Institutions with Collections Relevant to La MaMa (A Document­in­Development) Created by Suzanne Lipkin, Cataloger at La MaMa’s Archives

● Colorado State University, Digital Collections ○ International Poster Collection, “La MaMa Presents Seven” This is a single poster for the 2004 production.

● Kent State University, Special Collections and Archives ○ Joseph Chaikin papers (actor/director) This is an extensive collection of professional papers. Series 2 includes business correspondence for productions at La MaMa. ○ Jean­Claude van Itallie papers (playwright) The collections includes some correspondence with Ellen Stewart and others regarding productions of van Itallie’s work at La MaMa.

● New York Public Library

○ Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division ■ Robert Patrick papers (playwright) The collection contains production materials and contracts for some of Patrick’s productions at La MaMa. ■ Paul Cranefield papers (board member) The collection contains administrative records, play scripts, and publicity materials, many with his annotations, during his involvement with La MaMa. ■ James Gossage photographs The collection contains photographs of La MaMa productions and Off­Off­Broadway theater personalities from the 1960s and early 1970s. ■ Leonardo Shapiro papers (director of Trinity College/La MaMa program) The collection includes Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Program records dating between 1987 and 1992. These consist of reports, student evaluations, correspondence, photographs, and video recordings of workshops and classes. ■ Lucille Lortel papers Series III: White Barn Theatre contains papers for The Night Before Thinking, a La Mama production from 1974, including the program, agreement, and clippings. Series IX: Photographs includes photos and negative strips associated with the production. ■ Magie Dominic collection of Caffe Cino materials This collection is cataloged with subject headings for La MaMa ETC, Cafe La MaMa and Ellen Stewart (and many other La MaMa­related individuals). ■ New York Shakespeare Festival Records Series II: Play Department 1962­1992, Sub­series 3 – Playwrights contains promotional materials for La MaMa from 1975.

○ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division ■ Melvin Dixon papers (writer) The collection contains Dixon’s journals from his undergraduate years describing his experiences with La Mama. ■ Ernest "Tad" Truesdale papers (playwright/director) The collection contains some information about Truesdale’s work with La MaMa from 1975­1984.

● New York University, Fales Library and Special Collections, Downtown Collection ○ Downtown Flyers and Invitations Collection This collection contains a folder of La MaMa marketing materials and a 20th anniversary supplement from the Soho News. ○ Franklin Furnace Ephemera Collection The collection includes five folders, sorted by venue, with La MaMa marketing materials and mail. ○ Mabou Mines Archive The collection includes correspondence by Ellen Stewart regarding Mabou Mines performing abroad, and VHS tapes and programs from productions at La MaMa. ○ John Vaccaro and the Play­House of the Ridiculous Papers The collection contains materials related to Vaccaro’s projects and productions, some of which took place at La MaMa.

● Ohio State University ○ Tom Eyen Papers (playwright/director) This collection contains materials documenting his time as a writer and director at La MaMa in the 1960s, including newspaper clippings.

● Rutgers University, Special Collections and University Archives ○ Jerry Cunliffe Theatrical Papers (actor) This collection consists of press clippings, programs, and scripts for shows he acted in at La MaMa and in association with Tom O’Horgan, among others. ○ Paul Foster Theatrical Papers (playwright) This collection includes extensive writings and audio and video recordings about Foster’s work with La MaMa and Ellen Stewart. ○ Tom O’Horgan Theatrical Papers (director) The collection contains scripts, programs, posters, videotapes, and photographs related to his work at La MaMa.

● Sam Houston State University, Thomason Special Collections ○ Wild Dog Collection (playwright) Wild Dog was a small campus magazine that ran from 1963­1966. The collection includes scripts for the play Recess, produced at La MaMa in 1968.

● Sarah Lawrence College, Archives ○ John Braswell Papers (director) Braswell co­founded and co­directed the ETC Company at La MaMa. The collection contains mostly manuscripts and theatre scripts and some original artwork, musical scores, theatre programs and reviews.

● University of Delaware, Special Collections Department ○ Sam Shepard Collection (playwright) This is a small collection of “seven incidental items” including a mimeograph of the script for Shaved Splits produced at La MaMa in 1970.

● University of Florida Smathers Libraries, Special and Areas Studies Collections ○ Cal Yeomans Collection (playwright) This comprehensive collection of Yeomans’ life includes photos of and correspondence with Ellen Stewart, and scripts and posters for his plays produced at La MaMa.

● University of Missouri, Special Collections and Rare Books ○ Lanford Wilson Collection (playwright) This extensive collection of personal and professional papers includes a folder of miscellaneous materials related to La MaMa, 1981­2010, and a folder of reviews from his 1966 La MaMa productions.

● Walter Hampden­Edwin Booth Theatre Library ○ La MaMa Collection Located at the Player’s Club in Gramercy Park, the collection contains chronological records of productions containing manuscript and typescript material and worksheets; news clippings from Scottish, English, German, and American newspapers and periodicals; playbills and programs, including handbills and broadsides, miscellaneous bills of productions and lectures by La Mama artists.

● Wisconsin Historical Society, Archives ○ Linda Essig papers (designer) The collection documents her work as a lighting designer for La MaMa.

● WorldCat.org lists several dozen individual typescripts or items held in repositories in the U.S. and France. Click here for all results for La MaMa. Collections of people related to La MaMa that have no specific La MaMa materials

● Columbia University, Archival Collections ○ Rochelle Owens Papers (playwright)

● New York University, Fales Library and Special Collections, Downtown Collection ○ Stuart Sherman Papers (playwright) ○ Ubu Repertory Theater Script Collection

● The University of Texas at Austin, Henry Ransom Center ○ Adrienne Kennedy Papers (playwright)

Books and articles about or related to the History of La MaMa

Bottoms, S. J. (2006). Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off­Off­Broadway Movement. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Crespy, D. (2003). Off­Off­Broadway Explosion: How Provocative Playwrights of the 1960s Ignited a New American Theater. New York: Back Stage Books.

Dominic, M. and Smith, M., eds. (2010). H. M. Koutoukas, 1937­2010, Remembered By His Friends. Silverton, OR: Fast Books.

Gruen, J. (1968, July 22). A Pushcart Named La Mama. New York Magazine. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=n­ECAAAAMBAJ.

Gussow, M. and Weber, B. (2011, January 13). Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/theater/14stewart.html.

Horn, B. L. (1993). Ellen Stewart and La Mama: A Bio­Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Olsen, C. (2011). Off­Off­Broadway: The Second Wave: 1968­1980. Createspace.

Orzel, N. and Smith, M., eds. (1966). Eight Plays from Off­Off­Broadway. Indianapolis: Bobbs­Merrill.

Poland, A. and Mailman, B., eds. (1972). The Off Off Broadway Book: The Plays, People, Theatres. New York: The Bobbs­Merrill Company.

Rosenthal, C. (2006). Ellen Stewart: La Mama of Us All. In TDR: The Drama Review, (50)2, p. 12­51. Cambridge: MIT Press. Retrieved from Project MUSE.

Schechner, R. (2011). Ringing the Bell for Ellen Stewart: 1919­2011. In TDR: The Drama Review, (55)2, p. 9­10. Cambridge: MIT Press. Retrieved from Project MUSE.

Solomon, A. and Minwalla, F. (2002). The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater. NYU Press.

Stone, W. (2005) Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off­Off­Broadway. Southern Illinois University Press.