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Ua68/17/1 Wku Dance: Creating | Thinking | Artists, Wku Theatre & Dance

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter by and about the WKU Dance Program. Articles:

• Dance on the Hill
• Potter College of Arts & Letters Collaborations
• Guest Speakers: Naila Ansari, Shyama Iyer, Jill Flanders
• Guest Artists: Tyler Gilstrap
• WinterDance
• Last Chance to Dance
• National Dance Education Organization

Ua68/17/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Theatre & Dance Western Players / Summer Players, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Western Players theater group including the Summer Players.

Ua68/17/4 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Theatre & Dance Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and for the administration of Theatre & Dance.

Ua68/17/3 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Theatre & Dance Film/Video/Audio File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Recordings of Theatre & Dance performances.

Ua1c11/66 Western Players / Summer Players Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs of Western Players and Summer Players productions, participants, and other activities.

Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Dinner Theater, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Digitized vertical file materials regarding WKU Theatre & Dance dinner theater program.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - P Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 134 topics beginning with P ranging from P.O.W. to Purpose.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: A Season Of Hope Part 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

1983 Talisman yearbook pp. 1-193

• A Season of Hope Wright, Sharon. Multi-faceted Beauty
• Sandman, Ellen. Music of the Highlands – Skip Cleavinger, Bagpipes
• Cornett, Susanna. Fashion Forum
• Cornett, Susanna. Tradition & Trends Are Seen in Faculty Dress
• Grace, Lee. An Attitude of Awareness – Alcohol
• Sawyer, Janet. Double Dilemma – Twins
• Sandman, Ellen. Chance to Charm – Miss Western, Miss Black Western
• Thomas, Laura. Aerobicise
• Campbell, Marsha. Topper Trivia (1)
• Burchett, Lorri. Added Dimension – Concerts, Entertainment
• Lyly, Linda. Fine Arts – Entertainment
• Lyly, Linda. Theater
• Lyly, Linda. Childish Direction – Children’s Theatre
• Sandman, Ellen. Classic Reunion – Homecoming
• Cornett, …

The Costume Design For A Midsummer Night’S Dream, Phyllis Vancleave

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The procedures taken in designing and constructing the costumes for Western Kentucky University’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was presented on November 13-19, 1979, were examined in retrospect to (1) the approach (2) the process and construction and (3) the evaluation. In establishing an approach for the production, considerations presented were title implications, thematic concept, historical periods, character sources, and the director’s notes. Solutions arrived at comprised a style suggestion, design/plot emphasis, color organization, texture contrasts, and line direction. In developing the design process and construction procedures, steps outlined were the preparations prior to designing, the organization …

The Theatrical Innovations Of Charles Laughton, Gary Joseph Jones

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In most journalistic studies the film career of Charles Laughton overshadows his theatrical activities to the extent that the reader is hardly aware of the importance of his theatrical innovations to the theater of our time. The more commercial side of Laughton’s career was publicized while his artistic efforts, as characterized by the innovations, were frequently forgotten. More people remember him as the man who played Captain Bligh in the movies than as the man who worked with Bertolt Brecht, created the First Drama Quartette and developed a new American art form, Readers’ Theatre.

The rationale of this study is …

Ua37/35/1 Cultural Enrichment Through Community Action, O. J. Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Final report for he Cultural Enrichment through Community Action project 1966 to 1970 "as a technique to eliminate a cultural blight or void in the areas of art, music and theatre in the service area of Western Kentucky University." [Final Report, p. 1]

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1968-1969, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1968-1969 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips, campus activities, tributes to Russell Miller and Van Meter Hall renovations.

• Liliom, 1968
• Wait Until Dark, 1968
• The Star Spangled Girl, 1969
• The Crucible, 1969
• J.B., 1969
• Apollo of Bellac, 1968
• No Exit
• Box and Cox
• The Lesson, 1969
• Surpressed Desires, 1969
• Before Breakfast, 1969
• The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year

Ua68/17/2 The Star-Spangled Girl!, Wku Western Players

WKU Archives Records

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Star-Spangled Girl!

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1967-1968, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1967-1968 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• A View from the Bridge, 1967
• Anastasia, 1968
• Tea and Sympathy, 1968
• Ghosts, 1968
• The Male Animal, 1968
• Becket, 1967
• The Fisherman
• The Romancers
• The Bald Soprano
• Carnival of Characters, 1968

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1968, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1968 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisited
• Shaker Festival
• The Killing of Sister George
• The Fugitive Kind
• The Wizard of Oz

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1967, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1967 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Hay Fever
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
• Shakertown Revisited
• Auburn Shaker Festival

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1966-1967, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1966-1967 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• South Pacific, 1966
• The Taming of the Shrew, 1967
• Carmen, 1967
• Night Must Fall, 1967
• The Glass Menagerie, 1966
• Miss Julie
• Cyrano de Bergerac, 1967

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1966, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1966 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisted
• Auburn Shaker Festival
• Oh Dad, Poor Dad!
• Summer and Smoke
• Tom Sawyer

Ua68/17/2 The Bat's Revenge, Wku Western Players

WKU Archives Records

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Bat's Revenge.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1965-1966, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1965-1966 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• West Side Story, 1965
• The Doctor in Spite of Himself, 1966
• The Bat's Revenge, 1966
• Life With Father, 1966
• Modern Duo: Estrangement, 1965
• This Property is Condemned
• La Dama Del Alba
• Die Kleinen Verwandten
• John Brown's Body
• Red Peppers

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1965, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1965summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• This Fair Land
• Shakertown Revisted
• Three Men on a Horse
• The Night of the Iguana

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1964-1965, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1964-1965 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1964
• Antigone, 1964
• Phoenix Too Frequent, 1964
• Sancho Panza En Barataria, 1965
• The Misunderstanding, 1965
• Dance Concerto, 1965
• Bedtime Story, 1965
• Bye, Bye Birdie, 1965
• The Talented Failure, 1965
• The Letter, 1965
• The American Dream, 1965

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1964, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1964 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisited
• Love Among the Ruins
• Royal Gambit

Ua68/17/2 The Teahouse Of The August Moon, Wku Western Players

WKU Archives Records

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1963-1964, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1963-1964 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• As Your Like It, 1963
• A Far Country, 1963
• The Teahouse of the August Moon, 1964
• God's Trombones, 1964
• The Clod, 1964
• La Farce de Cuvier, 1964
• The Second Shepherd's Play, 1964
• Package Show, 1964
• Entremes del Mauceba que Caso con Mujir Brava, 1964
• The Boor, 1964

Ua68/17/2 Don Juan In Hell, Wku Western Players

WKU Archives Records

Program from WKU Western Players' production of Don Juan in Hell.

Ua68/17/2 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wku Western Players

WKU Archives Records

Program for WKU Western Players' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1962-1963, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1962-1963 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• The Secret of Christmas, 1962
• Don Juan in Hell, 1963
• Profile of the Exes
• Legend of the Lake
• The Ladder
• All My Sons, 1963
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1963

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1963, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1963 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisted
• Auburn Shaker Festival
• The Unexpected Guest
• The Grass Harp

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1962, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1962 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• The House of Bernarda Alba
• Shaker Festival
• Private Lives