Plays (performing arts compositions)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic or theatrical performances staged by actors before an audience; acted representations of an action or story.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Purdue University Black Cultural Center records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 176
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection document the programs, activities, and community created by and surrounding the Purdue University Black Cultural Center (BCC) from its inception in 1969 up until the present day. It includes publications about the African American community; newspaper clippings and marketing material created by or with the subject of the BCC; photographs of the BCC, its events, students, and staff; speeches delivered by or about the BCC; correspondence between members of the BCC...
Dates:
1969 - 2023; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Irma Jean Bowman scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 227
Abstract
Irma Jean Bowman's scrapbook contains with clippings, programs, playbills, postcards, and ticket stubs documenting various cultural events at Purdue University and the surrounding region in Northwestern Indiana.
Dates:
1935 - 1980
Erling E. Kildahl scrapbooks and papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 480
Scope and Contents
The Erling E. Kildahl scrapbooks and papers contains thirteen scrapbooks compiled by Erling Kildahl. The scrapbooks contain information concerning the Purdue Theatre and Purdue Playshop productions, as well as the Lafayette Little Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse. Newspaper clippings of the productions as well as set and cast photographs can be found in the scrapbooks. Journal articles that Professor Kildahl contributed to can be found within the collection as well.
Dates:
1944 - 1990
Robert E. Smith papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 535
Scope and Contents
The Robert E. Smith papers include creative writings and related papers from the life and career of Robert E. Smith. The collection primarily comprises manuscripts for short stories, poems, essays, novels and novellas, sermons, and plays. The collection also includes research documents on various topics, notably orator John Walker and mystery solving; instruction materials from the classes Smith taught in the Purdue Communication Department; and personal documents such as correspondence, travel...
Dates:
1939 - 2014
Joseph G. Stockdale papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 472
Overview
This collection includes documents, manuscripts, theater programs, photographs, scripts, writings, and newspaper clippings relating to Joseph G. Stockdale's education, theater career, writing career, career in higher education, and role as an advocate for the theatre arts and as a mentor to young theatre professionals.
Dates:
1949 - 2006