Creator:
Shaktman, Ben, 1937-
Inclusive Dates:
1949- 2009
Abstract:
Papers of the American playwright and
director. Correspondence subject files; production material comprising research, notes,
costume sketches, and drafts for plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Arnold Wesker, Ben Shaktman and others; manuscripts; printed material (posters, playbills, programs,
more); audiovisual material including audiotapes, photographs; material pertaining to Royal Court Theater in London, The Berliner Ensemble, Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT), Theatre Nationale Populaire (TNP) in Paris, The National Endowment for the Arts; more
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Drafts (documents)
Lecture notes.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Reviews (documents)
Scripts (documents)
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Theater programs.
Subject:
Directors.
Dramatists.
Dance and theatre
Popular culture
Acting -- Study and teaching.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Musicals -- Production and direction.
Television -- Production and direction.
Theater -- Production and direction.
Creator:
Mayfield, John S., 1904-1983.
Inclusive Dates:
1924- 1961
Abstract:
Most of the collection relates to John S. Mayfield's, "Eugene O'Neill
and the Senator from Texas." Collection contains correspondence between Mayfield and others such as Carlotta O'Neill and
O'Neill biographer Louis Sheaffer. Also in the collection are manuscripts, drafts and proofs of Mayfield's work, and
printed material about O'Neill.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Drafts (documents)
Galley proofs.
Page proofs.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Biographers.
Authors.
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
Dramatists, American -- 20th century.