Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Celebration Theatre collection
- Dates:
- 1982-2007
- Creators:
- ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
- Abstract:
- Early executive committee minutes, performance budgets, programs, flyers, press kits, photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, including reviews, documenting the activities of the Celebration Theatre, 1982-2006. The collection consists of materials from the collections of Jim Kepner, the first Vice Chairman, of Robert Schrock, a former artistic director, and of the Purple Circuit, an information clearinghouse for gay and lesbian theater, founded by Bill Kaiser.
- Extent:
- 5 records boxes, 3 archive cartons, 1 archive half-cartons, 1 oversize box and 1 oversize lobby card. 7.4 linear feet.
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
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Box #, folder #, Celebration Theatre Collection, Coll2007-017, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains early executive board minutes, budgets, performance flyers and programs collected from the theater's inception by Jim Kepner. It also contains records collected from 1985 by Bill Kaiser, first in his role as promotions director and and later for his performing arts information clearing house, the Purple Circuit, as well as performance and administrative documents of former artistic director Robert Schrock.
- Biographical / historical:
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Celebration Theatre incorporated in 1982 as a community theater to celebrate the positive creative and cultural aspects of the gay and lesbian community of greater Los Angeles. The theater has been in continuous operation since its first production in Jim Kepner's National Gay Archives located on North Hudson Street in Hollywood. The theater later rented space in the Scorpio Theatre on Hoover Street in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles before moving to a West Hollywood-adjacent location on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.
- Acquisition information:
- Records collected by Bill Kaiser and from the collections of Jim Kepner and Robert Schrock.
- Processing information:
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The collection was formerly housed in box 103-006, in folders of the Performing Arts Collection (Coll2007-016), and in the collection Robert Schrock. Collection processed by Michael C. Oliveira, with the assistance of Jim D. Deaton and Sócrates Silva, in December 2007; in February 2008, materials relating to the Celebration Theatre reclaimed from the Gay & Lesbian Drama Scripts Collection (Coll2008-003) and returned to the Celebration Theatre collection.
Collection was transferred to records boxes and finding aid revised during July 2008.
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged into three series: Administrative Records, Theatrical Performances, and Memorabilia. The arrangement of the administrative records reflects the order in which they were found. The theatrical performance files are arranged alphabetically by play or performance title. The documents of multiple short plays or one-acts performed as a show are arranged alphabetically under the performance title followed by a list of the individual plays and playwrights.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Comedy
Drag shows
Drama
Gay actors
Gay dramatists
Gay theater
Historical drama
Homosexuality and theater
Homosexuality in the theater
Lesbian actresses
Lesbian dramatists
Lesbian theater
Monologue
One-act plays
Performing artists
Radical theater
Theater
Stage adaptations - Names:
- Celebration theatre
Kaiser, Bill, 1950-
Kepner, Jim (James), 1923-1997
Schrock, Robert - Indexes:
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Index
Abrami, Robert Adams, Joseph K. Alfaro, Luis Allen, Claudia Amzen, Nic Appalloosa, Rex Araiza, Albert Antonio Baker, John Roman Barnett, Robert Bateman, Lane (pseudonym L. Lane) Beard, Tom Bedonna, Isaac Bentley, Eric Besecker, Joe Besset, Jean-Maire Beswick, Jordan Sidney Beverly, Nancy Bierman, Bruce Black, Laura Bly, Majorie Bock, Adam Boehnlein, Frank Boito, David Bommer, Lawrence Buford, Loren Callahan, John Cariello, Christopher Casey, Mary F. Chambers, Jane Chandler, Kate Cherryholmes, H. L. Chesley, Robert Cohen, Jaffee Cotter, Patricia Cronin, Harry Crowe, Bill Cruz, Migdalia Cunningham, Eric Daniels, Sarah del Valle, Peter Dickler, Gloria Disner, Don Dreher, Sarah Elizabeth, Maire Epperson, John Fairchild, Mark S. Fell, Blair Foley, Rudy Thomas Forrest, Pamela Fulford, Robin Galligan, David Gardner, Layce Giantvalley, Scott Gilbert, William S. Goldstein, Robert Golvin, Sandra Gray, Pamela Green, Wayne Greer, Michael Grieg, Noël Griffith, Drew Griffith, Drew Grimsley, Jim Hagedorn, Jeff Hall, Richard Hampton, Christopher Hanes, Ken Harding, Alex Harris, Larry Dean Harry, Phillip Brooks Harry, Robert Stephen Hoffman, Keith Hoffman, Ken Holsclaw, Doug Honnet, Mark Hughes, Holly Jackson, Colette Jacobs, Jason Jacobson, Tom Jones, Ross Kane, Patricia Kaufman, Moises Kearns, Michael Keegan, Tom Kelly, Tim Kinchi, John Kluger, Steve Knoll, Jim Kramer, George Kulp, Laurence R. Lane, L. (pseudonym for Lane Bateman) Leigh-Coleman, Denis Littell, Phillip Lloyd, Davidson Lord, Albert Lotman, Loretta Ludlam, Charles, 1943-1987 Lynch, Lee McClellan, Michael McLane, Robert Macofsky, Tod Martin, William Masterson, Kelly Mello, Rob Miller, Isabel Miller, Patti R. Miller, Susan Milliner, Todd Mitchell, Kevin M. Montley, Patricia Moore, Pauline Moore, Steven Moraga, Cherrie Moskowitz, Jerome Motel, Doug Mullen, Claudia Nagy, Phyllis Nanin, Odalys O'Hara, Robert O'Neil, Tom Palacios, Monica Patrick, Robert Paul, Rick Peters, Robert Pfanner, Jim Picket, James Caroll Pinter, Harold Pliura, Vytautas Podolsky, Robin Prestininzi, Ken Pulner, Alan Rabushka, Jerry Racelis, Felix Ranberg, Chuck Ranson, Rebecca Ravenhill, Mark Real, Philip Reconco, Oscar Reyes, Guillermo Roome, Douglas Rosen, Sybil Ross, Justin Rubin, Amy Sadownick, Doug Sanchez, Edwin Savage, Mark Schiowitz, Josh Schoenfeld, Jeff Schrock, Robert Seppala, Eric Shairp, Mordaunt Sheiness, Marsha Shere, Michael Stuart Shinn, Christopher Simpson, Marita Smith, G. Bruce Smith, Scott Edward Snyder, David Sofronski, Ken Somsen, Pennell Specchio, Jake Spillers, Michael Stampalia, Giancarlo Sterner, Steve Stewart-Brown, Christi Stowe, Ayofemi Sullivan, Arthur Swanson, Jim Terrell, Dan Martin Tower, Michael Thomas Trasandes, Monica Upton, Phyllis Van Duzer, Michael Vanatta, J. S. Velazquez, G. Vertucci, June Vincent, Barry Ward, Bruce Waren, Mark Grant Weathers, Carolyn Wells, Win Winkler, Mark Winslow, Christopher Witt, Michael Wolcott, Peyton Wolman, Karen Dale Yew, Chay ZeOeh, Ruchele
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2007
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid created by Michael C. Oliveira. Date of source: December 26, 2007.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
- Terms of access:
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Researchers wishing to publish materials must obtain permission in writing from ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives as the physical owner. Researchers must also obtain clearance from the holder(s) of any copyrights in the materials. Note that ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives can grant copyright clearance only for those materials for which we hold the copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright clearance for all other materials directly from the copyright holder(s).
- Preferred citation:
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Box #, folder #, Celebration Theatre Collection, Coll2007-017, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California.
- Location of this collection:
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909 West Adams BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90007, US
- Contact:
- (213) 821-2771