Little Theater Company (Louisville, Ky.)

Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials from the Theatre Arts and Speech Department chronicling the activities of the Belknap Theater. The collection dates from 1916 to 1975 and includes programs/playbills, newspaper clippings, scene photos, and photos of people (headshots). Office records from the Belknap Theater Playhouse office dating from the 1950s to the 1970s are also included.

Summary The Leonard C. Brecher Collection contains business and financial records as well as programs for the theatre programs at the University of Louisville; University Players, The Little Theatre Company (LTC), and Belknap Theatre ranging from the 1940s to the 1970s. This includes the merger between companies over time. Information regarding the Macauley Theatre is also included. Playbills/Programs and scripts from various theatres across the country are also in the collection, along with a small...

Scope and Contents Collection contains mainly scrapbooks containing reviews, cast lists and other papers related to Martin's work in local theater companies including Macauley’s Theater, Masonic Theater, Little Theater Company, and the University of Louisville’s UofL Players, and Belknap Players. Also found in the collection are correspondence files including programs, playbills, prompt books, posters, and photos. At The Theatre Notebooks: six volumes, national shows and reviews. Masonic Theatre Notebooks:...

Summary This collection includes records of Elizabeth Arterburn Wilson's career as Louisville recreation specialist (1930s), Louisville U.S.O. director (1940-45), recreation specialist with the American Red Cross in Germany (1945-50) and cultural affairs officer with the United States Information Agency in Hanover, Germany (1950-71). Also included are photograph albums of the Wilson family and life at the University of Louisville during the 1920s. Please note that while the photographs are in good...

Content Description

Zeiser created this scrapbook, which contains material dealing with her membership in the U of L Players in the late 1910s and miscellaneous letters and newspaper clippings on the Little Theater Company and the Macauley Picture Collection. Included also is a brief reminiscence of her years in the amateur theater in the university's Playhouse, from 1914 to 1938, written at the time of her donation of the scrapbook to University Archives.