Actors Repertory Theatre presents "Falsettos" playbill
Las Vegas, NV: ART, 1996. [8p] includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, actor bios, very good program on glossy stock in stapled white pictorial wraps, ticket stub laid-in. More
Cat.No: 244702
Theater, theatre
After Dark: magazine of entertainment vol. 3, #3 July 1970 (misnumbered as vol. 12)
New York: Dance Magazine, 1970. Magazine. 84p. including covers 8.5x11 inches, articles, features, reviews, listings, illustrated with b&w photos and ads, lightly-worn, otherwise a very good semi-glossy entertainment magazine in lightly-worn stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on Zoe Caldwell as "Colette" etc. The numbering of the volumes is illogical in..... More
Cat.No: 189933
Amante y Penol. Una historia veridica del puerto Habanero. Teatro "Mella." Linea y B. Vedado... Panorama de Teatro Cubano. Asiste Trabajador [broadside]
Havana: Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Marina Mercante y Puertos, n.d. 15.5x11.5 inch broadside on card, vertical fold crease, some smudging. More
Cat.No: 237648
An American Inroads special event: John Adams' opera Nixon in China, program, concert preview performances Thursday & Friday May 21 & 22 8pm at Herbst Theatre
San Francisco: American Inroads, 1987. [8p] includes covers, 7x8.5 inches, special thanks card laid-in, light wear and tioning, program for the special event, booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 225036
The arts; a reflection on culture, Black History Month, February 1988
Detroit: Detroit Free Press and Michigan Bell, 1988. 16p., 11x14 inch supplement to the Detroit Free Press, with articles on music, theater, cancer, literature, film and art. More
Cat.No: 137184
Axis: a new play written and directed by David Alphin [handbill]
San Francisco: New Performance Gallery, [1987]. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill in landscape format, printed one side only, abstract image, very good. More
Cat.No: 202354
Barbary Coast Productions presents Barbary Coast starring Jerry Lanning and Marcia Rodd [handbill/playbill]
San Francisco: Barbary Coast Productions, 1978. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet folded to make a playbill, printed both sides, light wear, fold creases, short closed tears, glossy white stock printed with black ink design and white text on front, black text program on rear. Vanity production by William Penzner who wrote..... More
Cat.No: 202346
Berkeley Festival . Greek Theatre . Berkeley California . May . June . 1941 / The Berkeley Festival Association presents Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare under the personal direction of Dr. George Altman / with the following great artists: Lois Moran as Viola; Gilmore Brown as Sir Toby Belch; Barbara Horder as Olivia. Art Director Lloyd Stanford / Dedication: The Association dedicates this production to the memory of Benjamin Weed, who in eighteen hundred and ninety-four discovered the natural ampitheatre which afterwards bore his name and upon which the present Greek Theatre was erected in nineteen hundred and three. Sunday, June 8, 1941 3:00 P.M., Sixth Event
Berkeley: The Berkeley Festival Association, 1941. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 32p., printed on semi-coated partly acidic paperstock and stapled into 10.5x7.5 inch pictorial wraps. Laid in, same size on same stock, a 4p program for the 12th Night production. All paper is somewhat toned, program has some creasing, a very good..... More
Cat.No: 234317
Black Maria presents "Readings" from the Dinner Party. Dramatic presentations of women honored in the Dinner Party
n.p. Black Maria, n.d. 8.5x14 inch handbill, horizontal fold crease, otherwise very good. Performers brought to life such women as Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alice B. Toklas, and others who had been included in Judy Chicago's feminist installation, "The Dinner Party," which imagined these historical figures together at a single..... More
Cat.No: 248583
The Black Performing Arts Troupe of Cal State College-Hayward presents "What is is, What is was, What it's gon' be!" A dynamite, down-to-earth review of drama, music, song and dance... [handbill]
Hayward, CA: the Troupe, [1971]. 11x8.5 inch handbill, very good with some toning at upper right corner. Black and white photo depicts the cast posing onstage. A contemporary newspaper announcement described the show as an overview of Black history in America. More
Cat.No: 227960
A black quartet; four new black plays by Ben Caldwell, Ronald Milner, Ed Bullins and Leroi Jones, with an introduction by Clayton Riley
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1970. Mass Market Paperback. xxiii, 158p. + 8p. photos, first printing, wraps; worn and acidic, with a dampstain that affects the first dozen leaves. Paperback original. More
Cat.No: 137992
Black Suit New Girl: musical performance 26 August, 2011, Bexco, Busan; The 10th International Congres on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
Busan, South Korea: The HORN Contents Crew & SOWOL Arts Symphony Orchestra, 2011. Six panel program folded to 5.5x11.5 inches, texts in English and Korean, performers with color headshots, story line, songs, very good on heavy semi-glossy stock. More
Cat.No: 242836
Blevins Davis and Robert Breen present Porgy and Bess; Music by George Gershwin, libretto by Du Bose Heyward
New York: Everyman Opera, 1952. [28]p. profusely illus., 9x12 inch program for the Cab Calloway production of the musical, handbill for its production at San Francisco's Curran Theatre laid in, very good in wraps. Version first presented at Dallas' State Fair Auditorium in June, 1952. More
Cat.No: 147988
Bread & Puppet 2007 Museum Calendar
St. Johnsbury, VT: Silver Mountain Graphics, 2007. [24]p., stapled wraps, 8.25 x 10.75 inches, very good wall calendar illustrated with photos of puppets made by the Bread & Puppet theater. More
Cat.No: 255492
Bread and Roses Theatre presents 2 Chicago premieres: Performances by Little Flags Theatre from Boston in Fanshen by David Hare... Tania by Maxine Klein... [poster]
Chicago: Bread and Roses Theatre, [1977]. 11x17 inch poster, very good. More
Cat.No: 255535
Bubbling brown sugar! A musical revue, Harlem 1910-1940
New York: MCM Ventures, [1978?]. 20p. illus. playbill for the Loften Mitchell musical, 12x9 inches, wraps. More
Cat.No: 44170
C.I.C., the Chinese Intercollegiate Council of Greater Boston, presents The Yeh Yu Opera Association, Inc. in a Chinese opera
Boston: 1961. 6-page program for the performance, with ads from local Chinese restaurants. More
Cat.No: 237193
[Cabinet card with photo of an actor in Japanese costume]
Topeka, KS: Crescent Gallery, n.d. 4.5x6.5 inch card with worn corners, black and white photo. We find other photos of the same (apparently Anglo) actor online from this Topeka gallery, sometimes attributed to a Mikado production. More
Cat.No: 247219
Cao Yu, Wang Zhaojun ji qi ta 曹禺王昭君及其他
Hong Kong: Liang you tu shu gong si, 1980. 144p., very good paperback. More
Cat.No: 236904
Catalogue of costume and decor designs for ballet, theatre and opera; including the property of Mlle. Wilfride Piollet [et alia] / including [works by] Leon Bakst, costume design for the sultan in Scheherazade, 1910 [&c &c]
London: Sotheby & Co., 1974. 131p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with b&w and some color reproductions, first issue of the catalogue; 9.5x7 inch decorated matte wraps, head and tail of spine have been repaired with clear tape, good copy with no ownership marks. The "estimates" leaf is laid in and is..... More
Cat.No: 173777
Censorship [two issues]
London: Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1965, 1966. Two issues of the staplebound journal, lightly worn wraps. Issues present are No. 4 (Autumn 1965) and No 5 (Winter 1966). Topics discussed include censorship of theater, China's information control system, and much more. In 1966 it was revealed that the sponsoring organization..... More
Cat.No: 226036
Chicago Express [five issues, 1973-74]
Chicago: Shoestring Publishing Corp. 1973-1974. Newspaper. 12p.-16p., folded tabloids, illus., light toning, very good condition. Include: Vol. 1, No. 40 (May 16-22, 1973); Vol. 2, No. 21 (Feb. 14-27, 1974); Vol. 2, No. 22 (Feb. 28-Mar. 13, 1974); Vol. 2, No. 23 (Mar. 14-27, 1974); Vol. 2. No. 25 (Apr..... More
Cat.No: 218004
The color purple; a gala premiere benefitting the San Francisco Women's Building and the San Francisco School of Dramatic Arts, December 18, 1985, Masonic Auditorium
[San Francisco]: n. pub. 1985. 24p., illus., 8.5x11" program for the benefit opening of the film version of Alice Walker's novel. More
Cat.No: 19573
Columbia Theatre. San Francisco, Cal. Week of May 17, 1897
San Francisco: George De Troost, 1897. 8p., 7.75x11 inches, very good. Brochure announcing upcoming performances, with numerous advertisements (ranging from nearby cafes to music shops, various medical offices, and homeopathic remedies). The main upcoming performance was E.E. Rice's "Excelsior, Jr." More
Cat.No: 260884
Commemorate International Labor Day May Day celebration
San Diego: Workers' Club, [1935]. Small ticket, 2.75x4.5 inches, slightly worn. Program featured Winifred Carr, Stanley Hancock, Paul Alexander, New Theatre Group of Hollywood. Not stated, but clearly sponsored by the San Diego Communist Party. More
Cat.No: 80973