Theater
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Amherst College Dramatic Activities Collection
The collection includes surviving programs, scripts, photographs, slides, set and costume designs, publicity material, posters, newspaper clippings, and audio/video material that chronicle the conceptualization, creation, production and review of hundreds of Amherst College theater and dance productions.
F. Curtis Canfield (AC 1925), formerly Stanley King Professor of Dramatic Arts, 1979 February 12
F. Curtis Canfield (AC 1925) Papers
Drama professor and director. Collection includes course and lecture notes, as well as some correspondence, newspaper clippings, framed portraits and photographs, and material for Canfield's books.
George A. Plimpton (AC 1876) Collection of Dramas
A collection of 4591 published plays, largely from nineteenth and early twentieth century American and British popular theater.
Howard B. Hamilton Japanese Theater Papers
Louis P. Dolbeare (AC 1940) Papers
1940 graduate of Amherst College; urban planner. Collection contains correspondence with friends and family, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Amherst College alumni reunions and theater productions.
Nesbitt C. Blaisdell (AC 1951) Correspondence & Theater Collection
The Nesbitt C. Blaisdell (AC 1951) Theater and Correspondence Collection contains mostly outgoing correspondence from Nesbitt C. Blaisdell to family members, mostly close family. There are materials related to his career in the theater, and a few miscellaneous materials, such as the Turkish internal passport of his missionary uncle Robert Chambers.
Ralph C. McGoun Jr. (AC 1927), Professor Emeritus of Dramatic Arts, 1979 March 9
Samuel French Company Theater Collection
The Samuel French Company Theater Collection is more than four hundred and fifty linear feet of material including thousands of plays and publications, photographs, costume design illustrations, theatrical ephemera, and documentation of the Samuel French Corporation’s business transactions dating back to the mid 1800’s.
W. Clyde Fitch (AC 1886) Collection
Correspondence, annotated play scripts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, articles and photographs documenting the literary career, works, and personal life of Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), American dramatist and graduate of Amherst College in the Class of 1886. Correspondents include Robert Browning, Richard Harding Davis, William Dean Howells and William Lyon Phelps.
Walter Boughton Papers
The Walter Boughton Papers contain mainly teaching notes and classroom materials from Walter Boughton's approximately thirty years teaching and directing theatre at Amherst College. Also contains notes schoolwork done by Boughton while attending Brown University.