Series I: Productions

This collection houses the records of Arizona State University's Department of Theatre for all programs except Theatre for Youth. The Theatre for Youth Program Records are located in the Child Drama Collection (Boxes EDU/ASU). The bulk of the ASU Department of Theatre Records consist of such production materials as photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, and season brochures. Also included are articles documenting the Department's historical highlights, faculty projects and biographies, season and production posters, and publications by the College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre.

Series I: Productions consists of seventeen boxes of materials arranged chronologically by academic year/season documenting the Department's mainstage productions, student productions (including Scholarship Series, Second Stage Series, Prism Series, etc.), joint productions with ASU's Lyric Opera Theatre, residencies and workshops by guest artists, and book-in productions by professional companies and artists. The folders in this series contain playbills, flyers, reviews and clippings, photographs, press releases, audition notices, correspondence, and production-related awards received by the Department. Document Removal forms within the folders in this series indicate descriptions and locations of articles relocated to Series VI.

Interested researchers may also wish to consult MS SC THA: Arizona Theatre Collection, Box 2 for information on productions produced solely by ASU's Lyric Opera Theatre (LOT); MS SC THA: Arizona Theatre Collection, Box 2 for materials regarding ASU's Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA; a Department of Theatre faculty member serves as a liaison to ISA, and some Department productions have been subsidized through ISA grant monies); and the Child Drama Collection, Boxes EDU/ASU for information on the Department of Theatre's Theatre for Youth productions, festivals, and workshops.

Series II: Historical/Administrative Highlights and Ephemera includes two boxes with articles arranged chronologically documenting various events in the history of the Department, including the construction of facilities, alumni reunions, course offerings, graduate and undergraduate program overviews, and publicity materials for the College of Fine Arts. Interested researchers may also wish to consult the Child Drama Collection, Boxes EDU/ASU for information about graduate programs and curriculum in Theatre for Youth.

Series III: Faculty contains one box of articles and flyers showing some members of the ASU Department of Theatre faculty. Folders are arranged alphabetically by the faculty member's last name. Interested researchers may also wish to consult the Child Drama Collection, CTAA Biographical Boxes BIO-1 through BIO-3 for information on Theatre for Youth faculty and the personal papers of such former faculty as Don Doyle, Lin Wright, Barbara Salisbury Wills, and Roger Bedard.

Series IV: College of Fine Arts and Department of Theatre Publications is composed of two boxes with incomplete sets of publications produced by the Department of Theatre and the College of Fine Arts including Focus on Fine Arts, ASU Backstage, the ASU Theatre Alumni Newsletter, and CFA Calendar listings. Publications date from 1978 to 2002.

Series IV: Posters includes two oversize folders of various Department of Theatre posters arranged chronologically. Folder 1 houses ASU Department of Theatre Season Posters dating from 1981/82 to 1988/89; Folder 2 houses ASU Department of Theatre Production and Workshop Posters dating from 1971 to 1999.

Series VI: Oversized Articles contains three oversized folders of newspaper articles with photos. The materials in Folder 1 document productions; Folder 2 documents Historical and Administrative Highlights; and Folder 3 documents Department of Theatre faculty. Each of the three folders is arranged chronologically. Document Removal forms in Series I, Series II, and Series III describe each oversized item and its original location.

Series VII: Typescripts houses typescripts of shows never produced at ASU.

Series VIII: Videotapes includes recordings of ASU Department of Theatre productions, professionally produced plays, and theatre reference materials like profiles of theatre companies or workshops on acting.