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American Shakespeare Center Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0371
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 65 Shakespeare plays, additional plays by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Molière; 12 Beta videotapes and audiocassettes; 26 cast scrapbooks with photographs; correspondence between Ralph Cohen and James Warren, founders of American Shakespeare Center, Hank Dobin, Washington and Lee University Dean (2005-2012), and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Shakespeare Center.

Dates: Inclusive 1987- ongoing; Majority of material found within Bulk 1987-1995

Annette John Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0385

Copy of a Photograph of a Theater Backdrop Painted by Cy Twombly

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0098
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of a photograph of a theater backdrop that was painted by Cy Twombly in Lexington, Virginia. The location and name of the theater production is unknown.

Dates: Event: Date of original photograph ; Date of photographic copy unknown

Dick Sessoms Theatrical Publication Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0412
Scope and Contents

This collection contains playbills, issues of The Dramatist, and other theatrical and ballet ephemera.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Friends and relations of Gilbert and Sullivan (FROGS) collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0188
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and approximately 50 humorous photos from five plays(Iolanthe, H.M.S. Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Mikado, and Patience) put on by FROGS. It also includes programs as well as script and casting information used by the individuals putting on the plays.

Dates: Inclusive 1964-1968

George Ray Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0382

Henry Strouss Performing Arts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0778

Polly and Charles Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0381

Thomas Connors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0299
Scope and Contents

Contains 19th and early 20th century British and American theater memorabilia, including autographs of major actors, writers, and managers; and letters, broadsides, and photographs.

Dates: Inclusive 1805-1923

William Webb Pusey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0182
Scope and Contents This collection includes miscellaneous articles on a variety of literary topics. It also includes approximately 25 items from Pusey's wartime duty in Germany in 1945, including eight photographs of Admiral Dönitz's surrender. Additionally, there is a typescript by Pusey entitled Theater in Staunton, Va, 1875-1912.Also contains a signed typescript of his book History of the theater in Staunton, Virginia, known as Grange Hall, the Opera House (1879) and the Beverly...
Dates: Inclusive 1925-1992; Majority of material found within Bulk 1925-1962