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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Ua68/17/2 Make Mine Music, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program from WKU Western Players' production of Make Mine Music.

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 …

Ua68/17/2 Missouri Legend, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Missouri Legend.

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1961, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1961 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Bus Stop
• The Curious Savage

Ua68/17/2 Dark Of The Moon, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Dark of the Moon.

Ua68/17/2 The Male Animal, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Male Animal.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1960-1961, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1960-1961 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities as well as clippings for the Debate Team and Bowling Green Community Players.

• Oklahoma, 1960
• Our Town, 1960
• The Male Animal, 1961
• Dark of the Moon, 1961
• Homecoming, 1961
• Voice in the Dark, 1961

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1960-1961, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1960-1961 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Oklahoma, 1960
• Our Town, 1960
• The Male Animal, 1961
• Dark of the Moon, 1961
• Voice in the Dark, 1961

Ua68/17/2 Winterset, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program from the WKU Western Players' production of Winterset.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1960-1961, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of summer theatrical productions from 1960-1961 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding outdoor theater productions in Kentucky, events on campus and group activities.

• The Larger World, 1960
• Way Out, 1960
• Giants Lie Sleeping, 1961
• Night Must Fall, 1961
• The Importance of Being Earnest, 1961
• Our Town, 1961
• Bus Stop, 1961
• The Curious Savage, 1961

Ua68/17/2 Oklahoma!, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Oklahoma!

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1959-1960, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1959-1960 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• Inherit the Wind, 1959
• Much Ado About Nothing, 1959
• Ninotchka, 1960
• Picnic, 1960
• Our Town, 1960

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1960, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1960 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• The Old Fort Theatre
• The Larger World of the Theatre - Outdoor Drama
• Giants Lie Sleeping
• Night Must Fall
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Our Town

Ua68/17/2 Our Town, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Our Town.

Ah, Wilderness!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1958-1959 Season

Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theater on October 2, 1933. It varies from a typical O'Neill play in its happy ending for the central character, and depiction of a happy family in turn of the century America. It is O'Neill's only well-known comedy. Ah, Wilderness!. (2017, April 30). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:10, May 23, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ah,_Wilderness!&oldid=777914403

Ua68/17/2 Much Ado About Nothing, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1958-1959, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1958-1959 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and field trips.

• Summer & Smoke, 1958
• Macbeth, 1958
• Carousel, 1959
• Madwoman of Chaillot, 1959
• Package Show, 1959

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1958-1959, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1958-1959 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding the debate team, oratorical contests and field trips.

• Summer & Smoke, 1958
• Package Show, 1958
• Macbeth, 1959
• Carousel, 1959
• The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1959

One Acts, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1958-1959 Season

"The purpose of the Annual Freshman One-Acts is fourfold: first, these plays offer advanced members of Cap and Dagger an opportunity to gain valuable directing experience; secondly, the plays offer valuable acting experience and training to those Freshmen who are interested in dramatics; thirdly tonight's plays are the Cap and Dagger Dramatic Club annual Christmas gift to the students and faculty of Otterbein College, and the the village of Westerville; and lastly, to provide a greater variety of dramatic entertainment for our audience".

Ua68/17/2 Macbeth, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Macbeth.

1958-1959 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 Summer Players Scrapbook 1958, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1958 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Hay Fever
• The Moon is Blue
• Summer and Smoke

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1958, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1958 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Hay Fever
• The Moon is Blue
• Summer & Smoke

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1957-1958, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1957-1958 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding the debate team and field trips.

• Goodbye My Fancy, 1957
• Arms & the Man, 1957
• The Mousetrap, 1958
• My 3 Angels, 1958
• Fumed Oak, 1958

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1957-1958, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1957-1958 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding the debate team, club activities and oratorical contests.

• Goodbye My Fancy, 1957
• Arms and the Man, 1957
• Giants Lie Sleeping, 1958
• Fumed Oak, 1958
• The Mousetrap, 1958
• My 3 Angels, 1958