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Bob Sickinger Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sickinger
Abstract Press reviews and photographs of Hull House Theater productions directed by Bob Sickinger, 1963-1969, together with copies of Sickinger's 1963 essay on the state of theater in Chicago and his press release regarding his involuntary departure from Hull House in 1969. Also a few programs, press releases, advertisements, a fan letter, and a thesis on Hull House children's theater programs. As director of Hull House Theater between 1963 and 1969, Sickinger was instrumental in founding Chicago’s...
Dates: 1934-1985; Majority of material found within 1963 - 1969

Goodman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

Hope Abelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

Kay Ashton-Stevens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-StevensK
Abstract

Correspondence, personal and career related materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials of Chicago actress, television and radio personality, and wife of critic Ashton Stevens, Kay Ashton-Stevens.

Dates: 1905-1978

Mike Nussbaum Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Nussbaum
Abstract

Playscripts, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous personal and production materials of Chicago actor and director known for his work with playwright David Mamet and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Dates: 1945-2017; Majority of material found within 1964 - 2015

Raven Theatre Records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Raven
Abstract

Records related to Chicago’s Raven Theatre’s administration, development, history, and productions. Materials include box office reports, building plans, and correspondence, as well as budgets, flyers, photographs, reviews, press releases, programs, annotated scripts, and set designs for Raven Theatre’s main stage and “shorties”/one act productions.

Dates: approximately 1940-2015; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2013

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Photographs -- 1901-1950 5
Clippings -- 1951-2000 3
Clippings -- 2001-2050 3
Community theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Playbills -- 1951-2000 3
Playbills -- 2001-2050 3
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century 3
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 3
Theater -- Production and direction 3
Theater programs -- 1951-2000 3
Theater programs -- 2001-2050 3
Video recordings -- 2001-2050 3
Clippings -- 1901-1950 2
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 2
Philanthropists -- United States 2
Scripts (documents) -- 1951-2000 2
Scripts (documents) -- 2001-2050 2
Theater architecture 2
Theater programs -- 1901-1950 2
Video recordings -- 1951-2000 2
Actors 1
Actors -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
Actors and actresses -- Portraits 1
Audiotapes -- 1951-2000 1
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) 1
Calligraphy (visual works) 1
Caricatures -- 1951-2000 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Cuba -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Diaries 1
Divorce 1
Drama 1
Dramatists -- United States 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Egypt -- Description and travel -- 20th century 1
Ensemble theater 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- Sources 1
Fan mail 1
Florida -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Japan -- Description and travel -- 20th century 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews 1
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Off-Broadway theater 1
Package tours 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Personal correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Personal correspondence -- 2001-2050 1
Phonograph records -- 1901-1950 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Playbills -- 1901-1950 1
Posters -- 1951-2000 1
Posters -- 2001-2050 1
Promotional materials -- 1951-2000 1
Promotional materials -- 2001-2050 1
Radio -- History 1
Radio acting 1
Radio actors and actresses -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Radio programs -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Radio scripts -- 1901-1950 1
Repertory theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Scenography (discipline) -- 1951-2000 1
Scenography (discipline) -- 2001-2050 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Scrapbooks -- 2001-2050 1
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 1
Sound recordings -- 2001-2050 1
Television -- History 1
Theater -- 20th century -- Reviews 1
Theater -- Production and direction -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Theater -- Soviet Union 1
Women theatrical producers and directors -- United States 1
Works of art -- 1951-2000 1
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Language
Japanese 1
Russian 1
 
Names
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Hull House Theatre (Organization : Chicago, Ill.) 2
Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Albee, Edward, 1928-2016 1