Theater Resources
Sources:
Bordman, Gerald, The Oxford Companion to the American Theatre (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).
Bronner, Edwin, The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre 1900-1975 (San Diego; New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, Inc., c1980).
Clapp, William Warland, A Record of the Boston Stage (Boston; Cambridge: J. Munroe and Company, 1853).
Crawford, Mary Caroline, The Romance of the American Theatre (Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1925).
Gilder,
Rosamond and Freedley, George, Theatre Collections in Libraries and Museums
an International Handbook (New York : Theatre Arts, Inc., c1936).
For
more updated and detailed listings of other theater-related collections, see Subject
Collections (New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker, c1993) under the "Theater"
heading.
Hughes, Glenn, A History of the American Theatre, 1700-1950 (London; Toronto Samuel French, c1951).
King,
Donald, A History of Boston's Theatres As Seen through Its Newspapers, Periodicals,
and Its Contemporaries.
Located
in the Athenæum manuscript collection Mss. L499.
Litto, Frederic M., American Dissertations on the Drama and the Theatre; a Bibliography (Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 1969).
Norton,
Elliot, Broadway Down East: an Informal Account of the Plays, Players, and
Playhouses of Boston from Puritan Times to the Present... (Boston : Trustees
of the Public Library Learning Library Program, 1978)
Reardon, William R., Banned in Boston: a Study of Theatrical Censorship in Boston from 1630 to 1950 (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1952?[1958]).
Shand
Tucci, Douglass, The Boston Rialto: Playhouses, Concert Halls and Movie Palaces
(P.D. Shand Tucci, 6977).
Located in the Athenæum Tract Collection.
Tract #F 17.
Stoddard, Richard Foster, The Architecture and Technology of Boston Theatres, 1794-1854 (1971).
Young, William C., Documents of American History: Famous American Playhouses (Chicago : American Library Association, 1973).
Histories of individual theaters, actor biographies, and memoirs, etc.
Alden, John Eliot, A Season in Federal Street; JB. Williamson and the Boston Theatre, 1796-1797 (Worcester, 1955).
Boston Museum, 1841-1903, Catalogue of the Paintings, Portraits, Marble and Plaster Statuary, etc., in the Collection of the Boston Museum [Mss. Copy] (Boston, 1847) Other copies located in Athenæum Tract Collection. Tract G3 (nos. 2 and 3).
Boston
Museum, Established 1841; An Interesting Retrospect, and an Account of the
Latest Alterations and Improvements, Issued for Season, 1880-81 (Boston, 1880).
Boston Theatre, By-laws of the Proprietors; with a List of Stockholders (Boston, 1860).
Corbett, A., "A Tale for Theatregoers" (In his Original Studies in Local History, 1925).
Corbett, A., "Relics of the OldMuseum" (In his Original Studies in Local History, 1903).
Hale,
David, Letters on the New [Tremont] Theatre (Boston, 1827). Located in
Athenæum Tract Collection. Tract B942 no. l
Hatch, Francis W., A Frenchy's Visit to the Old Howard (Boston: John Pow Co., [196?]). Located in the Athenæum Broadside Collection. Broadside 10.107.
Kimball, Moses, Letters Received (Manuscript materials relating to the Boston Museum and several Boston actors of the 19th century). Located in the Athenæum manuscript collection Mss. L.334.
McGlinchee, Claire, The First Decade of the Boston Museum (Boston : Bruce Humphries, Inc., 6940).
Mammen, Edward William, The Old Stock Company School of Acting; a Study of the Boston Museum. (Boston, Mass. : Trustees of the Public Library, 1945).
Pelby, William, Letters on the Tremont Theatre (Boston: J.H. Eastburn, 1830). Located in Athenæum Tract Collection. Tract B942 no. 1a.
Ryan, Kate, Old Boston Museum Days (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915).
Skelton, Edward Oliver, Historical Review of the Boston Bijou Theatre... (Boston Printed by the Forbes Lithograph Co., 1884).
Tom Pop's First Visit to the Boston Museum... (Boston : Printed for the Publisher, 1848).
Tompkins, Eugene, The History of the Boston Theatre 1854-1901 (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1908, 1969).
Winter, William, Vagrant Memories: Being Further Recollections of Other Days (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915).
OTHER THEATER RESOURCES
Local Collections
The Harvard Theater Collection has one of the largest collections of theater playbills, programs, prints, photographs, promptbooks, and other theater related materials in the country. Although the scope is worldwide, Harvard's Theater Collection is unequalled in materials relating to the English speaking stage of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Other notable, local collections include Boston
University's Special Collections Department at the Mugar Memorial Library,
and
Emerson College Special Collections.
Brandeis
University's American Theater Programs Collection
consists of 14 linear feet of American Theater and
stage programs of the late
19th and early 20th century.
Other
Collections
Allison
Delarue Collection: Princeton University
Billy Rose Theatre Collection,
New York Public Library
Curtis
Theater Collections, University of Pittsburgh
George
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
League
of Historic American Theatres
Museum of
the City of New York Theatre Collections
New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Philip H. Ward Collection of Theatrical Images, 1856-1910: University of Pennsylvania
Theater and Performing
Arts Collections, University of Chicago, Special Collections
Theatre
Historical Society of America: Archives
Theatre
Arts Collection at the Ransom Center
Yale
School of Drama Library
Online
Historical Resources
Adelphi
Theatre Database, 1806-1900
American
Society for Theater Research
International
Federation of Theatre Research
Library
of Congress: American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment,1870-1920
Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson
Theatre Collection: British Theatres and Actors
Templeman
Library Theatre Collections: British Histories of Theatres
TheatrePedia: Internet Theater Library
Theatre
Library Association
This
Month in Theatre History
Toronto
Reference Library: Performing Arts Center
Vaudeville
Memories: Theatres, Actors and Actresses
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