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Belknap Theater Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1976_083-UA
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.

Dates: circa 1920-circa 1972
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Leonard Brecher Louisville theater history collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1982_072-UA
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...
Dates: 1870s-1976
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Ruth Wilson Cogshall papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1995_096-UA
Dates: 1916-1990; Majority of material found within 1918-1949
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

William Habich papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1973_452-UA
Content Description The William Habich Papers include records on two prominent arts organizations: Louisville Dance Council and the Louisville Theatrical Association. The Louisville Dance Council boxes include business records from 1940s and 1950s as well as programs from the 1960s and 1970s. There are also photographs of the Louisville Civic Ballet Company: posed shots, images taken during performances and rehearsals, and photographs made during social events. The Louisville Theatrical Association records...
Dates: 1949-1979
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Peter Howard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2010_067-UA
Content Description This collection consists of research materials relating to Peter Howard's master's thesis on alternative theater in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as his files on works he directed in local and regional theaters. Howard completed a master's degree in Theatre and Drama at Indiana University in 1992. Research materials include oral histories (audiotapes and transcripts) conducted with people involved in a variety of theater companies, including several that are no longer active. Also included...
Dates: circa 1989-1990s
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Clarence F. Judah Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1977_039-UA
Scope and Contents

The material is comprised of scattered correspondence between 1927 and 1977, some of which is from Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, and newspaper clippings, mostly from the 1920s, about the University of Louisville Players.

Dates: 1927-1977
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Louisville Music and Theatre collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG_195-UA
Scope and Contents This small collection contains original programs of various musical and theatrical performances in Louisville, chiefly at the Louisville Memorial Auditorium and Drury Lane Theatre. One program each comes from the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati and the Iroquois Amphitheater in Louisville. The earliest program dates from 1932 with the latest newspaper clippings and programs from 1939. The year 1936 is void with programs picking up again in 1937. There is no indication who collected or donated...
Dates: 1932-1939
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Boyd Martin theater papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1973_U078-UA
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:...
Dates: circa 1885-1963
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Hugh Sutton scrapbook, photographs, and clippings

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1980_103-UA
Content Description

The scrapbook was compiled in 1924 and contains newspaper clippings, programs, and sketches dealing with productions of the U of L Players between 1922 and 1925. The photographs depict two theatrical productions performed by the players in the 1925-1926 season, The Swan, and The Shabby Paradise.

Dates: 1922-1926
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Teka Ward's Notes on the History of Actors Theatre Louisville

 Collection
Identifier: 1993_087-UA
Scope and Contents Teka Ward, a graduate student in history pursuing her Masters Degree (1993), conducted 45 oral interviews on the creation of the Actors Theater in the 1960s and events within the company during the 1970s and 1980s. These interviews were conducted over a two year period and were with directors, board members, actors, stagehands, Theater critics and patrons. The tapes were turned over to the University of Louisville Archives in 1990. The material collected by Ms. Ward as background to and for...
Dates: 1964-1989
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

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