Actors' Gang Records, circa 1981

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Summary

Title:
Actors' Gang records
Dates:
circa 1981
Creators:
Actors' Gang (Theater ensemble)
Abstract:
The collection consists of the records of the Los Angeles theater company, The Actors' Gang. Included in the collection are production records, business papers, scripts and assorted materials pertaining to the theater company founded by Tim Robbins. The collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
Extent:
1 unknown (20 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Actors' Gang Records (Collection PASC-M 319). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of production files, financial papers, scripts, and other assorted materials pertaining to the Los Angeles theater company.

The collection is organized into the following series:

Missing Title
  1. Series 1. Financial Papers
  2. Series 2. Production Files
  3. Series 3. Development
  4. Series 4. Clippings
  5. Series 5. Unprocessed Materials
Biographical / historical:

The Actors' Gang is one of Los Angeles' most enduring theatre ensembles. Founded in 1981 by a group of renegade theatre artists, the Gang's mission is to create bold, original works for the stage and daring reinterpretations of the classics.

Over the course of our first 20 years the company has produced 68 plays and won over 100 awards, winning acclaim for their interpretations of Shakespeare, Bruchner, Brecht, Moliere, Aeschylus, Ibsen and Chekhov, while developing in workshop new plays that address the world today through a prism of satire, popular culture and raucous stagecraft.

Through co-productions, The Actors' Gang presented the West Coast Premiere of Eric Bogosian's "Suburbia" with the Namaste Theatre Company, Roger Guenver Smith's "A Huey P. Newton Story," Danny Hoch's "Jails, Hospitals, Hip Hop" with Center Theatre Group, and "Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella" with The Cornerstone Theatre Company. The Actors' Gang has toured with productions as the US representative at the Edinburgh Festival and to New York's Public Theatre with "Carnage, A Comedy"; with "The Imaginary Invalid" to the Rushmore Festival in New York, and in 2001 saw "Bat Boy, A Musical," developed at the Actors' Gang, won the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics award for best new musical Off-Broadway in New York.

Processing information:

Processed by UCLA Library Performing Arts Special Collections staff.

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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

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by UCLA Library Performing Arts Special Collections staff.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-12-08 12:52:00 -0800 .

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Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Actors' Gang Records (Collection PASC-M 319). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
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