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Creator
Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Call number
*T-VIM 2011-253
Physical description
4 boxes (ca. 346 drawings)
Preferred Citation
Living Theatre designs, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Billy Rose Theatre Division
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The Living Theatre, founded by Judith Malina and Julian Beck in 1947, produced avant-garde plays performed in New York theaters until 1963, when they were shut down by the IRS for failing to pay taxes. After a worldwide tour, the Living Theatre settled in Berlin in 1965. The company toured the United States in 1968. After touring Brazil and Europe, the Living Theatre came back to New York in May 1989 where it has its present home. Mostly color and black and white costume designs, set designs and sketches for productions (1948-1967) by the Living Theatre, many by founders Julian Beck and Judith Malina. Also includes hand drawn floor plans, several designs for fliers and posters, and ephemera. There are a few color snapshots for Aria da capo and R.U.R. There are also several sketches by Julian Beck for a dance by James Waring, Dances before the wall, Mar. 1958.

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Related Material

Related materials may be found in the Living Theatre Records in The Billy Rose Theatre Division (call number *T-Mss 1988-005)

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Location

Billy Rose Theatre Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor