Finding Aid for the Collection of Theater, Motion Picture, and Concert Programs, 1818-

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Finding Aid for the Collection of Theater, Motion Picture, and Concert Programs, 1818-

Collection number: 894

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division



Los Angeles, CA

Contact Information

  • Manuscripts Division
  • UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
  • Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Box 951575
  • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
  • Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
  • Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Title: Collection of Theater, Motion Picture, and Concert Programs,
Date (inclusive): 1818-
Collection number: 894
Extent: 295 boxes (142.0 linear ft.) 15 cartons (15.0 linear ft.) 3 oversize boxes
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language: English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Collection of Theater, Motion Picture, and Concert Programs (Collection 894). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4232881 

Scope and Content

Collection consists of theater, movie, and concert programs, mainly from Los Angeles and California, but also from New York, Boston, Chicago, and others from London, Europe, and Australia.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Programs.


 

Los Angeles

Boxes 1-31, 50-53, 70-71, 75, 80-83, 111, 127-130, 144, 147, 191, 223

[No further description available].

Box 72

Los Angeles Symphony: scattered dates, 1907-1920.

Physical Description: (18 items).
Box 72

Philharmonic Review: scattered dates, 1906-1926.

Physical Description: (64 items).
Box 72

Auditorium: scattered dates, 1906-1926.

Physical Description: (39 items).
Box 72

Orpheum Theatre: scattered programs, 1907-1928.

Physical Description: (17 items).
Box 72

18 miscellaneous programs.

Box 73

Morosco's Burbank Theatre: scattered programs, 1907-1925.

Physical Description: (46 items).
Box 73

Mason Opera House: scattered programs, 1908-1918.

Physical Description: (85 items).
Box 74

Hamburger's Majestic Theatre: November 23, 1908-July 25, 1909 complete. September 5, 1909-November 28, 1909, complete. 1909-1914 scattered programs.

Physical Description: (99 items).
Boxes 76-77

Biltmore Theatre.

Boxes 78-79

Pasadena Playhouse.

Box 116

Playgoer, scattered issues, 1928-1933.

Boxes 140-142

Pasadena Playhouse programs, and Pasadena Playhouse News.

Box 150

1960s.

Box 154

Los Angeles Performing Arts, 1967- .

Box 235

v.p., v.d.

Box 240

v.p., v.d.

Box 241

Carthay Circle Theater, 1947-56.

Box 241

Circle Theater, 1949-52.

Box 241

Century Theater, 1950-51.

Box 241

Civic Playhouse, 1950-55.

Box 241

Civic Theater, 1953-54.

Box 241

El Capitan Theater, 1940-50.

Box 244

Biltmore Theater, 1953-57.

Box 244

Civic Light Opera, 1939-52, 1953-56.

Box 245

Civic Light Opera, 1939-52 (various issues), 1957.

Box 245

Huntington Hartford Theater, 1954-56.

Box 246

Huntington Hartford Theater, 1957-64.

Box 246

Las Palmas Theater, 1948-55.

Box 246

Music Box Theater, 1940-55 (various issues).

Box 247

New Globe Theater, 1950; New Horizons Theater, 1949-50.

Box 247

Player's Ring, 1950-51 and 1964.

Box 247

Player's Ring Gallery Theater, 1956-57.

Box 247

El Patio Theater, 1946-1951.

Box 248

Coronet Theater, 1947-1949, 1950, 1952, 1964.

Box 248

Philharmonic Auditorium, 1949-1957.

Box 249

Morosco's Burbank Theater, 1908, 1915.

Box 250

Morosco's Burbank Theater, 1916, 1919.

Box 251

Morosco's Burbank Theater, 1920, 1921.

Box 252

Morosco Theater, January-July 1922, August-December 1922.

Box 253

Morosco Theater, 1924, 1926.

Box 254

Morosco Theater, 1927-1928.

Box 255

Hollywood Playhouse, 1927.

Box 256

Music Center/Ahmanson Theater (Performing Arts).

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 256

Schubert Theater (Playbill).

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 257

v.p., v.d.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 259

Los Angeles Area: v.p., v.d.; UCLA Royce Hall/Macgowan Hall, 1968-1978.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 260

Huntington Hartford Theater, 1974-1979.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 258

Mark Taper Forum (including 4 programs from the inaugural season).

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 263

v.p., 1977-1981.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 264

Playbill, Coronet Theater, 1960-1966.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 264

v.p., 1954-1966.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 265

Evergreen Stage Company, c. 1975.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 265

Odyssey Theater, c. 1970-1980.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 265

Westwood Playhouse, c. 1976-79.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 265

Biltmore Theater, c. 1959-1961; v.p., 1966-1979.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 266

v.p., c. 1966-1979.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 267

Huntington Hartford Theater, c. 1963-1971.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 268

Biltmore Theater, 1959-1964.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 268

Coronet Theater, 1964-65.

Abstract: (Includes a program autographed by Ray Bradbury).

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 268

Greek Theater, 1962-72.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 268

Huntington Hartford Theater, c.1959-1972.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 268

Lindy Opera House, 1968-1969.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 269

Civic Light Opera, 1961-64.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 269

Shrine Auditorium, 1963-69.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 269

Music Center, 1972-73.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 269

Schubert Theater, 1973.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 269

Huntington Hartford Theater, 1973.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 270

Mark Taper Forum, 1967-1969.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 270

Huntington Hartford Theater, c. 1968.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 270

Greek Theater, Biltmore Theater, Lindy Opera House, c. 1968.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 270

Mark Taper Forum, 1972-1973.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 270

News clippings re reviews of various productions.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 271

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Shrine Auditorium, Schubert Theater, 1966-1974.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 272

Poli's Theater, 1928; Free Theater, 1923.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 272

v.p., 1930s.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 273

v.p., 1930s.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 276

v.p., 1960s-1970s.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 277

v.p., 1950s-1960s.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 278

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1976-79.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 278

Schubert Theater, 1972-1974.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 278

Ahmanson Theater, 1969-72.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 278

Civic Light Opera, 1968-1971.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 279

Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, 1972-79.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 279

Music Center, 1973-74.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 279

Ahmanson Theater/Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1967-1975.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 279

v.p., ca. 1966.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 280

Huntington Hartford Theater, ca. 1960-71.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 299

Belasco, Biltmore, Egan, El Capitan, Hollywood Music Box, Hollywood Playhouse, Isis, Majestic, Mason, Mayan, Mission, Morosco, Orange Grove, Orpheum (3 folders), Pantages, Philharmonic.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 300

Playhouse (2 folders), Shrine, Temple Auditorium.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 303

Kentwood Players. Westchester (Los Angeles, California).

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 304

Kentwood Players. Westchester (Los Angeles, California).

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 304

Lindy Opera House. Los Angeles.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 308

Biltmore Theatre.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 308

Greek Theatre.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 308

Huntington Theatre.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 308

Savoy Artes.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 308

Wilshire Ebell Theatre.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 308

Encino Theatre Group (Los Angeles, California).

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
 

UCLA, v.d.

Box 143

UCLA Theater Group Miscellaneous Los Angeles programs.

Box 261

Royce Hall, 1973-1980.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 262

Royce Hall, 1964-74.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 262

Playgoer, UCLA Extension, 1960-1965.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 269

1966-72.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 270

1969.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
 

New York, v.d.

Boxes 34-39, 56-64, 84-102, 155, 159-164

[No further description available].

Box 117

Musical programs.

Box 118

Playbill magazine.

Box 119

Miscellaneous.

Box 120

Playbill magazine, 1930-1936 (scattered issues).

Boxes 165-176

1930-1934.

Boxes 177-190

1926-1930.

Boxes 192-200

1926-1930.

Boxes 201-208

1930-1939.

Boxes 209-213

1926-1930.

Boxes 214-216

1930-1939.

Box 221

1940-1950s.

Box 222

1888-1930.

Box 239

v.p., v.d.

Box 257

York Playhouse; Renata Theater; Masque Theater Fine Arts Theater [also includes: Bolshoi Ballet, Ice Capades, Saturday Reviewdated June 12, 1971 with cover story, Theater in '71].

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 260

Showbill, v.p., 1959-1960.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 260

Playbill, v.p., 1958-1980.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 261

Playbill, v.p., 1960s.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 263

v.p., 1960-1980.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 264

v.p., 1960-1980.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 309

[No further description available].

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
 

[England], v.d.

Box 157

London, 1900-1910. George E. Lask Collection.

Physical Description: 3 scrapbooks.
Box 158

London, 1885, ca. 1900. George E. Lask Collection.

Physical Description: 2 scrapbooks.
Box 115

British theatre reviews; photostats of 17th and 18th century British playbills; 2 French programs.

Box 48

English.

Box 259

London: Ambassadors Theatre; Apollo Theatre; Globe Theatre Lyric Theatre; May Fair Theatre; National Theatre; Piccadilly Theatre; Queen's Theatre; Strand Theatre; Theatre Royal Haymarket; Windham's Theatre; Duke of York's Theatre.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 313

Great Britain.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
 

U.S., v.d.

Boxes 40-42

Boston.

Box 43

Chicago.

Boxes 44-45

Other States.

Box 49

Middle West; Washington, D.C.

Boxes 103-106

Out-of-State (Not New York or Los Angeles).

Boxes 226-232

California theatre programs. v.p., v.d.

Box 241

Miscellaneous California programs: v.p., v.d.

Box 224

California, including Los Angeles, ca. 1920-1960.

Box 32

Southern California.

Boxes 107-110

California (not Los Angeles).

Box 156

Los Angeles, San Fransisco, San Diego, miscellaneous.

Box 286

California.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Boxes 145-146

New York, Los Angeles.

Box 148

New York, Los Angeles.

Box 152

New York, Los Angeles.

Box 243

Biltmore Theater, 1940-52. Miscellaneous U.S. programs v.p., ca. 1892-96.

Scope and Content Note

Also several unidentified and 1 foreign item.
Boxes 273-275

Los Angeles/New York: v.p., 1940s.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Boxes 217-219

Miscellaneous theater programs: United States.

Boxes 233-234

United States theatre programs (Non-California) v.p., v.d.

Boxes 236-238

Miscellaneous items, including Los Angeles.

Box 242

Miscellaneous U.S. theater programs (non-California): v.p., ca. 1890s.

Box 248

United States. Playgoer (Detroit) 1928-1929, 1951.

Box 269

San Francisco Opera, 1973.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 304

Southern California schools.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Boxes 305-307

Los Angeles and Southern California.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 272

Los Angeles/New York: v.p., 1940s.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 309

San Francisco, California.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

California.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Florida.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Georgia.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Kansas.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Massachusetts.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Nevada.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

New Mexico.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Ohio.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Oregon.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Pennsylvania.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Texas.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Washington.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 309

Washington, D.C.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 279

United States: v.p., ca. 1949-1953.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 280

Los Angeles/San Francisco: v.p., 1949, ca. 1958-61.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Carton 281

Los Angeles, miscellaneous California. Unprocessed.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Carton 283

Miscellaneous U.S. Unprocessed.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 262

U.S.: v.p., 1950-1966.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 262

San Diego: v.p., v.d.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 263

San Francisco: Performing Arts, 1975.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
 

[Miscellaneous], v.d.

Box 54

George Wright Collection, 1818-1949. Also includes some play bills. In Chinese chest (oversize).

Box 55

Not assigned, December 1989.

Boxes 65-69

v.p. (from George E. Lask Collection).

Box 112

1800-1920 primarily, theater and motion picture programs. Various locations.

Box 113

Theater and motion picture programs, primarily 1920s.

Box 114

Miscellaneous, some programs, scrapbooks.

Box 117

Primarily New York programs, including Playbill, scattered issues, 1936-1957; British and U.S. Forces Overseas theater programs, World War II; New York musical programs.

Box 117

Primarily New York programs, including Playbill, scattered issues, 1936-1957.

Box 117

British and U.S. Forces Overseas theater programs, World War II.

Boxes 121-126

U.S. & British Programs, ca. 1925-1955.

Boxes 131-139

Unsorted U.S. & foreign.

Box 149

Ashland, Oregon, Paris, Los Angeles, New York.

Box 151

Los Angeles, New York, Paris.

Box 153

Monte Carlo, Los Angeles, New York.

Box 220

Miscellaneous theater programs: Europe and Australia.

Box 225

Non-United States theatre programs. v.p., v.d.

Boxes 46-47

Foreign.

Box 284

Unprocessed.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 285

Mostly California. Some London.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Carton 282

Los Angeles, miscellaneous foreign. Unprocessed.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 300

Non-California, Washington, Midwest, England.

Physical Description: (2 folders).

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Boxes 287-289

Unprocessed.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 276

Foreign: United Kingdom, Paris, Mexico. v.p., v.d.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
 

Magazines

Boxes 290-291

Performing Arts Magazine.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 292

Program sheets, London & New York, 1885-1886, 1901-1905.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 293

Performing Arts Magazine.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 294

Playbill, Showbill & miscellaneous productions.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Boxes 295-296

Playbill & some miscellaneous.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 297

College & Los Angeles small theatre productions, London, Victor Valley (California), Oregon, Los Angeles.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Carton 298

Playbill, Rebelais productions, La Cage Aux Folles productions, My Fair Lady revival, James Whitmore - Bully, Kabuki Theatre, Southwest, California, Los Angeles, New York, Europe, Yale productions.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 301

Playbill, September 1966-January 1967, September 1968-January 1969, June 1976-September 1977, September 1977-June 1978.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Box 302

Playbill, June 1978-July 1979, July 1979-March 1980, March 1989-January 1981, December 1981-June 1983.

Note

Addition, May 1986.
Boxes 310, 312

Playbill.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 311

Playbill, Playgoer and Performing Arts.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 313

Performing Arts.

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
Box 313

Miscellaneous (no location).

Note

Addition, January 2002 (SE/LH).
 

Theater Programs, Primarily Los Angeles, 1960s-70s

Note

Collected by Bernard Galm.
(dl 10/86)
 

Performing Arts Programs, v.d.

Boxes 285-286

Music Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1960s-70s.

Box 287, Folder 1

Operas, etc., 1960s-70s.

Box 287, Folder 3

Ahmanson Theatre, 1967-70.

Box 287, Folder 4

Ahmanson Theatre, 1971-80.

Box 288, Folder 1

Ahmanson Theatre, 1975-76.

Box 288, Folder 2

Ahmanson Theatre, 1977.

Box 288, Folder 3

Mark Taper Forum, 1972-75.

Box 288, Folder 4

Mark Taper Forum, 1976-77.

Box 288, Folder 5

Mark Taper Forum, 1978-80.

Box 289, Folder 1

Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, 1960s-70s.

Box 289, Folder 2

Pantages Theatre, 1970s.

Box 287, Folder 2

Curtain call magazine, miscellaneous programs and flyers, 1960s-70s.

Box 289, Folder 3

Playgoer programs, Huntington Hartford Theatre, 1960s-70s.

Box 289, Folder 4

Playbill, Performing arts programs, Shubert Theatre, 1970s.

Box 289, Folder 5

Playgoer programs, etc., miscellaneous theaters, 1960s-70s.

Box 289, Folder 6

Greek Theatre magazines, 1970-71.