The Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Producing Organizations and Theatre Companies
DORIS COLE ABRAHAMS PAPERS:National tours and Broadway production of Equus.
AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE:Organizational records for OSU-based organization which promoted new plays by established writers for regional and university theatres.
AMERICAN THEATRE CRITICS ASSOCIATION: Records for the association including published submissions by members as required by the association.
AS THE WORLD TURNS COLLECTION : Scripts from the television show for 1980 Apr. 18-1982 Oct. 22.
BEST PLAYS: Archival materials from editors Otis L. Guernsey and Jeffrey Eric Jenkins for annual compilation of Best Plays.
BLACK THEATRE NETWORK: Archival records.
COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Archival records for the CSO and its predecessor organizations.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATRE COMPANY:Organizational records of Columbus company.
CUPOLA:Production files from this 1970s Columbus experimental theatre company.
DALCROZE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: Photographs, school records. music, instruments including Hilda Schuster materials.
DALCROZE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: Journals, photographs, correspondence, and music.
DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE COLLECTION: Backlist from 1986 and annual contributions since.
EAST LYNNE COMPANY: Materials documenting the East Lynne theatre company.
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: Production records of this Cincinnati company.
SAMUEL FRENCH COLLECTION:Gift of scripts annually since 1986.
GALLERY PLAYERS: Records documenting this Columbus-based company.
GRANDPARENTS LIVING THEATRE: Records documenting this Columbus-based company, from founder Joy Reilly.
HARMOUNT'S UNCLE TOM'S CABIN COMPANY:Photographs, correspondence, route books, posters and other materials documenting this Uncle Tom's Cabin company work from ca. 1900-1930.
HARTMAN THEATRE:Scrapbooks, programs, photographs and other materials from this major touring house.
HORSE CAVE THEATRE:Organizational records from this Equity company in Horse Cave, Kentucky.
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS: Play scripts and accompanying materials submitted by the members of the ICWP.
LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER:Organizational records documenting theatre company.
LANCTON LUCIER VAUDEVILLE COMPANY: Photographs of this vaudeville company.
PLAYERS THEATRE:Organizational records from its early history as a club and community theatre through move to Equity and closure in 1993.
WASHINGTON THEATRE LAB: Materials documenting this theatre company.
WINDSOR
INDOOR CHAUTAUQUA:Scripts, gags, programs, advertisements,
correspondence documenting this company.
Note: Only the underscored items in the lists are linked to collection finding aids, records in the web version of the Ohio State University Library Catalog, or other relevant web pages. Other items will be linked as the appropriate web pages become available.
"Theatre is the universal means of expression. It embraces all of the arts through which human minds seek to reach one another."
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee - November, 1986