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Performing Arts Resources – Volumes, 1974-Current

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ISSN: 0360-3814

PAR 34
Theatre Architecture: Restoration, Renovation, and New Construction

Edited by John Calhoun and Nancy E. Friedland
Publication Date: 2019
ISBN: 978-0-932610-30-0
Description: Paperback, xx, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Contents:

Survey Articles
- - The Broadway Theatre District / Franklin J. Hildy
  - Movie Theatres, Film Exhibition, and Moviegoing: An Introduction / Ross Melnick
Theatres
- - Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater / Alison Irvin
  - Purpose and Place at Chicago Shakespeare Theater / Brooke Flanagan, Hannah Kennedy, and Anne Nicholson Weber
  - The Geary Theater Restoration: A Monument to Passionate Commitment, Magic, and Hard Work / Joseph Tally, M.L.S.
  - The Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre / Annette Fern
  - Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre / Bob Gist
  - The Newest, Oldest Theatre on Broadway / George Couyas
  - Loew’s Kings Theatre / John Calhoun
  - Orchestrated Collisions: a New Home for Signature Theatre – Beth Whitaker
  - The Strand Theatre: Community Action Provides a Path to Restoration – Nancy E. Friedland
  - Thalian Hall or the Theatre That is Never Finished – Anthony Rivenbark

PAR 33
Theatre Exhibitions

Edited by Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco
Publication Date: 2017
ISBN: 978-0-932610-29-4
Description: Paperback, xx, 154 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Contents:

- - Keynote Article: Exhibiting Performance / Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
  - Showcasing Theatre Memories: A Case Study / Francesca Marini
  - Elements of Wonder: A Librarian’s Journey in Putting on a Show in a Performing Arts Library, including a case study of one such exhibition / Alan R. Jones
  - Bravo! A Theatre Exhibition Case Study / Naomi Joshi, Marti LoMonaco, and mara Williams
  - The Plight of the Solo Exhibit Curator: Identifying and Engaging an Exhibition Team / Karla Irwin
  - Performing Arts Heritage and Participatory Methods as a Guiding Principle within a Museum / Sigrid Bosmans
  - Lyttelton Lounge: Re-Staging the NT Archive / Natasha Bonnelame, Erin Lee, and Judith Merritt
  - A Few of My Favorite Things: 25 Years of Dance Exhibits at Jacob’s Pillow / Norton Owen
  - On the Art of Showcasing Stage Costumes: The Exhibitions at the National Center for Stage Costume / Delphine Pinasa
  - Dealing With Set Models: Best Practice at the National Opera of Belgium / Jan Van Goethem and Sybille Wallemacq

PAR 32
Body, Mind, Artifact: Reimagining Collections (Proceedings from the Theatre Library Association (TLA) & International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS) 30^thCongress: New York, 11-13 June 2014)

Proceedings edited by Tiffany Nixon and Nicole Leclercq
Publication Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-0-932610-28-7
Description: Paperback, xx, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Contents:

- - Artist-driven archiving: the artist’s voice in dance legacy preservation / Libby Smigel
  - Video presentation: collection Rudolf Nureyev au Centre national du costume de scène / Delphine Pinasa
  - Reconstruction, or simply an evocation of a past dance work? / Jane Pritchard
  - Layered documentation: on the process of documenting contemporary dance and physical theatre / Mercè Saumell
  - The digital archiving of the dance rehearsal process in Siobhan Davies’ RePlay: sharing hidding knowledge / Sarah Whatley
  - After the dance: using the National Library of Australia’s performing arts collection to reconstruct and renew past productions / Isobel Johnstone
  - The stewards of tomorrow: leveraging musical performance collections in the digital age / Miwa Yokoyama, Rob Hudson, Seth Anderson, Kathryn Gronsbell
  - Media in motion: integrating performance archives and media at Dance Theatre of Harlem / Nichole Arvin
  - The project of the daily registers of the Comédie-Française: a transatlanic research and digitisation project / Agathe Sanjuan, Jaime M. Folsom
  - A balancing act: digital and physical access to ephemera at the Harvard Theatre Collection / Micah Hoggatt
  - Case study: new website of Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa: to integrate and share / Monika Chudzikowska, Katarzyna Wodarska-Ogidel
  - Metamorphosis: the changing art in helping the performing arts / Alan Jones
  - Digital theatre plus / Robert Delamere
  - Jacob’s pillow / Norton Owen
  - Remediations: performance in exhibition – an art of manipulation / Aurélie Mouton-Rezzouk
  - Collector, object, researcher: re-materialising student interaction with physical artefacts in the Bristol University Theatre Collection / Sophie Johns
  - Scenes from the stage: digital documentation and access / Morgen Stevens-Garmon
  - Arts and theatre institute databases / Helena Hantáková
  - “Performance archiving performance” at the New Museum: reevaluating a museum’s responsibility to performance- based artwork / Tara Hart
  - Regional theater archives: their needs – our monumentum and paradigm shifts / Arturo Diaz Sandoval
  - National Theatre Museum (Portugal): collections, strategies and on-line resources / Ana Patrao, José Alvarez
  - To celebrate theatre – anniversary as a community building tool / Dorota Buchwald, Agata Adamiecka-Sitek
  - Digitalization project of the Documentation Centre for the performing arts of Andalusia / Catalina Gonzalez
  - VLAD: a standard vocabulary for the description of performance arts / Dominique Dewing
  - The universal translator: the role of the liason coordinator in digital humanities and how to become one / Eugenia Kim, Tanisha Jones, Neal Harmeyer
  - The American Theatre Archive project / Helice Koffler, Susan Brady
  - Taking back the stage: interventions in the performing arts library of the 21st century / Barry Houlihan

PAR 31
State of the Profession: Performing Arts Librarianship in the 21st Century

Edited by Kenneth Schlesinger
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN: 978-0-932610-27-0
Description: Paperback, xx, 128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Contents:

- - Kenneth Schlesinger, State of the Profession
  - Alan R. Jones, Metamorphosis: The Changing Art in Helping the Performing Arts
  - Barry Houlihan, Taking Back the Stage: Interventions in the Performing Arts Library of the 21^st Century
  - Natalia Fernández, Archives and the Arts: Showcasing the Histories of Communities of Color
  - Lindsay King and Suzanne Lovejoy with Ruthann McTyre, Backstage at Yale: Serving Performing Arts Practitioners in a Large Research Library
  - Johanna Groh, Creating a Library Science Curriculum to Ensure Prepared and Professional Music Librarians
  - Anna B. Neal and Rachel Elizabeth Scott, Digital Sampling: Borrowing from Cultural Institutions to Enhance the Performing Arts Library
  - Don LaPlant, Challenges of Building Digital Collections of Theatre Materials
  - Susan Brady and Helice Koffler, The American Theatre Archive Project: Carrying the Record of the Past into the Future
  - Nancy Friedland, Kimon Keramidas, and Doug Reside, Roundtable Discussion on Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts

PAR 30
Holding Up the Mirror: Authenticity and Adaptation in Shakespeare Today
Symposium Proceedings

Edited by Stephen Kuehler
Associate Editors: John Frick, Nancy Friedland, and Martha S. LoMonaco
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 978-0-932610-26-3
Description: Paperback, xx, 121 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Contents:

Oskar Eustis. Performing Shakespeare in 2011: Why? How? For Whom?
Panel Discussion: A Mirror of Our Times: Uncovering Connections Between Shakespeare and Our World (Theatre for a New Audience)
Panel Discussion: The Mirror Image: Shakespeare in Authentic Style (American Shakespeare Center)
Panel Discussion: Through the Looking Glass: Shakespeare in Contemporary Adaptation (American Repertory Theater)
Francesca Marini. Closing Remarks
Denise K. Buhr. Bibliography

PAR 29
Documenting: Scenic Design

Edited by John Calhoun
Associate Editor: Michael Messina
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 978-0-932610-25-6
Description: Paperback, xii, 154 p. : [16] p. of plates, ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

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Cover image: Death of a Salesman 1/2″ scale model. (Model and photo by Brian Webb, 2012. Based on Jo Mielziner’s original design.)

- - Linda Harris Mehr. Architecture of Dreams: Production Design Materials at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library
  - Jennifer B. Lee. The Joseph Urban Archive, RBML, Columbia
  - Annette Fern. Scenic Design in the Harvard Theatre Collection
  - Jody Blake. The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts
  - Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Scenic Design at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  - Alexander F. Adducci. The Lyric Opera of Chicago Historical Scenic Collection at Northern Illinois University
  - Beth Kattelman. Scenic Design Resources at the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
  - Francesca Marini. Scenic Design and Archiving at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
  - Julie Graham. Setting the Stage with Scenic Design Collections at the UCLA LIbrary
  - Helen Baer. Scenic Design Collections at the Harry Ransom Center
  - Susan Brady. Scenic Design Documentation at Yale University

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A Tyranny of Documents: The Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective

Essays Dedicated to Brooks McNamara

Edited by Stephen Johnson
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-932610-24-9
Description: Paperback, xiii, 353 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

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Cover collage images: From Stoglav (Resolutions of the Moscow Council of 1551), chapter 41, question 19 (Archive of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, MS No. 215, section of folio 127 verso); Wenceslaus Hollar, “A View from St. Mary’s, Southwark, Looking towards Westminster” c. 1638 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection); An entry in John B. Gough’s personal account book, indicating he purchased “tickets to museum” on March 16, 1844 (Courtesy if American Antiquarian Society); Broadside for Hot Corn, National Theatre, New York, 1854 (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library); The Poor of ____, p2, c. (British Library Board, Add. 53029.O, f.2); ‘Ricksecker’s Dentaroma’ (courtesy of Dr. Harold Kanthor, original held in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester); Still shots captured by Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin from the1901 film Laughing Ben (Reproduced courtesy of the Library of Congress); Aida Overton Walker photograph circa 1910 by White Studio, NY (Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts); Tombstone in Mount Carmel Cemetery for “The Only Leon” (Photo taken in August 2006 by Heather May); LC Authority Card for the author William DuBois.

- - Don B. Wilmeth. Forward—Brooks McNamara: Master of the Archive, or What Really Matters
  - John Wesley Hill. “Band of Up to a Hundred Skomorokhi“: Rethinking Stoglav 41:19
  - Virginia Scott. Who Was Robert Tripluplart L’andouiller? Or, An Actors’ Quarrel in Late Sixteenth-Century Paris
  - Tim Fitzpatrick. Pursuing Hollar’s Sketch of the Second Globe Playhouse
  - Jeanne Bovet. Pointless Clues? Reviving Declamation Through the Punctuation of Jean Racine’s Phèdre et Hippolyte (Paris: Barbin, 1677)
  - Nena Couch. Choreography and Cholera: The Extended Life of Dance Notation
  - Daniel Smith. Le Bordel and L’Art De F*****: Confounding Clues on Title Pages
  - Paul J. Stoesser. Determining Whether the Český Krumlov Slapstick is “Just the Thing” or “Just a Thing”
  - Mark Evans Bryan. A Femme Fatale of Eighteenth-Century American Theatre Research: Reading William Bradford’s Cato Letter
  - Annette Fern. Clues in the Caricature: The Case of “The Prospect Before Us”
  - Amy Muse. Portrait of a Lady Hamlet
  - Amy E. Hughes. John B. Gough’s Afternoon at the Theatre; or, the Tyranny of an Account Book
  - John W. Frick. Lost! Or, What To Do When Your Principal Primary Document is Missing
  - Marlis Schweitzer. Barnum’s Last Laugh? General Tom Thumb’s Wedding Cake in the Library of Congress
  - Justin A. Blum. Adaptation, Copyright, and the Case of Dion Boucicault’s The Poor Of ____
  - Heather Davis-Fisch. Aglooka’s Ghost: Apparitions in the Archive
  - David Mayer. Riding for a Fall: A Saddle For Mazeppa’s Fiery Steed
  - Andrea Harris. The Phantom Dancer, or, the Case of the Mysterious Toe Shoe int he Frontier Prop Closet
  - Eileen Curley. “A Most Dreadful Position”: Amateur Reputations in a Professional World
  - Joseph Donohue. Oscar Wilde’s Ground Plan for a Productionof Salomé
  - Eric Colleary. A Queer Victorian Marriage: Henry Blake Fuller’s At Saint Judas’s and the “Tyranny” of the Archival Document
  - Chase Bringardner. Fixing the Fix: Medicine Show Trading Cards and the Slipperiness of Souvenirs in the Archive
  - Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin. The Silent Laugh of Laughing Ben
  - Matthew Solomon. With Houdini in the Margins of Theatre History: On the Trail of the Mysterious Browning
  - Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Four Exhibitions and a Data Base: Reading a White Studio Photograph of AIda Overton Walker
  - Heather May. White Lies and Stony Silence: Reconstruction in the Personal Narrative of America’s Most Popular Female Impersonator on the Minstrel Stage
  - Robert Crane. The Performance Historian as Cold Case Detective: Reopening Nikolai L’vov’s Investigation of the Blue Blouse Movement
  - Thomas Postlewait. The Multiple Editions of Ellen Terry’s Autobiography
  - Ann Folino White. Page 48: Vaudeville of a Historian
  - Shannon Rose Riley. Mistaken Identities, Miscegenation, & MIssing Origins: The Curious Case of Haiti
  - Paula Sperdakos. Good Stories and Closed Subjects: Ida Van Cortland and the Great Chicago Fire
  - Andrew Ryder. Doing Tennessee Justice in Oregon
  - Dan Venning. Minstrelsy as White Americana: Kurt Weill’s “Notes on the Minstrel Show”
  - Julie Vogt. “Me Tondalayo”: The Burlesque Politics of Mammy Palaver
  - Michael Shane Boyle. Aura and The Archive: Confronting the Incendiary Fliers of Kommune 1
  - Rebecca Harries. A Skull with WIngs: Meaning and Mourning in a Theatre Lobby
  - Brian Cook. “They Might Not Go Blind”: Cherub’s Kinsmen and the Drama Officer’s Report
  - Mark David Turner. The Tyranny of Absence: One Account of Archival Practice at the Fringe of the State
  - Andrew Brown. A Queer Memory: Guilt, Disappearance, and the Youtube “Archive”
  - Odai Johnson. Afterword—Scarred Texts: Etudes on Absence

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Documenting: Costume Design

Edited by Nancy E. Friedland
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-932610-23-2
Description: Paperback, xii, 276 p. : [16] p. of plates, ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

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Cover image: Design by Monte Montadoro for a dancing tape measure, used in a Fanchon and Marco Unit at the Grenada Theater, San Francisco, and later at the Roxy Theater. The full set also includes dancing twin pin cushions, a sampler, and a pair of scissors. (Albert Packard Gift, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)

Contents:

I. Introductory Surveys

- - Mary Cargill. Dance Costumes in the Western Performance
  - Deirdre Clancy Steer. 2000 Years of Performance Costume for Costume Design Collections
  - Melanie Schuessler. Costume Design for the Stage in the United States
  - Timothy R. White. Brilliantly Executed: Costume Craft and American Theatre
  - Nancy E. Friedland. Costume Design and Film: From Magical Realism to Authentic Attire in Everyday Wear
  - An Interview with Tom Kalin

II. Significant Collections

- - Linda Mehr. Dressing the Part: Motion Picture Costume Design Materials at the Margaret Herrick Library
  - Anne Coco. Drawing on Film: Access, Cataloging and Conservation of Costume Design Drawings at the Margaret Herrick Library
  - Deirdre Lawrence. Costume and Fashion Design As Seen Through the Brooklyn Museum Library Collection
  - Derek Reid. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Costume Collection at Butler University
  - Mei-Chen Lu. The Dance Notation Bureau Costume Design Collection
  - Tamsen Schwartzman. Costume Design Collections at the Fashion Institute of Technology
  - Robert Melton. Costume Design in the Harvard Theatre Collection
  - Phyllis Magidson. The Costume Collection at the Museum of the City of New York
  - Marty Jacobs. The Costume Sketch Collection at the Museum of the City of New York
  - William Eddelman & Kirsten Tanaka. Collections at the Museum of Performance and Design
  - Barbara Cohen-Straytner. Costume Designs at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  - Nena Couch. Costume Design Resources of The Ohio State University
  - Danielle Castronovo. Collections at The Shubert Archive
  - Julie Graham & Megan Hahn Fraser. Documenting Costume Design at the UCLA Library
  - Mark Quigley. Hallmark and Hearst at the UCLA Film and Television Archive
  - Alvin Bregman & Myung-Ja Han. The Motley Collection of Theater and Costume Design at the University of Illinois
  - Melinda Hayes. Dance Costumes and Related Materials in USC Libraries Special Collections
  - Helen Adair & Jill Morena. More than Gone with the Wind: Costumes and Costume Designs at the Harry Ransom Center
  - Eric Zafran. The Dance Collection at The Wadsworth Atheneum
  - Maxine Ducey. Collections at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
  - Susan Brady. Collections at Yale University

III. Further Research

- - Melissa Wayne. Elements of Costume Design
  - Diana King. Researching Costume Design
  - Sarah Acheson. Image Collections for Costume Research
  - Genevieve Podleski. Other Costume and Design Collections

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Performance Reclamation: Research, Discovery, and Interpretation
Symposium Proceedings

Edited by Kenneth Schlesinger
Associate Editors: Martha S. LoMonaco and Kevin Winkler
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-932610-22-5
Description: Paperback, xvi, 126 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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This volume comprises the proceedings of a symposium presented by TLA on February 16, 2007 at New York University’s Kimmel Center. It also includes three papers from the TLA Plenary at the 2005 ASTR/TLA Conference in Toronto. This session, of which the Performance Reclamation Symposium was a direct outgrowth, was titled, “Hiding in Plain Sight?: ‘Lost Plays’, Rediscovered Masterpieces and Performance Reconstruction”.

Cover image: Susan and God, Mint Theater Company, 2006. Leslie Hendrix and Timothy Deenihan. (Photo Credit: Richard Termine)

Contents:

- - James Leverett. Dramaturgy: An Embarrassment of Job Descriptions
  - Panel Discussion: Saving Face–Reconstructing Irving Berlin’s and Moss Hart’s Face the Music at Encores!
  - Bruce Pomahac. Restoring Irving Berlin’s Face the Music
  - Heather J. Violanti. Resurrecting Rachel Crothers’ Susan and God
  - Timothy Deenihan. Susan and God: Bringing Barrie Back
  - Panel Discussion: Pillow Talk–Reconstructing Limón at Jacob’s Pillow
  - Don B. Wilmeth. Performance Reclamation: Closing Remarks
  - Jonathan Bank. Reconstructing and Reclaiming Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth
  - Claudia Wilsch Case. What They Really Saw: Using Archives to Reconstruct the Censored Performance of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude
  - Sarah Ziebell. Reconstructing Einstein on the Beach

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Documenting: Lighting Design

Edited by Susan Brady and Nena Couch
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-932610-20-1
Description: Paperback, xiv, 111 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Cover image: Eugène H. Frey (1864-1930). Backstage view of scenery and projectors for Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, at the Théâtre de l’Opéra (i.e. Palais Garnier), May 12, 1893. (Harvard Theatre Collection)

Contents:

- - Jennifer Tipton. Foreword
  - Linda Essig. A Primer for the History of Stage Lighting
  - William B. Warfel. Thoughts on the History of Stage Lighting Education
  - Karl G. Ruling. Theatre Lighting BC and AC
  - Mary Tarantino. Beyond the Produced Design: Teaching Lighting Design Through Archival Research
  - Fredric Woodbridge Wilson and others. Archival Resources for Research in Stage Lighting
  - A Bibliography of Stage Lighting Design

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Performance Documentation and Preservation in an Online Environment
Symposium Proceedings

Edited by Kenneth Schlesinger
Associate Editors: Pamela Bloom and Ann Ferguson
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 978-0-932610-21-8
Description: Paperback, xvi, 126 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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This volume comprises the proceedings of a symposium presented by TLA on October 10, 2003 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Cover image: Virtual Vaudeville model of the Union Square Theatre in 1895. (Virtual Vaudeville Project)

Contents:

- - Linda Tadic. Towards a Digital Code of Hammurabi
  - Cheryl Faver. Archiving and Digital Performance
  - Karen W. Brazell. GloPAC: Creating Digital Resources for a Global Audience
  - David Z. Saltz. Virtual Vaudeville: A Digital Simulation of Historical Theatre
  - Catherine Owen. “What Happens When the Money Runs Out?”: Librarians and the Digital Resources Challenge
  - Barry Smith. Just a Phase We’re Going Through?
  - Hugh Denard. Performing the Past: The Virtual Revolution in Performance History
  - Richard Rinehart. Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
  - Richard Rinehart. Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art
  - Jon Ippolito. Digital Performance: Damnation or Salvation?
  - Jon Ippolito. Accommodating the Unpredictable: The Variable Media Questionnaire
  - Howard Besser. Longevity of Electronic Art
  - Ann Doyle. Where is There?: Multi-site Performance Events and the Opportunities and Challenges They Create

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American Puppetry: Collections, History and Performance

Edited by Phyllis T. Dircks
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 978-0-786418-96-1
Description: Paperback, vii, 326 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Cover image: A group of Punch & Judy puppets. (Smithsonian Institution)

Contents:

- - Vincent Anthony. A Snapshot of Puppeteers of the United States and Canada
  - Lowell Swortzell. A Short View of American Puppetry
  - Fredric Woodbridge Wilson. Puppetry and Related Materials in the Harvard Theatre Collection
  - Roy W. Hamilton. Asian Puppets at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
  - Nancy Lohman Staub. The Center for Puppetry Arts Museum Collection
  - Elka Schumann. The Bread & Puppet Theater Company Collection
  - John Bell. Puppets and “The Iconography of Drama”: The Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University
  - Phyllis T. Dircks. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry Collection
  - John Bell. Paul McPharlin and Puppetry at the Detroit Institute of Arts
  - Richard Leet. The Bill Baird World of Puppets at the Charles H. MacNider Museum
  - Kathy Foley & Ann Wright-Parsons. The Puppet Collection of the American Museum of Natural History
  - Bernard F. Reilly. The Burr Tillstrom Collection and Archives at the Chicago Historical Society
  - Annette Fern. The Marionette Theatre of Peter Arnott at Harvard University
  - Kathy Foley. The Lou Harrison Collection: Music and Puppetry East to West
  - Roberta Zonghi. The Dwiggins Marionettes at the Boston Public Library
  - Ellen Roney Hughes & Dwight Blocker Bowers. The Puppet Collection of the National Museum of American History
  - Alan Woods. “Bringing Together Man and Nature”: The Theater of Julie Taymor
  - Leslee Asch. Exhibitions and Collections of the Jim Henson Company
  - Phyllis T. Dircks. Howdy Doody in the Courtroom: A Puppet Custody Case
  - Mina Gregory, Maureen Russell & Cara Varnell. The Fundamentals of Marionette Care
  - Mary Flanagan. Puppetry in Cyberspace: Developing Virtual Performance Spaces

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Their Championship Seasons: Acquiring, Processing and Using Performing Arts

Edited by Kevin Winkler
Publication Date: 2001

ISBN: 0-932610-19-6
Description: Hardcover, x, 142 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Linda B. Fairtile. Performing Arts Manuscript Collections: Balancing Access and Privacy
  - Mary Ellen Rogan. All’s Well That Ends Well: The Processing of the New York Shakespeare Festival Collection
  - Jeremy Megraw. Setting the Stage: Legacies of the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival Archives
  - Michala Biondi. Behind the Scenes of a Theatrical Life: Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival Archives
  - Martha S. LoMonaco. From Archive to Stage: Hair Then and Now
  - Camille Croce Dee. The Lucille Lortel Papers: Archiving the Queen of Off-Broadway
  - Nena Couch. Use of Performing Arts Collections at The Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute.
  - David Farneth. Valuing Composers’ Archives: How One Institution Encourages International Study, Performance, and Publication

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Pleasure Gardens

Edited by Stephen M. Vallillo and Maryann Chach
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0-932610-18-8
Description: Hardcover, xiv, 105 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Geraldine A. Duclow. Philadelphia’s Early Pleasure Gardens
  - John W. Frick. “Fireworks, Bonfires, Balloons and Mores”: New York’s Palace Garden
  - Arthur W. Bloom. Science and Sensation, Entertainment and Enlightenment: John Mix and the Columbian Museum and Gardens
  - Katy Matheson. Niblo’s Garden and Its “Concert-Saloon,” 1828-1846

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After the Dance: Documents of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn

Edited by Susan Brady
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-932610-17-X
Description: Hardcover, ix, 141 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Brief Precis of the Careers of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
  - Dance Collection Staff, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Denishawn at the Dance Collection: A User’s Guide
  - Norton Owen. Accidental Acquisitions: The Jacob’s Pillow Archive Collection
  - Tricia Henry Young. Killinger Collection of Denishawn and Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers Costumes
  - Amy Lucker. The John Lindquist Collection at the Harvard Theatre Collection
  - Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Denishawn Dances Notated for Purchase

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Exhibitions and Collections

Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-932610-16-1
Description: Hardcover, viii, 96 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Lauren Bufferd. Remembering “Resetting the Stage”: Collaboration and Conflicts of a Performing Arts Exhibition
  - Mary Ellen Rogan & Kevin Winkler. The Impact of AIDS on Archival Collections in the Performing Arts
  - Annie Van Fossen Storr. Audiences, Exhibitions and Interpretive Labels
  - Barbara Stratyner. The Museum Paradox: The Co-Existence of Narrative Structure and Audience Advocacy

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The New York Hippodrome: A Complete Chronology of Performances, from 1905 to 1939

by Milton Epstein
Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-932610-14-5
Description: Hardcover, vii, 535 p. : 23 cm.

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This volume contains a complete chronology of performances at New York’s Hippodrome from April 12, 1905 (opening night) to June 27, 1939 (the last performance). There are eight genre-specific indices preceded by one “master” index containing sufficient information to direct the reader to any area of interest. This master index/chronology also serves to make readily apparent the remarkable variety of performances and activities to have taken place at the New York Hippodrome.

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Taking the Pledge and Other Public Amusements

Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0-932610-13-7
Description: Hardcover, viii, 129 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - John W. Frick. Victims of the Bottle from Printed Page to Gilded Stage: T. P. Taylor’s Dramatization of George Cruikshank’s Serial Illustrations, The Bottle
  - T. P. Taylor. The Bottle, A Drama in Two Acts
  - George Cruikshank. The Gin-Shop, A Serial Illustration
  - Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Platform Pearls; Or 19th Century American Temperance Performance Texts
  - Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco. Treasures in the Attic: Gleanings from the Private Archive of Henry Clay Barnabee
  - X. Theodore Barber. “The Mystery of the South End”: The Boston Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg
  - Stephen M. Vallillo. The Missing Will and George M. Cohan’s Money to Burn
  - Eugenia Everett. The Men of the Dancing First

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Arts and Access: Management Issues for Performing Arts Collections

Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0-932610-12-9
Description: Hardcover, viii, 102 p. : 23 cm.

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- - Liz Fugate. Theatre Companies in the U.S.: An Ephemera Collection at the University of Washington Drama Library
  - Leslie Hansen Kopp. PRESERVE: Assuring Dance a Life Beyond Performance
  - Suzanne Flandreau. Documenting an Oral Tradition: The Blues Archives at the University of Mississippi
  - Victor T. Cardell. The Archive of Popular American Music: Strategies for the Management of Large Music Archives
  - Maryann Chach. Costume Sketches in the Shubert Archive
  - Nena Couch. The Theatre Research Institute and its Collections within a Large Institution: The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute of the Ohio State University
  - Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco. Putting Performance On-Line
  - Martha M. Yee. Cataloging at the UCLA Film & Television Archive
  - Paula Murphy. Audiovisual Services for the Performing Arts Programs at Columbia College, Chicago
  - Claire Petrie. User Education in the Visual Arts Library
  - Sheila Ryan. “At the Goodman Theatre”: An Essay on Performing Arts Documentation

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Performances in Periodicals

Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0-932610-11-0
Description: Hardcover, viii, 142 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Florence C. Smith. Introducing Parlor Theatricals to the American Home
  - Jack W. McCullough. The Theatre as Seen Through Late Nineteenth Century Technical Periodicals
  - Stephen M. Vallillo. Popular Entertainment in the Trades: A Case Study of the New York Clipper and the New York Dramatic Mirror
  - Sara Velez. Sound Recording Periodicals: 1890-1929
  - Maryann Chach. The New York Review
  - Julie Malnig. Researching Exhibition Ballroom Dance: Exploring Nontraditional Sources
  - Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Fashion Fillers in Silent Film Periodicals

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The Drews and the Barrymores: A Dynasty of Actors

Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-932610-10-2
Description: Hardcover, x, 161 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Don B. Wilmeth. American Acting Dynasties
  - Mary Ann Jensen. From Strolling Players to Steven Spielberg: 100 Years of a Theatrical Family
  - C. Lee Jenner. The Duchess of Arch Street: An Overview of Mrs. John Drew’s Managerial Career
  - James Kotsilibas-Davis. The Unbroken Chain: Traditions in Style
  - William Roerick. Remembering Ethel Barrymore and Others
  - Charles M. Affron. The Barrymores and Screen Acting
  - James Kotsilibas-Davis. An Introduction to Nadjezda
  - Maurice Barrymore. Nadjezda: A Modern Tragedy

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Topical Bibliographies of the American Theatre

Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0-932610-09-9
Description: Hardcover, ix, 195 p. : 23 cm.

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- - Jonathan Levy & Martha Mahard. Preliminary Checklist of Early Printed Children’s Plays in English, 1780-1855
  - Noreen C. Barnes & Laurie J. Wolf. Actresses of All Work: 19th Century Sources on Women in 19th Century American Theatre
  - Rosemary L. Cullen. A Checklist of American Civil War Drama: Beginnings to 1900
  - Geraldine Maschio. Female Impersonation on the American Stage, 1860-1927: A Selected Bibliography of Performed Materials, and a Review of Literature
  - Colette A. Hyman. Workers on Stage: An Annotated Bibliography of Labor Plays of the 1930s

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Scenes and Machines from the 18th Century: The Stagecraft of Jacopo Fabris and Cityoen Boullet

Translated by C. Thomas Ault
Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0-932610-08-0
Description: Hardcover, xviii, 146 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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PAR 10 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Ginnine Cocuzza and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1985
ISBN: 0-932610-07-2
Description: Hardcover, x, 69 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Audree Malkin. Twentieth-Century Fox Corporate Archive at the UCLA Theater Arts Library
  - Joanne L. Yeck. “Verbal Messages Cause Misunderstandings and Delays (Please Put Them in Writing)”: The Warner Bros. Collection
  - Mary Ann Jensen. The Warner Brothers Collection at Princeton University Library
  - Steve Nelson. Performing Arts Collections at the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
  - Cynthia G. Swank. Performing Arts on Madison Avenue
  - Lee R. Nemchek. The Pasadena Playhouse Collection
  - Ellen V. Howe. The Dublin Gate Theatre at Northwestern University Library
  - William Allison. The Penn State Archives of American Theatre Lighting
  - Bruce Whitehead. Engineering Contributions in Theatre Technology: Remembering the Innovators
  - Frederick Bentham. The Strand: Its History and Archives

PAR 9 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Ginnine Cocuzza and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0-932610-06-4
Description: Hardcover, xxiii, 117 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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PAR 8 – SOLD OUT
Stage Design: Problems of Collecting, Cataloging and Conserving Documents
Papers from the 15th International SIBMAS Congress

Edited by Ginnine Cocuzza and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0-932610-04-8
Description: Hardcover, xix, 94 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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- - Cecilia Folasade Adedeji. African Stage Design: Problems of Collecting, Cataloguing, and Conserving Documents
  - Anthony Ibbotson. The Stage Design Collection of the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada
  - Melissa Cain & Michael Mullin. Design by Motley: A Theatre and Costume Arts Collection
  - Alan Woods. The McDowell Research Classification System for the Cataloguing of Scene and Costume Designs
  - Alfred S. Golding. Problems and Observations Concerning the Translation of Scenographic Terms from French to English
  - Olga Vagenas. Some Experience in Collection of Documents on Theatre Scenery from the Past
  - Nadezda Mosusova. Influence of Stage Design on Music/Drama
  - Cecile Giteau. Models of Scenery and Costumes in the Performing Arts Department of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
  - André Veinstein. Elements of a Method for using Models of Scenery or of Scenery Arrangements as Study Documents
  - Marie Francoise Christout. Audiovisual Techniques Used in Exhibits: Various Procedures
  - Barbro Stribolt. Eighteenth-Century Stage Settings at the Court Theatres of Drottningholm and Gripsholm
  - Harald Zielske. Some Original Early 19th Century Stage Decorations in the Ludwigsburg Court Theatre: Problems of Conservation and Presentation

PAR 7 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Ginnine Cocuzza and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0-932610-03-X
Description: Hardcover, x, 80 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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PAR 6 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Mary C. Henderson
with the assistance of Wendy Warnken
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0-932610-02-1
Description: Hardcover, x, 115 p. : 23 cm.

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- - Loraine Correll. Federal Theatre Project Records at George Mason University
  - Dorothy L. Swerdlove. Research Materials of the Federal Theatre Project in the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center
  - Robert Saudek, Mary V. Ahern, Douglas Gibbons & Judith E. Schwarts. The Museum of Broadcasting
  - David R. Smith. Archives of the Mouse Factory
  - Ginnine Cocuzza. Player Piano Rolls in the Collection of the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame
  - R. Eric Gustafson. The San Francisco Archives for the Performing Arts

PAR 5 – SOLD OUT
Recollections of O. Smith: Comedian

Edited by Mary C. Henderson
with the assistance of Wendy Warnken
Guest Editor: William W. Appleton
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0-932610-01-3
Description: Hardcover, xvi, 72 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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This volume is devoted in its entirety to the manuscript of a 19th century English Actor, O. Smith… its descriptions of famous 19th century figures [offer] insights into a fascinating and lively era in theatrical history. Richard John Smith, better known as O. Smith, has aptly been called the Boris Karloff of the nineteenth century. Tall, gaunt, with a sepulchral voice, he made his reputation playing demons, devils, monsters, and assassins… Atrocities were his ordinary occupation. As Jonathan Wild in Jack Sheppard he hacked the fingers from the hand of Trenchard, his accomplice, sending that nobleman plunging to his doom to the accompaniment of the famous tag line, “You have a long journey before you, Sir Roland.”

PAR 4 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Mary C. Henderson
with the assistance of Wendy Warnken
Publication Date: 1978
ISBN: 0-932610-00-5
Description: Hardcover, viii, 116 p. : 23 cm.

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- - Peter Burgis. Dame Nellie Melba or Peach Melba
  - Joyce Duncan Flak. Research Opportunities at the Theatre Institute Library, Barcelona
  - Geoffrey Wigoder. History in Motion
  - Daniel W. Ladell. The Stratford Festival Archives
  - Lou Hoefnagels. Theater Klank En Beeld: Sound and Film Archives of the Dutch Theatre
  - Wendy Warnken. The Shakespeare Center Library
  - Micky Levy. Theatre Research in Moscow and Leningrad
  - Paul S. Ulrich. Theatre Research Resources in West Berlin
  - George Rowell. The University of Bristol Theatre Collection
  - Gabriele Melischek & Wolfgang Ranjoué. A Documentary System for Television Archives
  - Elizabeth Burdick. The International Theatre Institute

PAR 3 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Ted Perry
with the editorial assistance of Barbara Skluth
Publication Date: 1976, ©1977
Publisher: Drama Book Specialists
ISBN: 910482-84-5
Description: Hardcover, xvi, 175 p. : 23 cm.

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- - Mark Gladstone. A Bibliography of U. S. Government Documents Pertaining to Government Support of the Arts, 1963-1972
  - Gerald O’Grady. Resources for the Oral History of the Independent American Film at Media Study/Buffalo, New York
  - Stephen Kovacs. Surrealist Cinema: A Selected Bibliography
  - Betty L. Corwin. Theatre on Film and Tape
  - Christopher Wheaton & Richard B. Jewell. The Cinema Library at the University of Southern California
  - L. Terry Oggel. A Short Title Guide to the Edwin Booth Literary Materials at The Players
  - Llewellyn H. Hedgebeth. The Chuck Callahan Burlesque Collection

PAR 2 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Ted Perry
with the editorial assistance of Barbara Skluth
Publication Date: 1975, ©1976
Publisher: Drama Book Specialists
ISBN: 910482-73-X
Description: Hardcover, xii, 129 p. : 23 cm.

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- - Eileen Bowser. Guidelines for Describing Unpublished Script Materials
  - Mary C. Henderson. With the Compliments of The Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection
  - Ralph Sargent. Preserving the Moving Image: A Summary Review
  - James E. Fletcher & W. Worth McDougald. The Peabody Collection of the University of Georgia
  - Mark S. Auburn. Promptscripts of The Rivals: An Annotated Bibliography
  - Richard Dyer MacCann. Reference Works for Film Study
  - David Haynes. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Filmic Items in the Gernsheim Collection

PAR 1 – SOLD OUT

Edited by Ted Perry
with the editorial assistance of Barbara Skluth
Publication Date: 1974, ©1975
Publisher: Drama Book Specialists
Description: Hardcover, xiii, 231 p. : 23cm.

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- Louis A. Rachow. Performing Arts Research Collections in New York City
- Anne G. Schlosser. Film/Broadcasting Resources in the Los Angeles Area
- Alan Woods. A Survey of the Ohio State University Theatre Research Institute
- Frederick J. Hunter. Theatre and Drama Research Sources at the University of Texas at Austin
- Nati H. Krivatsy & Laetitia Yeandle. Theatrical Holdings of the Folger Shakespeare Library
- Laraine Correll. The Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts: University of Florida Libraries
- Kay Johnson. The Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research
- Ray B. Browne & William Schurk. The Popular Culture Library and Audio Center
- James Powers. The Film History Program of the Center for Advanced Film Studies of The American Film Institute
- John B. Kuiper. The Motion Picture Section of The Library of Congress
- Betty Wharton. The Chamberlain and Lyman Brown Theatrical Agency Collection
- Avi Wortis. The R. H. Burnside Collection of The New York Public Library
- Phyllis Zucker. The American Film Institute Catalog Project
- Barry B. Witham. An Index to “Mirror Interviews”
- Briant Hamor Lee. Theatrical Visual Arts Ephemera: Care and Protection
- Richard Stoddard & Frances Knibb Kozuch. The Theatre in American Fiction, 1774-1850: An Annotated List of References
- James P. Pilkington. Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- Lawrence W. Lichty. Sources for Research and Teaching in Radio and Television History