Spingold Theater Center04.MWalB00283A

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Brandeis University 415 South St. Waltham, MA URL: https://findingaids.brandeis.edu/ Spingold Theater Center04.MWalB00283A

Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical or Historical Information ...... 3 Scope and Contents ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings ...... 4 Other Descriptive Information ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5 Brandeis Student Performances ...... 5 Performances by non-Brandeis Professional Organizations ...... 10 Public Relations Materials ...... 11

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Summary Information

Repository: Brandeis University Title: Spingold Theater Center ID: 04.MWalB00283A Date [inclusive]: 1950-2008, undated Physical Description: 1.50 Linear Feet Physical Description: 1.50 Linear Feet Text [other]: 3 manuscript boxes Abstract: Arranged in three series: 1. Brandeis Student Performances, 1950-2006, undated; 2. Performances by non-Brandeis Professional Organizations , 1971-1996, 2004, undated; 3. Public Relations Materials, 1965-2006, undated. The materials are organized alphabetically in 3 manuscript boxes and assorted loose items. For more information about each series, please consult the series descriptions in the box and folder listing.

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Biographical or Historical Information

The Spingold Theater Center was completed in 1965. It is named after Nate B. and Frances Spingold. The theater complex includes a 750-seat main stage theater; the Laurie Flexible Theater for experimental and television productions; the Merrick Theatre, a director's space for rehearsals and student performances; and dance studios, the Dreitzer Art Gallery, and other studio, classroom and technical workshop areas.

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Scope and Contents

This collection has materials from 1950 through 2006. The collection includes programs and fliers for both student and professional productions and theater festivals at the Spingold Theater Center. In

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement Brandeis University

415 South St. Waltham, MA URL: https://findingaids.brandeis.edu/

Conditions Governing Access Access to the collection is in accordance with the policies of the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University. Please contact the department for more information.

Conditions Governing Use Requests to reproduce or publish material from the collection should be directed to the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

Appraisal Information Materials previously in this collection have been moved to the Theater Arts Department collection. Materials from the Dreitzer Gallery are in the Poses Institute of Fine Arts Collection. Some "News from Spingold Theater" announcements are in the Media Relations Collection.

From hindsight, theater programs seem better suited to the Department of Theater Arts Collection and perhaps these should be moved- 2/11/11.

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Controlled Access Headings

• Nikolais Dance Theatre

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Other Descriptive Information

Addenda to this collection may not be listed in the finding aid, but may be available for research use. Please contact us for more information.

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Collection Inventory

Brandeis Student Performances, 1950-2006, undated Date: 1950-2006, undated Scope and Contents

This series contains fliers and programs for plays, theater festivals and theater groups at Brandeis. The bulk of materials are fliers and programs. Some of the theater groups in the series include the Brandeis Yiddish Theater, the Brandeis Ensemble Theater and the Brandeis Players.

Box 1 Box 1

Plays Box 1 Title/Description Instances Fliers and Programs - Lysistrata, 1950-1951 Box 1 Folder 1 Date: 1950-1951

Fliers and Programs - Noah; The Mikado, 1951-1952 Box 1 Folder 2 Date: 1951-1952

Fliers and Programs - The School for Scandal, 1956-1957 Box 1 Folder 3

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Date: 1956-1957

Fliers and Programs - The House of Bernarda Alba; Doctor Box 1 Folder 4 Faustus, 1958-1959 Date: 1958-1959

Fliers and Programs - The Cradle Song;The Vultures; Three, Box 1 Folder 5 1959-1960 Date: 1959-1960

Fliers and Programs - Electra; The Play's the Thing; Romeo Box 1 Folder 6 and Juliet, 1960-1961 Date: 1960-1961

Fliers and Programs - Man, Beast and Virtue; Antigone; Ana Box 1 Folder 7 Kleiber; Dance, 1961-1962 Date: 1961-1962

Fliers and Programs - The Shadow of a Gunman; The Boor Box 1 Folder 8 AND Miss Julie; Heartbreak House, 1962-1963 Date: 1962-1963

Fliers and Programs - Hedda Gabler; The Triumph of the Egg Box 1 Folder 9 AND 27 Wagons Full of Cotton; Medea, 1963-1964 Date: 1963-1964

Fliers and Programs - The Fantasticks; The Braggart Soldier, Box 1 Folder 10 1964-1965 Date: 1964-1965

Fliers and Programs - Home Monster; Schweyk in the Second Box 1 Folder 11 World War; Colombe, 1968-1969 Date: 1968-1969

Fliers and Programs - Preface to a Wanton Queen, 1969-1970 Box 1 Folder 12 Date: 1969-1970

Fliers and Programs - The Fifty Year Game of Gin Rummy Box 1 Folder 13 AND Nocturnes; Beyond Words; The Impresario AND The Medium; Getting Married; Beyond Words AND Faust, 1970-1971 Date: 1970-1971

Fliers and Programs - Moon Children; A Cry of Players; The Box 1 Folder 14 Rivals, 1971-1972 Date: 1971-1972

Fliers and Programs - The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal; LIVEr; Box 1 Folder 15 Passover; As You Like It; Blood Wedding; Now There's Just the Three of Us AND The Old One-Two; Guys and Dolls; The Happiness Cage , 1972-1973

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Date: 1972-1973

Fliers and Programs - All The King's Men; City Center Acting Box 1 Folder 16 Company; The Disintegration of James Cherry: The Pigeon, 1973-1974 Date: 1973-1974

Fliers and Programs - Lord Scarecrow; The Mister; The Box 1 Folder 17 Homesickness of Captain Rapaport; Hedda Gabler; Much Ado About Nothing; Macbeth; The Hostage; Major Barbara; You Can't Take It With You; The Maids; To Skin a Cat; The Bridge at Belharbour, 1974-1975 Date: 1974-1975

Fliers and Programs - The Tenants; The Maids; The Cradle Box 1 Folder 18 Will Rock; Camino Real; Hay Fever; Spared; Brandeis Playwrights Festival '76, 1975-1976 Date: 1975-1976

Fliers and Programs - Baal; Misalliance; Feldshuh and Box 1 Folder 19 Brackett; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Misanthrope; The Plough and the Stars; Hotel Baltimore; All's Well That Ends; Bonjour, la, Bonjour, 1976-1977 Date: 1976-1977

Fliers and Programs - Pal Joey; Miss in Her Teens AND Bon Box 1 Folder 20 Ton; Ah, Willy!; Noah; Uncle Vanya; Lysistrata; Artaud at Rodez; The Imaginary Invalid, 1977-1978 Date: 1977-1978

Fliers and Programs - After the Season;; The Passion of Box 1 Folder 21 Dracula; A Foundation of Feathers, 1978-1979 Date: 1978-1979

Fliers and Programs - Cadillac Hooves AND Wild Blue; The Box 1 Folder 22 Real Inspector Hound; You Never Can Tell, 1979-1980 Date: 1979-1980

Fliers and Programs - The Three Sisters; The Rimers of Box 1 Folder 23 Eldritch; Actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company; St. Marks's Gospel; Butley; Much Ado About Nothing, 1980-1981 Date: 1980-1981

Fliers and Programs - He Who Gets Slapped; Smithereens, Box 1 Folder 24 H.M.S. Pinafore; The Front Page; Emlyn Williams, 1981-1982 Date: 1981-1982

Fliers and Programs - Twelfth Night; House of Blue Leaves; Box 1 Folder 25 The Threepenny Opera, 1988-1989

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Date: 1988-1989

Fliers and Programs - The Night of the Iguana; Barbara Cook, Box 1 Folder 26 A Concert for the Theatre; Richard III; The Devil's Disciple; Kiss Me Kate; , 1989-1990 Date: 1989-1990

Fliers and Programs - Heartbreak House, The Lady from the Box 1 Folder 27 Sea; Much Ado About Nothing; A Chorus of Disapproval; DeDonde?; Blue Window, 1990-1991 Date: 1990-1991

Fliers and Programs - Romeo and Juliet; The Almighty Box 1 Folder 28 Lottery, 1991-1992 Date: 1991-1992

Fliers and Programs - Sleepwalking 'Til Morning; Guys and Box 1 Folder 29 Dolls; The Crucible; R.U.R.; Loose Knit; I Am a Camera; The Cousins; Fathers and Sons; As You Like It; Mad Forest; Brandeis One Acts; The Heidi Chronicles; Never in My Lifetime;, 1992-1993 Date: 1992-1993

Fliers and Programs - Assassins, Singing from the Soul; Box 1 Folder 30 Yerma; A Treasury of Useful Information; Rags;, 1993-1994 Date: 1993-1994

Fliers and Programs - The Cherry Orchard; The God of Isaac; Box 1 Folder 31 Bubbe Meises-Bubbe Stories; Living in Exile; Eleemosynary; The Merchant of Venice; That's Amore??; Idols of Perversity/ The Secret of the Individual; The Ice Farm; The Sleeping Beauty; , 1994-1995 Date: 1994-1995

Fliers and Programs - Double Inconstancy; Dancing at Box 1 Folder 32 Lughnasa; Peter Pan; The Skin of Our Teeth; Necessary Delusions; The Good Woman of Setzuan; Spirit World; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Cloud 9; , 1995-1996 Date: 1995-1996

Fliers and Programs - The Pajama Game; Buck Ten; 1918, Box 1 Folder 33 1996-1997 Date: 1996-1997

Fliers and Programs - Arcardia; Measure for Measure; Box 1 Folder 34 Kindertransport; The Heart of Art; My So Called Life; Momix; Julius Caesar; Hotel Paradiso; More Than Laughter; The Pajama Game, 1997-1998 Date: 1997-1998

Fliers and Programs - The Heart of Art; Song and Dance; Box 1 Folder 35 Kindertransport; Julius Caesar; A Month in the Country; The Crucible; Fiorello!; The Milk of Human Kindness; Ashes to

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Ashes; D*R*E*S*S; Something Better Than This; Platter Platinum;The Riot Act;, 1998-1999 Date: 1998-1999

Fliers and Programs - August Flight; The Threeepenny Opera; Box 1 Folder 36 Absent Friends; The Sty of the Blind Pig; The Three Sisters; Orestes; Twelfth Night; Sorcerer's Apprentice; Comino Real; Lo She Comes; Pinocchio; Fiorello!, 1999-2000 Date: 1999-2000

Fliers and Programs - Sorcerer's Apprentice; Camino Real; An Box 1 Folder 37 Actor's Showcase; Twelfth Night; Lion in the Streets; Major Barbara; Merrily We Roll Along, 2000-2001 Date: 2000-2001

Fliers and Programs - In The Blood; The Diviners; Summer Box 1 Folder 38 Folk; The Piano Lesson; Professional Skepticism; The Trojan Women; Trigger; City of Angels; The Laramie Project; The Rimers of Eldritch; Milk of Human Kindness; The Sty of the Blind Pig; Orestes; A Month in the Country; The Crucible; Beauty and the Beast; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Psychic Life of Savages; The Piano Lesson; The Wake of Jamey Foster; Agamemnon and his Daughters; Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love for Love; Animal Farm, 2001-2002 Date: 2001-2002

Fliers and Programs - Polaroid Stories; Tommy; The Winter's Box 1 Folder 39 Tale; Losing the Game; King Lear; Scenes from an Execution, 2004-2005 Date: 2004-2005

Fliers and Programs - Big Love; The Bacchae, 2005-2006 Box 1 Folder 40 Date: 2005-2006

Fliers and Programs - The Physician of His Honor; The Box 1 Folder 41 Waiting Room; Balm in Gilead; As You Like It, 2006-2007 Date: 2006-2007

Fliers and Programs - The Orphan of Zhao, 2007-2008 Box 1 Folder 42 Date: 2007-2008

Fliers and Programs - Sleeping Beauty; City of Angels; Seven Box 1 Folder 43 Days of Mourning; A Shayna Maidel; The Downside; Peter and the Wolf; Ring Round the Moon; She Loves Me; All My Sons; Brechtian Cabaret Concent; Nanami: The Inferno of First Love; Awake & Sing; The Three Sisters; The Beggar's Opera; Measure foR Measure; We Starting With I, n.d. Date: n.d.

Fliers and Programs - Brandeis Playwrights Festival '76: Box 1 Folder 44 Friends Indeed!; Decathlon; Know It All; Corner, 28th & Bank; Museum Piece; The September Movement - Brandeis Playwrights Festival '77: Taken at the Flood; Showman; Not

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A Thursday Afternoon; Temporary Technical Difficulties; A Thin Thread, 1976-1978 Date: 1976-1978

Fliers and Programs - New England Regional American Box 1 Folder 45 College Theatre Festival XIII: In Their Own Words; Story Theatre; Getting Out; Happy Birthday Wanda June; The Bride; The Insect Comedy; Three Sisters; The Front Page, 1981 Date: 1981

Theater Festivals Box 1 Title/Description Instances Brandeis Playwrights Festival, 1976-1978 Box 1 Folder 1 Date: 1976-1978

New England Regional American College Theatre Festival Box 1 Folder 2 XIII, 1981 Date: 1981

Box 2 Box 2

Theater Groups Box 2 Title/Description Instances Brandeis Ensemble Theatre, 1992 Box 2 Folder 1

Brandeis Interact - International Theatre Festival, 1968 Box 2 Folder 2

Brandeis Players, undated Box 2 Folder 3

Brandeis University Forum Theatre, 1963 Box 2 Folder 4

Brandeis Yiddish Theater, 1970, undated Box 2 Folder 5

Hillel Theatre Group, 1989, 1991, 2008, undated Box 2 Folder 6

Tymphanium Euphorium--Performances, ca. 1978, Box 2 Folder 7 1990-1991, undated

Brandeis Theater Company - Fliers, Programs, Brochures, Box 2 Folder 8 2005-2010

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Performances by non-Brandeis Professional Organizations, 1971-1996, 2004, undated Date: 1971-1996, 2004, undated

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Scope and Contents

This series contains fliers and programs for on-campus performances by professional artists. The majority of items are for professional dance companies such as the Nikolais Dance Theater, the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Susan Dibble Dance Theater. Other performers of note include the Flying Karamazov Brothers and the National Theater for the Deaf.

Box 2 Box 2

Dance Company Performances Box 2 Title/Description Instances Acme Dance Company, 1972-1973 Box 2 Folder 1

Dan Wagoner and Dancers, 1977 Box 2 Folder 2

Dance Artistry, undated Box 2 Folder 3

Double Edge Theatre, 2007 Box 2 Folder 4

Jose Limon Dance Company, 1975-1976 Box 2 Folder 5

Margalit Dance Company, 1976 Box 2 Folder 6

Murray Louis Dance Company, 1975 Box 2 Folder 7

Nikolais Dance Theatre, 1974, 1980 Box 2 Folder 8

Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1973, 1975 Box 2 Folder 9

Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company, 1977 Box 2 Folder 10

Susan Dibble Dance Theater, undated Box 2 Folder 11

Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation, 1974 Box 2 Folder 12

Other Professional Performances Box 2 Title/Description Instances Claude Kipnis Mime Theater, 1976 Box 2 Folder 1

The Cherry Orchard--by Anton Chekhov directed by Liz Box 2 Folder 2 Terry, 2004

Flying Karamazov Brothers, 1987, 1990, 1996 Box 2 Folder 3

National Theatre of the Deaf, 1971 Box 2 Folder 4

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Public Relations Materials Material Specific Details: 1965-2006, undated

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Scope and Contents

This series includes a variety of publication relations materials including official news and public service announcements, the Spingold Theater Center Bulletin, subscriptoin fliers and invitations to performances.

Box 2 Box 2

First Nighters Club, 1967-1968 Box 2 Folder 1

Invitations, 1969-1974 Box 2 Folder 2

Senior Show, 2005 Box 2 Folder 3

Box 3 Box 3

"News from Spingold Theater," 1996-2000 Box 3 Folder 4

"News from Spingold Theater," 1996-2000 Box 3 Folder 5

"News from Spingold Theater," 1996-2000 Box 3 Folder 6

"News from Spingold Theater," 1996-2000 Box 3 Folder 7

"News from Spingold Theater," 1996-2000 Box 3 Folder 8

"News from Spingold Theater,"--Public Service Box 3 Folder 9 Announcements, 1986-1999

"News from Spingold Theater,"--Public Service Box 3 Folder 10 Announcements, 1986-1999

Spingold Art Collection Exhibit Guide, 1965 Box 3 Folder 11

Spingold Theater Center Bulletin, 1993-1994 Box 3 Folder 12

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 13

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 14

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 15

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 16

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 17

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 18

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 19

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 20

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 21

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 22

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 23

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 24

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 25

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 26

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Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 27

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 28

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 29

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 30

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 31

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 32

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 33

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 34

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 35

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 36

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 37

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 38

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 39

Subscription fliers, 1966-2006 Box 3 Folder 40

Thursday with Morrie, 2005 Box 3 Folder 41

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