Drama 305: COMPUTERS IN THEATRE:
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Why a Search by Theatre isn't enough Types of Research Material Brief Summary of Theatre Buildings
Special Collections:
Contains Material from: Archives, Manuscripts, Pacific NW, & Photography
School of Drama Theatres: Penthouse Theatre Playhouse Theatre Meany Hall
Meany Studio Hutchinson 218 Cabaret Ethnic Theatre

Types of Research Material | {Back to Top}:

    Information Provided in Online Catalogue Citation 
    AUTHOR       Bennett, Marilyn Dale
 TITLE        The Glenn Hughes years, 1927-1961 : University of Washington
              School of Drama / by Marilyn Dale Bennett
 PUBL INFO    1982
 PHYS DESC    iv, 298 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm
 NOTE         Vita
 NOTE         Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1982
 NOTE         Bibliography: leaves [295]-298
 NOTE         Depository copy has number: Thesis 30224
 SUBJECT      Hughes, Glen Arthur, 1894-1964
 SUBJECT      Theaters -- Washington (State)
 SUBJECT      Theses -- Drama

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  • Subjects you might use online:
    Arena theater -- Washington (State)
    College theater -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
    Conway, John Ashby, 1905- -- Interviews
    Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre (Seattle, Wash.)
    Theater architecture -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
    University of Washington. School of Drama

  • Remember to Check Special Collections --
    Archives, Manuscripts, Photography and the Northwest Collection. They have material which isn't currently online.

  • Format of material you may find:
Programs School of Drama & several individuals
all but one program of School of Drama
Photos 6 cartons of photos + oversize Primarily School of Drama
Production History Donal Harrington's Season by season list
School of Drama & Donal Harrington
Promptbooks School of Drama Includes several different inventory sheets
All Powers project School of Drama, Archives
homepage developed for the project
includes information on:
Events, Red Scare Filmography, Reading List, & School of Drama Production,
Federal Theatre Project under supervision
of the Division of Drama 		Research workers, draftsmen, cabinet-makters
metal workers, artists.
Set Designs John Ashby Conway
Designed most of the sets as well as worked on the Penthouse
Posters some other local theatres
School of Drama - not last 5 years
Scrapbook School of Drama especially strong in Glenn Hughes period
Personal Papers Inventory identifies what's in each box
Inventory by individual names not theatres,
if you look under Penthouse, you find only 2 records
School of Drama 42 collections - one of the largest on campus
includes personal papers of faculty, SD records, financial records, admin records, faculty meetings
students records temporarily housed in Records then destroyed
President's Office Dean of Arts & Science, when part of English
Other University records of interest
  • Individuals' records of interest:
    • Anderson, Betty -- actress, director, Seattle Repertory Playhouse 1937-1950
    • Conway, John Ashby -- former faculty
      slides & original set designs, blue prints, correspondence, programs arch drawings of WPA models
    • Grant, Howard -- Penthouse, Playhouse, Showboat & Studio Theatre box office manager - scrapbook ?
    • Harrington, Donal -- former faculty
      directed many of the productions
    • Hughes, Babette
    • Hughes, Glenn -- former Chair
      correspondence, lectures, clippings & related papers including his
      c 30page resignation
    • James, Florence Bean -- Seattle Repertory Playhouse
    • Katz, Saul -- influential in local arts community

    Mauermann -- local writer and related to Glenn Hughes

  • Brief summary of Theatre Buildings: | {Back to Top}:

    • Sylan Theatre
    • Denny Hall
    • Penthouse - @ Meany Autumn 1932 private penthouse of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Murphy atop the Edmon Meany Hotel for one season.
    • Ballroom of the Edmond Meany Hotel 1933-34 downstairs from the Penthouse
    • Penthouse on the Ave In the Spring of 1935 the Division of Drama leased business property adjacent to the Studio Theatre and opened April 1935. The theatre retained the name Penthouse, sat 120 and was designed especially for the performance of drawing-room plays in a central acting space surrounded on four sides by an elevated audience. The Penthouse on the Ave was open to the public on week-ends with private mid-week performances for clubs, charity organizations and other groups. Shows ran six performances a week for six weeks.

      Served cofffee in the Blue Room during intermission.

      Several productions toured at the Washington Athletic Club and even to Tacoma and Vancouver, B.C. These plays stipulated they be performed in the center of a large, attractive room.

    • Studio Theatre

      By August 30, 1936 the theatre had 347 performances and ran every week except during the month of September.

    • Showboat
    • Penthouse - on campus
    • Playhouse
    • Additional productions by the Puppetry students toured Seattle and King County schools

    In co-operation with the Film LIbrary of the Museum of Moern Art in New York, foreign and domestic films in were shown at the Eqyptian Theatre (now a drugstore on the Ave)

    Additional information on the WPA Theatre models | {Back to Top}
    Built to scale. Drawings are in the John Ashby Conway papers.

    • Theatre of Dionysus (5th Century B.C.) - S. slope of the Acropolis: Theatre Dionysus, Odeon Theatre, portion of the Parthenon and adjoining structures
    • Roman Theatre at Orange (2nd Centuey)
    • Furtenbach's Theatre (Germany, 1628)
    • Valenciennes Stage for Mystery Plays (1547)
    • Two Medieval English Wagon Stages
    • Olympic Theatre at Vicenza (1584)
    • Farnese Theatre at Parma (1619)
    • Fortune Theatre (London, 1600)
    • Two Japanese Wagon Stages
    • Japanese Noh Thatre
    • Chinese Theatre

     

  • Jack Wolcott had several years of Ph.D. students work on information on these theatres. Theatres are currently in storage. For additional information on ancient thatres by Jack Wolcott and his students see:

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