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The Inventory of the Stuart W. Little Collection #1058 The Inventory of the Stuart W. Little Collection #1058 Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center LITTLE, STUART W. Preliminary Listing 8/29/90 Box 1 Research notes Magazine Journalism Saturday Review - Books in Communications columns 67-71 Newspapers Early Pieces by Little Promenade Magazine - February, 1975 Report from America, #=s 19, 20 Variety Anniversary piece - 1973 Theatre for N.Y. Fall Catalogue - Aug, 1972 Off-Broadway for N.Y. - April 24, 1972 All-Star Insurance - Nov, 1971 Fire Patrol Story - N.Y., March, 1971 Harper=s Magazine piece - March, 1971 Rent-A-Car piece - 52 Promenade - 1975 Drafts - OFF-BROADWAY - Times - Nov, 1974 THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON - Souvenir book ILLUSTRATIONS Xerox Book - Oct 9, 1970 New York Season Yale Yale book Saturday Review - Books in communications - Ra-Rd, 1967-68, S.R. 1968, S.R. 1969, S.R. 1970, S.R. 1971, S.R. S.R. - Charney and Veroni=s Three Two One-Zero - Sept 13, 1954 Project 20, 1954-55, totalitarianism - memoranda Papp - S.R.. Feb 26, 1972 issue Grotowski article - S.R. Feb 1970 I. What are sponsored films II. How are they made? III. Who sees them? IV. Do they beat advertising V. What is the future? New York workshop theaters newspaper industry - S.R. Feb 1971 THE ACTRESS S.R. Celebrity commercials - March 11, 1970 C.T.W. First Year Report - Nov, 1970 Report for Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Dec, 1963 C.T.W. - Edward L. Palmer piece - Sept 3, 1970 S.R. - children=s television programs Playbill - Lincoln Centre: The High Cost of Culture - Feb, 1961 Broadway economics - Theatre Arts - May 1961 Seventeen Magazine piece - July, 1973 AYou Touched Me@ Repertory Theatre Box 2 Sunday Times - Proposed magazine article Variety, 12/1/75 Research - Times, Off + off off Broadway piece - Nov, 1974 Psychosurgery - Cosmo, March 1977 Dave Bradshaw - NY Magazine Feb 5, 1979 Various Magazines and 1 article on Shakespeare Festival Psychosurgery research Reviews - Educational Theater Journal April - The Making of the new Beaumont Season Joshua B. Powers Inc. - Jan, 1970 ENTER JOSEPH PAPP - preface Memory - Cosmopolitan Lead: Cases 11 subfolders 1. What is psychosurgery? 2. On whom performed 3. History of 4. Future prospects 5. Experiments 6. Political climate 7. Kainowitz 8. Scoville=s work 9. Results 10. Functions of the brain 11. Future indications United Airlines Story, 1979-80 Various loose copies of United article and 1 letter Project Place - drafts Box 3 ENTER JOSEPH PAPP I - research material Contents: 1. Productions/chronology, 1972-73 2. Lincoln Centre clippings 3. Papp - public affairs 4. Papp - playwrights/directors 5. City purchase of Public Theatre 6. AThe Popular Theatre of Joseph Papp@ 7. Joseph Papp - articles, bio sketches 8. Short history - NYSF 9. Stage manager=s report ENTER JOSEPH PAPP II - research/outline notes/production/correspondence contents: 1. Correspondence 2. Reviews 3. Index 4. Final corrections 5. Promotion 6. Outline (3rd draft) 7. Changes for 3rd draft 8. Writing outline notes 9. Correspondence/outline 10. Sticks and Bones clippings 11. Television THE PLAYMAKERS. Galley THE PLAYMAKERS. Carbon typescript, Ch. 1-11 THE PLAYMAKERS. Typescript Box 4 THE PLAYMAKERS, WW Norton 1970, reviews, correspondence, promotion, paperback 1. Correspondence 2. Reviews 3. Promotion 4. PLAYMAKERS pictures to be returned 5. Letters 6. TV program - AThe Playmakers@ 7. Corrections 2nd edition 8. Miscellaneous photograph 9. Dutton paperback 10. 1971 paperbacks from Dutton - catalogue 11. THE PLAYMAKERS book covers 12. Photo proofs THE PLAYMAKERS I, preliminary drafts 1. Another Country (The District) 2. The Vanishing Producer 3. The Naked Actor 4. Playwright/Director 5. Men of Property (Landlords) THE PLAYMAKERS II, drafts 6. ALet=s Go To Contract@ 7. Cash Flow 8. Critics 9. >The Times Will Bury Us= 10. The Sexual Ethic 11. Never A Theatre, Always A Theatre Research THE PLAYMAKERS, 1969, chapter notes and research 1. The District 2. The Vanishing Producer 3. The Naked Actor 4. The Playwright 4. The Director 4. The Collaborators 5. Men of Property 6. Let=s Go To Contract 8+9. The Critics And The Power Of The New York Times 11. TheatRomania and Freudian Psychology 6. The Star Power/The Class Structure 7. Cash Flow: How The Money Comes And Goes 10. The Sexual Ethic 10. Failure, The Basic Ingredient 19. Is The Theatre A Mirror Of This Time? Last Chapter Research Appendix material Outline THE PLAYMAKERS - notes revisions research notes I. June, July 1969 1. Herman Shumlin 2. Patricia Zipproof 3. Gerald Freedman 4. Dramatists Guild II. May - July 1969 1. Paddy Chayefsky 2. Arthur Miller 3. Neil Simon 4. Israel Horovitz 5. Lonne Elder III 6. Dr. Dan Casriel 7. Dr. Charles W. Socarides 8. Dr. Donald W. Kaplan note cards OFF-BROADWAY chapters 1-6 OFF-BROADWAY history OFF-BROADWAY chronology Outline and research 1. Beginning with Summer and Smoke 2. Prehistory 3. Circle In The Square: The Idea Of A Theatre 4. Five Dollars A Week 5. The Period Of Expansion, 1959-63 6. The Phoenix Rises Again And Again OFF-BROADWAY, chapters 7-12 7. Regional Theatre 8. Off Off-Broadway 9. The Living Theatre In The World 10. The Importance Of Being Edward Albee 11. Off-Broadway Reached Middle Age: 1964-1969 Economics and housekeeping Strategies for survival (1970) Box 6 OFF-BROADWAY, Promotion, correspondence, reviews OFF-BROADWAY pictures Correspondence - OFF-BROADWAY Reviews Promotion OFF-BROADWAY paperback Corrections and Additions OFF-BROADWAY: THE PROPHETIC THEATRE. Typescript TWENTY YEARS AT THE THEATRE DE LYS, Lucille Lortel=s Matinee Series, Nicki Kalish (designer), 1976 Matinee Series essay, bio, awards Twentieth Anniversary Gala. Typescript SWL final draft, third and fourth drafts w/corrections TWENTY YEARS AT THE THEATRE DE LYS - Lucille Lortel=s Matinee series. Typescript Proofs The White Barn Theatre ENTER JOSEPH PAPP - typescript - Draft A (original draft) ENTER JOSEPH PAPP - notebooks - 972-73 1972: ASticks & Bones@ - TV AMuch Ado@ - TV CBS negotiations National Theatre ideas Rationale for operation L.C. 1972-1973 I: Continuity Fund raising Beaumont planning CBS - Resolution 1973-74 production schedule: N.Y. Shakespeare Festival L.C. press conference National Theatre ideas Canceling ROMEO 1972-73 II: Public Theatre productions Park productions Broadway History Papp - Public views and stands Operation Elsie Papp - personal Work projects Directors and playwrights 1972-73 III: Fired by CBS After WEDDING BAND, Dec 13, 1972 Typescript - ENTER JOSEPH PAPP - Draft C Box 7 Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, Inc. - 1974 OFF-BROADWAY - original manuscript; master galleys ENTER JOSEPH PAPP - original manuscript; master galleys Notebooks containing notes for ENTER JOSEPH PAPP Saturday Review, April 10, 1971 Saturday Review, July 10, 1971 Theatre Arts, May 1961 TWENTY YEARS: LUCILLE LORTEL=S MATINEE SERIES AT THE THEATRE DE LYS Miscellaneous Yale Repertory Theatre - 1975-79 Box 8 I. 1961-1986, Book proposals, magazine article proposals, magazine articles and research Proposal for a bio of Alan Jay Lerner, 1986 Donald Trump interview for Cosmopolitan, 1986 AWomen and Risk@ - unpublished article for Cosmopolitan, 1986 Stella Adler - materials for a book on her acting technique notes taken in class transcription from tapes - technique I transcription from tapes - technique II reviewed notebooks - June research notes correspondence, memos, outlines Article on Manhattan Theatre Club for Boston Review, May, >85 edited versions, 1/31/85 notes, research Accident Prone - Art for Cosmopolitan >82 - unpublished draft copy contacts and correspondence statistics outlines, notes, interview clips cases theory and interpretation research notes Theatre In The 80's - playbill - April, 1980 Article on Harold Prince - 1979 Notes on possible book about Café Society Uptown, 1975 Unpublished article on Lorenoto - Producer of AThe Fantasticks@ - 1972 Performing Arts Supplement, commissioned by Saturday Review - 1970 Notes for an article on Busby Berkeley - 1969 Report - How Clean is New York? - 1968 Theatre/America - 1966 Theatre/America (copy) dated Aug 8-22, 1966 ATheatre/America@ (bound) ATheatre/America@ - revised format AAudience,@ a news TV program (binder) AA Syndicated Theatre Column,@ June >66 Correspondence 1966 Theatre/America Staff Letters to resident theaters, March 3, >67 Correspondence - 1967 Reports Capital Requirements Article on Actors for Equity - May 1963 Report for Ford Foundation on resident theaters Article on the actors studio for Ladies Home Journal - Jan 1965 Box 9 Notes on possible book project on Black Theater, 1962-71 Book Proposals, 1962 ALL FOR A SHOW - MAKING THE MUSICAL ASUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING@ EVERYONE ON STAGE, PLEASE Outline and 2 chapters on MAKING THE MUSICAL ASUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING@ MASTERBUILDERS OF BROADWAY Pieces for playbill - 1962, 63, 64 Unpublished article on Richard Rogers - 1965 Articles for Playbill - 1960-61 II. Stuart W. Little - Files of papers, correspondence as Chairman of the Drama Committee of Yale University Council, 1970-75 - Playbill articles for League of New York Theatres, 1977-81 Council - Administrative Drama Committee - Correspondence Council Meeting of May 2, 1980 University Council - Drama Committee - New Haven, March 20-21 Drama Committee Report - Spring - 1980 Drama Committee - Reports Drama School - 1979-89 Drama School Yale Representative - 1979-80 Council meetings of Dec 14, 1979 Meetings of May 4, 1979 New Haven - Feb 21-22, 1978 Yale College - Theater Studies University Council Meeting - May 4, 1979 Meetings of Dec 1, 1978 Meetings of May 4, 1978 Meeting of Dec
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