Found 2 collections related to Theatrical producers

The item is a printed power of attorney form issued by The Dramatists' Guild of The Authors' League of America, Inc., signed by Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright Langston Hughes and Martin Jones for Marjones Productions, Inc., on September 2, 1935. Martin Jones (Martin B. Jones, 1902-1983) was a theatrical producer. The document appoints Joseph P. Bickerton Jr., Arbiter, as attorney-in-fact to carry out the terms of the Minimum Basic Agreement between The Dramatists' Guild, and producing managers Langston Hughes (Author) and Marjones Productions, Inc. (Manager), for the negotiation of motion picture rights. The play's title is left blank, but extant documents signed by the parties that day identify Langston Hughes's play Mulatto, which opened on Broadway in 1935 less

Elizabeth McCann (1931-2021) was a Broadway theater producer who came to prominence in the 1970s with her company McCann & Nugent Productions. The Elizabeth McCann papers, which date from 1979 to 2017, primarily document McCann's later solo producing career. The collection holds files of correspondence, casting notes, programs, marketing materials, press clippings, budgets, and financial information relating to many of the plays McCann produced. less