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Theater

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Marion Kessel Performing Arts collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0517
Abstract: The collection includes research files, posters and awards, and audio/visual materials related to the production of mainly Houston, TX based performing arts documentaries. Among the many productions represented are Danton’s Death, The Making of a Monologue: Robert Wilson’s HAMLET, Visions of Robert Wilson, Houston Grand Opera productions of Carmen, Florencia en el Amazonas, Four Saints in Three Acts, Madame Butterfly, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Marriage of Figaro,...
Dates: 1977-2000

Oppenheimer collection of theater programs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0489
Abstract:

A collection of theater programs mainly from Houston, Texas, but also including New York, London, Dallas, and Fort Worth, collected by Ed Oppenheimer.

Dates: 1906-1999 (bulk 1950-1999); Majority of material found within 1950 - 1999

Paul Blouet correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0129
Abstract:

This collection consists primarily of letters written by French author and journalist, Paul Blouet (pseudonym, Max O'Rell) between 1885 and 1903. The letters discuss Blouet's lecture tours, the management of his play "John Bull on the Continent", and his affliction with cancer.

Dates: 1885 - 1903

Rice Institute Dramatic Club records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0035
Abstract

The collection includes scripts from the 1920s as well as programs, ephemera, and photographs. In addition there are newsclippings and a ledger beginning in 1931 and continuing through 1934 containing lists of members, committee assignments, and minutes of meetings.

Dates: 1917 - 1950

Rice University Gilbert and Sullivan Society collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0259
Abstract

Records of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society, a group of Faculty members and their wives who staged a number of productions in the 1950s and 1960s.

Dates: 1950 - 1967

Rice University Players records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0056
Abstract

This collection contains general files, such as calendars, announcements, information on organizations, newsletter, etc. The remainder of the collection focuses on the Rice Players’ productions. There are individual files on each production and may include programs, flyers, posters, photographs and news clippings.

Dates: 1950 - 2012

Stages Theater records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0740
Abstract

Stages Theater records contain materials related to play production programs and other production materials from 1978-2016, press clippings, annual gala and events records, administrative records, photographs, and circa 200 audio and video recordings in analog formats such as VHS and audio cassette.

Dates: 1978 - 2017

Steven Fenberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0804
Abstract The Steven Fenberg Papers are comprised of books, correspondence, documents, and newsprint relevant to the life of Steven Fenberg--America’s top scholar of influential Houston mogul Jesse H. Jones. Though many of the materials concern Jones, the rest explore Fenberg’s other philanthropic interests and connections with the wider Houston community, such as his patronage of AIDS Foundation Houston and affiliation with Congregation Emanu El. Additionally family records such as World War II...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1926 - 2021

Thomas E. Daley papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0334
Abstract

The Daley Papers include personal documents from Daley's high school and Rice University years, a play script and original artwork. There are also photographs of Rice and of World War II infantry and intelligence units, along with some newspaper clippings and correspondence from 1946 and 1963.

Dates: 1919-1929, 1942-1952