plays (performing arts compositions)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Davis Grubb, Author, Draft of Play "The Night of the Hunter"
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4210
Overview
Bound copy of the fifth draft of the play The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb (1976).
Dates:
1971-1976
Mabel DeVries Tanner, Playwright, Correspondence and Play Scripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4408
Scope and Contents
Mabel Tanner was a playwright who lived in Morgantown, West Virginia. The collection includes her correspondence advocating her plays, including letters to the Federal Theatre Project in the 1930s. There is also correspondence with the Hollywood movie star Anthony Quinn.box 1; correspondence (including letters from Anthony Quinn), four play scripts authored by Mabel Tanner (including "May Madness," "Call it Madness," "The Go-Between," and "Bread and Wine"), two photographs of...
Dates:
ca. 1906-1965
West Virginia University, University Specialty Company, Program for "Richard III"
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5251
Content Description
Program for production of Shakespeare's "Richard III" put on by the University Specialty Company, 16 April 1892. The production was mounted to raise money for West Virginia University's first football team. Program includes a synopsis and cast of characters; the title role was played by Melville Davisson Post, a law student who would become a popular author of detective fiction. Written in pencil on the reverse of the program is "WVR, VF, Class-1892".
Dates:
1892