Lucille Lortel papers
- Title
- Lucille Lortel papers, 1902-2000.
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Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 40 - Box 15. Series I: Correspondence-Individuals, Robert Kalfin-Jan Miner | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 39 - Box 14. Series I: Correspondence-Individuals, Jose Ferrer-Jacob Javits | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 38 - Box 13. Series I: Correspondence, 1999; Correspondence-Individuals, Edward Albee-Drew Eliot | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 37 - Box 12. Series I: Correspondence, Jan. 1997-Dec. 1998 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 36 - Box 11. Series I: Correspondence, Dec. 1995-Jan. 1997 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 35 - Box 10. Series I: Correspondence, Aug. 1994-Nov. 1995 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 34 - Box 9. Series I: Correspondence, July 1993-July 1994 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 33 - Box 8. Series I: Correspondence, July 1992-June 1993 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 32 - Box 7. Series I: Correspondence, May 1991-June 1992 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 31 - Box 6. Series I: Correspondence, Jan. 1990-Apr. 1991 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 30 - Box 5. Series I: Correspondence, Oct. 1988-1989 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 29 - Box 4. Series I: Correspondence, July 1987-Sept. 1988 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 28 - Box 3. Series I: Correspondence, July 1985-June 1987 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 27 - Box 2. Series I: Correspondence, 1972-June 1985 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 26 - Box 1. Series I: Correspondence, 1921-1971 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 25 - Box 148 (f. 2) & 149-150. Series XI: Scrapbooks, The Balcony, Lucille Lortel 1960-1969, Waldo Mayo 1918-1976 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 24 - Box 147 (f. 2) & 148 (f. 1). Series XI: Scrapbooks, ANTA Matinee Series 1966-1971, 1971-1975 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 23 - Box 146, 147 (f. 1). Series XI: Scrapbooks, ANTA Matinee Series 1958, 1960-1966 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 22 - Box 145. Series XI: Scrapbooks, ANTA Matinee Series 1956-1960 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerr. 21 - Box 144. Series XI: Scrapbooks, White Barn Theatre, 1988 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-606 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Additional authors
- Black, Kitty, 1914-
- Cotes, Peter, 1912-
- Grew, Mary, 1902-1971
- Halligan, Maureen
- Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-1993
- Wax, Emanuel
- White, Leonard
- Acker, Sylvia
- Allison, Michael
- Berman, Lois
- Brown, Tina Tippit
- Sargent, Edith Drake
- Drake, Ervin
- Farrell, Minerva
- Hodges, Gil
- Hodges, Lonnie
- McConnell, Maryanna
- Martin, Elliot
- Montevecchi, Liliane
- Oakie, Victoria Horne
- Lewis, Abby
- Seymour, John D., 1897-
- Sosenko, Anna
- Stevenson, Isabelle, 1915-2003
- Taylor, Robert
- Tompkins, Robert
- Volle, Danielle, -2000
- Williams, Maggie
- Albee, Edward, 1928-2016
- Blessing, Lee
- Dalrymple, Jean
- Fugard, Athol
- Havoc, June
- Hiss, Alger
- Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995
- Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004
- Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994
- Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991
- Mason, Marshall W.
- O'Casey, Eileen
- O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964
- Rainer, Luise, 1910-
- Saddler, Donald
- Strasberg, Anna
- Strasberg, Lee
- Wallace, Hazel Vincent, 1919-
- Curcio, Vincent
- Eliot, Drew
- Glenn, Robert
- Henderson, Mary C., 1928-2012
- Marvin, Blanche
- Wilson, Edwin, 1927-
- Description
- 49.61 lf. (121 boxes)
- Summary
- The papers of Lucille Lortel relate the details of her life and career from teen years to her death in 1999, and include correspondence, production files, scripts, programs, production photographs, personal and family photographs, organization files, clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. Lucille Lortel's life spanned the twentieth century, so in addition to providing details of her family and personal life her papers encompass many aspects of the theatrical history of her era. Lortel is credited with fostering the Off-Broadway movement and providing a forum for avant-garde and experimental work at her Theatre de Lys. Lortel's productions at the White Barn and the ANTA Matinee Series at the Theatre de Lys brought works by Jean Genet, Sean O'Casey, Athol Fugard, and others to a wider audience. Many of these productions are represented in the collection by correspondence, programs, photographs and clippings. Over the years Lortel also worked closely with several non-profit theaters as a donor and mentor. Her affiliations with Circle in the Square, Circle Repertory Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Yale Repertory Theatre, and other companies are documented in the organization files.
- In addition to documentation of her theatrical enterprises, the Lucille Lortel papers also contain material concerning her family and her husband Louis Schweitzer. Louis Schweitzer's papers include some correspondence, clippings, and a few documents relating to his work with the Vera Institute of Justice. There is also material on Lortel's mother, Anna Wayo Wadler, her brothers, Seymour Wadler and Waldo Mayo, and her sister Ruth Cugat. Waldo Mayo's files contain programs, clippings, and writings which detail his early career as a violinst in the United States and Europe. Ruth Cugat and her husband, Francisco Coradal Cugat were artists, and some examples of their work can be found in the collection.
- Subject
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Lortel, Lucille
- Sargent, Edith Drake > Correspondence
- Rainer, Luise, 1910-2014 > Correspondence
- Glenn, Robert > Correspondence
- Hodges, Gil > Correspondence
- Blessing, Lee > Correspondence
- Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-1993 > Correspondence
- Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991 > Correspondence
- Stevenson, Isabelle, 1915-2003 > Correspondence
- Wax, Emanuel > Correspondence
- Curcio, Vincent > Correspondence
- Martin, Elliot > Correspondence
- White Barn Theatre
- Lortel, Lucille > Correspondence
- Strasberg, Anna > Correspondence
- Lortel, Lucille > Friends and associates
- Saddler, Donald > Correspondence
- O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964 > Correspondence
- Oakie, Victoria Horne > Correspondence
- Eliot, Drew > Correspondence
- Cotes, Peter, 1912- > Correspondence
- Musical theater > United States
- Farrell, Minerva > Correspondence
- McConnell, Maryanna > Correspondence
- White, Leonard > Correspondence
- Taylor, Robert > Correspondence
- Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004 > Correspondence
- Marvin, Blanche > Correspondence
- Lewis, Abby > Correspondence
- Correspondence
- Off-Broadway theater
- O'Casey, Eileen > Correspondence
- Wilson, Edwin, 1927- > Correspondence
- Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994 > Correspondence
- Brown, Tina Tippit > Correspondence
- Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995 > Correspondence
- Lucille Lortel Theatre/Theatre de Lys (New York, N.Y.)
- Wallace, Hazel Vincent, 1919- > Correspondence
- Montevecchi, Liliane > Correspondence
- Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
- Volle, Danielle, -2000 > Correspondence
- ANTA (Organization)
- Hiss, Alger > Correspondence
- Albee, Edward, 1928-2016 > Correspondence
- Drake, Ervin > Correspondence
- Grew, Mary, 1902-1971 > Correspondence
- Havoc, June > Correspondence
- Scrapbooks
- Tompkins, Robert > Correspondence
- Strasberg, Lee > Correspondence
- Black, Kitty, 1914- > Correspondence
- Clippings
- Acker, Sylvia > Correspondence
- Sosenko, Anna > Correspondence
- Williams, Maggie > Correspondence
- Allinson, Michael > Correspondence
- Photographs
- Hodges, Lonnie > Correspondence
- Seymour, John D., 1897- > Correspondence
- Fugard, Athol > Correspondence
- Halligan, Maureen > Correspondence
- Dalrymple, Jean > Correspondence
- Mason, Marshall W > Correspondence
- Theatre de Lys
- Berman, Lois > Correspondence
- Musicals
- Henderson, Mary C., 1928-2012 > Correspondence
- Theatrical producers and directors
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Clippings.
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.
- Call number
- *T-Mss 2001-006
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public, with some materials only available on microfilm. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Additional formats (note)
- are also available on microfilm
- Source (note)
- Lortel, Lucille
- Biography (note)
- Lucille Lortel (1900-1999) began her theatrical career as a performer, eventually turned producer, founded the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut, acquired the Theatre dy Lys in Greenwich Village, and became a seminal force in the Off-Broadway movement. Born Lucille Wadler in New York City on December 16, 1900, Lucille Lortel studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and with Arnold Korff in Europe. She had her first notable role in the Theatre Guild's production of Shaw's CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA with Helen Hayes in 1925. Among her motion pictures was the early talking film THE MAN WHO LAUGHED LAST (1929) opposite Sessue Hayakawa. Shortly after marrying wealthy industrialist Louis Schweitzer in 1931, Lortel retired from acting. In 1947, on the grounds of her Westport home, she established the White Barn Theatre, a summer theater which continues to operate. In 1955 Schweitzer purchased the Theatre de Lys for his wife, whose production of THE THREEPENNY OPERA ran there for almost seven years. In 1956 Lortel initiated the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) Matinee Series, which presented plays at her theater for twenty years. Lortel produced more than 500 shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at the Library of Congress, at her White Barn Theatre, and elsewhere. The Theatre de Lys was renamed the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1981. Lucille Lortel died on April 4, 1999, at the age of 98.
- Processing action (note)
- Cataloged
- Author
- Lortel, Lucille.
- Title
- Lucille Lortel papers, 1902-2000.
- Restricted access
- Collection is open to the public, with some materials only available on microfilm. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Additional formats
- Scrapbooks are also available on microfilm: The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; service copy number: *ZC-606.
- Biography
- Lucille Lortel (1900-1999) began her theatrical career as a performer, eventually turned producer, founded the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut, acquired the Theatre dy Lys in Greenwich Village, and became a seminal force in the Off-Broadway movement. Born Lucille Wadler in New York City on December 16, 1900, Lucille Lortel studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and with Arnold Korff in Europe. She had her first notable role in the Theatre Guild's production of Shaw's CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA with Helen Hayes in 1925. Among her motion pictures was the early talking film THE MAN WHO LAUGHED LAST (1929) opposite Sessue Hayakawa. Shortly after marrying wealthy industrialist Louis Schweitzer in 1931, Lortel retired from acting. In 1947, on the grounds of her Westport home, she established the White Barn Theatre, a summer theater which continues to operate. In 1955 Schweitzer purchased the Theatre de Lys for his wife, whose production of THE THREEPENNY OPERA ran there for almost seven years. In 1956 Lortel initiated the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) Matinee Series, which presented plays at her theater for twenty years. Lortel produced more than 500 shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at the Library of Congress, at her White Barn Theatre, and elsewhere. The Theatre de Lys was renamed the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1981. Lucille Lortel died on April 4, 1999, at the age of 98.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Black, Kitty, 1914-
- Cotes, Peter, 1912-
- Grew, Mary, 1902-1971.
- Halligan, Maureen.
- Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-1993.
- Wax, Emanuel.
- White, Leonard.
- Acker, Sylvia.
- Allison, Michael.
- Berman, Lois.
- Brown, Tina Tippit.
- Sargent, Edith Drake.
- Drake, Ervin.
- Farrell, Minerva.
- Hodges, Gil.
- Hodges, Lonnie.
- McConnell, Maryanna.
- Martin, Elliot.
- Montevecchi, Liliane.
- Oakie, Victoria Horne.
- Lewis, Abby.
- Seymour, John D., 1897-
- Sosenko, Anna.
- Stevenson, Isabelle, 1915-2003.
- Taylor, Robert.
- Tompkins, Robert.
- Volle, Danielle, -2000.
- Williams, Maggie.
- Albee, Edward, 1928-2016.
- Blessing, Lee.
- Dalrymple, Jean.
- Fugard, Athol.
- Havoc, June.
- Hiss, Alger.
- Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995.
- Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004.
- Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994.
- Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991.
- Mason, Marshall W.
- O'Casey, Eileen.
- O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
- Rainer, Luise, 1910-
- Saddler, Donald.
- Strasberg, Anna.
- Strasberg, Lee.
- Wallace, Hazel Vincent, 1919-
- Curcio, Vincent.
- Eliot, Drew.
- Glenn, Robert.
- Henderson, Mary C., 1928-2012.
- Marvin, Blanche.
- Wilson, Edwin, 1927-
- Research call number
- *T-Mss 2001-006
- *ZC-606