Research Catalog
Herbert M. Prentice papers
- Title
- Herbert M. Prentice papers, 1925-1960.
- Author
- Prentice, Herbert M, 1890-
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 1 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 2 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 2A | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 2A | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 3 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 4 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 5 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 5 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 6 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 6 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 7 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 7 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 8 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 8 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 9 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 9 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 10 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 10 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 11 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 11 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 12 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 12 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 13 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 13 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 14 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 14 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 15 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 15 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 16 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 16 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 17 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 17 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 18 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 18 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 19 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1964-005 Box 19 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 38 lin ft. (76 boxes).
- Summary
- The collection is almost entirely bound promptbooks, annotated with notes and cues by Prentice, for the plays he produced.
- Subjects
- Coward, Noël, 1899-1973
- Ervine, St. John G (St. John Greer), 1883-
- Prentice, Herbert M, 1890-
- Hay, Ian
- Theater > Production and direction > England
- Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
- Sheffield Repertory Theatre
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
- Milne, A. A (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956
- Promptbooks
- Civic Theatre at Chesterfield
- Hiller, Wendy, 1912-2003 > Photographs
- Priestley, J. B (John Boynton), 1894-1984
- Lonsdale, Frederick, 1881-1954
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- Bridie, James, 1888-1951
- Jackson, Barry, 1879-1960
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Genre/Form
- Promptbooks.
- Note
- Photographs from identified productions and programs have been removed and placed in the Library's Photographs and Programs files.
- A complete list of play titles is available in the Theatre Collection's database.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- B.F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd.
- Biography (note)
- Herbert M. Prentice, British producer, director and designer, staged hundreds of plays during his career including many first productions as well as popular revivals.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1964-005
- OCLC
- NYPW97-A123
- Author
- Prentice, Herbert M, 1890-
- Title
- Herbert M. Prentice papers, 1925-1960.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Herbert M. Prentice, British producer, director and designer, staged hundreds of plays during his career including many first productions as well as popular revivals. His focus was on well known playwrights of his time including James Bridie, Noel Coward, St. John Ervine, Ian Hay, Frederick Lonsdale, W. Somerset Maugham, A. A. Milne, Eugene O'Neill, J. B. Priestley, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. He began his career in 1918 at the Little Repertory Theatre in Sheffield and was associated with the Sheffield Repertory Company, the Festival Theatre, Cambridge and the Repertory Theatre, Northampton before being hired as producer by Sir Barry Jackson for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1932. He was at the Birmingham until 1940 and staged many first productions there. During this period he also produced plays at the Malvern Festivals (1934-1937) including SAINT JOAN with Wendy Hiller on the occasion of George Bernard Shaw's 80th birthday. His first London production was ONCE IN A LIFETIME in 1933. In the 1940s and early 1950s he staged plays at the Sheffield, Southport, Stratford-on-Avon, Birmingham, the Civic Theatre at Chesterfield and the Pitlochry Festival. Prior to his tenure at the Birmingham Rep., Prentice designed most of the settings for his productions. He also wrote a few of the stage adaptations he produced, including one for ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet: folder level control.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1964-005