and photographs. less