Theatre-by-the-Sea


University Archives and Special Collections
15 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881-2011
Tel: 401-874-4632

email: archives@etal.uri.edu

Published in 2009

Collection Overview

Title: Theatre-by-the-Sea
Date range: 1951-1988
Creator: Theatre-by-the-Sea (Matunuck, R.I.)
Extent: 19.25 linear feet,
38 box(es)
Abstract: This collection contains a wealth of materials related to the productions of the Theatre-by-the-Sea in Matunuck, Rhode Island. The Theatre changed ownership frequently, but continued to present plays for several decades from the late 1960s to 2003. For a list of the Theatre-by-the-Sea productions please see the Scope/Content note.
Language of materials: English
Repository: University Archives and Special Collections
Collection number: Mss. Gr. 191

Scope & content

The Records of the Theatre-By-The-Sea Papers document the history of the Theatre from its opening in 1933 until 1988. The records detail the auditioning, casting, and hiring of the summer companies and junior companies, as well as describing the general operations of the theatre, including payroll, scheduling, and housing arrangements for the members of the company. The records also include photographs, recordings, news clippings, playbills, posters, written histories, correspondence, and set designs. Several folders contain material on Brent's productions at the Garde Theatre in New London, CT in 1981. For a list of the Theatre's productions, please scroll to the bottom of this scope/content note.

The records are divided into the following series:

Series I, Summer Theatre Companies (1967-1988), relates to the cast and crew of the Theatre-By-The-Sea summer stock companies. The series contains applications, contracts, correspondence, resumes, publicity photographs, payroll data, notes, news clippings, and staff and cast lists.

Series II, Playbills (1951-1988), contains playbills for Theatre-By-The-Sea productions from 1955-1958, and 1978.

Series III, Theatre Posters (1953-1999), consists of posters used to advertise the Theatre's productions.

Series IV, Theatre Histories (1955-2006), consists of written histories, biographical sketches, records of construction projects, and a map of the Theatre property.

Series V, Correspondence (1967-2003), consists of business and audience correspondence, as well as a folder of personal letters to Tommy Brent.

Series VI, Photographs (1930s-1982), consists of photographs of productions, cast members, and the Theatre buildings and grounds.

Series VII, Recordings (1971-1985), consists of recordings of Theatre productions converted from cassette tapes to WAV audio file format.

Series VIII, News Clippings (1933-1971) consists of reviews of productions and general articles about the Theatre.

Series IX, Production Designs (1975-1986) contains lighting instructions, drawings of set designs, and notes on stage and set plans for various productions.

List of Theatre-by-the-Sea Productions, 1967-1988

1967

Any Wednesday

A Thousand Clowns

The Odd Couple

Barefoot in the Park

Ladies in Retirement

Luv

The Champagne Complex



1968

Generation

The Impossible Years

Never Too Late

Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath

A Delicate Balance

Enter Laughing

Holiday for Lovers

Wait Until Dark

Marriage On Approval

The Owl and the Pussycat



1969

The Star Spangled Girl

You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running

Cactus Flower

The Lion in Winter

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Don't Drink the Water

The Fantasticks



1970

I Do! I Do!

Man of La Mancha

Cabaret

Little Mary Sunshine

Ten Nights in a Barroom

Sheep on the Runway

The Boys in the Band

Lovers and Other Strangers



1971

Two If By Sea

Fiddler on the Roof

The Boy Friend

Play It Again, Sam

Plaza Suite

Private Lives



1972

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

1776

Company

The Sound of Music

Forty Carats

Last of the Red Hot Lovers



1973

The Gingerbread Lady

Promises, Promises

Applause

Oklahoma!

Anything Goes

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little

Butterflies are Free



1974

Dames at Sea

No, No, Nanette

George M!

Hair

That Championship Season

The Prisoner of Second Avenue



1975

Finishing Touches

A Little Night Music

Gypsy

Seesaw

Jesus Christ Superstar

The Sunshine Boys



1976

George Washington Slept Here

Kiss Me Kate

Hello Dolly!

Irene

Candide

Godspell



1977

Light Up the Sky!

Guys and Dolls

Mack and Mabel

My Fair Lady

The Robber Bridegroom

The Royal Family



1978

The Fantasticks

Shenandoah

The King and I

Pippin

Equus



1979

Same Time Next Year

The Sound of Music

Man of La Mancha

Chicago



1980

Oklahoma!

Camelot

On the Twentieth Century

Grease



1981

I Love My Wife

The Pirates of Penzance

Brigadoon

West Side Story

Over Here!



1982

Tintypes

Ain't Misbehavin'

Sweeney Todd

Little Me

Whoopee!



1983

They're Playing Our Song

Show Boat

Annie

Barnum



1984

A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Woman of the Year



1985

Baby

Evita

The King and I

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers



1986

The Rink

On Your Toes

A Chorus Line

The Unsinkable Molly Brown



1987

Zorba

My One and Only

Sugar Babies

Sweet Charity



1988

Sophisticated Ladies

Anything Goes

Cabaret

Singin' in the Rain

42nd Street

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in nine series as follows:

  • 1. Summer Theatre Companies
  • 2. Playbills
  • 3. Theatre Posters
  • 4. Theatre Histories
  • 5. Correspondence
  • 6. Photographs
  • 7. Recordings
  • 8. News Clippings
  • 9. Production Designs

Historical note

The Theatre-By-The-Sea, a cultural landmark in the state of Rhode Island, was a complex of buildings on Card's Pond Road in Matunuck that operated as a summer stock theatre for seventy years, from 1933 until 2003. The Theatre building itself began as a barn, built in several sections from 1840 through the late 1800s, on the site of the Browning family farm. The barn was converted into a horse and carriage house in 1891, when George Browning decided to convert his family's house into a hotel for summer tourists, called the Ocean Star. Mrs. Browning sold the Ocean Star in 1919 after George's death.

The Browning farm was bought by Alice Tyler and her husband in 1921 for use as a summer home. After her husband's death in 1928, Tyler began using the property as a girls summer camp. In 1933, Tyler began converting the barn into a theatre. The conversion included the construction of a proscenium and fly space, and the addition of 300 seats to the barn. The proscenium was built by a contractor employing a team of twenty-four shipbuilders from New Bedford, MA. The installation of the technical equipment and lighting also occurred in the summer of 1933, with most of the equipment coming from a vacant vaudeville theater and movie house in Port Chester, NY. Alice Taylor brought in Abe Feder to design the stage lighting. Feder later worked with Orson Welles' Mercury Theater, and designed the lighting for Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Theatre's first show, a pre-Broadway tryout of "Amourette" starring Claire Kummer, opened on August 15, 1933.

Over the years, there were several other construction projects on the theater, including the addition of a balcony, and 300 more seats after the hurricane of 1938 destroyed a section of the roof and the back wall of the theatre. Hurricane Carol in 1954 also caused damage to the Theatre that required repairs. The other buildings in the Theatre-By-The-Sea complex included a ranch house that was used as the business office, a shed which was used to store supplies, a one and a half story costume shed that had been built as a 19th century feed house, and a two and a half story inn that contained the company's lodgings on the second floor, and which had a restaurant and bar for theatre patrons on the first floor. The bar and restaurant, which was housed in an attached porch that had been built in the 1950s, changed names several times as new owners and managers operated the business. The names included the Spotlight Club (early 1950s), Player's Patio (mid-1950s), Backstage Club (1960s), and finally, the Seahorse Grill. With the exception of the business office, all of the buildings were part of the original 19th century Browning farm.

Several times throughout the Theatre's history the business did not open for the summer. The first time, in 1942 and 1943, gas rationing during World War II caused the Theatre to shut down. It opened as a movie house in the summers of 1944 and 1945, and began live performances again after the end of the War, in the summer of 1946. In 1951, Donald Wolin and Harold Schiff began operating the Theatre for Alice Taylor, and brought in stage and screen stars to the theatre each summer. A common arrangement in small theatres at the time, the "package system", allowed the star to choose several of their co-performers. In addition, the "Equity system" mandated that a certain portion of the cast had to be members of Actor's Equity, and the casting costs began to make the star system prohibitively expensive for the Theatre. In 1959, after a particularly bad summer the year before in which J. Thornton Hall and Joseph R. Wishy had taken over as producers, the Theatre was shut down, and was sold to the Bontecou family. The Bontecou's re-opened it from 1960 to 1962, with John Holmes acting as the producer. From 1963 to 1966, however, the Theatre was closed again, largely because construction on Route 1 made access to the Theatre difficult.

By 1966, the Bontecou family had decided to demolish the Theatre. Shortly before the demolition began, Tommy Brent, who had worked at the theatre in 1958 as a press agent, invested his own funds to once again re-open the theatre. When Brent arrived at the site, in March of 1967, he saw that damage to the buildings from vandals and neglect was too severe to fix alone, so he placed an advertisement in the April 27 Narragansett Times for volunteers workers to make the necessary repairs. The Theatre was repaired in time to open the summer season on June 18, 1967.

Tommy Brent acted as producer and manager of the Theatre from 1967 to 1988, overseeing the hiring of actors, technical crew, and stage managers. Members of the cast and crew lived on the second floor of the Inn, and paid for their meals and rent. Brent also oversaw the Junior Company, an apprenticeship program in which young people, generally high school age, would build sets and play bit parts in productions to gain experience in the world of theatre. During Brent's time as producer and manager, then-Governor John Chafee proclaimed Theatre-By-The-Sea Week from July 28-August 3, 1968, and the Theatre was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

FourQuest Entertainment, consisting of partners Laura Harris (who had worked summers at the Theatre under Tommy Brent), Renny Serre, and Ric Ericson, took over the operation of the theatre in 1989, and purchased it several years later, in 1992. FourQuest made $3 million in renovations to the Theatre, and began using Actor's Equity members in their productions. In 1998, Ericson left FourQuest to produce shows independently, and the following year, Marcy Simpson came to the Theatre as associate producer. Members of FourQuest decided to sell the property several years later, and, after being unable to find a buyer, the Theatre closed in 2003.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: Open for research.
Use of the materials: Terms governing use and reproduction: Photocopying and scanning of materials is a fee based service available in the repository and is allowed at the discretion of the Archivist when in compliance to the Unit's policy on copyright and publication.
Preferred citation: Records of the Theatre-by-the-Sea, Mss. Gr. 191, University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections.
Contact information: University Archives and Special Collections
15 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881-2011
Tel: 401-874-4632

email: archives@etal.uri.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: The records were kept by Tommy Brent, the Producer and Manager of the Theatre from 1967 to 1988, and were donated to the University of Rhode Island Library Special Collections Unit in three accessions in 2006. Many of the yearly theatre company records had been stored in cardboard file boxes, with each year's records contained in one or two boxes. Several years records had separate boxes for the junior companies. Some of the records have minor water damage, including some photographs from the 1975 season, which sustained the worst damage. Brent reviewed the records between June 2004 and August 2005, writing short explanatory notes about the material, people, and events, which he then included with the records.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by David Sherman and Jeff Vermillion.
Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Hailie D. Posey 2009 July 13, updated by Mark Dionne on 2020 April 8
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Additional Information

Inventory

Inventory

Series 1. Summer Theatre Companies
Box 1-23, Folder 1-136
The Summer Theatre Companies series contains the papers of Tommy Brent in his role as producer and manager of Theater-By-The-Sea from 1967-88. Several folders contain material relating to Brent's productions at the Garde Theatre in New London, CT, in the fall of 1981, which ran the same shows produced at the Theatre-By-The-Sea that summer.

The majority of the records in the series consist of information about the cast and crew for each summer's company, including records detailing the application, auditioning, and hiring process. Also contained in the series are records relating to the assistantship program for junior company members. Members of the Junior Company would work at the theatre for a small stipend, helping to build sets or playing small parts in the productions in order to gain experience in a theatre.

The series contains applications, contracts, correspondence, resumes, publicity photographs, news clippings, payroll data, memoranda, notes (some inserted into the papers by Tommy Brent when he reviewed the papers in 2004 and 2005), travel arrangements, and staff and cast lists.

The records are arranged chronologically by year, with the folders for each year arranged alphabetically by subject.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 1967: Cast & Crew
 1967
Box 1, Folder 2 1967: Payroll & Taxes
1967
Box 1, Folder 3 1968: Cast & Crew, A-J
 1968
Box 1, Folder 4 1968: Cast & Crew, K-Z
 1968
Box 1, Folder 5 1968: Form Letters, Actor, Pay Lists
 1968
Box 1, Folder 6 1969: Cast & Crew, A-K
1969
Box 1, Folder 7 1969: Cast & Crew, M-W
1969
Box 1, Folder 8 1969: Cast Lists, Arrival Dates
 1969
Box 1, Folder 9 1969: Taxes
 1969
Box 2, Folder 10 1970: Cast & Crew, A-I
 1970
Box 2, Folder 11 1970: Cast & Crew, J-W
 1970
Box 2, Folder 12 1970: Payroll & Taxes
 1970
Box 2, Folder 13 1971: Cast & Crew, A-F
 1971
Box 2, Folder 14 1971: Cast & Crew, G-P
 1971
Box 2, Folder 15 1971: Cast & Crew, R-Y
 1971
Box 3, Folder 16 1971: Cast Lists, Payroll & Arrivals
 1971
Box 3, Folder 17 1972: Cast & Crew, A-G
 1972
Box 3, Folder 18 1972: Cast & Crew, H-P
 1972
Box 3, Folder 19 1972: Cast & Crew, R-W
 1972
Box 3, Folder 20 1972: Cast & Staff Lists, Arrival Dates
 1972
Box 3, Folder 21 1972: Junior Company Applications
1972
Box 4, Folder 22 1973: Cast & Crew, A-G
 1973
Box 4, Folder 23 1973: Cast & Crew, H-M
1973
Box 4, Folder 24 1973: Cast & Crew, M-R
 1973
Box 4, Folder 25 1973: Cast & Crew, R-Z
 1973
Box 4, Folder 26 1973: Cast Lists, Arrival Lists & Room Assignments
 1973
Box 5, Folder 27 1973: Junior Company Information, Notes
 1973
Box 5, Folder 28 1973: Unidentified Photographs
 1973
Box 5, Folder 29 1974: Cast & Crew, A-D
 1974
Box 5, Folder 30 1974: Cast & Crew, E-N
 1974
Box 5, Folder 31 1974: Cast & Crew, O-R
 1974
Box 5, Folder 32 1974: Cast & Crew, S-W
1974
Box 6, Folder 33 1974: Junior Company Cast & Crew, A-L
 1974
Box 6, Folder 34 1974: Junior Company Cast & Crew, M-Y
1974
Box 6, Folder 35 1974: Personnel & Housing Lists
1974
Box 6, Folder 36 1974: Taxes
 1974
Box 6, Folder 37 1975: Cast & Crew, A-C
 1975
Box 6, Folder 38 1975: Cast & Crew, D-J
 1975
Box 7, Folder 39 1975: Cast & Crew, K-R
1975
Box 7, Folder 40 1975: Cast & Crew, S-Z
 1975
Box 7, Folder 41 1975: Cast & Personnel Lists, Payroll Data
 1975
Box 7, Folder 42 1975: Junior Company
 1975
Box 7, Folder 43 1976: Cast & Crew, A-C
 1976
Box 8, Folder 44 1976: Cast & Crew, D-J
 1976
Box 8, Folder 45 1976: Cast & Crew, K-P
 1976
Box 8, Folder 46 1976: Cast & Crew, R-Y
 1976
Box 8, Folder 47 1976: Cast & Staff Lists
1976
Box 8, Folder 48 1976: Payroll
 1976
Box 9, Folder 49 1977: Cast & Crew, A-D
 1977
Box 9, Folder 50 1977: Cast & Crew, E-L
 1977
Box 9, Folder 51 1977: Cast & Crew, M-R
 1977
Box 9, Folder 52 1977: Cast & Crew, S
 1977
Box 10, Folder 53 1977: Cast & Crew, T-Z
1977
Box 10, Folder 54 1977: Cast & Staff Lists
 1977
Box 10, Folder 55 1977: Payroll & Taxes
1977
Box 10, Folder 56 1978: Cast & Crew, A-Y
 1978
Box 10, Folder 57 1978: Payroll & Staff Lists
 1978
Box 10, Folder 58 1979: Cast & Crew, A-F
1979
Box 11, Folder 59 1979: Cast & Crew, G-M
 1979
Box 11, Folder 60 1979: Cast & Crew, N-Y
 1979
Box 11, Folder 61 1979: Cast & Staff Lists
 1979
Box 11, Folder 62 1979: House Manager Daily Reports
1979
Box 11, Folder 63 1979: Memoranda and Notes
1979
Box 12, Folder 64 1980: Cast & Crew, A-C
 1980
Box 12, Folder 65 1980: Cast & Crew, D-J
 1980
Box 12, Folder 66 1980: Cast & Crew, K-P
 1980
Box 12, Folder 67 1980: Cast & Crew, R-Z
1980
Box 12, Folder 68 1980: Memoranda and Notes
 1980 Apr-1980 May
Box 12, Folder 69 1980: Memoranda and Notes
1980 Jun
Box 13, Folder 70 1980: Memoranda and Notes
 1980 Jul
Box 13, Folder 71 1980: Memoranda and Notes
 1980 Aug-1980 Sep
Box 13, Folder 72 1980: Memoranda and Notes
 1980?
Box 13, Folder 73 1980: Payroll and Financial
 1980
Box 13, Folder 74 1980: Staff Lists and Personnel Sheets
 1980
Box 13, Folder 75 1981: Cast & Crew, A-B
 1981
Box 14, Folder 76 1981: Cast & Crew, C-G
 1981
Box 14, Folder 77 1981: Cast & Crew, H-J
 1981
Box 14, Folder 78 1981: Cast & Crew, K-N
1981
Box 14, Folder 79 1981: Cast & Crew, O-R
 1981
Box 14, Folder 80 1981: Cast & Crew, S-W
 1981
Box 14, Folder 81 1981: New London Company Cast & Crew
 1981
Box 15, Folder 82 1981: New London Company Notes
 1981
Box 15, Folder 83 1981: Notes
 1981
Box 15, Folder 84 1981: Payroll
1981
Box 15, Folder 85 1981: Payroll, New London Company
 1981
Box 15, Folder 86 1982: Cast & Crew, A-B
 1982
Box 15, Folder 87 1982: Cast & Crew, C-G
 1982
Box 15, Folder 88 1982: Cast & Crew, H-L
 1982
Box 16, Folder 89 1982: Cast & Crew, M-P
 1982
Box 16, Folder 90 1982: Cast & Crew, R-S
 1982
Box 16, Folder 91 1982: Cast & Crew, T-Z
 1982
Box 16, Folder 92 1982: Contact Sheets & Notes
 1982
Box 16, Folder 93 1983: Cast & Crew, A-C
1983
Box 16, Folder 94 1983: Cast & Crew, D-G
 1983
Box 17, Folder 95 1983: Cast & Crew, H-J
 1983
Box 17, Folder 96 1983: Cast & Crew, K-N
 1983
Box 17, Folder 97 1983: Cast & Crew, O-P
 1983
Box 17, Folder 98 1983: Cast & Crew, R-Z
1983
Box 17, Folder 99 1983: Contacts & Notes
 1983
Box 17, Folder 100 1984: Cast & Crew, A-C
 1984
Box 18, Folder 101 1984: Cast & Crew, D-G
 1984
Box 18, Folder 102 1984: Cast & Crew, H-K
 1984
Box 18, Folder 103 1984: Cast & Crew, L
 1984
Box 18, Folder 104 1984: Cast & Crew, M-N
 1984
Box 18, Folder 105 1984: Cast & Crew, O-P
 1984
Box 18, Folder 106 1984: Cast & Crew, R-T
 1984
Box 19, Folder 107 1984: Cast & Crew, V-Z
1984
Box 19, Folder 108 1984: Notes
 1984
Box 19, Folder 109 1985: Cast & Crew, A-B
 1985
Box 19, Folder 110 1985: Cast & Crew, C-G
 1985
Box 19, Folder 111 1985: Cast & Crew, H-L
 1985
Box 19, Folder 112 1985: Cast & Crew, M-R
 1985
Box 19, Folder 113 1985: Cast & Crew, S-Z
1985
Box 20, Folder 114 1985: Notes
 1985
Box 20, Folder 115 1985: Payroll
 1985
Box 20, Folder 116 1986: Cast & Crew, A-F
1986
Box 20, Folder 117 1986: Cast & Crew, G-O
 1986
Box 20, Folder 118 1986: Cast & Crew, P-S
1986
Box 20, Folder 119 1986: Cast & Crew, T-W
 1986
Box 20, Folder 120 1986: Notes
 1986
Box 21, Folder 121 1986: Payroll
 1986
Box 21, Folder 122 1987: Cast & Crew, A-H
1987
Box 21, Folder 123 1987: Cast & Crew, J-M
 1987
Box 21, Folder 124 1987: Cast & Crew, O-Z
 1987
Box 21, Folder 125 1987: Contact Sheets & Personnel Rosters
 1987
Box 21, Folder 126 1988: Cast & Crew, A-D
 1988
Box 22, Folder 127 1988: Cast & Crew, E-J
 1988
Box 22, Folder 128 1988: Cast & Crew, K-L
 1988
Box 22, Folder 129 1988: Cast & Crew, M-Q
 1988
Box 22, Folder 130 1988: Cast & Crew, R-S
 1988
Box 22, Folder 131 1988: Cast & Crew, T-Y
 1988
Box 23, Folder 132 1988: Contact Sheets & Correspondence
1988
Box 23, Folder 133 1988: Contracts
 1988
Box 23, Folder 134 1988: Injury Reports
1988
Box 23, Folder 135 1988: Musicians
 1988
Box 23, Folder 136 1988: Payroll
 1988

Series 2. Playbills
Box 24-26, Folder 1-34
The series consists of playbills for Theatre-By-The-Sea productions from 1951-1957 (productions of Donald Wolin and Harold Schiff), 1958 (productions of J. Thornton Hall and Joseph R. Wishy), 1960-1962 (productions of John Holmes), and 1967-1988 (productions of Tommy Brent). Several playbills in the Wolin and Schiff and John Holmes folders are autographed by the stars of the productions. The folder for the 1981 season contains a playbill for a production by Brent at the Garde Theatre in New London, Connecticut. Several folders also contain handwritten notes by Brent indicating playbills missing from that season's productions, and a single folder at the end of the series contains Brent's notes on the organization of the playbills.

The playbills are arranged chronologically.

Container Description Date
Box 24, Folder 1 1951 Season: Wolin and Schiff Productions
 1951
Box 24, Folder 2 1952 Season: Wolin and Schiff Productions
1952
Box 24, Folder 3 1953 Season: Wolin and Schiff Productions
 1953
Box 24, Folder 4 1954 Season: Wolin and Schiff Productions
1954
Box 24, Folder 5 1955 Season: Wolin and Schiff Productions
 1955
Box 24, Folder 6 1956 Season: Wolin and Schiff Productions
 1956
Box 24, Folder 7 1957 Season: Wolin and Schiff Productions
 1957
Box 24, Folder 8 1958 Season: Hall and Wishy Productions
 1958
Box 24, Folder 9 1960 Season: John Holmes Productions
 1960
Box 25, Folder 10 1961 Season: John Holmes Productions
1961
Box 25, Folder 11 1962 Season: John Holmes Productions
1962
Box 25, Folder 12 1967 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
1967
Box 25, Folder 13 1968 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1968
Box 25, Folder 14 1969 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1969
Box 25, Folder 15 1970 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1970
Box 25, Folder 16 1971 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1971
Box 25, Folder 17 1972 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1972
Box 25, Folder 18 1973 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
1973
Box 25, Folder 19 1974 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1974
Box 25, Folder 20 1975 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1975
Box 25, Folder 21 1976 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
1976
Box 25, Folder 22 1977 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1977
Box 25, Folder 23 1978 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1978
Box 26, Folder 24 1979 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
1979
Box 26, Folder 25 1980 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1980
Box 26, Folder 26 1981 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
1981
Box 26, Folder 27 1982 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1982
Box 26, Folder 28 1983 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1983
Box 26, Folder 29 1984 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1984
Box 26, Folder 30 1985 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1985
Box 26, Folder 31 1986 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1986
Box 26, Folder 32 1987 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1987
Box 26, Folder 33 1988 Season: Tommy Brent Productions
 1988
Box 26, Folder 34 Brent, Tommy: Notes on Playbills
 undated

Series 3. Theatre Posters
Box Oversize Box
The Theatre Posters series consists of advertising posters for the Theatre's productions. Several posters in the series are for Tommy Brent productions staged at locations other than Theatre-By-The-Sea.

The posters are stored in a single oversized box (Ov. Box), and are numbered (Post. #) and arranged chronologically by the date of the production. An alphabetical list of the productions with references to the poster number and year of the production is given below.

Container Description Date
Ov. Box, Post. # 41 Ain't Misbehavin'
 1982
Ov. Box, Post. # 11 Any Wednesday
 1967
Ov. Box, Post. # 43 Benefit for St. Francis Church, Greenan Memorial Hall: Love Letters
1999
Ov. Box, Post. # 17 Boys in the Band, The
 1970
Ov. Box, Post. # 38, 40 Brigadoon
 1981
Ov. Box, Post. # 36 Camelot
 1980
Ov. Box, Post. # 30 Candide
 1976
Ov. Box, Post. # 35 Chicago
1979
Ov. Box, Post. # 19 Company
 1972
Ov. Box, Post. # 20 Dames at Sea
 1974
Ov. Box, Post. # 12 Delicate Balance, A
1968
Ov. Box, Post. # 16 Don't Drink the Water
 1969
Ov. Box, Post. # 12 Enter Laughing
 1968
Ov. Box, Post. # 33 Equus
 1978
Ov. Box, Post. # 16 Fantasticks, The
 1969
Ov. Box, Post. # 24 Finishing Touches
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 40 Garde Theatre, New London, CT: The Pirates of Penzance/Brigadoon/West Side Story
 1981
Ov. Box, Post. # 21 George M!
1974
Ov. Box, Post. # 27 George Washington Slept Here
 1976
Ov. Box, Post. # 30 Godspell
 1976
Ov. Box, Post. # 37 Grease
1980
Ov. Box, Post. # 23 Grimm's Fairy Tales
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 31 Guys and Dolls
1977
Ov. Box, Post. # 25 Gypsy
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 22 Hair
 1974
Ov. Box, Post. # 28, 29 Hello Dolly!
1976
Ov. Box, Post. # 13 Holiday for Lovers
 1968
Ov. Box, Post. # 38 I Love My Wife
 1981
Ov. Box, Post. # 29 Irene
 1976
Ov. Box, Post. # 19 Jacques Brel
1972
Ov. Box, Post. # 26 Jesus Christ Superstar
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 33 King and I, The
 1978
Ov. Box, Post. # 10 King of Hearts
 1961
Ov. Box, Post. # 27, 28 Kiss Me, Kate
 1976
Ov. Box, Post. # 31 Light Up the Sky
1971
Ov. Box, Post. # 15 Lion in Winter, The
1969
Ov. Box, Post. # 42 Little Me
 1982
Ov. Box, Post. # 24 Little Night Music, A
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 43 Love Letters
 1999
Ov. Box, Post. # 17 Lovers and Other Strangers
 1970
Ov. Box, Post. # 32 Mack & Mabel
 1977
Ov. Box, Post. # 23 Magical Tramp, The
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 4 Man in the Dog Suit, The
 1957
Ov. Box, Post. # 34, 35 Man of La Mancha
 1979
Ov. Box, Post. # 1 Mister Roberts
 1953
Ov. Box, Post. # 23 Musicals for Children: Grimm's Fairy Tales/The Magical Tramp/Tom Sawyer/The Wickedy Witch Who Really Wasn't
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 32 My Fair Lady
 1977
Ov. Box, Post. # 20, 21 No, No, Nanette
1974
Ov. Box, Post. # 36 Oklahoma!
1980
Ov. Box, Post. # 39 Over Here!
 1981
Ov. Box, Post. # 33 Pippin
 1978
Ov. Box, Post. # 38, 40 Pirates of Penzance, The
1981
Ov. Box, Post. # 15 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
 1969
Ov. Box, Post. # 22 Prisoner of Second Avenue
 1974
Ov. Box, Post. # 7 Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, The
 1958
Ov. Box, Post. # 34 Same Time Next Year
 1979
Ov. Box, Post. # 25 Seesaw
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 19 1776
 1972
Ov. Box, Post. # 5 Silver Jubilee Season Production List
 1958
Ov. Box, Post. # 19, 34, 35 Sound of Music, The
 1972, 1979
Ov. Box, Post. # 14 Star Spangled Girl
1969
Ov. Box, Post. # 26 Sunshine Boys, The
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 41, 42 Sweeney Todd
 1982
Ov. Box, Post. # 8 Sweet and Sour
 1958
Ov. Box, Post. # 3 Tea and Sympathy
 1956
Ov. Box, Post. # 22 That Championship Season
 1974
Ov. Box, Post. # 11 Thousand Clowns, A
1967
Ov. Box, Post. # 41 Tintypes
 1982
Ov. Box, Post. # 23 Tom Sawyer
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 6 Tonight at 8:30
 1958
Ov. Box, Post. # 37 Twentieth Century
 1980
Ov. Box, Post. # 18 Two If By Sea
 1971
Ov. Box, Post. # 9 Venus Observed
 1960
Ov. Box, Post. # 13 Wait Until Dark
 1968
Ov. Box, Post. # 39, 40 West Side Story
1981
Ov. Box, Post. # 42 Whoopee!
1982
Ov. Box, Post. # 23 Wickedy Witch Who Really Wasn't, The
 1975
Ov. Box, Post. # 2 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
 1956
Ov. Box, Post. # 14 You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
 1969

Series 4. Theatre Histories
Box 27, Folder 1-13
This series contains historical information on the theatre, and includes written histories, biographical information on people involved in the Theatre's early days, records and architectural drawings relating to construction projects, and a plat map of the Browning family property that the Theatre was built on. Also included in the series is a copy of the nomination form for the Theatre's inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, and information submitted for a National Endowment for the Arts grant.

Folders in the series are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Container Description Date
Box 27, Folder 1 Architectural Drawings for 1955 Renovation: Cull, Robinson and Green, Architects and Engineers (See: Oversize Box)
1955 Jan 25
Box 27, Folder 2 Brent, Tommy: "Ten Years Later", Photocopy
1976 Jun 29
Box 27, Folder 3 Brent, Tommy: Typescript re: Meeting with Alice Tyler
 2005 Sep 13
Box 27, Folder 4 Browning Property: September 1915 Plat Map, Reproduction (See: Oversize Box)
 undated
Box 27, Folder 5 Clarke, Lance Northup: "Theatre-By-The-Sea 1939"
 1983 Jun 16
Box 27, Folder 6 Doyle, Earle F.: "And the Dream Was Realized", Typescript
 1983
Box 27, Folder 7 Feder, Abe H.: Biographical Articles
 1988, 2006, undated
Box 27, Folder 8 Feder, Abe H.: "Theatre-By-The-Sea", Typescript
1976 Jun 30
Box 27, Folder 9 Letters Re: Construction Projects
 1971, 1982
Box 27, Folder 10 National Endowment for the Arts Design Demonstration Grant: Supplemental Information
 1984 Dec
Box 27, Folder 11 National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form
 1980
Box 27, Folder 12 O'Connor, Stephen A.: Letter Re: Opening Night
1933 Jul 27, 1980
Box 27, Folder 13 Tyler, Matilda: "A Short Account of Theatre-By-The-Sea and Its Founder"
 1976

Series 5. Correspondence
Box 28, Folder 1-7
This series contains correspondence relating to the Theatre, as well as a folder of notes and letters sent to Tommy Brent. The Theatre correspondence contains letters regarding the business operations of the Theatre and correspondence with audience members.

Folders in the series are arranged alphabetically by subject, and chronologically within folders.

Container Description Date
Box 28, Folder 1 Audience Correspondence
 1967-1982
Box 28, Folder 2 Audience Correspondence
 1983
Box 28, Folder 3 Audience Correspondence
 1984-1989
Box 28, Folder 4 Audience Correspondence
 undated
Box 28, Folder 5 Business Correspondence
 1969, 1972, 1974, 1976-1978>
Box 28, Folder 6 Business Correspondence
 1979-1989, undated
Box 28, Folder 7 Tommy Brent: Letters and Notes Received
 1978-2003

Series 6. Photographs
Box 29-30, Folder 1-31
This series consists of photographs of productions, cast members, and the Theatre buildings and grounds. The photographs include: a series of six photographs from 1979 by Warren Jagger used in the application for the Theatre's inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places; promotional photographs of cast members and productions taken by William Brophy in the 1970s; fourteen pictures of the early days of the Theatre and Beach Club (circa 1930s) that had been mounted on a piece of board. Several folders in the series consist of photographs of productions that had been stored in photo albums. Photocopies of the albums were made to preserve the original layout of the photographs, and the photographs were then removed from the albums and stored in folders for preservation purposes. The photocopies of the original album layout are included in the series.

The photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Container Description Date
Box 29, Folder 1 "Ain't Misbehavin'"
 1982 Jun 22-1982 Jul 11
Box 29, Folder 2 "Ain't Misbehavin'": Photocopies of Original Photo Album Layout
 2007
Box 29, Folder 3 Bar and Restaurant
 1960s?-1970s?
Box 29, Folder 4 Brophy, William: Carol Rogers in 'Man of La Mancha'
1979
Box 29, Folder 5 Brophy, William: Christine Lawrence and Martin Van Treuren in 'My Fair Lady'
1977
Box 29, Folder 6 Brophy, William: Christine Lawrence in 'My Fair Lady'
1977
Box 29, Folder 7 Brophy, William: Dale Benson and Pat Shallcross in 'Light Up the Sky'
1977
Box 29, Folder 8 Brophy, William: David Black and Claudia Barber Leaman in 'Light Up the Sky'
1977
Box 29, Folder 9 Brophy, William: David Green and Michael Cone in 'Guys and Dolls'
 1977
Box 29, Folder 10 Brophy, William: Frank Anderson in 'Mack and Mabel'
 1977
Box 29, Folder 11 Brophy, William: Herb Aaronson in 'Fiddler on the Roof' (See: Oversize Box)
1971
Box 29, Folder 12 Brophy, William: Karen Wilder in 'Guys and Dolls'
1977
Box 29, Folder 13 Brophy, William: 'Light Up the Sky', Cast Members
1977
Box 29, Folder 14 Brophy, William: 'Pippin'
1978
Box 29, Folder 15 Brophy, William: Richard Lincoln and Amy Howard in 'Fiddler on the Roof' (See: Oversize Box)
1971
Box 29, Folder 16 Brophy, William: 'The Fantasticks'
 1978
Box 29, Folder 17 Brophy, William: Claudia Barber Leaman and John Valentine in 'Light Up the Sky'
 1977
Box 29, Folder 18 Buildings and Grounds
 1960s?-1970s?
Box 29, Folder 19 Early Photographs of the Theatre and Club
 1930s?
Box 29, Folder 20 Jagger, Warren: Photograph 1, View of the Theatre from Card's Pond Road
 1979 Sep
Box 29, Folder 21 Jagger, Warren: Photograph 2, Front View of Theatre
1979 Sep
Box 29, Folder 22 Jagger, Warren: Photograph 3, View from Stage
1919 Sep
Box 29, Folder 23 Jagger, Warren: Photograph 4, View of Stage from Balcony
 1979 Sep
Box 29, Folder 24 Jagger, Warren: Photograph 5, South View of Inn
 1979 Sep
Box 29, Folder 25 Jagger, Warren: Photograph 6, Costume Shop
 1979 Sep
Box 29, Folder 26 Jesus Christ Superstar', Photographs 1-30
 1975 Aug 4-1975 Aug 25
Box 30, Folder 27 'Jesus Christ Superstar', Photographs 31-60
 1976 Aug 4-1975 Aug 25
Box 30, Folder 28 'Tintypes'
1982 Jun 4-1982 Jun 20
Box 30, Folder 29 'Tintypes'
 1983 Jun 4-1982 Jun 20
Box 30, Folder 30 'Tintypes': Photocopies of Original Photo Album Layout
2007
Box 30, Folder 31 Unidentified Productions
 undated

Series 7. Recordings
Box 31-35, Folder 1-66
This series consists of recordings of Theatre productions that have been converted to WAV audio files and stored on CD-ROM. One folder at the beginning of the series contains photocopies of notes written by Tommy Brent describing the contents of each cassette tape. The notes consist of information on recording quality, the performances, and the dates that the tapes were reviewed by Brent.

The original recordings were made using both reel-to-reel and cassette recorders, and the reel-to-reel tapes were re-recorded on to cassette. The cassette tapes were then converted to 32-bit WAV files between June 2006 and May 2007, using Audacity audio-recording software. Tapes 32 and 103 were not converted to WAV format because problems with the tapes prevented them from working in the playback equipment. The original cassettes were returned to Brent after the conversion process.

The series is arranged by tape number. The tapes had been ordered alphabetically by Brent, and were assigned tape numbers during the conversion process corresponding to the alphabetical order.

Container Description Date
Box 31, Folder 1 Brent, Tommy: Notes on Recordings
 1994, 1997, undated
Box 31, Folder 2 Tapes 1 and 2: A Day in Hollywood
1984 Jun 16
Box 31, Folder 3 Tapes 3 and 4: A Day in Hollywood
 1984 Jun 16
Box 31, Folder 4 Tapes 5 and 6: A Day in Hollywood
 1984 Jun 15
Box 31, Folder 5 Tapes 7 and 8: A Day in Hollywood
 1984 Jun 9
Box 31, Folder 6 Tape 9: A Day in Hollywood
 1984?
Box 31, Folder 7 Tapes 10 and 11: A Little Night Music
1975
Box 31, Folder 8 Tapes 12 and 13: A Little Night Music
 1975 Jul 5
Box 31, Folder 9 Tapes 14 and 15: A Little Night Music
1975 Jul 7
Box 31, Folder 10 Tape 16: Ain't Misbehavin'
 1982?
Box 31, Folder 11 Tape 17: Ain't Misbehavin'
 1982 Jul 10
Box 31, Folder 12 Tape 18: Ain't Misbehavin'
1982
Box 31, Folder 13 Tape 19: Ain't Misbehavin'
1982
Box 31, Folder 14 Tape 20: Ain't Misbehavin'
1982
Box 31, Folder 15 Tapes 21 and 22: Annie
 1983 Aug 19
Box 32, Folder 16 Tapes 23 and 24: Annie
1983 Aug 21
Box 32, Folder 17 Tape 25: Anything Goes
 undated
Box 32, Folder 18 Tapes 26 and 27: Baby
 1985 Jun 23
Box 32, Folder 19 Tapes 28 and 29: Barnum
 1983 Sep 2
Box 32, Folder 20 Tapes 30 and 31: Barnum
1983 Sep 11
Box 32, Folder 21 Tape 33: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Act II
 1984 Aug 18
Box 32, Folder 22 Tape 34A: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Act I
 1984 Jul 21
Box 32, Folder 23 Tape 34B: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Act I
1984 Jul 21
Box 32, Folder 24 Tape 35: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Act II
1984 Jul 21
Box 32, Folder 25 Tape 36: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Act I
1984 Aug 3
Box 32, Folder 26 Tape 37: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Act II
1984 Aug 3
Box 32, Folder 27 Tapes 38 and 39: The Boyfriend
 1971 Aug 5
Box 32, Folder 28 Tapes 40 and 41: The Boyfriend
1971 Aug 7
Box 32, Folder 29 Tapes 42 and 43: Brigadoon
 1981?
Box 32, Folder 30 Tapes 44 and 45: Brigadoon
 1981 Aug 2
Box 32, Folder 31 Tapes 46 and 47: Butterflies Are Free
 1973 Aug 28-1973 Sep 2
Box 32, Folder 32 Tape 48: Camelot, Act I
 1980
Box 32, Folder 33 Tape 49: Camelot, Act I
1980 Jul 26
Box 33, Folder 34 Tape 50: Camelot, Acts I and II
 1980 Jul 26
Box 33, Folder 35 Tapes 51 and 52: Candide
1976
Box 33, Folder 36 Tapes 53 and 54: Candide
 1976 Aug 10
Box 33, Folder 37 Tapes 55 and 56: Candide
 1976
Box 33, Folder 38 Tapes 57 and 58: Chicago
1979 Aug 7
Box 33, Folder 39 Tape 59: Chicago
 1979 Aug 7
Box 33, Folder 40 Tapes 60 and 61: Chicago
 1979 Aug 10
Box 33, Folder 41 Tapes 62 and 63: Chicago
1979 Aug 19
Box 33, Folder 42 Tapes 64 and 65: Company
 undated
Box 33, Folder 43 Tapes 66 and 67: Dames at Sea
1974 Jun 23
Box 33, Folder 44 Tapes 68 and 69: Equus
 1978 Sep 9
Box 33, Folder 45 Tapes 70 and 71: Evita
 1985 Sep
Box 33, Folder 46 Tapes 72, 73, and 74: Evita
 1985 Jul 20, 1985 Sep
Box 33, Folder 47 Tape 75: The Fantasticks
 1978 Jun 23
Box 33, Folder 48 Tapes 76 and 77: Finishing Touches
1975 Jun 21
Box 33, Folder 49 Tape 78: Finishing Touches
 1975 Jun 21
Box 34, Folder 50 Tape 79: Finishing Touches
 1975 Jun 21
Box 34, Folder 51 Tapes 80 and 81: Forty Carats
 1972 Aug 25
Box 34, Folder 52 Tapes 82 and 83: George M.
 1974
Box 34, Folder 53 Tape 84: George Washington Slept Here
 1976 Jun 27
Box 34, Folder 54 Tapes 85 and 86: Godspell
 1976
Box 34, Folder 55 Tapes 87 and 88: Grease
1980 Aug 24
Box 34, Folder 56 Tape 89: Guys and Dolls, Act I, Part 1
 1977 Jul 5
Box 34, Folder 57 Tape 90: Guys and Dolls, Act I, Part 2
1977 Jul 5
Box 34, Folder 58 Tapes 91 and 92: Guys and Dolls, Act II
1977 Jul 10
Box 34, Folder 59 Tape 93: Gypsy, Act I
1975
Box 34, Folder 60 Tape 94: Gypsy, Act II
 1975
Box 35, Folder 61 Tape 95: Gypsy, Act I
 1975 Jul 19
Box 35, Folder 62 Tape 96: Gypsy, Act II
 1975 Jul 19
Box 35, Folder 63 Tapes 97 and 98: Hair
 1974
Box 35, Folder 64 Tapes 99 and 100: Hello Dolly
1976
Box 35, Folder 65 Tape 101: Hello Dolly
 1976 Jul 18
Box 35, Folder 66 Tapes 102 and 104: I Love My Wife
 undated

Series 8. News Clippings
Box 36-37, Folder 1-71
The News Clippings series consists of clippings from local newspapers and magazines covering both the Theatre generally, as well as reviews of individual productions. Some of the clippings were glued to paper or cardboard backings that damaged the original articles. Clippings that had been mounted were photocopied to preserve the information, and the photocopies are included in the series.

The news clippings are arranged chronologically by year, then by the dates of the individual productions within each year.

Container Description Date
Box 36, Folder 1 1933 Review: Strictly Dynamite, Premiere Show, Photocopy
 1933 Aug 7
Box 36, Folder 2 1957 Review: The Desk Set
1957 Aug 11
Box 36, Folder 3 1967: News Clippings
 1867 Feb-1967 Aug, undated
Box 36, Folder 4 1967 Reviews: Any Wednesday
 1967 Jun 16-1967 Jun 27, undated
Box 36, Folder 5 1967 Reviews: Any Wednesday, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 6 1967 Reviews: A Thousand Clowns
 1967 Jul 6
Box 36, Folder 7 1967 Reviews: A Thousand Clowns, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 8 1967 Reviews: Wake Up, Darling
1967 Jul 13, undated
Box 36, Folder 9 1967 Reviews: Wake Up, Darling, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 10 1967 Reviews: The Odd Couple
 1967 Jul 18-1967 Jul 27, undated
Box 36, Folder 11 1967 Reviews: The Odd Couple, Photocopy
 2007
Box 36, Folder 12 1967 Reviews: Barefoot in the Park
 1967 Aug 1-1967 Aug 4
Box 36, Folder 13 1967 Reviews: Barefoot in the Park, Photocopy
2007
Box 36, Folder 14 1967 Reviews: Ladies in Retirement
 1967 Aug 17-1967 Aug 18, undated
Box 36, Folder 15 1967 Reviews: Springtime for Henry
 1967 Aug 24
Box 36, Folder 16 1967 Reviews: Springtime for Henry, Photocopy
 2007
Box 36, Folder 17 1967 Reviews: Luv
1967 Aug 29-1967 Sep 3
Box 36, Folder 18 1967 Reviews: Luv, Photocopy
 2007
Box 36, Folder 19 1968: News Clippings
1968 Feb-1968 Sep
Box 36, Folder 20 1968: News Clippings, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 21 1968 Reviews: Generation
 1968 Jun 19-1968 Jun 28
Box 36, Folder 22 1968 Reviews: Generation, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 23 1968 Reviews: The Impossible Years
 1968 Jul 3-1968 Jul 4, undated
Box 36, Folder 24 1968 Reviews: The Impossible Years, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 25 1968 Reviews: Never Too Late
 1968 Jul 10-1968 Jul 12
Box 36, Folder 26 1968 Reviews: Never Too Late, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 27 1968 Reviews: Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath
 1968 Jul 12-1969 Jul 19
Box 36, Folder 28 1968 Reviews: Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 29 1968 Reviews: A Delicate Balance
1968 Jul 18-1968 Jul 26
Box 36, Folder 30 1968 Reviews: A Delicate Balance, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 31 1968 Reviews: Enter Laughing
 1968 Aug 1-1968 Aug 2, undated
Box 36, Folder 32 1968 Reviews: Enter Laughing, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 33 1968 Reviews: Holiday for Lovers
 1968 Aug 8-1968 Aug 10, undated
Box 36, Folder 34 1968 Reviews: Holiday for Lovers, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 35 1968 Reviews: Wait Until Dark
1968 Aug 13-1968 Aug 16
Box 36, Folder 36 1968 Reviews: Wait Until Dark, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 37 1968 Reviews: The Owl and the Pussycat
1968 Aug 28
Box 36, Folder 38 1968 Reviews: The Owl and the Pussycat, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 39 1968 Reviews: Marriage On Approval
 undated
Box 36, Folder 40 1968 Reviews: Marriage On Approval, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 41 1969: News Clippings
 1969 Jul-1969 Aug
Box 36, Folder 42 1969 Reviews: The Star Spangled Girl
1969 Jun 21-1969 Jun 27, undated
Box 36, Folder 43 1969 Reviews: The Star Spangled Girl, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 44 1969 Reviews: You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
 1969 Jul 1-1969 Jul 25
Box 36, Folder 45 1969 Reviews: You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 46 1969 Reviews: Cactus Flower
 1969 Jul 9-1969 Jul 11, undated
Box 36, Folder 47 1969 Reviews: Cactus Flower, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 48 1969 Reviews: The Lion in Winter
 1969 Jul 25-1969 Aug 1, undated
Box 36, Folder 49 1969 Reviews: The Lion in Winter, Photocopies
 2007
Box 36, Folder 50 1969 Reviews: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
 1969 Aug 3-1969 Aug 8
Box 36, Folder 51 1969 Reviews: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Photocopies
2007
Box 36, Folder 52 1969 Reviews: Don't Drink the Water
1969 Aug 5-1969 Aug 22, undated
Box 36, Folder 53 1969 Reviews: Don't Drink the Water, Photocopies
 2007
Box 37, Folder 54 1969 Reviews: The Fantasticks
 1969 Aug 20-1969 Aug 29
Box 37, Folder 55 1969 Reviews: The Fantasticks, Photocopies
2007
Box 37, Folder 56 1970: News Clippings
 1970 May-1970 Sep, undated
Box 37, Folder 57 1970 Reviews: I Do! I Do!
1970 Jun 19-1970 Jun 26, undated
Box 37, Folder 58 1970 Reviews: Man of La Mancha
 1970 Jul 3, undated
Box 37, Folder 59 1970 Reviews: Cabaret
 1970 Jul 3-1970 Aug 16, undated
Box 37, Folder 60 1970 Reviews: Little Mary Sunshine
 1970 Jul 29-1970 Aug 1
Box 37, Folder 61 1970 Reviews: Sheep on the Runway
 1970 Aug 7-1970 Aug 14, undated
Box 37, Folder 62 1970 Reviews: The Boys in the Band
1970 Aug 7-1970 Aug 14
Box 37, Folder 63 1970 Reviews: Lovers and Other Strangers
 1970 Sep 2, undated
Box 37, Folder 64 1971: News Clippings
1971 Jun-1971 Sep, undated
Box 37, Folder 65 1971 Reviews: Two If By Sea
 1971 Jun 19-1971 Jun 24
Box 37, Folder 66 1971 Reviews: Fiddler on the Roof
1971 Jun 24-1971 Aug 8, undated
Box 37, Folder 67 1971 Reviews: Play It Again Sam
1971 Jul 14-1971 Aug 27, undated
Box 37, Folder 68 1971 Reviews: The Boy Friend
1971 Jul 21-1971 Aug 7, undated
Box 37, Folder 69 1971 Reviews: Plaza Suite
1971 Jul 4-1971 Aug 19
Box 37, Folder 70 Reviews: Private Lives
1971 Aug 20-1971 Sep 3, undated
Box 37, Folder 71 2007: Re-opening of Theatre
2007

Series 9. Production Designs
Box 38, Folder 1-5
This series consists of lighting instructions, drawings of set designs, and notes on stage and set plans for the individual Theatre productions. Several of the set design drawings are stored with the oversized material.

Folders in the series are arranged chronologically by the date of the production.

Container Description Date
Box 38, Folder 1 Seesaw: Instructions for Screen and Slide Movements
 1975
Box 38, Folder 1 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (See: Oversize Box)
1984
Box 38, Folder 3 Woman of the Year (See: Oversize Box)
 1984
Box 38, Folder 4 A Chorus Line: Lighting Designs
 1986 Jul
Box 38, Folder 5 The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Set Designs
 1986