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Neighborhood Playhouse costume and set designs

Title: Neighborhood Playhouse costume and set designs, 1916-circa 1931.
Author: Crowley, Alice
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2010-056 Box 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2010-056 Box 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Description

2 boxes (approximately 101 drawings) : col.; 39 x 50 cm. or smaller.

Summary

These designs for theatrical productions of the Neighborhood Playhouse are primarily costume designs, with a few set designs. Shows represented include Everybody's husband by Gilbert Cannan, 1919; Harlequinade by Harley Granville-Barker and Dion Calthrop, 1921; The mummer's revel and The masque of the apple, music by Kurt Schindler, 1931 with costume designs possibly by Esther Peck; Night at an inn by Lord Dunsany, 1916; Pinwheel by Francis Edward Faragoh, 1927 with sketches and notes by Donald Oenslager; and The player queen by William Butler Yeats, 1923 with costume designs probably by Alexander Koiransky. Ballets represented in the collection are La boutique fantasque, music by Ottorino Respighi, 1920 with costume designs probably by Esther Peck; Petrouchka, music by Igor Stravinsky, 1916; Royal fandango by Gustavo Morales, 1921 with costume designs and 1 set design by Ernest de Weerth; and 1 costume design for Le tricorne, 1922 "after Picasso's design for a costume for the ballet." There is 1 set design by Jo Davidson of the Wailing Wall for the symphonic drama Israel by Ernest Bloch, 1928. There are also several unidentified costume and set designs.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Costume design drawings.
Set design drawings.

Source (note)

Alice Lewisohn Crowley

Call Number

*T-Vim 2010-056

OCLC

704267145

Author

Crowley, Alice, collector.

Title

Neighborhood Playhouse costume and set designs, 1916-circa 1931.

Biography

Alice Lewisohn Crowley was born in New York City in 1883, a daughter of Leonard Lewisohn. With her sister Irene Lewisohn, she established the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street in 1915, a theater and teaching facility for dance and drama. By 1920, professional actors had replaced the amateur troupe of children and adults, and the Playhouse became known for its avant-garde productions. The neighborhood theater closed in 1927. In 1928, Alice Lewisohn Crowley, Irene Lewisohn and Rita Wallach Morgenthau established The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, still in operation in New York City. Crowley died in 1972 in Zurich at the age of 88.

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Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959. Israel. Composer

Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952.

De Weerth, Ernest. Artist

Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975. Artist

Peck, Esther.

Research Call Number

*T-Vim 2010-056

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