Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Cornerstone Theater Company
- Abstract:
- The Cornerstone Theater Company settle in Los Angeles, CA, in 1992. Since that time the company has under taken a number of community-based projects. The collection currently consists of unprocessed posters.
- Extent:
- 11.4 Linear Feet (6 flat boxes, 3 map folders)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Cornerstone Theater Company records (Collection PASC 337). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of posters, some mounted on foam board, and a banner.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Cornerstone Theater Company was founded by director Bill Rauch and playwright Alison Carey in 1986. In 1992 the company settled in Los Angeles, CA. Cornerstone is a multi-ethnic, ensemble-based theater company. They commission and produce new plays, both original works and contemporary adaptations of classics, which combine the talents of professional and community collaborators. The company's mission is to make theater with and for people of many ages, cultures and levels of theatrical experience, in order to build bridges between and within diverse communities in their home city of Los Angeles and nationwide. Cornerstone Theater Company also operates the educational Cornerstone Institute, which offers theater artists hands-on training in community-based theater.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unprocessed collection. Material is unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Cornerstone Theater Company records (Collection PASC 337). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988