Alan Schneider Papers
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Accessions Processed in 1991
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
Articles about Schneider
Articles on Schneider and Beckett
Biographical statement
Curriculum Vitae
List of plays directed by Schneider
List of publications 1944 - 1978
Obituaries 1984
CORRESPONDENCE
General
Acting Company 1983 - 1985
Actors' Equity Association 1981 - 1982
Adams, Mason 1963 - 1972
Albee, Edward 1961 - 1983
Anderson, Robert 1956 - 1981
Anthony, Joseph 1979
Atkinson, Brooks 1971
A Miscellaneous
Bair, Deirdre 1971 - 1977
Ballet, Arthur 1965 - 1980
Barnes, Harry and Betsey 1970 - 1977
Barney, Jay 1970
Beary, John 1974
Beckett, Samuel 1963 - 1984
Bentley, Eric 1948 - 1984
Blitzstein, Marc 1963
Bracken, Eddie 1978
British Broadcasting Corporation 1965
Brown, Pat 1981
Brown, Spencer Curtis 1960
Brynn, Susan 1982
B Miscellaneous
Cameron, Kenneth 1967 - 1968
Cares, Robert 1965
Carter, James Earl 1980
Cates, Gilbert 1967 - 1968
Catholic University 1971
Chevigny, Bell 1965 - 1968
Ciulei, Liviu 1975 - 1981
Coe, Dick 1963
Cogdill, Jack 1972
Cohn, Ruby 1972 - 1981
Cole, Edward 1965
College of Notre Dame of Maryland 1963
Columbia University 1978
Corrigan, Mary 1982
Cronyn, Hume 1970 - 1984
C Miscellaneous
Davis, Donald George 1956 - 1966
Deist, Warren 1948
Denis, Reid Marsh
Devine, George 1956 - 1966
Diamond, David 1964 - 1978
Dillon, Melinda 1984
Distler, Antonie 1964
Driver, Tom 1961
Drummond, Alexander 1940
D Miscellaneous
Edison, Irving 1973
Eldridge, Carey 1947
Etrog, Sorel 1972
Evans, Dina Rees 1943 - 1950
EVERGREEN REVIEW 1969
Evergreen Theater 1964 - 1974
E Miscellaneous
Fehsenfeld, Martha 1975 - 1983
Fernsworth, Lawrence 1963
Ferrer, Jose 1978
Fichandler, Zelda 1953 - 1959
Fields, Sidney 1982
Finkelstein, Lawrence 1969
F Miscellaneous
Garfein, Jack 1984
Geist, Kenneth
Gerland, Hazel 1970
Gibson, Bill 1971 - 1982
Gielgud, John 1966 - 1971
Glover, William 1980
Gordon, John 1973
Gottfried, Martin 1970
Grant, Katie 1980
Greenberg, Avner 1957
Grove Press 1958 - 1983
Guest, Jean 1959 - 1965
Guinness, Alec 1982
G Miscellaneous
Hall, Peter 1978 - 1979
Harper, Thomas 1966
Hartke, Gilbert V 1954
Harvey, Lawrence E 1962
Hayes, Helen
Heller, Franklin 1979 - 1984
Hobgood, Burnet 1975
Hoffman, Dustin 1980
Hudson, Lewis 1978
Huerta, Jorge 1983
Hughter, Ames 1968
Hungerford, Helen 1967
Hunt, Bill 1969
Husbands, Harold 1946 - 1947
H Miscellaneous
Indiana University 1980 - 1981
Irving, Jules 1970 - 1972
I Miscellaneous
Jeffry, Alix
Jenkins, Paul and Suzanne 1981 - 1985
Jenning, Penny
Jensby, Wesley 1965
John, Mary 1962 - 1979
Jones, James Earl 1978
Jones, Preston 1974 - 1975
Juilliard School 1947 - 1984
J Miscellaneous
Kaleen, Ted 1968
Kamlot, Robert 1967
Karchener, Andrea 1979 - 1981
Kazan, Elia 1948 - 1952
Kennebeck, Edwin 1979 - 1983
King, Bruce 1979
Knowlson, Jim 1971 - 1983
Kolatch, Myron 1963
Kuszak, Jerome 1969
K Miscellaneous
Labeille, Daniel 1970 - 1983
Lahr, John 1964 - 1969
Larkin, Francis 1966
Law, Alma 1980
Le Gallienne, Eva
Leiser, Erwin 1967
Leontovich, Eugenie 1966 - 1980
Locklair, Wriston 1978
L Miscellaneous
MacLeish, Archibald 1981
Mamet, David 1979
Mathon, Benjamin D 1983
Miller, Arthur 1956
Milwaukee Repertory Theater 1962 - 1967
Molinari, Mario 1974
Morgenstern, Julie 1982
Myerberg, Michael 1964
M Miscellaneous
New York Shakespeare Festival 1982
NEW YORK TIMES 1973 - 1981
Nichols, Harold 1981
N Miscellaneous
O Miscellaneous
Papp, Joseph 1966 - 1982
Parsons, Estelle
Pickles, Christine 1959
Pinget, Robert 1959
Pinter, Harold 1983
P Miscellaneous
Reavey, Jean 1961 - 1976
Redgrave, Michael 1976
Ritman, Billy
Rockefeller Foundation 1947
Rockefeller, John 1978 - 1979
Ross, Patricia Kerr 1972 - 1981
Russell, John 1978
R Miscellaneous
Salz, Jonah 1982 - 1983
Saroyan, William 1941
Shain, Irving 1984
Shaw, Irwin 1966
Simon, Neil
Stevens, Roger 1981
Stieff, Frederick Phillip 1933
Swann, Caroline 1962
S Miscellaneous
Tandy, Jessica 1974
Theatre Communications Group 1983 - 1984
THEATRE QUARTERLY 1975 - 1976
Tuttle, Day 1947
T Miscellaneous
University of California, General 1981
University of California, Drama Department 1982 - 1984
University of Minnesota 1963 - 1965
University of Wisconsin 1983 - 1984
Ustinov, Peter 1957
Vogel, Alison 1971
U-V Miscellaneous
Walker, Alan 1973
Warner, Francis 1967 - 1968
Warrilow, David 1981 - 1982
Weaver, Andrew 1939 - 1947
Whaley, Russell 1964
Wheatley, Tom 1970 - 1980
White, Ruth
Whitelaw, Billie 1981 - 1983
Wiesel, Elie 1984
Wilder, Thornton 1956 - 1975
Williams, Tennessee 1952 - 1964
Wilson, Lanford 1974 - 1981
Wilson, Stella Adler 1976 - 1983
Wood, Audrey 1949 - 1980
Woodman, William 1980
Woodward, Joanne 1968
Worth, Irene 1966 - 1979
Wright, Charles 1965
W Miscellaneous
Yeaton, Kelly 1941 - 1980
Zeisler, Peter 1979 - 1981
Zesch, Lindy 1980 - 1981
Y-Z Miscellaneous
Unidentified
Collected Correspondence
Congratulations on birth of daughter Viveca 1955
Correspondence scrapbooks
1938 - 1949
1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
1970 - 1972
1973 - 1983
Letters of condolence 1984
Letters of congratulations and thanks
1947 - 1959
1960 - 1969
1970 - 1971
1980 - 1984
Letters of recommendation for A. Schneider 1933 - 1950
Telegrams, Special 1951 - 1963
PRODUCTIONS
SQUARING THE CIRCLE (by Valentin Katayev), University of Wisconsin 1938
Photographs
Review
NIGHT IN THE COUNTRY (by Betty Smith and Robert Finch), Cornell University - Photographs 1940
JIM DANDY (by William Saroyan), Catholic University 1941
Correspondence with William Saroyan 1941
Director's prompt book
Photographs
Playbills and programs
ATHALIAH (by Jean Racine), Catholic University - Photographs 1941
COUNT ME IN (by Walter Kerr and Leo Brady), Catholic University - Program 1942
CHILD'S PLAY (by Jacques Blanchard), Catholic University 1942
Photographs
Playbills and programs
ROMANCERS (by Edmond Rostand), Catholic University 1943
Photographs
Program
STORM OPERATION (by Maxwell Anderson), Belasco Theatre 1944
Photographs of Alan Schneider
Reviews and articles
DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (by Moliere), Catholic University 1944
Photographs
Program
LUTE SONG (by Koa-Tong-Kia, adaptation by Will Irwin and Sidney Howard), Catholic University 1944
Photographs
Program
Review
TIDINGS BROUGHT TO MARY (by Paul Claudel), Catholic University 1945
Photographs
Program
IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST (by Oscar Wilde), Catholic University 1945
Photographs
Program
ELECTRA (by Sophocles), Catholic University 1945
Photographs
Program
THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY GOES (by James Finchley, Jean Kerr, Joan O'Byrne), Catholic University 1946
Photographs
Program
STATE OCCASION (by Clinch Calkins), Catholic University 1946
Photographs
Program
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman), Cain Park Theatre, Cleveland 1947
Photographs
Playbills and programs
SING OUT, SWEET LAND (by Walter Kerr), Cain Park Theatre, Cleveland 1947
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Review
LONG GOODBYE (by Tennessee Williams), Theatre Inc., New York - Photographs 1947
LONG WAY FROM HOME (by Maxim Gorki, adaptation by R. Goodman and W. Carroll), Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York 1948
Correspondence and miscellaneous production materials 1948
Photographs
Program
Scenic designs and sets by Leo Kerz
MAKE A STATUE LAUGH (by Arnold Shulman), American Theatre Wing, New York - Playbills and programs 1948
LUTE SONG (by Kao-Tong-Kia, adaptation by Will Irwin and Sidney Howard), Cain Park Theatre, Cleveland - Playbills and programs 1948
RELUCTANT LADY (by Maurice Valency), Cain Park Theatre, Cleveland 1948
Photographs
Program
TAMING OF THE SHREW (by William Shakespeare), Cain Park Theatre, Cleveland - Program 1948
VICTORS (by Jean-Paul Sartre, adaptation by Thornton Wilder), New Stages, New York - Correspondence 1948
MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS (by William Saroyan), Dartington Hall, England 1949
Correspondence and program 1949
Photographs
Poster
REAL MCCOY (by John Finch), Catholic University 1949
Photographs
Program
Scenic designs and sets by Jo Mielziner
Telegram
OEDIPUS THE KING (by Sophocles), Catholic University 1950
Photographs and proof sheets
Program
Reviews
Telegram
BORN YESTERDAY (by Garson Kanin), Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts - Program 1950
OVER TWENTY-ONE (by Ruth Gordon), Falmouth Playhouse, Massachusetts - Program 1950
POST ROAD (by Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norman Mitchell), Falmouth Playhouse, Massachusetts 1950
Photographs
Program
MACBETH (by William Shakespeare), Catholic University - Playbills and programs 1950
MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT (by Jean Giraudoux, adaptation by Maurice Valency), Catholic University 1950
Correspondence 1950
Photographs
Program
OTHELLO (by William Shakespeare), Catholic University - Review 1951
GLASS MENAGERIE (by Tennessee Williams), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1951
Photographs
Program
PRIMROSE PATH (by Robert Buckner and Walter Hart), Playhouse Theatre, Houston 1951
Photographs
Program
Reviews
Telegram
CHERRY ORCHARD (by Anton Chekhov), Catholic University 1951
Photographs
Program
PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA (by Thornton Wilder), Neighborhood Playhouse, New York 1952
Correspondence 1952
Director's notes
Musical score
Photographs
Program
MACBETH (by William Shakespeare), Catholic University 1952
Photographs
Playbills and programs
HASTY HEART (by John Patrick), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1952
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (by Eugene O'Neill), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1952
Photographs
Playbills and programs
SKIN OF OUR TEETH (by Thornton Wilder), Catholic University 1952
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews
LADY PRECIOUS STREAM (by S.I. Hsiung), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1952
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Review
ALL SUMMER LONG (by Robert Anderson), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1953
Correspondence with Robert Anderson 1953
Photographs
Program
Scenic designs
OUR TOWN (by Thornton Wilder), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1953
Photographs
Program
HIDE AND SEEK (by Arnold Sundgaard), The Neighborhood Playhouse, New York 1953
Photographs
Program
COUNTRY GIRL (by Clifford Odets), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1953
Photographs
Review
MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS (by William Saroyan), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1953
Program
Review
HAPPY JOURNEY (by Thornton Wilder), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C - Playbills and programs 1953
MISER (by Moliere), Catholic University - Programs 1953
OTHELLO (by William Shakespeare), Catholic University 1953
Photographs
Program
BAD ANGEL (by Joel Hammil), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1953
Photographs
Playbills and programs
REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER (by Liam O'Brian), Coronet Theatre, New York 1953
Photographs
Program
Review
SUMMER AND SMOKE (by Tennessee Williams), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1954
Photographs
Program
Reviews and articles
ALL SUMMER LONG (by Robert Anderson), Coronet Theatre, New York 1954
Photographs and proof sheets
Program
Review
Telegram
ANASTASIA (by Guy Bolton), Lyceum Theatre, New York 1954
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Review
Sketches by Boris Tumarui
TONIGHT IN SAMARKAND (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple), Morosco Theatre, New York 1955
Photographs
Program
SKIN OF OUR TEETH (by Thornton Wilder) 1955
Miscellaneous production materials, Theatre S. Bernhardt, Paris
Photographs
Playbills and program
Photographs, ANTA Theatre, New York
Review
Telegram
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami 1956
Arbitration, Schneider vs. Myerberg
Correspondence 1955 - 1956
Director's notebook
Director's notes
Director's prompt book (photocopy)
Floor plans
Notes re: production
Photographs (Xerox copies)
Programs and publicity materials
Prop list, electrical cue sheet, cast list reviews
Miami Production
New York Production
Text of play and article re: history of play in THEATRE ARTS MAGAZINE (1956)
LITTLE GLASS CLOCK (by Hugh Mills), Golden Theatre 1956
Photographs
Program
TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (by Horton Foote), The Arts Theatre Club, London 1956
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Prop list
VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (by Arthur Miller), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1956
Photographs
Program
Review
GLASS MENAGERIE (by Tennessee Williams), The New York City Center 1956
Photographs
Program
Review
OEDIPUS THE KING (by Sophocles), NBC Television Production - Photographs 1956
ENCHANTED (by Jean Giraudoux), Boston University 1957
Photographs and proof sheets
Program
Review
CIRCUS OF DR. LAO (by Gwyn Conger Steinbeck and Nathaniel Benchley), Edgewater Beach Playhouse, Chicago 1957
Photographs
Playbills and programs
MISS LONELYHEARTS (by Howard Teichmann), Music Box Theatre, New York - Playbills and photographs 1957
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON (by James Lee), CBS Television - Telegram 1957
ENDGAME (by Samuel Beckett), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York 1958
Casting notes
Contracts
General correspondence 1957 - 1959
Correspondence with Samuel Beckett (transcripts) 1955 - 1958
Correspondence with Lucy Kroll 1957 - 1959
Director's notes
Director's prompt book (photocopy)
Financial report
Light cue sheets
Photographs
Programs and publicity materials
Reviews
Royalty statements from Grove Press 1958 - 1962
Sound cue sheets
SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL (by Ray Lawler), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1958
Photographs
Program
PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA, HAPPY JOURNEY and THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER (by Thornton Wilder) 1958
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews
DESERTERS (by Thaddeus Vane), England tour 1958
Playbills and programs
Review
YEARS BETWEEN, CBS Television Production - Photographs 1958
KATAKI (by Shimon Wincelberg), Ambassador Theatre, New York 1959
Photographs and proof sheets
Playbills and programs
Review
EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON (by John Osborne), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1959
Photographs
Program
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), Alley Theatre, Houston 1959
Correspondence
Director's notes
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews
SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL (by Ray Lawler), Players Theatre, New York 1959
Program
Review
CLANDESTINE ON THE MORNING LINE (by Josh Greenfeld), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1959
Photographs
Program
SECRET FREEDOM (by Archibald MacLeish), NBC Television - Photographs 1959
CHERRY ORCHARD (by Anton Chekhov), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1960
Photographs
Program
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE (by Samuel Beckett), Provincetown Playhouse, New York 1960
General correspondence 1957 - 1961
Correspondence with Harry Lee Brown 1959 - 1964
Correspondence with Lucy Kroll Agency 1960
Correspondence re: television production 1960
Director's prompt book
Photographs
Programs
Reviews
Scripts, annotated by A.S
Scripts, annotated in EVERGREEN REVIEW
DETECTIVE STORY (by Sidney Kingsley), Boston University 1960
Program
Review
TWO FOR THE SEESAW (by William Gibson), Royal Ponciana Playhouse, Palm Beach 1960
Program
Telegrams
TWELVE ANGRY MEN (by Reginald Rose), Bucks County Playhouse 1960
Photographs and proof sheets
Program
SKIN OF OUR TEETH (by Thornton Wilder) - Program 1960
MEASURE FOR MEASURE (by William Shakespeare), N.Y. Shakespeare Festival 1960
Photographs and proof sheets
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
RAPE OF THE BELT (by Benn W. Levy), Wilbur Theatre, Boston 1960
Playbills and programs
Telegram
TWINKLING OF AN EYE (by H.W. Wright and Guy Andros), Actor's Workshop, San Francisco 1961
Playbills and programs
Review
AMERICAN DREAM (by Edward Albee), York Playhouse, New York 1961
Director's prompt book
Playbills, programs, photograph
Reviews and articles
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE (by Samuel Beckett), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1961
Contract
Program and review
UNCLE VANYA (by Anton Chekhov), The Goodman Theatre, Chicago 1961
Photographs
Program
BALD SOPRANO and PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA (by Eugene Ionesco and Thornton Wilder), Hofstra College 1961
Photographs re: BALD SOPRANO
Playbills and programs
Review
CHAIRS, LOTTERY and DOCK BRIEF (by Eugene Ionesco, Shirley Jackson, and John Mortimer), University of Wisconsin 1961
Photographs
Program
HAPPY DAYS (by Samuel Beckett), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York 1961
Article by George Reavey
Award from the VILLAGE VOICE
Caricature drawing from NEW YORK TIMES
Contract
Correspondence 1961 - 1963
Director's prompt book
List of references in script to other literary works
Photographs
Production notes, miscellaneous
Program
Reviews
Royalty statements 1963 - 1964
Script, annotated by unknown
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (by Bertolt Brecht), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1961
Photographs and postcards
Program
AMERICAN DREAM (by Edward Albee), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. - Photographs and proofs 1961
AMERICAN DREAM and WHAT SHALL WE TELL CAROLINE? (by Edward Albee and John Mortimer) - Reviews and articles 1961
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), PBS Television Production 1961
Correspondence 1960 - 1961
Director's prompt book
Financial statement
Reviews and articles
ENDGAME (by Samuel Beckett), Cherry Lane Theater, New York 1962
Correspondence 1962
Photographs
Reviews
AMERICAN DREAM (by Edward Albee), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York - Playbills and programs 1962
BURNING OF THE LEPERS (by Wallace Hamilton), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. - Playbills and programs 1962
UNCLE VANYA (by Anton Chekhov), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1962
Photographs
Playbills and programs
TIME OF YOUR LIFE (by William Saroyan), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. - Program 1962
MAN'S A MAN (by Bertolt Brecht, adaptation by Gerhard Millhaus), Stanford University 1962
Photographs
Playbills and programs
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (by Edward Albee), Billy Rose Theatre, New York 1962
Audition materials and resumes
Contracts
General correspondence 1962
Business correspondence 1962
Director's notes 1962
Financial materials
Notes
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
Schedules
Script
DUMBWAITER and THE COLLECTION (by Harold Pinter), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York 1962
Director's notes
Director's prompt book
Photographs
Playbill, annotated
Program
Review
Telegram
ALL THE WAY HOME (by Tad Mosel), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. - Program 1963
OTHELLO (by William Shakespeare), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1963
Photographs
Program
Telegram
THREEPENNY OPERA (by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1963
Photographs
Program
Review
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (by Edward Albee), Colonial Theatre, Boston - Playbills and programs 1963
BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (by Edward Albee), Martin Beck Theatre, New York 1963
Director's prompt book
Photographs, production
Photographs, rehearsals
Playbills and programs
Reviews 1964
PLAY AND THE LOVER (by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York 1964
Attendance records and rehearsal schedule
Contract and royalty statement
Correspondence 1963 - 1964
Director's prompt book
Lightning and stage directions re: PLAY
Photographs re: LOVER
Photographs re: PLAY
Programs
Reviews
Script of PLAY
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (by Edward Albee), Piccadilly Theatre, London 1964
General correspondence 1962 - 1965
Business correspondence 1962 - 1965
Personal correspondence 1964
Correspondence with Warner Brothers re: film 1964 - 1965
Director's notes
Financial materials
Legal materials
Miscellaneous production materials
Notes
Playbills and programs
Scenic designs and sets with director's notes
Script changes for British program
AMERICAN DREAM (by Edward Albee), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York - Program 1964
GLASS MENAGERIE (by Tennessee Williams), Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis 1964
Photographs and postcards
Program
TINY ALICE (by Edward Albee), Billy Rose Theatre, New York 1964
Correspondence 1964
Director's prompt book
Notes
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
Speech by Edward Albee for a news conference
FILM (by Samuel Beckett), Evergreen Theatre Productions 1964
Articles
Awards
Budget
Casting notes
Contract, agreement between A. Schneider and Evergreen Theatre Inc. 1961 - 1964
Miscellaneous correspondence 1964 - 1965
Correspondence with Samuel Beckett 1964
Correspondence with Sydney Myers 1963 - 1964
Director's prompt book
Original manuscript for shooting script
Photographs of production
Photographs used in production, including tintypes
Possible locations - List and photos
Production notes, including Beckett's comments
Scripts, by Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter
Preliminary shooting scripts, annotated by A.S
Shooting scripts, annotated by A.S. May 1963
Shooting scripts, second version
Untitled script May 1963
Set design
Shooting schedule
Staff, crew list, costumes and prop list
DO NOT PASS GO (by Charles Nolte), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York 1965
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Review
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and ZOO STORY (by Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee), S. Village Theatre, New York 1965
Correspondence
Financial records
Programs
Reviews
HAPPY DAYS (by Samuel Beckett), Cherry Lane Theatre, New York 1965
Attendance records
General correspondence 1963 - 1965
Correspondence re: set and props 1965
Program
Reviews
ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE (by Joe Orton), Lyceum Theatre, New York 1965
Photographs and proof sheets
Playbills and programs
HERAKLES (by Archibald MacLeish), University of Michigan 1965
Photographs, playbills and programs
Review
ACT WITHOUT WORDS II (by Samuel Beckett), PBS Television Production 1965
Contracts
Correspondence
Shot scripts, set plan
MALCOLM (by Edward Albee), Shubert Theatre, New York 1966
Director's prompt book
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY (by Tennessee Williams), Longacre Theatre, New York 1966
Photographs
Program
Scenic designs and sets
CHERRY ORCHARD (by Anton Chekhov), Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv 1966
Notes on rehearsals
Photographic proofs
Program
Review
DELICATE BALANCE (by Edward Albee), Martin Beck Theatre, New York 1966
Director's notes
Original typescript by Edward Albee
Photographs and proof sheets
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
EH JOE (by Samuel Beckett), PBS Television Production 1966
Correspondence 1965 - 1966
Director's prompt book
Miscellaneous notes
Photographs
Reviews and press release
Script
Set designs, original and other
YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING (by Robert Anderson) 1967
General correspondence 1967
Correspondence with Robert Anderson 1967 - 1971
Director's notes, notes to actors
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Playbills and programs
Review
Scenic designs and sets by Ed Wittstein
Telegram
BIRTHDAY PARTY (by Harold Pinter), Booth Theatre, New York 1967
Correspondence
Director's notes
Director's prompt book
Photographs
Program
Review
Set designs - Oversize
Set designs - With photos
I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (by Robert Anderson), Longacre Theatre, New York 1968
Correspondence 1968
Photographs and proof sheets
Program
Review
Scenic designs and sets
YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING (by Robert Anderson) 1968
Correspondence with Imogene Coca 1968
Itinerary
Programs
Programs
Reviews
BOX, QUOTATIONS FORM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, HAPPY DAYS (by Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett), Billy Rose Theatre, New York 1968
Director's notes and tape plan re: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Director's notes re: HAPPY DAYS
Director's prompt book, re: BOX and QUOTATIONS
Photographs, re: BOX and QUOTATIONS
Photographs, re: HAPPY DAYS
Playbills and programs, re: BOX, QUOTATIONS
Playbills and programs, re: HAPPY DAYS
Playbills and programs, re: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Prop list, re: HAPPY DAYS
Reviews, re: BOX, QUOTATIONS
Reviews, re: HAPPY DAYS
Reviews, re: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
WATERING PLACE (by Lyle Kessler), Music Box Theatre, New York 1969
Photographs
Playbill and program
GINGHAM DOG (by Lanford Wilson), John Golden Theatre, New York 1969
Program
Review
LA STRADA (by Charles Peck and Lionel Bart), Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York 1969
Photographs and proof sheets
Playbills and photographs
Reviews
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE (by Samuel Beckett), Paul M. Heller Production 1969
Contract
Correspondence 1969
Director's notes
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett) 1969
Contracts, not produced
Correspondence 1969
Notes
BLOOD RED ROSES (by John Lewin and Michael Valenti), John Golden Theatre, New York 1970
Photographs
Playbills and programs
INQUEST (by Donald Free), Music Box Theatre, New York - Playbills and programs 1970
MAQUETTES (by Francis Warner), Oxford University 1970
Correspondence 1970
Director's notes
Photographs and telegram
Programs
Reviews
SAVED (by Edward Bond), Chelsea Theatre Center, New York 1970
Photographs
Program
Review
BREATH, COME AND GO, MAQUETTES (by Samuel Beckett and Francis Warner), Vogel Hall, Toronto 1971
Director's notes
Director's prompt book
Programs and playbills
Reviews
Script, photocopy re: COME AND GO
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (by Joe Orton), University of Wisconsin 1971
Photographs and proof sheets
Review
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), Sheridan Square Playhouse, New York 1971
Article by A. Schneider for the NEW YORK TIMES
Correspondence 1970 - 1971
Director's notes
Director's prompt book
Financial statements
Miscellaneous materials
Notes by A. Schneider and Barry Arnold
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Production notes
Publicity materials
Reviews
MOONCHILDREN (by Michael Weller), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1971
Photographs and postcard
Program
Review
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE (by Samuel Beckett), Television production 1971
Camera directions, annotated
Cast list and rehearsal schedule
Correspondence 1971
Director's notes
Photographs
Rehearsal notes
Script, annotated by A.S
Shooting log
Shooting script
SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW (by Lorraine Hansberry), Longacre Theatre, New York 1971
Photographs
Playbills and programs
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), Princeton University - Program 1972
MOONCHILDREN (by Michael Weller), Royale Theatre, New York - Playbills and programs 1972
UPTIGHT (by Gunter Grass), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1972
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Scenic designs and sets by Santo Loquasto
FOURSOME (by E.A. Whitehead), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1972
Photographs
Playbills and programs
NOT I, HAPPY DAYS, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, ACT WITHOUT WORDS II (by Samuel Beckett), Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, New York 1972
Contract and related correspondence 1972
General correspondence 1972 - 1973
Correspondence, re: ACT WITHOUT WORDS 1972
Correspondence, re: HAPPY DAYS (including ephemera) 1972
Correspondence, re: NOT I 1972
Correspondence with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy 1972 - 1974
Correspondence with Jules Irving 1972
Director's notes, general
Director's notes, in notebook
Director's notes, re: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Director's prompt book for NOT I
Expenses
Notes, by Hume Cronyn, re: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Notes, re: character "Winnie" in HAPPY DAYS
Photographs, ACT WITHOUT WORDS I
Photographs, HAPPY DAYS
Photographs, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Photographs, NOT I
Production notes re: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Program
Reviews and articles, re: NOT I
Reviews and articles, re: NOT I and KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Reviews and publicity materials
Royalty and box office statements
Schedules and technical matters
Scripts for NOT I
Set designs and director's notes for ACT WITHOUT WORDS II
Working script for Jessica Tandy in HAPPY DAYS
OUR TOWN (by Thornton Wilder), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1972
Photographs
Program
ENEMIES (by Maxim Gorki), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1972
Miscellaneous production materials
Photographs of production
Photographs used for scenic designs and sets
Playbills and programs
LOVE SUICIDE AT SCHOFIELD BARRACKS (by Romulus Linney), Boston University 1973
Playbills and programs
Program, autographed
Script
JABBERWOOCK (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee), Missouri Repertory Theatre, Kansas City 1973
Photographs
Playbills and programs
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, NOT I (by Samuel Beckett), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1973
Photographs, re: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Playbills and programs
OUR TOWN (by Thornton Wilder), Arena Stage, Russian Tour 1973
Correspondence re: Moscow Production 1973
Photographic slides
Playbills and programs
Program in Russian
Proposal for Moscow Production
Reviews of Moscow Production
TOM (by Alexander Buzo), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1973
Photographs
Playbills and programs
MADNESS OF GOD (by Elie Wiesel), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1974
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Review
MARAT/SADE (by Peter Weiss), State University of New York, Purchase 1974
Playbills and programs
Review
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), film version (not produced) - Correspondence 1974
SKIN OF OUR TEETH (by Thornton Wilder), Boston University - Playbills and programs 1975
LAST MEETING OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE MAGNOLIA (by Preston Jones), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1975
Photographs
Playbills and programs
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), Stanford University 1975
Correspondence 1975
Light design and ground plan
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews
MADNESS OF GOD (by Elie Wiesel), Lyceum Theatre, New York - Playbills and programs 1976
OUR TOWN (by Thornton Wilder), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. - Program 1976
TEXAS TRILOGY (by Preston Jones) 1976
Programs, rehearsal schedule, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
Reviews
Playbills and programs, Broadhurst Theatre, New York
Photographs, combined productions
Reviews
PLAY, FOOTFALLS, THAT TIME (by Samuel Beckett), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1976
Correspondence 1975 - 1977
Director's notes
Program and publicity
Reviews
Script
CHERRY ORCHARD (by Anton Chekhov), Juilliard Theatre Center, New York - Playbills, programs, reviews 1977
AMERICAN DREAM AND ACT WITHOUT WORDS II (by Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett), Juilliard Theatre Center, New York - Director's prompt books 1977
PLAY, FOOTFALLS, THAT TIME (by Samuel Beckett), Manhattan Theatre Club, New York 1977
Correspondence and contracts, re: PLAY 1977
Playbills and programs 1977
Review
Script and director's notes, re: PLAY
MOTHER COURAGE (by Bertolt Brecht), American Place Theatre, New York 1978
Playbills and programs
Review
Script
ANTIGONE (by Jean Anouilh), The Acting Company, touring 1978
Playbills and programs
Review
LOOSE ENDS (by Michael Weller) 1979
Director's prompt book, Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.
Playbills and programs
Director's prompt book, Circle in the Square, New York 1979
Review
GREAT AMERICAN QUIZ SHOW SCANDAL (by Louis Phillips), University of California, San Diego - Program 1979
LAST OF THE MARX BROTHERS' WRITERS (by Louis Phillips), University of California, San Diego - Script 1979
LADY FROM DUBUQUE (by Edward Albee), Morosco Theatre, New York 1980
Audition materials and resumes
Contracts
General correspondence 1980
Correspondence, opening night 1980
Director's prompt book
Director's notes
Financial materials
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
Scripts
Telegrams
HAPPY JOURNEY, PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA, THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER (by Thornton Wilder), University of California, San Diego - Playbills and programs 1980
ROCKABY (by Samuel Beckett), various locations 1981
Agreement with State University of New York 1981
Correspondence 1979 - 1981
Designs for chair
Designs for chair - oversized
Director's notes
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Press releases
Reviews and articles
Scripts (one script annotated by Schneider)
Set design
Travel and expenses
WAITING FOR GODOT (by Samuel Beckett), The Acting Company, Public Theatre, New York 1981
Correspondence 1981
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
Reviews and publicity materials
Schedules, other production materials
Set design, annotated by Schneider, and costume designs
OHIO IMPROMPTU (by Samuel Beckett), Ohio State University 1981
Audition materials and resumes
Contracts
General correspondence 1981
Personal correspondence
Director's notes
Financial materials
Miscellaneous production materials
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
Scenic designs and sets
Scripts, Xerox of Beckett holograph
OUR TOWN (by Thornton Wilder), Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis 1981
Photographs
Playbills and photographs
Reviews
PLAY AND OTHER PLAYS (by Samuel Beckett), The Acting Company, New York - Program 1982
ROCKABY (by Samuel Beckett), National Theatre, London 1982
Correspondence 1982
Miscellaneous production materials
Programs and playbills
Reviews and articles
Scripts
OHIO IMPROMPTU (by Samuel Beckett), Goodman Theatre, Chicago 1983
Correspondence 1983
Miscellaneous production materials
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
PIECES OF EIGHT (by various authors), University of California, San Diego 1983
Artwork 1983
Artwork, oversized
Director's prompt book
Essay (TSS by Schneider)
Photographs
Programs
Scripts, annotated, re: THE BLACK AND THE WHITE and LAST TO GO
Scripts, Xerox copy of Beckett's transcript of COME AND GO
PLAY, FOOTFALLS, THAT TIME (by Samuel Beckett), American Place Theatre, New York 1983
Correspondence 1983
Director's notes
Floor plan
Photographs
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
Scenic designs and sets
Scenic designs and set, oversized
Schedules
Scripts and prop list
OHIO IMPROMPTU, CATASTROPHE, WHAT WHERE (by Samuel Beckett), H. Clurman Theatre, New York 1983
Casting materials
Contract sheet
Contracts 1903 - 1983
Correspondence 1983
Director's notes
Director's prompt book
Financial materials
Miscellaneous production materials
Note on production written by A. Schneider
Original working script of CATASTROPHE
Photographs, CATASTROPHE and WHAT WHERE
Photographs, OHIO IMPROMPTU
Playbills and programs
Reviews and articles
Scripts, CATASTROPHE
Scripts
OUR TOWN (by Thornton Wilder), University of California, San Diego 1983
Director's prompt book
Playbill
Reviews and articles
PIECES OF EIGHT (by various authors), The Acting Company, Public Theatre, New York 1984
Director's prompt book
Photographs re: COME AND GO
Playbills and programs
Reviews
ROCKABY, FOOTFALLS, ENOUGH (by Samuel Beckett), Harold Clurman Theatre, New York 1984
Cast list, travel schedule
Correspondence 1984
Director's notes
Director's prompt book
Floor plan - Rockaby
Permission to videotape performance
Programs
Reviews
ROCKABY, OHIO IMPROMPTU, CATASTROPHE (by Samuel Beckett), M. Taper Forum, Los Angeles - Reviews and programs 1984
VICTORIA STATION, ONE FOR THE ROAD, A KIND OF ALASKA (by Harold Pinter), Manhattan Theatre Club, New York 1984
Audition materials
Contract, program
Correspondence 1984
Director's notes, general
Director's notes, re: casting
Director's prompt book for VICTORIA STATION
Miscellaneous production materials
Programs
Reviews and articles
Scenic designs and sets
Script 1984
WAR AT HOME (by James Duff), Hampstead Theatre, London 1984
Contract
Correspondence 1982 - 1984
Director's prompt book, part I
Director's prompt book, part II
Director's notes
Miscellaneous
Program
Reviews and articles
Scripts, annotated
Scripts, revised version
Scripts, rewritten portions
Set designs, floor plans
FROM ITS BEGINNING TO ITS END, various productions undated
Scripts
Photographs
Miscellaneous production materials - Beckett plays, various productions
Correspondence 1963 - 1983
Photographs, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Casting notes, WAITING FOR GODOT
Photographs, WAITING FOR GODOT
Photographic slides
Scenic design undated
SUBJECT FILES
Address book
Autographed playbills
Beckett materials
Berlin Production of WAITING FOR GODOT, directed by Samuel Beckett
Beckett's notebook (photocopy) 1975
Reviews, program
List of references to Beckett compiled by Schneider 1957
Notes by Schneider on visits with Beckett
Original sketch of Beckett by Avigdor Arikha
Reviews of MURPHY and MALONE DIES collected by Schneider 1956 - 1957
Samuel Beckett Theatre (Oxford) - Publicity materials and photograph
Collection of humorous materials
First day cover of Shakespeare stamp
Ithaca Festival and Center for the Arts - Material collected by Schneider
Memorabilia from University of Wisconsin 1937 - 1939
News clippings collected by Schneider 1934 - 1966
Notecards on miscellaneous subjects
Notes and ephemera re: Thornton Wilder
Posters - Edward Albee (w/ note from Albee on verso) and Paris production of ENDGAME 1957
Prize certificate from Tours Film Festival, for FILM 1966
Prompt book covers from Premiere Productions of AMERICAN DREAM, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, ENDGAME, HAPPY DAYS, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, TINY ALICE, and WAITING FOR GODOT
Scrapbook of reviews collected by Schneider
Symposia and conferences
Beckett exhibition, University of Reading 1971
Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin 1971
Joyce-Beckett Symposium, York University 1974
Beckett Symposium, University of North Carolina 1974
Beckett Festival, New York University 1978
Theatre Symposium, Warsaw 1980
Samuel Beckett Symposium, Ohio State University 1981
Festival d'Automne a Paris 1981
Telephone book
TEACHING
1941-1952: Catholic University of America
Acting Class: Theory, Principle, Characterization
Contemporary Drama
Lecture notes
Lecture notes
Reading list
Directing Class - Lecture outlines
FROM NATURALISM TO EXPRESSIONISM - Lecture notes
History of Drama
Notes
Outline
Lectures on Acting - Outlines and notes
Lectures on Directing
Advanced play directing
CAVEAT DIRECTOR
TRUTH VS. STYLE
Russian Drama and Theatre - Parts I-II
THEATRE, ART AND CIVILIZATION - Lecture notes
Walter Kerr's playwriting class - Lecture notes and outline
City College of New York - Speech 318, The Plays of Beckett 1974
Stanford University - Beckett seminar materials 1975
Juilliard School 1975-1979
Notes on THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Photographs of students and productions
Photographs of students and productions - oversized
Script, FAITH HEALER (annotated)
VISUAL ASPECTS OF BECKETT'S WORKS
New York University - Dramaturgy and Performance 1979
UC San Diego 1979-1984
Beckett program for drama students
Directing notes, miscellaneous
Drama course evaluations
Lecture and directing notes, miscellaneous
Master of Arts in Drama - Term papers
Master of Arts in Theatre - Syllabus, notes
Theatre of Private Lives
Miscellaneous teaching materials
WRITINGS
Essays, Articles, and General Writings
Short stories published in THE DAILY CARDINAL 1937 - 1939
Essays on theatre 1937 - 1941
Plays for radio 1938 - 1942
Articles on American theatre in student publications 1939
Short stories 1939
STUDY OF THEATRE DIRECTION 1940
Addresses delivered by Postmaster General James Farley 1940 - 1941
WE SHALL NOT SLEEP 1941
World War II diary 1941 - 1942
HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE IN THE VICTORY CORPS PROGRAM 1942
Wartime writings on theatre 1943 - 1944
ONE THEATRE in National Theatre Conference Bulletin 1944
QUESTION FOR THE DAY (poem) 1944
Soviet-American theatre essays 1945
CAPITAL EXPERIMENT 1945
THEATRE GROWS IN BROOKLAND, D.C. 1945
Essays on regional and international theatre 1946 - 1949
NON-COMMERCIAL THEATRE 1946
RETURN TO ACTION: THEATRE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1947
STRAW HAT THEATRE 1948
NEEDED: A NEW KIND OF THEATRE BUILDING 1948
Articles re: theatre 1950 - 1973
Letters to the editor 1952 - 1956
IN ENGLAND (article in PLAYERS MAGAZINE) 1953
Articles in THE NEW YORK TIMES 1954 - 1977
NEW YORK SEASON - LONG SEASON'S JOURNEY INTO NOT MUCH 1957
TALE OF TWO CITIES 1957
Off-Broadway: An Infinite Capacity for Almost Anything 1958
WAITING FOR BECKETT
MSS, TSS, reprints 1958
Correspondence re: reprints 1966 - 1980
WHY SO AFRAID? 1962
Theatre reviews in THE NEW LEADER 1962 - 1963
EUROPE'S LESSON FOR BROADWAY 1963
DIRECTORS ON DIRECTING 1964
AFFRONT AND LINCOLN CENTER 1964
LAUGHTER AMONG THE RUINS 1965
Statement about Samuel Beckett for the SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE 1965
IDEA OF FESTIVAL THEATRE IN ITHACA 1965 - 1967
REGIONAL THEATRE VS. BROADWAY 1967
FILMING "FILM" 1969
Letter to the editor of EVERGREEN in response to John Lahr 1969
Tribute to Ruth White 1969
LONG, LONG WAIT FOR GODOT 1971
THEATRE: DOES IT EXIST? in ART IN SOCIETY 1971
DIRECTOR AS DOGSBODY in THEATRE QUARTERLY 1973
HUME'S FIRST TAPE AND RELATED MATTERS 1973
REPORT ON THREE WEEKS IN MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD - Cultural exchange program 1973
HAPPY JOURNEY TO MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD 1973
Articles re: Theatre 1973
THEATRE AS A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO LIFE 1973
Article in DGA ACTION 1975
CUTTING THROUGH RED TAPE TO ASCEND "MT. FUJI" 1975
WORKING WITH BECKETT
Manuscripts 1975
Reprints 1976
Typescripts, part I 1975
Typescripts, part II 1975
TEXAS TRILOGY STORY 1976
BECKETT AT SEVENTY, ALAN AT SIXTY - Manuscript, typescript 1976 - 1977
Article in The NEW YORK THEATRE REVIEW 1978
Tribute to Harold Clurman 1980
Book on Samuel Beckett - Photocopies of contributors' articles 1980
ENTRANCES
Book credits 1984
General correspondence 1971 - 1986
Manuscript - Annotated editing copy, part I 1984
Manuscript - Annotated editing copy, parts II-III 1984
Material dated 1983
Notebook 1984
Notes, typescripts 1984
Miscellaneous materials 1984
Notes for book, parts I-III 1984
Notes for book, part IV 1984
Notes on visits with Samuel Beckett 1972 - 1984
Typescript with light annotations 1983
THINGS TO COME TO 1984
ANOTHER PART OF THE ELEPHANT
CARE AND FEEDING OF PLAYWRIGHTS
ESSAY ON BECKETT
MOTHER COURAGE
NOTHING EASIER
ON PLAY AND OTHER PLAYS
Poems
SECOND CITY, D.C.
SO WHAT DO YOU REALLY DO, MR. DIRECTOR?
YOUNG MEN
Miscellaneous writings
Speeches
ONE THEATRE, Social Construction Conference 1941
NOT SILENT IS GOLDEN, Catholic University 1944
Radio Speeches for WQQW, Washington, D.C. 1947
MODERN AMERICAN THEATRE 1949
Miscellaneous speeches - Notes and outlines 1960 - 1975
THEATRE IN TRANSITION 1960 - 1962
ORGANIZED CHAOS, Iowa City 1961
BROADWAY SEESAW, Indiana University 1961
THEATRE IN TRANSITION, University of Wisconsin 1961
AGE OF REVOLUTION -- SOMETHING IS UP, Hofstra University 1962
BROADWAY PROCESS 1962
FUTURE OF AVANT-GARDE THEATRE IN AMERICA, Bucknell University 1962
THEATRE OF THE ABSURD, Adelphi University 1962
DIRECTOR AND THE THEATRE IN TRANSITION 1963
WHO'S AFRAID OF BROADWAY, University of Texas 1963
ARTS AND EXISTENCE 1964
REGIONAL THEATRE PROBLEMS, Florida 1964
SEARCH FOR A THEATRE, 555 Club 1964
ESSENCE OF MAN AND THE ARTS 1964
THEATRE IN TRANSITION, Kalamazoo College 1965
PERILS OF PROPHECY, Yale University 1965
THEATRE IN CHANGING SOCIETY, Valparaiso University 1967
WHO'S AFRAID OF EDWARD ALBEE, University of Missouri 1967
THEATRE ANYONE? 1968
THEATRE: DOES IT EXIST? 1969
ARENA THEATRE 1970
GOOD AND BAD THINGS IN AMERICAN THEATRE 1970
Lectures from Salzburg Seminar 1970
THEATRE: DOES IT EXIST? 1970
Miscellaneous speeches - Title pages 1970 - 1978
THEATRE MARCHES ON 1971
PROFESSIONAL LOOKS AT UNIVERSITY THEATRE, University of Wisconsin 1971
EUROPEAN THEATRE 1972
FUTURE OF AMERICAN THEATRE 1972
WAITING FOR BECKETT, University of Missouri, Kansas City 1973
Directing colloquium speech, Southern Methodist University 1974
THEATRICAL ENDS AND THEATRICAL MEANS, West Virginia University 1975
THEATRE IN TRANSITION 1976
36 DRAMATIC SITUATIONS, Cornell University 1941 - 1977
FROM REALISM TO REALITY, Smithsonian Institution 1977
WORLD OF DIRECTOR, Williams College 1977
NEW DRAMATISTS 1978
THEATRE IN TRANSITION 1978
ACTOR-DIRECTOR RELATIONSHIP 1978
Speech for Ibsen Symposium, Pratt Institute 1978
Speech for induction into Honor Society, New York High School of Performing Arts 1978
THEATRE ADVANCING, American Theatre Association, New Orleans 1978
AMERICAN THEATRE 1979
HOW NOT TO DIRECT A PLAY 1979
LETTER FROM RUSSIA 1979
REALITY/REALISM IN THE THEATRE 1980
NATURE OF THE THEATRE 1980
THEATRICAL ENDS AND MEANS 1981
THEATRE: DOES IT EXIST? 1981
THEATRE IN TRANSITION, Trinity University 1981
RECENT TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATRE, The American Center, Tokyo 1982
ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE SEEN IN THE ARTS 1984
AVANT-GARDE TODAY
Speech for Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
Theatre speech
Miscellaneous speeches
Interviews
VILLAGE VOICE (by Jerry Tallmer) 1962
REALITY IS NOT ENOUGH (by Richard Schechner) 1965
SPEAKING FREELY, NBC news 1970
ALAN SCHNEIDER, CAMPUS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (by Robert Jorge) 1971
Southeastern Massachusetts University (by Alex Hawkins) 1974
Miscellaneous interviews 1974 - 1978
DIRECTOR ALAN SCHNEIDER ON THEATRE (by Steven Stosny) 1975
ARTS IN AMERICA, for Voice of America 1979
BELL TELEPHONE MAGAZINE 1981
INTERVIEW WITH ALAN SCHNEIDER (by Parks)
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Anderson, Robert, THE KISSING WAS ALWAYS THE BEST
Arikha, Avigdor, THE NORTH
Beckett, Samuel
BEGINNING TO END
CATASTROPHE
EH, JOE
ELEUTHERIA
FIRST LOVE
FOOTFALLS - Photocopies of MSS and TSS annotated by author
IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE
LOST ONES
MERCIER AND CAMIER
Typescripts, carbon copy, in French
Typescripts, photocopy, in English
NACHT UND TRAUME
NOT I
OHIO IMPROMPTU
PLAY
QUAD
RADIO I AND II, THEATRE I AND II
STILL - Photocopy of annotated text
THAT TIME - Photocopy of TSS annotated by author
WHAT WHERE
WORSTWARD HO
Bishop, Tom, BECKETT ANTHOLOGY
Fehsenfeld, Martha, HAPPY DAYS REHEARSAL ACCOUNT
Foote, Horton, THE NIGHT SEASONS
Gontarski, Stanley, writings on Beckett
Libera, Antoni, SAMUEL BECKETT: "THAT TIME"
Lindsay, Howard, A NEW DRAMATISTS CRAFT
Markson, John W., The Plays of Edward Albee
Marowitz, Charles, ARTAUD AT RODEZ
McMillan, Dougald and Martha Fehsenfeld, essays on Beckett's work
Miller, Arthur, A NEW DRAMATISTS CRAFT DISCUSSION
Moliere, THE MISER. George Kernodle, translator
Pinter, Harold, ONE FOR THE ROAD
Quintero, Jose, proposed book on directing
Reeve, F.D., WHO THEY WERE
Saroyan, William, JIM DANDY
Scott, Duncan, LIGHT PLAY
Selwerth, Ralph, THE APPEAL FOR SAMUEL BECKETT
Stein, Joseph, BEFORE THE DAWN
Tabori, George, BRECHT ON BRECHT
Unidentified, PLAY and FIVE ANOTHER
Various authors, Beckett book
Various authors, Beckett book
Student essays
Warner, Francis, LYING FIGURES (with correspondence)
Weller, Michael, THE GREATEST LITTLE SHOW ON EARTH
Actors, various
Arena Stage - Facilities, personnel
Beckett, Samuel
Beckett Festival, Paris - Contact sheets 1981
Catholic University
Actors and productions
Productions not directed by Schneider
Cornell University - Student productions
Dartington Hall, England
Hartke, Gilbert (Catholic University)
Ithaca Festival Center for Performing Arts
Olivier, Laurence
Productions (not directed by Schneider)
British Theatre
Canadian Theatre
DAWN IS QUIET
ENDGAME (Foreign Productions)
HOUSE OF ATREUS
INHERIT THE WIND
A KIND OF ALASKA
THE PRICE
Russian Theater
Spanish, Greek Theatre
TARTUFFE
Various productions
Resumes and photographs of aspiring actors
Schneider, Alan
As actor in various productions
With others: actors, various
With Albee, Edward
With Beckett, Samuel
Group photos
With Miller, Arthur
With Pinter, Harold
Solo
Theater facilities, various
Theater in the Round (collected by Schneider)
University of Wisconsin - Student productions
SOUND RECORDINGS
Lectures and Oral Presentations
Arrabal, Fernando, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE THEATRE 1969
Baxendahl, Lee, BRECHT'S BRECHT undated
Chaikin, Joseph, WBAI poetry reading undated
Charlston, Rondi, ANTHEA, HAVEN'T WE MET, SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW, SAN FRANCISCO BAY BLUES undated
Galitch, Alexander undated
Gielgud, John, at Actor's Studio 1959
Graham, Martha, American Assembly Conference on Performing Arts undated
Guthrie, Tyrone, On direction undated
Hansson, Bo, LORD OF THE RINGS, and ATTIC THOUGHT undated
Jones, Robert, TOWARD A NEW THEATRE undated
MacGowran, Jack, SPEAKING BECKETT undated
Maisie - Unidentified undated
Miller, Arthur 1979
O'Brian, Jack and Alan Schneider 1976
Okudzhava, Bulat, MELODIA undated
Pinter, Harold, Talks on theatre undated
Schneider, Alan
ENEMIES, and SENIOR FAREWELL 1957 - 1973
FOCUS ON ALAN SCHNEIDER: THE FAMED BROADWAY DIRECTOR DISCUSSES HIS CAREER AND HIS ART undated
Shakespeare, William, HIS INFINITE VARIETY: A SHAKESPEAREAN ANTHOLOGY undated
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, Readings undated
Strasberg, Lee
Actor's Studio discussions 1963
Director's Unit discussion 1961
ON BRECHT undated
Talks on Litvanov 1965
Suzuki, MOVEMENT undated
Tandy, Jessica and Hume Cronyn, Honored by the Lotos Club undated
Valentine and Valentina - Untitled undated
Vertinsky - Untitled
Zavadsky, DIALOGUE WITH ALAN SCHNEIDER 1973
Productions and Musical Performances
ALL STRANGE AWAY, Samuel Beckett 1983
ALL THAT FALL, Samuel Beckett undated
AMAHL, THE LESSON, THE FOX 1958 - 1959
BEDTIME STORY, YOUNG MARRIEDS PLAY MONOPOLY 1963
BIRTHDAY PARTY, WELCOME TO THE CITY 1961
BLOOD RED ROSES, CAROLINA SEASONS, ROCK TOCCATA, ROYAL COPENHAGEN, UP TIGHT undated
EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, PRINCESS AND THE PEA Read by Eva Le Gallienne
English Theatre undated
FOLLSPLAY, Toby Tate undated
IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST undated
Japanese Flute, Kabuki undated
JIM DANDY, Sound cues undated
Mahagony, Director's unit undated
MALONE DIES undated
MERCHANT OF VENICE and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW undated
NO COWARD SOUL: A PORTRAIT OF THE BRONTES undated
OUT ON A LIMB undated
PAK IS STILL ALIVE, Director's Unit 1961
PERICLES, Acting Company 1983
ROCKABY, Samuel Beckett 1981
Shulman Play Performances undated
STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER undated
LA STRADA undated
TEXAS TRILOGY undated
THREE SISTERS undated
Disc Formats, ca. 1960-1970
JULES ET JIM
Kovacs, Kati
MERE COURAGE
Murena, Tony
MUTTER COURAGE
Russian music, various
Sincron
LA STRADA
TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE
Reel-to-Reel
Productions
ALL THAT FALL, BOX MAO BOX undated
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Chalk Circle Songs and Brecht Rehearsal undated
THE CHERRY ORCHARD 1966
EH JOE undated
ENDGAME undated
FOOTLIFTER undated
Fontaine, Frank undated
HOSTAGES undated
MOONCHILDREN
NOT I undated
RUX SOUL undated
LA STRADA
SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL undated
THAT TIME 1976
TINY ALICE 1965
TOM 1973
YELLOW BIRD undated
Unidentified presentation undated
Musical Recordings
BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN undated
COCO, song from undated
Heroic music undated
Pauken and Trompeten undated
Peaslee, Richard, Songs of Love and War
Russian music undated
Suzuki undated
TIGER RAG undated
Miscellaneous music
Materials from boxes 1-4
Materials from boxes 5-6
Materials from boxes 7-11
Materials from boxes 12-13
Materials from boxes 14-16
Materials from boxes 17-18
Materials from boxes 19-22
Materials from boxes 23-33
Materials from boxes 34-36
Materials from boxes 37 Folder 1 and 2
Materials from boxes 37 Folder 6
Materials from boxes 37 Folder 6-9
Materials from boxes 38-39
Materials from boxes 40
Materials from boxes 41
Accession Processed in 1997
CORRESPONDENCE
Beckett, Samuel - Photocopy 1953
Cline, Jerome Z. 1984
Kalb, Jonathon 1986
Kennebeck, Ed 1984
Pickening Press 1986
Pieperbrink, Gary 1986
Schneider, Alan to Franklin Heller 1975 - 1984
Schneider, Jean - Draft proposal, An (Inter) national conference the legacy of Alan Schneider
Viking Penguin, Inc. 1979 - 1988
Articles by Schneider
Miscellaneous 1976 - 1979
Things to Come - AMERICAN THEATRE, V. 1, No. 1 1984
Who's Afraid? - AMERICAN THEATRE, V. 2, No. 11 1984
Biographical information 1961 - 1979
Obituaries
Miscellaneous 1984
Remembering Alan Schneider - AMERICAN THEATRE, V. 1, No. 4 1984
Photographs
Alan Schneider circa 1983
Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider 1982
MISCELLANEOUS
ENTRANCES
Book reviews 1961 - 1986
Except published in NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE - Correspondence text and contracts 1985
Foreword by Edward Albee 1985
Permission request for photographs 1984 - 1985
Proposal for book, original 1979
Royalty statements and accounts 1986
Schneider poster - Costs
Viking Press contract information 1980 - 1987
AUDIOCASSETTES
Heller, Franklin and Alan Schneider - Telephone conversations
National Public Radio - Obituary 1984
Rich, Adrian - Review of ENTRANCES 1986
Accessions Processed in 2003
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Address books 1960 - 1983
Alan Schneider Conference (with honorary degree citation), University of Wisconsin, Madison 1990 March 8-11
"Draft Proposal: An (Inter) National Conference on the Legacy of Alan Schneider" and correspondence
Typescripts of conference papers: "Beckett and Schneider: The Rest is Ibsen," by Marty Fehsenfeld; "Another Truth," by J. M. Small; "Mentor to the Second Power," by J. V. Thorne; and "The Habit of Theatre," by M. Weller. Includes flyers and correspondence
Alan Schneider Distinguished Directors Fund. Julliard Drama Division. Programs with announcement 1995
Articles about Schneider
1954 - 1983
1984 - 1986
Articles about Schneider and Beckett 1976 - 1981
Articles which mention Schneider 1984 - 2001
Biographical statements - Drafts 1939 - 1980
Biographical statements in publications 1964 - 1973
Catholic University teaching contract 1950 - 1951
Curriculum vitae
"Did You Happen to See - - - Dr. Rebecka S. Schneider?" Newspaper article about Alan Schneider's mother by Eileen Etten undated
Forest Park High School varsity sweater letter "F" and class year '35 emblem
Inspirational quotes and clippings
Russian trip - Newspaper clippings 1973
United States Civil Service Commission application 1941
CORRESPONDENCE
Alan Schneider
A-Z - Miscellaneous
Arena Stage (Zelda Fichandler, stage manager)
1951 - 1957
1958 - 1962
1963 - 1981
Undated
Bermont, Hubert 1974
Ford Foundation. Division of Humanities and the Arts (W. McNeil Lowry, vice president) - Includes clipping 1962 - 1974
Kroll, Lucy (agent) 1951 - 1959
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) 1979 - 1983
University of California, San Diego 1979 - 1982
Warner, Selma 1972 - 1979
Wood, Audrey (agent) 1948 - 1956
Yale University 1966 - 1976
Unidentified correspondents
Eugenie Schneider
A-Z - Miscellaneous
Beckett, Edward 2000
Beckett, Samuel - Photocopies 1984 - 1985
Dick, Paul - Includes programs for plays dedicated to the memory of Alan Schneider [1990?]
Gehman, Geoff 1985 - 1989
Global Village Video Resource Center 1989 - 1993
Heller, Franklin 1985 - 1990
Hobgood, Burnet M. 1996
Knowlson, Jim 1988 - 1994
Konecni, Vladimir J. 1987 - 1989
Pennebaker Associates, Inc. 1988
Shelton, Lew 1991 - 1992
Skloot, Robert 1988
Smith, Phil 1986
Sotheby's - Includes consignment agreement and May 1990 newsletter 1990 - 1996
Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 1987 - 1997
Tuttle, Day and Lauralee 1986
Universite Charles de Gaulle (Catharina Wulf, guest editor) 1994
University of California, Los Angeles 1990
University of Texas, Austin. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Carlton Lake, executive curator) 1990
Unidentified correspondents
WRITINGS BY SCHNEIDER
Journals
London Theatre 1956
Journal: A Trip to Beckett 1957 October 3-8
Handwritten entries on loose notepad paper, originals and photocopies 1964 - 1966
Trip to Israel 1966
Water log: YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Cover title "How's Your Old Proscenium Arch" 1966 - 1967
Extra: Water log - Notebook 1967 - 1968
E. Europe 1969
Trip to Europe (1970 Summer), Godot journal (1971) with loose notecards, notes and notepad
Friends in U.S.S.R. 1973 May and October
A. L. - Handwritten notes 1975 August 20
Notepad - Includes address book 1979
My Life in the Westchester Medical Center 1982 June 20 - July 10
Acting - Notes and exercises undated
Cornell University Term Papers and Notes
Aesthetic Attitude 1940
Contents of Aristotle's "Poetics" 1940
Notes on the Meininger and Some Dissidents 1940
Study of Acting 1940
Theory of the Theatre 1940
Blight of the Dramatists 1941
Class notes [1941?]
Concerning Tragedy - Two drafts 1941
Theatre Bound and Unbound 1941
Conditions Favorable to Illusions [and] The Importance of the Audience by Lorenz Kjerbuhl-Peterson 1940 - 1941
De Fouquieres on THE ART OF THE MISE ON SCENE 1940 - 1941
Punch and Judy by Maurice Baring 1940 - 1941
Unidentified titles 1940 - 1941
Essays and Reviews
Study of the Recent Soviet Theatre. John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship application 1944
Caveat Director! Being a Few Revealing Comments on His Much Misunderstood Role 1946
NEW LEADER - Theatre Reviews. "A Brecht's a Brecht"; "An Ending and Some Beginnings"; "A Man for this Season?"; "The Redcoats Have Landed"; "Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo?"; "All That Glitters, Etc."; "Politics by Other Means"; "Hooray for A. P. A."; "Postscript from Moscow"; "A Season for All Men?"; "Brecht upon Brecht"; "Besieged, Bothered and Bewildered"; "Some of My Best Friends Are Critics"; "The Shattered Menagerie"; "Women and Children First"; "The Hollow Crowns"; "Three to Go." Typescripts 1962 - 1963
Foreword for ACTING IS BELIEVING by Charles McGaw 1965
Letter to the drama editor, NEW YORK TIMES 1965
Nothing in Our Theatre... For NEW YORK TIMES - Draft 1967
Let's Be Beastly to the British - Newspaper article May 21, 1967
Water log 1967 - 1968
Typescript first draft. "...a detailed day-by-day account of how a Broadway production is done. The show is YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING"
Typescript second draft. "...a day-by-day account of a Broadway production, YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING, one of the top hits of the 1967-1968 season"
Regional Theatre: A Critical Evaluation - Photocopy. HOUSTON CHRONICLE November 26, 1968
Ideas for writings - Handwritten notes 1970 - 1980
Happy Journey to Leningrad and Moscow - Typescript October, 1973
Letter to the Editor - Typescript with correction 1973
Maybe You Can Go Home Again - Typescript and photocopied pages 1973
Magnifying Glass to Life (Part two of a series on the theatre in Moscow and Leningrad) - Typescript 1973
Open Letter to Our Soviet Friends (and Others) - Photocopies and printed text 1973
They Loved Us in Leningrad (and Moscow) - and Vice Versa - Typescripts and photocopies 1973
Behind the Iron (Theatre) Curtain - Published in EVERGREEN 1974
Cutting Through Red Tape to Ascend Mt. Fuji - Draft 1975
TV Madness - Drafts 1975
Wilder in Washington - Draft. For NEW YORK TIMES July, 1975
Ashes and Sparks: My Life in the American Theatre. National Endowment for the Humanities application cover sheet 1980
Looking Ahead - Typescript 1980 - 1983
Edith Skinner - Typescript September 4, 1981
Ode to Graduating Yalie - Typescript May 24, 1981
Introduction to Michael Weller's FIVE PLAYS - Photocopy of typescript 1982
Introduction: The Whaddaya-Call-It Theatre - Typescript. In THEATRE PROFILES, volume 5 1982
Theatre: Does It Exist?
Theatre: Does It Exist? - Original manuscript of a book undated
Correspondence 1971 - 1981
ENTRANCES: AN AMERICAN DIRECTOR'S STORY (1986)
Notes under the title "The Memoirs of Alan Schneider: My Death in Art"
Original early typescript, annotated undated
Original early typescript, annotated undated
Computer printout
Permission from Beckett
Miscellaneous - Includes clippings
Poster
NO AUTHOR BETTER SERVED: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL BECKETT AND... Typescripts and newspaper clippings 1998 - 1999
8th Day - Handwritten notes undated
Bertolt Brecht, dead just over five years, already a legend... Photocopies of typescript and handwritten notes undated
Note on Play and Playwright undated
Prologue - Handwritten and typescript verse undated
Regional Theatre - Article for THE TIMES undated
Russian Theatre Wages War - Draft undated
SHOCK OF RECOGNITION, I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, FOOTSTEPS OF DOVES, I'M HERBERT - Director's notes undated
Trouble [?] - Handwritten text undated
Miscellaneous notes - Handwritten addresses, names, telephone numbers, jottings. Typescript bit of grocery items undated
Theatre Post-Productions Notes
Lists of plays directed by Schneider undated
File organization charts undated
LONG GOODBYE - Program 1947
DEMONSTRATION '48 - Program 1948
MIRACLE ON 44TH STREET 1948
ALL SUMMER LONG 1953
REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER 1953
ANASTASIA 1954
SKIN OF OUR TEETH - Includes clipping and THEATRE DES NATIONS magazine, March - June 1960, with mention of the 1955 production
TONIGHT IN SAMARKAND 1955
GLASS MENAGERIE 1956
LITTLE GLASS CLOCK 1956
OEDIPUS THE KING 1956
WAITING FOR GODOT 1956
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON 1957
MISS LONELYHEARTS 1957
DESERTERS 1958
ENDGAME - Includes black-and-white photographs 1958
KATAKI 1959
SECRET FREEDOM 1959
WAITING FOR GODOT, Texas 1959
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and ZOO STORY - Contains programs 1960
MEASURE FOR MEASURE 1960
HAPPY DAYS 1961
WAITING FOR GODOT 1961
ENDGAME 1962
PINTER PLAYS November, 1962
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF 1962
BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE 1963
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Boston and London 1963 - 1964
FILM 1964
TINY ALICE 1964
DO NOT PASS GO 1965
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and ZOO STORY - Includes program 1965
DELICATE BALANCE - Includes flyer 1966
MALCOLM 1966
BIRTHDAY PARTY 1967
YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING 1967
BOX, QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, HAPPY DAYS 1968
I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER 1968
MOONCHILDREN - Contains notes to Schneider ca. 1971
FOURSOME
Contains notes to Schneider ca. 1972
Zelda Fichandler's notes to Schneider ca. 1972
NOT I, HAPPY DAYS, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, ACT WITHOUT WORDS I - Includes advertisement 1972
OUR TOWN
Contains notes to Schneider ca. 1972
Zelda Fichandler's notes to Schneider ca. 1972
PLAY, FOOTFALLS, THAT TIME 1977
LOOSE ENDS - Contains journal entries on the production by unidentified author 1979
OUR TOWN - Contains handwritten cast lists [1983?]
LONDON FIASCO undated
Unidentified director's notes
Lectures and Talks
List of lectures given by Alan Schneider giving state and institution undated
Few words from the President-Elect undated
Organized Chaos: The Broadway Process - State University College at Oneonta Festival brochure May 3, 1969
Success is a Journey, Not a Destination - Notes for a talk given to Hastings High School Honors Society 1969
British Theatre in Transition: London, Stratford, Edinburgh - Brochure, course description, and reading lists for University of California, Berkeley Extension course August 11 - September 3, 1977
Williams College - Introduction for Alan Schneider November 15, 1977
Theatre in Transition - Brochure May 3, 1978
Guthrie Theatre - Handwritten notes July 11, 1981
Speaking of Theatre... Hudson River Museum series - Brochure undated
Talk undated
Interviews
Cornell Program in Oral History
Correspondence 1966 - 1970
Transcripts from interviews by David Smith, with annotations by unidentified 1969
Alan Schneider on Actor-Training - Interview by Robert Jorge. Photocopy of EDUCATIONAL THEATRE JOURNAL July 31, 1971
Conversation with Alan Schneider: On Soviet, Polish and American Theatre, edited by Bela Kiralyfalvi - Photocopy with handwritten annotations [1973?]
Alan Schneider Talks about Russian Theatre, interview by Richard Lebherz - Newspaper clipping November 23, 1973
Report on Russia - Handwritten notes for Boston University February 13, 1974
Director's Responsibility to the Play - "Critics' Roundtable" in the NEW YORK THEATRE review. Ira Bilowit, moderator and Jerome Lawrence, Wilford Leach, Robert Lee, Alan Schneider, and Allan Wallach November, 1978
Interview with Alan Schneider. Transcript of interview by Sonny Hoffer [?], Long Island University - Photocopy undated
Albee, Edward. "Die Zoo-Geschichte" undated
Articles about Beckett 1988 - 1998
Beckett, Samuel
Miscellaneous materials 1956 - 1996
WAITING FOR GODOT. Grove Press, New York. Title page inscribed "Thornton Wilder's re-translation of Godot for Alan Schneider, 1955" November - December, 1954
WAITING FOR GODOT. "Lucky's Speech as translated by Thornton Wilder for Alan Schneider." Handwritten by Schneider 1955 November
Carrier, Michael J. ALAN SCHNEIDER: A PLAYWRIGHTS DIRECTOR - Photocopy December 1, 1980
Hayes, Helen. Commencement Address, the Julliard School - Typescript June 3, 1977
Shelton, Lewis E. "Alan Schneider's Direction of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" - Photocopy Fall 1991
Suzuki, Tadashi. "The Chekhov - A Paradise Lost: Visions and Visitations of a Young Girl" - Photocopy undated
Alan Schneider
Lists of photographs obtained from Eugenie Schneider - Typescript. Includes information sheets for three Arena Stage photographs 1984 - 1985
Formal and informal black-and-white portraits. Includes contact sheets 1950 - 1980
Schneider directing and speaking 1960 - 1980
Alan Schneider with Others
Schneider, Edward Albee and others. Includes Place des Arts Theatre, Montreal, Canada 1960 - 1970
Schneider, Samuel Beckett and others 1960 - 1982
Schneider and Zelda Fichandler 1950 - 1960
Schneider with John Gielgud, Thornton Wilder and unidentified others 1950 - 1960
Theatre Productions
ALL SUMMER LONG
AMERICAN DREAM
ANASTASIA
BALLAD OF SAD CAFE
BIRTHDAY PARTY
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE 1961
DELICATE BALANCE
DUMBWAITER
ENDGAME
MACBETH
REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER 1953
SKIN OF OUR TEETH 1955
SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY 1966
ST. JOAN
SUMMER AND SMOKE 1954
TINY ALICE
TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
UNCLE VANYA 1962
WAITING FOR GODOT - Photocopy of photograph 1956
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? 1964
SCRAPBOOKS
Scrapbooks Processed in 2008
1948
1955-1959
1960-1965
1962-1968
Beckett's "Film" and other plays 1965-1976
1967-1968
1967-1968
1968
"La Strada" 1969
"Waiting for Godot" 1971
1972-1973
Clippings on Beckett 1972-1973
1973-1976
"Madness of God" 1974-1975
1976
1976-1981
1977-1983
"Loose Ends" 1979
UC San Diego clippings 1979-1983
"The Lady From Dubuque" 1980
1981
1983
"The War At Home" 1983
1983-1984
AUDIOCASSETTES
Interviews with Alan Schneider
Hickey, Sheila - Regarding "The Family in Theatre" and "Virginia Woolf" June 22, 1979
Hodges, Marion - "Cornell Oral History" October 4, 1966
Hodges, Marion - "Cornell Oral History" July 27, 1967
NBC News - Interview by Edward Newman undated
New York Radio 710/WOR - "In the Critic Circle" - Interview by Jack O'Brian undated
UWEX Radio Hall, Madison, WI - "Perspectives on Directing: Meet Alan Schneider" March 21 & 28, 1983
Lectures and Talks
Class Lecture Series
"Organized Chaos," regarding commercial theater October 25, 1973
"Regional Theater" October 26, 1973
"Regional Theatre" [continued?] October 29, 1973
"Playwrights" October 30, 1973
"Playwrights" October 30, 1973
Final wrap-up October 31, 1973
Informal talk at Raibles undated
Long Beach June 24, 1975
Long Beach June 25 & 30, 1975
Long Beach July 1, 1975
Long Beach July 2, 1975
Long Beach July 3, 1975
New Directions in Theatre February 18, 1963
Schenectady Civic Playhouse September 11, 1965
Schenectady Civic Playhouse September 11, 1965
Syracuse July 12, 1962
Theatre Doesn't Exist - At Minnesota University June 1969
Theatre in Transition January 22, 1967
Weissman, Philip and Alan Schneider - "Psychiatry and Theatre" undated
Unidentified lecture recordings
Theatre Productions
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE - Director's Unit June 4, 1961
DUMBWAITER - Director's Unit. On side 2: "Discussion, Lee Strasberg" May 18, 1961
MY LIFE IN ART undated
MY LIFE IN ART, (SORT OF) - Notes undated
SKIN OF OUR TEETH undated
SKIN OF OUR TEETH - Mary Martin and Helen Hayes undated
YANKEE INGENUITY undated
YOUNG MARRIEDS PLAY MONOPOLY May 30, 1963
Unidentified production meeting conversation October 1955
Miscellaneous
American Theater - Lecture by an unidentified instructor undated
Beckett, Samuel - WFMT-FM program undated
Classical music
Davie, Donald - "What Where" undated
Dick, Paul - "Ghost Sonata, Music and Lyrics" undated
Katchen, Julius. The London Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Nickleby. Original television soundtrack
Popular music, miscellaneous recordings
Schneider, Vicky regarding admissions to FIDM, Los Angeles - Recorded phone conversation
Materials from boxes 66-67
Materials from boxes 68-70
Materials from box 71
Materials from box 72
Materials from boxes 73-74
Accessions Processed in 2015
Appointment books
1966, 1967
1969, 1970
1972, 1975
1976, 1977
1978
Awards and certificates 1930-1935, 1957, 1985
Obituaries
Curriculum vitae & biographical note circa 1978
Expense and memo books 1973-1977
Awards and certificates
Honorary Degrees given in Alan Schneider's name
Journal 1958
Membership cards, passport and business card
UC San Diego events - Quinn Martin/A. Schneider dinner, and memorial service 1982, 1984
Program - The Alan Schneider Career in Text and Pictures 1964
CORRESPONDENCE
Abatemarco, Tony 1980
Alfred University 1981-1982
A Miscellaneous 1980 - 1983
The Banff Center, Alberta Canada 1981 - 1982
Beary, John (theater director) 1983
Berlinger, Bob 1966 - 1983
Boston University 1979
B Miscellaneous 1981 - 1983
The Chisholm Foundation 1994 - 1995
C Miscellaneous 1981 - 1983
Deutch, Clare and David 1981 - 1983
D Miscellaneous 1978 - 1983
E Miscellaneous 1980 - 1982
Fichandler, Thomas C. and Zelda 1982, undated
F Miscellaneous 1980 - 1983
Green, Lynne 1981 - 1982
Guthrie, Tyrone and The Guthrie Theater 1952 - 1983
G Miscellaneous 1975 - 1983
Hastings, Baird (conductor) 1977 - 1980
Higgins, Frank 1981 - 1982
H Miscellaneous 1976 - 1983
International Communication Agency 1979 - 1980
I Miscellaneous 1981 - 1983
Jacobson, Lisa 1981, 1983, undated
Johnson, Louisa 1981 - 1983
J Miscellaneous 1982 - 1983
Karawan, Dani 1966 - 1975
Kerjan, Liliane 1980 - 1981
K Miscellaneous 1975 - 1983
Laughton, Charles 1957
Lindy 1982, undated
Leightling, Selma 1982
L Miscellaneous 1980 - 1983
McIlrath, Patricia 1981 - 1983, undated
McLain, Michael 1981 - 1982
Meigs, Steve 1982
M Miscellaneous 1969- 1983
National Corporate Theatre Fund (Marie Nugent-Head) 1981 - 1983
National Endowment for the Arts 1980-1983
The Nina Vance Alley Theatre 1980 - 1981
N Miscellaneous 1981 - 1983
O Miscellaneous 1982 - 1983
Philips, Louis 1979 - 1981
P Miscellaneous 1981 - 1983
Q Miscellaneous 1982 - 1983
Ramsay, Margaret (London agent) 1956-1974
Riddell, Richard 1978
R Miscellaneous 1980 - 1983
Schneider, Jean 1990, 1995
Stanford University 1981 - 1983
S Miscellaneous 1979 - 1983
T Miscellaneous 1981 - 1983
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1967-1982
U Miscellaneous 1965 - 1983
V Miscellaneous 1980 - 1983
Weller, Michael (Loose Ends) 1971 - 1980
Williams, Tennessee 1965 - 1966
W Miscellaneous 1982 - 1983
X, Y, Z Miscellaneous 1982 - 1983
Unidentified 1965 - 1983
PRODUCTION MATERIALS
Plays
Anastasia (by Guy Bolton), Lyceum Theatre, New York - Playbill 1954
Waiting for Godot, American Premiere. Drawings for set design 1956
Mother Courage (by Bertolt Brecht, version for the American stage by Eric Bentley. Original title Old Mother Guts)
Script with edits. Version for the American stage by Eric Bentley. Original title Old Mother Guts 1935
Script with song lyrics and edits. Translation by Marc Blitzenstein 1957
Uncle Vanya (by Anton Chekhov), Goodman Theatre, Chicago - Script with notes 1961
Caucasian Chalk Circle (by Bertolt Brecht), Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. - Script with edits 1961
Happy Days (by Samuel Beckett), poster for McCarter Theatre 1962
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (by Edward Albee), Billy Rose Theatre, New York - Playbill 1962
Tiny Alice (by Edward Albee), Billy Rose Theatre, New York
Contracts and financial correspondence 1964 - 1965
Correspondence, fliers, set designs 1964
Production notes 1964
Script 1964
Film (by Samuel Beckett), poster for 3rd New York Film Festival 1965
Malcolm (by Edward Albee), Shubert Theatre, New York
Box office statements, contracts 1965
Correspondence, production notes 1965
Director's copy of script 1965
Playbill 1965
Production notes 1965
Script with edits 1965
Stage plans and set design 1965
Slapstick Tragedy (by Tennessee Williams), Longacre Theatre, New York - Correspondence 1966
A Delicate Balance (by Edward Albee), Martin Beck Theatre, New York
Contracts and financial correspondence 1966
Production notes, playbill 1966
Production notes, designs, props 1966
Script, director's copy
Script, signed by Schneider for Edward Albee 1966
Stage plans and set design 1966
Oversized playbill, photograph of marquee at Ambassador Theatre 1967
Playbill and reviews
The Birthday Party (by Harold Pinter), Booth Theatre, New York
Box office statements 1967
Casting 1967
Correspondence 1967
Floor plans 1967
Notes 1967
Split (by Michael Weller), Juilliard - Script 1976
Madness of God (by Elie Wiesel), Lyceum Theatre, New York - Correspondence 1976
Mother Courage (by Bertolt Brecht, version for the American stage by Eric Bentley. Original title Old Mother Guts) - Playbill 1978
Loose Ends (by Michael Weller), Circle in the Square Theatre, New York
Director's notes 1979
Financial correspondence 1979
Photobook 1979
Playbill, publicity 1979
Script, third draft with edits 1979
The Great American Quiz Show Scandal (by Louis Philips), University of California, San Diego
Director's notes and set design 1979
Script, annotated with director's notes 1979
Script, third draft 1979
The Lady From Dubuque (by Edward Albee), Morosco Theatre, New York
Contact sheet 1979
Correspondence and photos of staging 1979
Playbill 1980
Reviews 1980
Script 1977 - 1979
Set design 1979
Ruth Draper Revisited (adapted by Alan Levy from The Art of Ruth Draper by Morton Dauwen Zabel), Vienna's English Theater
Correspondence 1980
Scripts, playbills, and production notes 1980
Our Town (by Thornton Wilder). The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis - Programs and reviews 1981
Play and Other Plays (by Samuel Beckett), The Acting Company - blueprints of the urn's construction 1982
Before the Dawn (from A Ladies' Tailor by Aleksandr Borshchagovsky, adaptation by Joseph Stein)
Correspondence, director's agreement, notes on casting, prop lists 1980 - 1982
Scenic designs
Blueprints of stage and set design 1980 - 1982
Anatomy of a Cloud (by Paul Jenkins with Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins), workshopped by Schneider
Script with edits 1983
Script, notes and concept poster 1983
Photography by Geoffrey Clements 1983
Pieces of Eight, UCSD Theatre - Program and production notes 1983
Post-Production Files
The Acting Company (Schneider, artistic director) 1978 - 1984
Board meeting minutes and reports
Correspondence and memos
Schedules
Actors and actresses
Arena Theatre
Beckett, Samuel - Clippings and research
Berliner Ensemble and Bertolt Brecht
Bond, Edward (playwright) - Articles and correspondence
Caucasian Chalk Circle - Oversized poster
Central Staging (Theatre in the Round)
Ciulei, Liviu. Spring Awakening and Leonce and Lena
Clurman, Harold (Director)
Come and Go (by Samuel Beckett), drawings for costuming by John David Ridge 1982
Design sketches, Cornell University 1941
Directors
The Guthrie Theatre, The Entertainer, production prepared by Schneider 1983
Ithaca Festival Theater
Original plans 1978
Blueprints 1978
Juilliard
Appointment calendar 1976 - 1977
Clive Barnes (drama critic, The New York Post) - Articles and correspondence 1978
Richard Benter
Bermuda Festival - Program and correspondence 1977 - 1978
Cast lists and notes of Juilliard productions 1974 - 1979
Class suggestions
Anna Crouse 1977 - 1978
David Diamond 1978
Drama division
Faculty communication re: Drama program 1976-1977
Peter Mennin (President) 1971 - 1979
"Opening remarks" - Notes for speech 1976
Possible directors - Correspondence 1973, undated
Production correspondence
Production personnel
Rehearsal and production schedules 1976 - 1979
Spring Awakening, directed by Liviu Ciulei, produced by Schneider 1973 - 1978
Theater floor plans
League of Professional Theatre Training Programs - Reports and committee meetings
Lighting
Mock newspaper headline - presented to Schneider by Edward Albee 1962
The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego - Shakespeare Festival program 1965
Open stage theatre
Pamphlets and programs for Schneider productions
Playbills and programs - Schneider's early acting and directing
Portrait of Schneider as a young man, oil paint on paper, signed by Wynodsky (?) undated
Portraits of Schneider (sketches) 1962-1970
Posters - New York Shakespeare Festival's Measure for Measure and the Clarke College Weekend Theater Study 1960, 1967
Posters - Samuel Beckett Festival & Ohio Impromptu 1972, 1981
Oversized portraits (sketches) of Schneider 1973, 1979
New Dramatists Craft discussion with Howard Lindsay 1956 January 12
Production budgets, various
San Quentin Drama Workshop - In memoriam for Schneider 1984
Theatre architecture and design
Theatre Communications Group. Inc.
Annual reports and surveys 1978-1983
First Alan Schneider Director Award - Press release 1987
Conference materials 1980
Correspondence and newsletters
National Symposium welcome address by Schneider 1983 June 3-5
Report on Cable Television and the Performing Arts 1981
Theater pins and name tags
Theatre in the Round (arena theatre)
UC San Diego files
Michael Addison correspondence
Advanced directing class 1981
American College Theatre Festival, Award for Excellence in the production of "A Wilder Evening" 1981
Course materials for American Theatre seminar and Drama 1980 - 1981
Drama program 1978 - 1979
MFA program graduate recitals
Thornton Wilder event 1980
Faculty meeting minutes 1979 - 1980
Graduate MFA program and teaching assignment notes
The New University Theatre (La Jolla Playhouse)
Announcement, Opening of the Mandell Weiss Center - Schneider directs Pieces of Eight 1982 - 1983
Production committee notes, memos, production unit
Production/design correspondence
Theatre productions - Pamphlets and programs
Undergraduate program 1981 - 1982
Weller, Michael (playwright)
"The Young Die Young", short story idea c. 1936
Arena theater proposal for Columbus, OH circa 1951
"Shrinking Arch: The Decline of the Proscenium is Observed in theatres of Western Europe," The New York Times 1954 July 25
"The New School Tie or Not Waiting for Godot" - Drafts and correspondence 1956
"The Choice Remains" 1968
"Thornton Wilder and the Importance of Being Optimistic" 1975 July
"What Does a Director Do?" New York Theatre Review 1977
Entrances - Handwritten manuscript drafts undated
Entrances - Handwritten manuscript drafts undated
Lectures and Talks
Honorary degree acceptance speech, University of Wisconsin
Interview - Schneider on Pinter, Channel 13 talk 1967
Japan Program talk, "Recent trends in Contemporary American Theater (Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway" 1982
Programs and announcements for Schneider appearances
Reviews
Reviews for Entrances, An American Director's Journey 1986
Albee, Edward. The Man Who had Three Arms 1982
Gray, Robert. "Directing Penthouse-Style Plays," typescript undated
Lewis, Emory. "Director's Director," from Playfare 1971 May
Pinter, Harold. The Compartment (film script) undated
Smith, George Alan. "How do you build a theatre?" 1965 July 26
Weller, Michael. Split 1976
Weller, Michael. Twenty Three Years Later
Wharton, John F. "The mythology of ticket selling." Address delivered to the National Theatre Conference 1966 November 25
PHOTOGRAPHS
Alan Schneider
Action shots undated
As actor
With actors, actresses, playwrights and directors
With cast and crew
With Samuel Beckett 1955 - 1982
With Thornton Wilder on a ship, New York 1956
In Salzburg, Austria for seminar 1970
In Devon England, Dartington Hall,
In Israel 1966
In Japan (Suzuki) 1982 October
In Geneva, Switzerland (color slides) circa 1960
Ithaca Festival Theater, photos of model undated
Oversized portraits undated
Portraits 1963 and undated
Miscellaneous
Production Photos
Stage photographs and clippings - Unbound scrapbook
All Summer Long, Arena Stage
Anastasia, Broadway production
Catastrophe
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Arena Stage 1961
The Cherry Orchard, Arena Stage (?) undated
Come and Go
Endgame
Film (by Samuel Beckett), Schneider with Samuel Beckett working on the set of Film, signed photograph of Buster Keaton
Footfalls
The Glass Menagerie, Arena and Broadway productions
Happy Days
The Hasty Heart, Arena Stage 1952
I Never Sang for my Father, Longacre Theatre 1968
Kataki, Broadway - Ambassador Theatre 1959
Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett Festival, with Hume Cronyn, Lincoln Center 1972
Krapp's Last Tape, Arena Stage and other productions 1973
The Lady from Dubuque, Morosco Theater 1980
Loose Ends with Kevin Kline (black and white slides) 1979 - 1980
Madness of God, (TV) 1974 - 1975
Moonchildren, Arena and Broadway productions
Ohio Impromptu
Our Town, Soviet tour 1973
Pennypacker, Broadway production
Play
Pullman Car Hiawatha, Child's Play, American Dream and others 1952, 1942, 1965, undated
Rockaby
The Secret of Freedom, (TV), Mount Holly, NJ 1959
Squaring the Circle (Schneider's directorial debut) 1938
A Texas Trilogy
Waiting for Godot 1956
Waiting for Godot, Circle in the Square
What Where
Edward Albee, cast of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running 1967
Thornton Wilder productions
Miscellaneous theater productions
Photobooks
Burning of the Lepers, Arena Stage 1962
Uncle Vanya, Arena Stage 1962
Enemies, Arena Stage 1972
Madness of God, Arena Stage 1974
Play and Footfalls, Arena Stage 1976
Texas Trilogy, Kennedy Center 1976
Texas Trilogy, Kennedy Center 1976
The Cherry Orchard, Juilliard 1977
Mother Courage, The Acting Company 1977
Photographs by Louisa Johnson, including Schneider and production of Mother Courage 1977
Antigone, The Acting Company 1978
Spring Awakening, directed by Liviu Ciulei, produced by Schneider 1978
Rockaby, photobook of Billie Whitelaw 1981
The Acting Company, various productions undated
AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS
Reel-to-Reels
Interviews with Alan Schneider
Guthrie on directing undated
Waiting for Godot - WBAI Interview 1973 February 17
Zavadsky dialog with Schneider at University of Indiana 1973 November
Lectures and talks
Brecht's Brecht with Lee Baxendahl WBAI Dub undated
Caucasian Chalk Circle and Lee Strasberg discussion, parts 1-2 1961 May 25, June 1
Cornell University speech 1955 October
Lee Strasberg talk, and Aiken and Betts Part II December 10, and undated
Lee Strasberg, "Young Marrieds Play Monopoly" 1963 May 23, 30
Lee Strasberg, Vasily Livanov, General 1965
MacGowran speaking Samuel Beckett undated
Milwaukee "The Theatre in Transition", University of Wisconsin Milwaukee 1961 July 13
Minnesota University talk 1969 June
New Directions in Theatre 1963 February 18
"On the American Theatre" and A Rock through the Window, Parts 1-2
Robert E. Jones - "Towards a New Theatre"
Schenectady Civic Playhouse 1965 September 11
Senior Farewell Forest Park High School 1957
Señor Fernando Arrabal, Tufts University talk
Syracuse University lecture WAER 1962 July 12
The Theatre of the Absurd (Directing), University of Chicago
The Theatre of the Absurd IX
"Theatre in Transition" lecture 1967 January 22
Yale University speech to student body 1965
Theatre Productions
All that Fall, radio play by Samuel Beckett
The Lesson and The Fox by Arthur Miller 1958
Bedtime Story, director John Hancock and discussion with Lee Strasberg 1963 May
Dumbwaiter, by Harold Pinter, director Herb Dufine, discussion with Lee Strasberg 1961 May
Japanese Flute, Kabuki, Arthur Miller
Mahagonny, by Bertolt Brecht 1964 December
Malone Dies, by Samuel Beckett, Part 1 and 2
Mao Box Mao, by Edward Albee
Not I, by Samuel Beckett, with Jessica Tandy
Pak is Still Alive, by Zieger, director Sy Mottel and Carmen, director Joe Wishy - Director's unit 1961 January
Scene from unfinished material by Mike Gazzo, affective memory exercise, The Birthday Party and Welcome to the City - Actor's unit 1961 May
Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Alan Schneider, with Mary Martin and Helen Hayes 1958
That Time, by Samuel Beckett, with Donald Davis
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, and scene with Lady Bracknell, directed by Sir Jogn Gielgud
Miscellaneous
Director's Group (Arnold Shulman's Play Performances)
Encore Theatre, actors
Lee Strasberg on Bertolt Brecht
Lee Stasberg and Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Gielgud at The Actors Studio 1959 January 23
"The Director Looks at the University" with Alan Schneider 1971 July 21
University of Missouri, Kansas City, nos. 1-5 1973
Audiocassettes
Interviews with Alan Schneider
Jack O'Brien Show WOR710 1982 April
Jack O'Brien Show WOR710 1983 December
Lectures and talks
Class lecture series
"The Director Looks at The University" 1971 July 21
Yale University, parts 1-2 1965
Theatre productions
Miscellaneous
UC San Diego memorial service, and NPR interview with Schneider on Beckett 1984 May 24, and undated
Memorial service ca. 1984 May
Digital Recording
Moving Images
Interview with Alan Schneider in Palm Beach, promoting Krapp's Last Tape - 16mm undated
Rockaby screening dub on U-matic tape undated