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The Glass Menagerie Program [1962], Gorham State Teachers College

Theatre Programs 1940-1969

Written by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Dr. Donald C. Spencer

From the program:

This play, Tennessee Williams' first commercial success, made its appearance in New York in 1945 with Laurette Taylor as Amanda, Julie Haydon as Laura, and producer Eddie Dowling as Tom. It was a notable success and won the Drama Critics Circle Award. Since then THE GLASS MENAGERIE has been a staple in the college and community theatre repertoire. In the catalogue of Williams' dramas this play stands as a refreshing and useful contrast with the more recent output which tends to capitalize on the often rather bizarre …

Blockprint March 28, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 28, 1962 issue features articles on the dormitory curfew protests, Allen Watts' convocation address on Zen, the sculpture department, a student photography exhibition, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Blockprint March 21, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 21, 1962 issue features articles on a student sit-in in Maryland, students protesting a new dorm curfew, a student exhibition, and a forum on Soviet Communism with Augustus Newman.

A 390 Project In The Department Of Speech (March 16-17, 1962), Lindenwood College

Student Theatre Programs

Program for A 390 Project in the Department of Speech (March 16-17, 1962).

To view the photos from this production of A 390 Project in the Department of Speech, please click here.

The Importance Of Being Earnest

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1962 performance of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, is a farcical comedy about two men who each take on the personas with the name of Earnest in order to escape the burdens of social obligations.

Blockprint March 14, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 14, 1962 issue features articles on building regulations for students; the new dormitory rules; a convocation lecture on art, zen, and nature; the films of Norman McLaren; student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Blockprint March 5, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 5, 1962 issue features articles on a program to test for creativity, a seminar on studying abroad within the Americas, the new Blockprint editorial staff, a Picasso exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum, faculty exhibitions in New York, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

John Brown's Body, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1961-1962 Season

Stephen Vincent Benet, one of America's outstanding poets of this century, was born in 1898 and died in 1943. A direct descendant of military men, Benet published his most important work, "John Brown's Body," in 1928. This long narrative poem captured the Pulitzer Prize and has sold over 600,000 copies.

In 1952 Charles Laughton conceived the idea of staging "John Brown's Body." In late 1952 and throughout 1953 the production was a smash hit on Broadway and on-tour across the country. The production starred Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson and Raymond Massey. Laughton cut the long poem from its original 334-page …

Blockprint February 28, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 28, 1962 issue features articles on a spring film festival, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 21, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 21, 1962 issue is a special edition covering Take-A-Break Weekend, and features a review of the variety show, a review of the Duke Ellington concert, and many photographs of the event. Several brief news articles are also included.

Campus Lights 1962, Murray State College

Campus Lights

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Blockprint February 14, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 14, 1962 issue features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, a forum on advertising, a textile exhibition, Duke Ellington, a new portrait exhibition at the RISD Museum, fair housing rights, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 7, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 7, 1962 issue features articles on Duke Ellington performing at Take-A-Break Weekend, new curfew rules at the dormitories, student accounts from Italy, an Architectural Society lecture with Kenneth A. Featherstone, a campaign to ensure fair housing in Providence, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 17, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 17, 1962 issue features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, a forum with Leon Cooper on science, what's in and out, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 10, 1962, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 10, 1962 issue is the first of the year and features articles on an annual fund alumni drive, faculty appointments, the advisory committee, Take-A-Break Weekend, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

1962-1963 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1961-1962, Western Player

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1961-1962 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• Thunder on the Hill, 1961
• Winterset, 1961
• A Medicine for Melancholy, 1961
• Missouri Legend, 1961
• Brother to Dragons, 1962
• Ten Steps to the Presidency, 1962
• The Skin of Our Teeth, 1962
• Gonza the Lancer, 1962
• Make Mine Music, 1962
• The Little Show, 1962

The First Of The Modern Directors: The Actor-Manager Career Of William Charles Macready, Abe J. Bassett

Theatre Faculty Publications

“My ambition,” wrote William Charles Macready on retiring from the stage in February 1851, was “to establish a theatre, in regard to decorum and taste, worthy of our country, and to have in it the plays of our divine Shakespeare fitfully illustrated.” Although this was undoubtedly a life-long aspiration, which spanned over forty years of his professional career it was best expressed in the four theatrical seasons in which Macready managed Covent Garden theatre (from 1837 to 1839) and Drury Lane theatre (from 1841 to 1843.) It has been the purpose of this study to examine the contributions that Macready …

An Evaluation Of The Beginnings, Purposes, And Influence Of Drama In Ogden From 1840 To 1900, Harold R. Oaks

Theses and Dissertations

During the latter half of the nineteenth century Utah was undergoing physical and cultural colonization. Four months after the first Mormon pioneers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, the site of Ogden city had been purchased from Miles Goodyear. The city developed slowly during its first twenty years, but when the railroad joined at Promontory Point in 1869, Ogden became the junction of East and West. The city experienced a peculiar economic and cultural boom not known elsewhere in the Mountain West or along the railroad due to the predominately Mormon population which now was imposed upon …

Dance Recital (December 13, 1961), Lindenwood College

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Event program for Dance Recital (December 13, 1961).

Blockprint December 13, 1961, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 13, 1961 issue is the last of the year and features articles on a forum with "Canon" John Crocker, an Episcopal priest who was arrested during a Prayer Pilgrimage freedom ride in Mississippi; student accounts from Italy; a film screening on African art; student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

The Chalk Garden (December 8-9, 1961), Enid Bagnold

Student Theatre Programs

Program for The Chalk Garden (December 8-9, 1961)

Ladies In Retirement

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1961 performance of Ladies in Retirement by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham.

Ladies in Retirement tells the story of a retired actress living in a remote home with her housekeeper and maid, and what happens when the housekeeper invites her two rambunctious younger sisters to live with them.

Tartuffe, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1961-1962 Season

Jean Baptiste Poquelin, later known to posterity as Moliere, was born in Paris in 1622, the son of the upholsterer to the King of France. He received his first training in the theatre as a student in a Jesuit college. At the age of 22 he formed his own troupe, called the Illustrous Theatre, and toured the provinces of France for more than twelve years. Here he came under the influences of the Commedia dell'Arte, learning first hand what amused audiences and developing his dramatic art to perfection. After this apprenticeship, he returned to Paris to become the King's Royal …

Blockprint December 6, 1961, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 6, 1961 issue features articles on a forum with Dean Strout, a blood drive, the European Honors Program, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Ua68/17/2 Missouri Legend, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Missouri Legend.

Blockprint November 29, 1961, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 29, 1961 issue is a special edition dedicated to the drama club's production of Eugene Ionesco's plays, The Bald Soprano and The Lesson.

Blockprint November 22, 1961, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 22, 1961 issue features articles on a lecture by archaeologist George Mylonas, a forum with former naval aid George Williams, a meeting on the dormitories, a student council meeting, a World Affairs Society lecture, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Program For The Stage Production The Late George Apley, Curtain Club

Theater Production Programs

This twelve-page program details the Curtain Club of Ursinus College’s production of The Late George Apley, held November 17 and 18, 1961 in Thompson-Gay Gymnasium. It includes information about the directors, cast, production of the show, a scene synopsis, and local advertisements.

Blockprint November 15, 1961, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 15, 1961 issue features articles on a lecture by Colin Wilson at Pembroke, a forum with Tarek Jabri on Arab contributions to Western civilization, the drama club's upcoming productions of Ionesco plays, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials on the fine arts and architecture departments, opinion columns, and creative writing.