The material in this series is arranged by issue number only; folders are not alphabetized or numbered within the boxes housing them. This series consists of background material for publication, i.e., articles (usually arranged by author's surname), some advertising, galley proofs (often with editorial comments), and editorials (referred to as "Comments" in TDR). This series is located at the ReCAP storage facility.
The material in this series is arranged by issue number only; folders are not alphabetized or numbered within the boxes housing them.
Advertising, 1962
Advertising Copy, 1962
Advertising Copy, 1963
Advertising, 1963
Miscellaneous, 1963
Promotions, 1964
Dead Manuscripts, 1965
Manuscripts, 1965
Letters, 1966
Bookstore, 1966
Esslin, Martin, 1966
Alexander, Doris, 1967
Arturo, Lazzari, 1967
Wekwerth, Manfred, 1967
Kirby, Michael, 1968
Trussler, Simon, 1968
Carbons, 1969
Arrabal, Fernando, 1969
Pirandello, Luigi, 1969
Acropolis Galley, 1969
Alvarado, Rafael, 1970
Brecht, Stefan, 1970
Capital City, 1970
Author Changes, 1970
China Article, 1971
"Cherry Smash", 1971
"1789", 1971
Acconci, Vito, 1972
Directing, 1972
Cover, 1972
Advertising, 1973
Advertising, 1973
"Bim - Bom", 1974
Correspondence, 1974
Argelander, Ronald, 1974
Argelander, Ronald, 1974
Jeyifous, Abiodun, 1974
Author Alterations, 1974
Brown, Trisha, 1975
Sajiki, Tenjo, 1975
Calandra, Denis, 1975
Calandra, Denis, 1975
Annenkov, Yuri, 1975
de Strulle, Arlene, 1976
Adler, Lois, 1976
Cohen, Debra, 1976
Blau, Herbert, 1976
Front Matter, 1977
Book Reviews, 1977
And, Metin, 1977
Applin, Denise, 1977
Brown, J.F, 1978
Analysis Issue, 1978
Argelander, Ronald, 1978
Bierman, James, 1979
Gray, Spalding, 1979
Alland, Alexander, 1979
Barr, Burt, 1979
Bogosian, Eric, 1979
Nadin, Mihai, 1979
Jewish Theater, 1980
Dance Issue, 1980
Sexual Theater, 1981
African Issue, 1981
Zarilli, Phillip, 1981
Barker, Barbara, 1982
Anderson, Michelle, 1982
Braun, Kazmierz, 1982
Asia, dates not examined
Prosper, Mario, 1982
Bianchi, Ruggero, 1983
Berson, Misha, 1983
Book Reports, 1983
"Castle Awakens", 1983
Balint, Steve, 1983
Working Issue, 1983
Aronson, Arnold, 1984
Adler, Norma, 1984
Alisa, Solomon, 1985
Chang Script, 1985
Aronson, Arnold, 1985
Budget TDR, 1985
Gordon, Mel, 1985
Husemoller, Anna, 1986
Articles, 1986
Miscellaneous (4), 1986
Braun, Kazimierz, 1986
Galleys (1-2), 1986
Chaikin, Joseph, 1987
DeMarinis, Mario, 1987
2nd Galleys, 1987
Bell, John, 1987
Bovin, Mette, 1988
Africa, 1988
Phelan, Peggy, 1988
Arnold, Mary Jo, 1988
Drewal, H.J, 1988
Aden, Austin, 1988
Auslander, Philip, 1988
Dolan, Jill, 1989 Fall
Comment, 1991 Spring
Comment, 1991 Winter
Comment, 1992 Spring
Books, 1993 Summer
Announcements, 1993 Fall
Etc, dates not examined
Etc, dates not examined
Letters, 1994 Spring
Etc, dates not examined
Announcements, 1994 Fall
Etc, dates not examined
Abstracts, 1995 Spring
Announcements, 1995 Fall
Abdoh, Reza, 1995 Winter
Comment, 1996 Spring
Cuba, dates not examined
Author Forms, 1996 Fall
Index, 1996 Winter
Front Matter, 1997 Fall
Galleys (1-4), 1997 Fall
Author Forms, 1998 Fall
Galleys (1-7), 1998 Fall
Abstacts, 1999 Spring
Author Forms, 1999 Fall
Abstracts, 1999 Winter
Abstracts, 2000 Spring
Author Forms, 2000 Fall
Galleys (1-6), 2000 Fall
Series 2: Correspondence, 1950-2001
This series, which includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence, is divided into five subseries. Letters within this series cover Schechner's vast range of interests and his ties with individuals, colleagues, family, and friends, and reveal the changes in his thinking on ritual and performance, as well as the influence of his travels in India.
This series is arranged into five subseries: TDR Correspondence by Issue, TDR General Correspondence, General Correspondence, Personal Correspondence, and Restricted Material.
T18, T20, 1962-1963
T21, T23, T25, T29, 1963-1965
T30, T31, T34, 1965-1966
T35, T36, 1967
T38-T41, 1968
T42-T43, 1968-1969
T44, 1969
T45, 1969
T46, 1970
T47-T49, 1970
T50, 1971
T51-T52, 1971
T53, 1971
T54, 1972
T55, T56, 1972
T57-T60, 1973
T61-T62, 1974
T64-T65, 1974-1975
T66, 1975
T67, 1975
T68-T69, 1975-1976
T70-T72, 1976
T73, 1977
T74-T77, 1977-1978
T78-T80, 1978
T81-T84, 1979
T85-T88, 1980
T89-T91, 1981
T92, T94, 1981-1982
T95-T97, 1982-1983
T98-99, 1983
T100-T101, 1983-1984
T102, 1984
T103-T106, 1984-1985
T107-T108, 1985
T109, 1986
T110, 1986
T111, 1986
T112, 1986
T113, 1987
T114, 1987
T115, 1987
T116, 1987
T118, 1988
T119, 1988
T120 (A-M), 1988
T120 (N-Z), 1988
T121, 1989
T122-T123, 1989
T124-T125, 1989-1990
T126, 1990 Summer
T127-T128, 1990
T129, 1991 Spring
T130-T131, 1991
T132-T133, 1991-1992
T134-T135, 1992
T136-T137, 1992-1993
T138, 1993 Summer
T139, 1993 Fall
T140, 1993 Winter
T141, 1994 Spring
T142, 1994 Summer
T143, 1994 Fall
T144 (A-L), 1994 Winter
T144 (M-Z), 1994 Winter
T145, 1995 Spring
T146, 1995 Summer
T147 (A-SA), 1995 Fall
T147 (SM-Z), 1995 Fall
T148 (A-G), 1995 Winter
T148 (H-Z), 1995 Winter
T149 (A-Q), 1996 Spring
T149 (R-Z), 1996 Spring
T150, 1996 Summer
T151 (A-K), 1996 Fall
T151 (L-Z), 1996 Fall
T152 (A-G), 1996 Winter
T152 (H-Z), 1996 Winter
T153 (A-O), 1997 Spring
T153 (P-Z), 1997 Spring
T154, 1997 Summer
T155 (A-Z), 1997 Fall
T155 (Allan, Matthew), 1997 Fall
T156 (A-O), 1997 Winter
T156 (P-Z), 1997 Winter
T157, 1998 Spring
T165, dates not examined
A-AM, 1957-1995
AN-AZ, 1958-1995
Adams, Howard, 1965-1967
Adler, Henry, 1958-1969
Adler, Stella, 1963
Alexander, Doris, 1964-1966
Anderson, Michael, 1962-1968
Andrews, A.R, 1967-1970
Arnold, Paul, 1958-1964
Arrowsmith, William, 1957-1967
Auden, W.H, 1959-1961
Awasthi, Suresh, 1970, 1985-1991
B-BEN, 1963-1996
BER-BOLT, 1963-1996
BOM-BRO, 1964-1998
BROWN-BY, 1956-1999
Baker, Paul, 1964-1967
Ball, William, 1964-1968
Ballet, Arthur, 1963-1967
Bank, Rosemarie, 1989-1999
Bantam Books, 1967-1976
Barba, Eugenio, 1963-1993
Barnstone, Willis, 1961-1964
Baxandell, Lee, 1959-1971
Bazler, Beverly, 1964-1967, 1986
Beck, Julian, 1961-1965, 1975
Beckerman, Bernie, 1960-1967
Beeson, Nora, 1958-1970
Bennet, H.Z, 1966-1967
Bentley, Eric, 1956-1966
Bentley, Eric, 1967-1971, 1986
Bergman, Ingmar, 1966-1967
Berlin Theatre, 1971-1972
Bermel, Albert, 1958-1969
Bernstein, Joseph, 1965-1966
Betti, Andreina, 1959-1961
Biddle, Francis, 1965-1967
Blackstone, Sidney, 1964-1970
Blau, Herb, 1959-1971, 1986-1990
Block, Richard, 1966-1967, 1988
Boal, Augusto, 1969-1991
Bogard, Travis, 1963, 1967-1968
Boyars, Marion, 1966-1970
Brandon, James, 1969-1970, 1986-1991
Braun, Kazimierz, 1986-1990
Brook, Peter, 1962-1966
Brooks, Jayne Moody, 1970, 1973
Brown, John Russell, 1960-1970, 1995
Brown, Kenneth, 1963-1966
Brustein, Robert, 1959-1968
Bruzzichelli, Aldo, 1962-1966
Bullins, Ed, 1965-1968, 1988-1990
Burian, Jarka, 1963-1970
Burke, Kenneth, 1965-1966, 1973
Burroughs, William, 1963
C-CHAM, 1959-1995
CHAN-COH, 1959-1996
COI-CZ, 1959-1999
Callenbach, Ernest, 1963-1966
Capital City Press, 1970-1971
Chaikin, Joe, 1963-1969, 1990
Cipnic, Dennis, 1968-1969
Clarke, John, 1964-1965
Climenhaga, Joel, 1965-1966
Cluchey, Rick, 1965-1966
Clurman, Harold, 1958-1971
Coger, Leslie, 1964
Cohn, Ruby, 1963-1970
Cole, Toby, 1958-1971
Compton, Boyd, 1963-1967
Corti, Victor, 1963-1970
Coyne, Bernie, 1966-1970
Croyden, Margaret, 1966-1969
Currimbhoy, Asif, 1965-1966
Czerwinkski, E.J, 1969-1970
D-DH, 1962-1995
DI-DU, 1963-1995
Daly, Ann, 1985-1996
Dauster, Frank, 1964-1970
Daves, Joan, 1959-1969
Davis, Ronnie, 1963-1971, 1987-1989
DeGaetani, Tom, 1962-1967
Delza, Sophia, 1966-1972
DiGaetani, John, 1989-1990, 1999
Dirks, Mary, 1957-1958
Doctorow, E.L, 1963-1964
Dolan, Jill, 1983-1992
Domville, James, 1964-1967
Doyle, Donald, 1965-1968
Draper, Samuel, 1960-1965
Driver, Tom, 1958-1964
Dukore, Bernie, 1963-1971, 1990
E, 1963-1996
Eco, Umberto, 1976
Edwards, Sam, 1966-1970
Elwood, William, 1967-1968
Epstein, Susanne, 1987-1995
Esslin, Martin, 1959-1967
Estrin, Marc, 1962-1971
FA-FL, 1962-1996
FO-FU, 1962-1995
Falk, Gene, 1958-1959
Falls, Gregory, 1964-1971
Feral, Josette, 1985-1999
Fergusson, Francis, 1957-1968
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1963-1964
Fichandler, Zelda, 1963-1967
Filipowicz, Halina, 1970, 1986-1994
Fjelde, Rolf, 1963-1970
Fowlie, Wallace, 1958-1960
Frankel, Aaron, 1964-1965
Frechtman, Bernard, 1962-1967
Fuller and Sadao, 1966-1967
GA-GOLD, 1958-1996
GOM-GUY, 1958-1996
Gaffney, Floyd, 1966-1969
Gaillmard, 1963-1972
Gassner, John, 1957-1967
Genestier, Paul, 1963-1966
Gibson, Michael, 1972-1973
Gilder, Rosamund, 1962-1971
Gilman, Richard, 1962-1966
Giste, Earle, 1962-1969
Glade, Henry, 1967-1968
Goetz, Marheta, 1958-1964
Golden, John (Fund), 1963-1967
Goldes, Sheila, 1963-1964
Gorelik, Mordecai, 1950-1968
Gould, Laurence, 1957
Grass, Gunter, 1964-1967
Grassi, Paolo, 1963-1968
Gray, Paul, 1959-1969
Gray, Spaulding, undated
Greenspun, Roger, 1962-1963
Gregory, Andre, 1963-1967
Grimm, Reinhold, 1967-1969
Grotowski, Jerzy, 1963-1975, 1986
Guthrie, Tyrone, 1962-1964
HAAS-HAT, 1958-1996
HAU-HIX, 1958-1995
HL-HY, 1958-1995
Hall, Adalene, 1962-1964, 1970-1971
Halprin, Ann, 1965-1969, 1986-1991
Hamburger, Michael, 1958-1968
Hapgood, Elizabeth, 1963-1964
Hapgood, Robert, 1963-1966
Hardin, Herschel, 1968-1970
Hardy, Hugh, 1966-1967
Harschberger, Karl, 1964-1968
Hartweg, Norman, 1963-1968
Hauger, George, 1958-1963
Hayes, Robert, 1959-1966
Head, Robert, 1963-1969
Heffner, Hubert, 1956-1962
Hellman, Helen, 1963-1964
Hellman, Lillian, 1961
Henderson, Hubert, 1966-1967
Hendry, Ted, 1965-1967
Herman, William, 1964-1965
Hethmon, Robert, 1960-1968
Hewitt, Barnard, 1958-1964
Higgins, Dick, 1965-1969
Hochman, Baruch, 1965-1967
Hoffman, Ted, 1958-1971
Honig, Edwin, 1962-1965
Hooker, Ward, 1960-1964
Hoover, Marjorie, 1963-1966
Hornby, Dick, 1968-1969, 1993
Hosley, Richard, 1967-1968
Hughes, Richard, 1969
I, 1958-1993
Issacs, Dan, 1967-1971
J, 1959-1996
Jasidowicz, Denis, 1961-1969
Jordan, Fred, 1963-1968
KA-KH, 1958-1996
KI-KOP, 1957-1996
KOR-KY, 1959-1995
Kael, Pauline, 1964-1965
Karlweis, Nino Tallon, 1964-1973
Kazan, Elian and Molly, 1962-1964
Kennedy, Sighle, 1965-1966
Kerz, Leo, 1967-1968
Kinsolving, William, 1966-1967
Kirby, Michael, 1963-1984
Kitch, Ken, 1965-1966
Klarmann, Adolf, 1958-1963
Knapp, Bettina, 1962-1970
Kott, Jan, 1965-1971
LA-LEE, 1957-1999
LEFF-LITTLE, 1958-2000
LITW-LY, 1957-1996
Labrenz, Ted, 1986-1988
Lamont, Rosette, 1962-1970, 1988
Lange, Victor, 1959-1961
Lasky, Melvin, 1965-1967
Law, Mouzon, 1964-1965
Lebel, Jean-Jacques, 1967-1969
Lee, Maryat, 1965-1967
Lenhoff, Gayle, 1969-1970
Lessac, Arthur, 1966-1968
Lettunich, Mateo, 1964-1965
Lineberger, James, 1963-1970
Lust, Geraldine, 1966-1969
MA-MAT, 1958-1995
MAU-MIS, 1958-1996
MIT-MY, 1958-1996
MacGregor, Robert, 1962-1967
Macinuinis, George, 1965
Magarshack, David, 1958-1959
Mamet, David, 1986
Mandel, Oscar, 1964-1965
Mann, Paul, 1960-1965
Marechal, Judy, 1964-1966
Markgraf, Bruce, 1965-1971
Markus, Tom, 1962-1968
Marowitz, Charles, 1962-1972
Mayleas, Ruth, 1964-1967
Mee, Chuck, 1961-1966, 1987-1988
Melano, Fabrizio, 1963
Merritt, Bob, 1962-1964
Meyerhold Centennial, 1964, 1974
Miller, Arthur, 1959-1963, 1977
Miller, James Hull, 1962-1966
Miller, John W, 1962-1964
Miller, Mike, 1964-1967
MIT Press, 1981-1996
Moore, Sonja, 1964-1969
Moore, Thomas Gale, 1964-1966
Morgan, B.Q, 1958-1961
Morris, Kelly, 1967-1971
Morrison, Jack, 1961-1968
Mueller, Carl, 1960-1969
Munk, Erika, 1963-1973
Mc, 1959-1997
McNamara, Brooks, 1964-1971, 1990
N, 1958-1997
Nardin, James, 1957-1960
Nellhaus, Gerhard, 1958-1967
Nelson, Benjamin, 1962-1973
New York Times, 1965-1975, 1988
Nicolaus, Martin, 1966-1967
O, 1960-1994
O'Casey, Sean, 1960-1965
O'Gorman, Ned, 1966-1967
Oliver, William, 1960-1970
Oppenheim, Dean, 1967-1990
PA-PEY, 1958-1997
PF-PU, 1960-1965
Pentzell, Raymond, 1965-1967
Poggi, Jack, 1964-1969
Popkin, Henry, 1958-1970
Potenze, Jaime, 1966-1968
Powell, Jocelyn, 1963-1964
Pring-Mill, RDF, 1960-1963
Pronko, Leonard, 1959-1965
Pucciani, Oresto, 1958-1963
Pyros, John, 1966-1970
Q, 1965-1993
RA-RI, 1958-1999
RO-RZ, 1958-1998
Random House, 1963-1969
Riberio, Leo Gilson, 1962-1963
Ribner, Irving, 1960-1967
Riccio, Thomas, 1991-1999
Richardson, Howard, 1964-1967
Richman, Stuart, 1965-1967
Rizzo, Gino, 1963-1968
Robbins, Jerome, 1962-1969
Robinson, Horace, 1960
Rockefeller Foundation, 1967-1968
Rogoff, Gordon, 1958-1970
Roloff, Michael, 1970
Rosenberg, Harold, 1959-1960
Rosenberg, Jim, 1963-1964
Ryan, Paul, 1967-1976
SA-SCHM, 1959-1993
SCHN-SE, 1963-1997
SH-SK, 1962-1995
SL-SQ, 1960-1997
SR-STRA, 1959-1990
STRE-SZ, 1958-1994
Saint-Denis, Michel, 1959-1965
Salisbury, Leah, 1964-1965
Sandford, Mariellen, 1986-1998
Schmidt, Sandra, 1964-1967
Schneider, Alan, 1959-1967
Schneider, Becca, 1987-1996
Schwarz, Alfred, 1958-1962
Shapiro, Norman, 1959-1961
Sharp, William, 1958-1964
Shepard, Sam, 1977
Simon and Schuster, 1966-1968
Sinclair, Upton, 1964-1965
Sokel, Walter, 1962-1963
Sontag, Susan, 1964-1969
Spalter, Max, 1967-1968
Spencer, James, 1964-1969
Stavis, Barrie, 1962-1967
Steele, Robert, 1964-1965
Stewart, John, 1964-1967
Strasberg, Lee, 1964-1966
Suhrkamp, Peter, 1957-1968
Sullivan, John, 1963-1965
Surla, Donna, 1964-1968
Suvin, Darko, 1965-1971
Svendsen, Juri, 1962-1969
Svoboda, Josef, 1967-1968
TA-TH, 1962-1967
TI-TY, 1959-1992
Taft, J. Richard, 1965-1966
Tarn, Adam, 1965-1969
Taubes, Susan, 1962-1963
Terry, Meg, 1965-1970
Thevenin, Paul, 1964-1967
Thompson, William, 1963-1968
Trilling, Ossia, 1961-1966
Troxdeu, Peter, 1966-1967
Tulane University, 1964-1971
Tunberg, Karl, 1970
Tynan, Kenneth, 1959-1966
U, 1959-1994
V, 1958-1997
Valentini, Valentina, 1963-1988
Vaughn, Erik, 1959-1960
Vauthier, Jean, 1962-1964
Vilar, Jean, 1959-1967
Vos, Erik, 1965-1970
WA-WEIN, 1959-1999
WEIS-WILL, 1958-1997
WILLS-WY, 1958-1997
Wager, Walter, 1965-1967
Waith, Eugene, 1963-1965
Walker Art Center, 1966
Walter, Sydney, 1963-1968
Watson, Tom, 1966
Weales, Gerald, 1958-1970
Weber, Carl, 1962-1969, 1990
Weiss, Dimitri, 1962-1967
Wellwarth, George, 1960-1970
Wentworth, Richard, 1965-1967
Weston, Sheila, 1962-1968
Wheatley, Tom, 1964-1967
Wishny, Marsha, 1964-1967
Woodward, James, 1964-1965
Wunderlich, Lawrence, 1965-1967
XYZ, 1957-1995
Yeaton, Kelly, 1963-1972
Zachary, Robert, 1964-1968
Zahareas, Anthony, 1966
Zeisler, Peter, 1965-1967, 1986-1987
A-AN, 1961-1962, 1967-1991
AP-AZ, 1969-1991
Ainslie, Laurie (Thorpe), 1975-1977
Allana, Nissar, 1976-1994
Alland, Alexander, 1975-1985
Anderson, Laurie, 1983
Applause Books, 1993-1995
Aronson, Arnold, 1975-1991
Ashley, Wayne, 1980-1988
Asian Cultural Council, 1984-1996
Astro Artz, 1981-1985
Auslander, Philip, 1988-1996
Awasthi, Suresh, 1972-1979
Awasthi, Suresh, 1980-1994
BA-BAY, 1968-1998
BEA-BLA, 1969-1994
BLE-BY, 1969-1995
Babcock, Barbara, 1985-1987
Barba, Eugenio, 1982-1994
Beeman, Bill, 1975-1982, 1993-1994
Beneditti, Bob, 1972-1973, 1978-1983
Bennington College, 1977-1978
Bierman, Jim, 1977-1982
Blau, Herbert, 1965, 1974-1995
Bly, Robert, 1981, 1987
Boal, Augusto, 1969-1996
Bobbs-Merril Company, 1962-1968
Bogart, Anne, 1977-1990
Boissac, Paul, 1977-1992
Boudet, Rosa Ilene, 1992-1996
Bracho, Alexander, 1985-1989
Brandon, Jim, 1974-1988
Braun, Kazimierz, 1977-1989, 1996
Brecht, Stefan, 1973-1975
Brenner, Eva, 1989-1994
Brook, Peter, 1971-1990
Brown University, 1970-1973, 1983
Bullins, Ed, 1973, 1988-1991
Burnham, Linda Frye, 1983-1994
CA-CHAP, 1966-1996
CH-COL, 1969-1996
CR-CZ, 1963-1993
Cambridge University, 1984-1990
Campbell, Joseph, 1980
Campbell, Mary Schmidt, 1991-1996
Cao, Lusheng, 1988-1996
Carbone, Robin, 1985-1989
Cate, Ritsaert ten, 1981-1991
Chaikin, Joe, 1965, 1989-1990
Chaillet, Ned, 1979-1982
Chung, Mingder, 1986-1995
Churchill, Lyn, 1972-1977
Clark, I.E, 1987-1996
Conquergood, Dwight, 1987-1994
Conti, Valerie, 1977-1990
Coppietiers, Frank, 1975-1984
Cornell University, 1963, 1975-1990
Crumine, Ross, 1989-1993
DA-DER, 1969-1995
DES-DY, 1969-1995
Dafoe, Willem, 1977
Daly, Ann, 1987-1993
Davy, Kate, 1980-1994
Dent, Tom, 1966-1972, 1980
Donadio, Candida, 1965-1972, 1986
Dorr, Evelyn, 1991-1993
Drama Book Specialists, 1972-1984
Driver, Tom, 1972-1992
Dunau, Mark, 1974-1977
E, 1962-1993
Eastman, Ralph, 1975-1978
Ekman, Paul, 1983-1991
Emigh, John, 1967, 1973-1990
Epstein, Paul, 1967-1972, 1981-1982
Epstein, Susana, 1985-1994
FA-FJ, 1969-1992
FL-FU, 1969-1992
Feral, Josette, 1980-1994
Fjelde, Rolf, 1964-1978
Foley, Kathy, 1979-1982
Franklin and Marshall, 1975, 1989
G-GOOD, 1969-1993
GOR-GUT, 1967-1993
Gargi, Balwant, 1975-1989
George, Jose, 1990-1995
Goldring, Beth, 1977-1980
Gough, Richard, 1988-1994
Gray, Paul, 1961-1995
Gray, Spaulding, 1976-1991
Grimes, Ron, 1978-1994
Grotowski, Jerzy, 1970-1993
de Guevara, Lina, 1970-1972, 1979
Gunawardana, A.J, 1974-1977
Gupt, Bharat, 1975, 1993-1996
HA-HH, 1969-1995
HI-HZ, 1969-1995
Halprin, Anna, 1969-1974, 1976-1993
Hanna, Judy, 1979-1986
Harbeck, James, 1995-1996
Harrison-Pepper, Sally, 1982-1993
Harshberger, Karl, 1957-1974
Hawthorne Books, 1972-1977
Hess, Linda, 1980-1995
Hindman, James, 1974-1977
Hoff, Frank, 1980-1985
Hoffman, Ted, 1965-1985
Holmes, Debby, 1981-1988
Hornby, Dick, 1969-1988
I, 1967-1993
Ionesco, Eugenio, 1963, 1983-1995
Ishii, Tatsuro, 1982-1991
J, 1966-1992
Jalan, Shyamanand, 1971-1996
JDR 3rd Fund, 1974-1977, 1987
Jenkins, Linda, 1974-1988
Jenkins, Ron, 1978-1986
Jeyifous, Abiodun, 1974-1975, 1986
Journal of Ritual Studies, 1986-1992
Justus-Leibig Universitat, 1982-1991
KA-KI, 1967-1995
KL-KV, 1967-1995
Karter, Josh, 1974-1993
Kirby, Michael, 1967-1996
Kitazawa, Masakuni, 1981-1991
Kobayashi, Susumu, 1979-1985
Koch, Edward, 1969
Konig, Burghard, 1986-1993
Kramer, Richard, 1985-1996
LA-LES, 1966-1993
LEV-LY, 1967-1994
Lantz, Robert, 1969-1984
Lazier, Gil, 1983-1996
LeCompte, Liz, 1976-1986
Lehmann, Hans Thies, 1984-1995
Lichti, Esther S, 1984-1986
Lippman, Monroe, 1960-1986
Living Bananas, 1985-1991
MA-MB, 1962-1996
MEA-MONT, 1963-1996
MOO-MY, 1974-1996
MacAloon, John, 1977-1986
Meduri, Avanthi, 1986-1994
Mehta, Kumud, 1976-1984
Menon, Narayana, 1974-1976
Merritt, Robert, 1961-1993
Methuen and Company, 1971-1992
Mintz, Cynthia, 1973-1976
Mishra, Bhardra, 1976-1983
Morris, Kelly, 1968-1982
Myerhoff, Barbara, 1977-1985
Mc, 1969-1992
McGraw-Hill, 1966-1974
NA-NEU, 1977-1994
NEW-NY, 1972-1997
Neil, Janet, 1980-1982
Nelson, Benjamin, 1963-1977
New York Times, 1960-2000
New York University, 1967-1993
Northwestern University, 1986-1996
Nunez, Nicholas, 1982-1995
Nussbaum, Jeremy, 1975-1976
O, 1972-1989
Oberlin College, 1970, 1991
Obeyesekere, Ranjini, 1982-1993
Olf, Julian, 1970-1989
Oppenheim, David, 1969-1993
Ordover, Jerald, 1968-1972
Orso, Ethelyn, 1967-1970
Osburn, Ellen, 1986-1994
Osinki, Zbigniew, 1981-1987
Ozier, Joyce, 1973-1979
PA-PE, 1967-1994
PF-PZ, 1963-1994
Panigrahi, Sanjukta, 1976-1991
Papp, Joseph, 1977-1979
Pareja, Cincia, 1983-1990
Park-Fuller, Linda, 1986-1989
Partida, Armando, 1979-1983
Pavis, Patrice, 1980-1993
Performance Index, 1995
Pfeiffer, John, 1978-1988
Phelan, Peggy, 1988-1995
Piedmont University, 1969-1970
Piper, Adrian, 1992-1996
Pitkow, Marlene, 1982-1984
Pittard, Barry, 1975
Porter, Bruce, 1976
Pradier, Jean-Marie, 1978-1979
Q, 1969-1973, 1968
R-ROC, 1967-1994
ROD-RY, 1963-1994
Ramakrishnan, C.S, 1975-1980
Ramamurthy, V, 1975-1977
Raphael, Lennox, 1969-1970
Rodgers, Talia, 1991-1998
Rojo, Jerry, 1974-1992
Rosenthal, Rachel, 1983-1994
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1977-1983
Routledge, 1988-1997
Ruby, Jay, 1979-1985
SA-SCH, 1967-1996
SCI-SH, 1964-1993
SI-SO, 1967-1993
SP-ST, 1968-1994
SU-SZ, 1969-1994
Sacchetti, Lucinda, 1983-1987
Sahoo, Sri K.N, 1976-1982, 1995
Sainer, Arthur, 1971-1983
Sanchez, Cynthia, 1993-1996
Sato, Ayako, 1980-1986, 1992-1993
Sax, Bo, 1980-1990
Schechter, Joel, 1987-1994
Schevill, James, 1969-1977
Schneider, Becca, 1991-1994
School of the Arts, 1968-1975
Schuman, Mady, 1974-1986
Seabury Press, 1974-1981
Seeger, Pete, 1969
Selleck, Tom, undated
Shank, Ted, 1962-1963, 1971-1993
Shawl, Sallie, 1980-1989
Shepard, Sam, 1965, 1972 1985
Shepherd, Bill, 1970-1993
Sircar, Badal, 1971-1982
Sklar, Dede, 1980-1993
Slater, Phil, 1970-1985
Smith, Anne Deavere, 1991-1996
Snow, Stephen, 1981-1991
Spicer, Roz, 1981-1991
Sprinkle, Annie, 1986-1996
Stacy, Jim, 1978-1984
Stanley, Obuh, 1982-1983
Stefanova-Petova, Kalina, 1990-1996
Sterijino Pozorje, 1978-1996
Stewart, John, 1966-1970
Stoeltje, Beverly, 1981-1985
Sun, Huizhu (William), 1986-1993
Suvin, Darko, 1969-1984
TA-THA, 1967-1996
THE-TZ, 1963-1996
Talwar, Neelin, 1979-1996
Taylor, Mavis, 1987-1991
Theatre Quarterly, 1970-1972, 1980
Trussler, Simon, 1973-1992
Tuan, Yi-Fu, 1985-1989
Tulane University, 1967-1969, 1992
Turnbull, Colin, 1982-1993
Turner, Edie, 1980-1996
Turner, Fred, 1979-1983
Turner, Victor, 1977-1983
University of Delaware-UT, 1964-1996
University of Michigan, 1973-1994
V, 1971-1996
Valentini, Valentina, 1981-1996
Vasudevah, Kunsu, 1977-1980
Vawter, Ron, 1975-1976
WA-WH, 1967-1996
WI-WY, 1967-1997
Walter, Sydney, 1966-1973
Watson, Ian, 1981-1991
Waxman, Sid, 1971-1972
Wenner-Gren, 1983-1990
Wepner, Franklyn, 1972-1987
Weston, Sheila, 1962-1972
Wickstrom, Maurya, 1981-1991
Wilenski, Becke, 1982-1991
Winnacker, Susanne, 1985-1995
Woodstock Center, 1970-1972
X, 1993-1997
Y, 1969-1995
Ybema, Walter, 1985-1987
Yeaton, Kelly, 1971-1983
Yellow Springs Institute, 1986-1987
York University, 1969-1989
Z, 1975-1983
Zarrelli, Phillip, 1968, 1976-1994
Zinder, David, 1989-1994
Miscellaneous, 1957-1989
Miscellaneous, 1990-2000
Miscellaneous, undated
A-R, 1952-1958, 1988-1990
S-Y, 1952-1996
Harbin, Barbara, 1955-1956
Hartmann, Leslie, 1952-1956
MacIntosh, Joan, 1968 June-August
Rosenbaum, Petey, 1953
Schechner, Arthur, 1955-1996
Schechner, Billy, 1953-1996
Schechner, David, 1955-1996
Schechner, Selma, 1952-1992
Schechner, Sheridan, 1953-1956
Schwarz, Joel and Eve, 1955-1994
Selenfriend, Willa, 1952-1953
Silverstein, A, 1956-1957
Somer, Jon, 1952-1955
General Restricted: A-Z, 1978-1992
Brown, Levine, 1964-1969, 1986-1990
Goldstein, Florence, 1961-1962
Kaplan, Donald, 1963-1994
Kirby, Michael, 1976-1984
Kozubei, Catherine, 1994-1996
MacIntosh, Joan, 1969-1990
Martin, Carol, 1985-1995
Schechner, Sam and Sophie, 1985-1992
Sciple, Dooley, 1955-1964
Steinberg, Carol, 1990-1995
Woogan, Caroline, 1961-1962
Series 3: Professional, 1957-2000
This series covers the areas of Schechner's career that did not relate directly to TDR, particularly the many conferences and workshops he either attended or participated in, his academic career at New York University, the numerous theater groups he founded or advised, and his extracurricular activities (usually political in nature).
This series is arranged into four subseries: Conferences, New York University, Theater Groups, and Miscellaneous.
Contemporary Japanese Theater, 1982
Intercultural Performance Conference: Correspondence: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, 1990-1991
Performance Studies Formation, 1986
Theatre in Man/Man in Theatre, 1995
Venezuelan Theatre Institute, 1968
Courses, dates not examined
Asian Performance Theory, undated
Intercultural Performance, undated
Magnitudes of Performance, undated
Performance Composition, undated
Performance Studies, undated
Performance Theory, undated
Praxis Rasa Hana (1-2), undated
Ritual and Performance, undated
Theories of Directing (1-2), undated
Understanding the Arts, undated
Worlds of Performance, undated
Miscellaneous, undated
Humanities Colloquium, undated
Workshop, 1978
Workshop with Grotowski (1), 1972
Workshop with Grotowski (2), 1972
Miscellaneous, undated
Correspondence: A-H, 1992-1996
Correspondence: J-Z, 1992-1996
Correspondence: Krell, Mary, 1994
Correspondence: Savoie, James, 1995
Faustgastronome, 1992
Hamlet, 1999
Kafka in Love, dates not examined
Three Sisters, 1999
Miscellaneous, 1997-2000
East End Players, 1961
East End Players: Scrapbook, 1961
Happenings - Audience Response, 1966
The Living Theatre, 1971-1992
Public Theatre - The Red Snake, 1981
Radical Theatre Repetory, 1968-1969
Squat Events, 1981
Absurdist Notebook (1-5), undated
Absurdist Notebook (6), undated
American Theatre Association, 1978
Articles on Schechner, undated
ARTNow, 1996
Certificate from Cuba, 1993
December magazine, 1957-1958
China Diary, 1995
Interviews with Schechner, undated
Letters to Editor, 1967-1979
NEH Summer Seminar, 1980
Notes, 1990-1996
Performance Research, 1967
Series 4: Writings, 1953-1999
Throughout his life, Schechner has been a prolific writer. The three subseries that follows groups his writings by genre. Unfortunately, many of Schechner's writings-particularly pieces that have not been published in any format-are not always dated or titled.
This series is arranged into three subseries: Poems, Short Shories, and Plays, Essays and Articles, and General Writings.
Poems, undated
Short Stories, undated
Plays, undated
A-Z, undated
The Balcony, undated
Briseis and the Sergeant, undated
Commune, undated
Don Juan, undated
Faust, undated
Feast of Stephen, undated
Fowler, undated
Hamlet, undated
King Lear, undated
Makbeth, undated
The Marilyn Project, undated
Mother Courage, undated
The Prometheus Project, undated
Tooth of Crime, undated
The Three Sisters, undated
Young King, Jealous God, undated
Misc. Plays about Hitler, undated
Miscellaneous, undated
Animal/Human Transformation, undated
The Bald Sopranos, undated
Beauty Be Not Caused, undated
Believed-in Performances, undated
By Means of Performance, undated
College Papers, 1953-1960
Der Sprechende Korper, undated
Drama, Game and Ritual, 1972
Environmentalists Now, undated
Environmental Theatre, undated
Essays on Performance Theory, 1977
Essay 1, undated
Essay 3, undated
Essay 5, undated
Essay 7, undated
Ethology of Theatre, undated
Freud and Comedy, undated
Fragments of Dialog, undated
Future of Ritual (Chapters 1-3), undated
Intercultural Performance, undated
In Warm Blood: The Bacchae, undated
IS-AS, 1986, 1990
JREX Proposal, undated
Lecture at Stonybrook, undated
Letter from Calcutta, undated
Magnitudes of Performance, undated
NETC Keynote Speech, 1991
On Environmental Design, 1971
The Performance Group in India, 1976
Performance Studies, undated
Performance Theory Now, undated
Performed Imaginaries, undated
The Performed Word, 1985
Points of Contact Between, undated
The Politics of Ecstasy, 1968
Postmodern Performance, undated
Ramilila of Romnagar, undated
A Reply to Rustom Bharucha, undated
Restoration of Behavior, undated
Ritual and Performance, 1991
Ritual in/of/and Theater, undated
Ritual, Play and Performance, undated
Sam Shepard Sketch, undated
Six Axioms, undated
Structuralism, undated
The Struggle to Creativity, 1986
A Tale of a Few Cities, undated
Theatre and Revolution, undated
Uprooting the Garden, undated
Vassar Talk, 1994
Victor Turner's Last Adventure, 1986
Wander around up here, undated
Workshop Notes, 1970
Woyzeck, undated
Writings on Ionesco, undated
Writings on Grotowski, undated
Miscellaneous Notes, undated
The most famous of Schechner's theater groups, The Performance Group gained national and international attention with its controversial presentation of Dionysus in 69. Usually directed by Schechner, TPG performed a number of plays off-off Broadway in a converted factory named The Performance Garage, as well as touring the United States, Europe, and India.
This series is arranged into four subseries: Productions, Tours and Residencies, Grants, and General.
Ads, Flyers, Programs, 1979
Box Office, 1979
Correspondence, 1979
Notes, 1979
Papers/Articles by Genet, 1979
The Cherry Orchard, undated
Ads, Flyers, Programs, 1970-1971
Box Office, 1970-1971
Correspondence, 1970-1971
Interviews, 1970-1971
Notes, 1970-1971
Reviews, 1970-1971
Cops, dates not examined
Ads, Flyers, Programs, 1978
Box Office, 1978
Correspondence, 1978
Interview by Anne Wyma, 1978
Ads, Program, 1968-1969
Box Office, 1968-1969
Correspondence, 1968-1969
Notes by Schechner, 1968-1969
Notes by Vicki May Strang, 1968-1969
Reactions, 1968-1969
Reviews, 1968-1969
Miscellaneous, 1968-1969
Don Juan, 1987
Jewish Piece, undated
Box Office, 1968-1971
Correspondence, 1968-1971
Notes, 1968-1971
Program Summary, 1968-1971
Reviews, 1968-1971
Ads, Program Summary, 1975
Correspondence, 1975
Notes, 1975
Reviews, 1975
Ads, Programs, 1975
Box Office, 1975
Correspondence, 1975
India, 1975
Musical Score, 1975
Notes, 1975
Reviews, 1975
Box Office, 1977-1978
Correspondence, 1977-1978
Reviews, 1977-1978
Miscellaneous, 1977-1978
Point Judith, undated
Correspondence, 1985
Reviews, 1985
Scrapbook, 1985
Summaries, 1985
Miscellaneous, 1985
Richard's Lear, dates not examined
Songs of Ourselves - WGBH, 1968-1970
The Thirty Year War, 1975
Ads, Flyers, 1978-1979
Box Office, 1978-1979
Correspondence, 1978-1979
Reviews, 1978-1979
Script for Rumstick Road, 1978-1979
Ads, Flyers, 1973
Box Office, 1973
Correspondence, 1973
Reviews, 1973
Miscellaneous, 1973
Applicants and Participants, undated
Australia (Proposed), 1972-1973
Canada, 1971-1972
Europe, 1969
Europe, 1971-1976
India, 1973-1974, 1976
India: Scrapbook, undated
USA, 1969-1979
Miscellaneous, undated
Subseries 5C: Grants, 1969-1981
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, undated
Ford Foundation, undated
JDR 3rd Fund, undated
Rockefeller Foundation, undated
Shubert Foundation, undated
Miscellaneous, undated
Subseries 5D: General, 1968-1980
Board of Directors, undated
Box Office, 1975-1976
Financial Reports, 1969-1980
History, undated
Insurance, undated
Internal Revenue Service, undated
Legal Matters, undated
Loans, undated
Notes, undated
Requests for permissions, undated
Rojo, Jerry, undated
Performance Garage, undated
Building Plans, dates not examined
Leases, dates not examined
Purchase, dates not examined
Miscellaneous, dates not examined
Scrapbook #1, 1968-1969
Scrapbook #2, 1969-1975
Although relatively small, the series, arranged alphabetically, contains items from Schechner's school years, including his scrapbook from his tenure at Cornell University's newspaper, The Daily Sun. Of special interest is a draft of The Engleburt Stories (written in collaboration with his son Sam), as well as a radio play Schechner performed and directed while still in high school.
Arranged alphabetically.
Fort Hood, TX, 1960-1964
Columbia High School, 1950-1952
Cornell University, 1953-1956
Peshine Avenue School, 1943-1945
Scrapbook, 1947-1948
Six Holding Company, 1980-1983
Miscellaneous, 1950
The four subseries of this section cover a wide spectrum of topics relating to different phases and facets of Schechner's life and ranging from the books he published to the hate mail he received.
This series is arranged into four subseries: Free Southern Theatre, Publishing, The Drama Review, and Miscellaneous.
Administrative, 1964-1970
Hartzell, Penny - Journal, 1964-1965
History, 1963-1974
Writings, 1964-1970
Globe Mail Agency, 1966-1967
Fawcett Anthology (1), 1964-1967
Hill and Wang, 1957-1967
Ingram-Hill Foundation, 1962-1963
MIT Press, 1982-1997
MIT Press: Contract, 1981
MIT Press: Marketing, undated
Monograph Series, 1979-1984
Science Press, 1971-1974
Waverly Press, 1965-1968
Anniversaries, 1965, 1982-1983
Book Reviews, 1987-1996
Brecht Issue Correspondence, 1965-1967
Budgets, 1967-1989
Censorship (Australia), 1970
Clippings/Scrapbook, 1964-1968
Munk, Erika, 1969-1971
NEH Grant, 1992-1993
Regional Theater Survey, 1968
Theater Conference, 1965
"Theatre of the Future" Survey, 1980
Time Magazine Response, 1964
University Theatre Survey, 1986
FBI Files, 1965-1969, 1981-1989
Hate Mail, 1962-1965
Living Theatre, 1962-1964, 1971
Victor Turner Articles, undated
Series 8: Audio-Visual, 1967-1992
This series consists of five subseries, based on format. Otherwise there is no particular order to this voluminous material, though within each subseries, every effort has been made to bring material on the same subject together. Researchers are cautioned that many of these items are not of the highest quality, and some information contained on the 8MM films, for example, may be lost or difficult to view.
This series is arranged into five subseries: Cassettes, VHS Videos, Video Reels, 8MM Films, and Audio Reels.
Subseries 8A: Cassettes, 1969-1992
Oedipus Rehearsal, 1977
Oedipus - WBAI, 1978 May
Cops, 1978 May
Workshop, 1970
Commune: Exercises, 1970
Thailand Lecture, 1976
On Artaud, 1980 July 2
ON AS, Antwerp, undated
Theatre and Back", 1974
Headphone exercise, 1970
Ramilila, 1982 October 4
Wagner?, undated
RS/PF #38, undated
Purakali, undated
Tamin Jadi Raja, undated
Abimanyu Gugur, undated
OJO Lamis, undated
Gending Madura, undated
Dursasana Gugur, undated
Goro-Goro-3, undated
Kabuki (1-2), 1972
Whales, Wolves, 1970
Manson/Snyder, 1981
Seder (1-2), 1973
Bris, 1977 September 15
Sam, 1980 May-July
Sam (1-7), 1981-1982
Sam's Tape, 1982
Annie Work Tape, undated
Heartbeat (1-2), undated
Tomoko (1-2), undated
Siren Sound, undated
Koyaanisqatsi, undated
Japanese Flute, undated
10 Stories, undated
Photo Stories, undated
RS, 1984 February 28
Blau #5, 1984 March 20
Kate Mannheim, undated
"On Pica-Don", undated
Pan Suy Kore #2, undated
Sepik Kathakali, 1979
Bali, 1972
Yak, 1976
Mayurbhanj Chhau, 1976
Yakohagroma, 1976
TPG, undated
Namahage Hotel, undated
MChou Cal, 1977
Dionysus in 69, undated
Sahoo and Chhau, undated
Sam Summer (1-3), 1978
Sam's Birth (1), 1977
Kath Rehearsal, undated
TPG Exercises, 1970
Sahoo/Dev Gati, 1972
M Chhau, 1976
Scene 2M Chhau, undated
Teyyan (1-2), undated
Yak (2-4), 1976
Sam's Birth (2-6), 1977
Gold Mark Dance, 1980
Ama-Nasa #3, 1980
Bullfight (1-2), 1973
Bullfight/Sunset, 1973
Namahage House, undated
Schechner (1-2), undated
Goldberg (1-2), undated
Paul Baker, undated
Arnold Jonson, undated
Allan Kaprow, undated
Chaikin, undated
TDR (1), undated
Russian, 1970 January 31
Unlabelled (1), undated
Series 9: Photographs, 1964-1995
In some ways, this series mirrors the arrangement of the correspondence found in Series 2. The five subseries includes TDR (by issue), TDR (General), Personal, General and The Performance Group. The numbers following the entries in the folder list indicate the number of photos pertaining to a given subject.
This series is arranged into five subseries: TDR Photographs by Issue, TDR General Photographs, Personal, General Photographs, and The Performance Group Photographs.
Moscow Art (7), 1964
Open Theatre (1), 1964
Pirandello (7), 1966
Svoboda (7), 1966
Sjoman (10), undated
Olivier (22), 1966
Architecture (27), 1968
Happenings (8), undated
Block Theater (1), 1968
General (38), 1968
Provo (1), undated
Italy (4), undated
Odin/Ferai (25), 1969
El Topo (7), 1970
Bush photos (5), 1970
General (3), 1971
Indian Film (3), undated
General (30), 1972
General (41), 1972
Grand Union (16), 1972
Joan Jonas (4), undated
Gordon (80), 1980
Sommer/Overlie (6), 1980
Dance Summers (18), 1980
Joseph Chaikin (6), 1981
Mabou Mines (2), undated
Nyau Dance (1), undated
Ghana (4), undated
Zar Dance (4), 1981
Les Cenci (1), undated
Teatro/Viola (1), 1982
Reports (2), undated
KPGT (7), 1983
Dettorde (2), undated
Van Hove (6), 1983
Splint (2), undated
Eco Theatre (6), undated
Ann Bogart (1), 1983
Daryl Chin (1), undated
Reports (13), undated
de Keersmacker (4), 1984
Parade (6), undated
Kantor Photos (15), 1986
Martha Clarke (2), 1987
Eugenio Barba (13), 1988
Bristol Old Vic, undated
Cafe Theatre, undated
Kirby, Michael, undated
Packett Theatre, undated
Subseries 9C: Personal, undated
Commune (135), undated
Cops (34), undated
Don Juan (3), undated
Oedipus (14), undated
Trilogy (1), undated
Series 10: Oversize, 1965-1992
This series predominantly features oversized photographs, although subseries 5 does contain a few miscellaneous items. With regard to the photographs, the numbers following the entries in the folder list indicate the number of photos pertaining to a given subject.
This series is arranged into five subseries: The Performance Group Photographs, TDR Photographs, Travel Photographs, General Photographs, and Miscellaneous Items.
Balcony (7), undated
Beard (6), undated
Commune (92), undated
Commune (145), undated
Makbeth (62), undated
Makbeth (26), undated
Oedipus (29), undated
Pirandello (2), 1966
Alf Sjoberg (46), 1967
Happenings (2), 1968
General (1), 1968
General (2), 1972
Grand Union (1), 1972
New Layfette (1), 1972
General (11), 1973
Laura Dean (11), 1975
Joan Jonas (1), 1975
General (2), 1975
General (1), 1975
General (6), 1977
German Cabaret (1), 1980
Gordon (3), 1980
Odom Wigman (1), 1980
Kim-Namasdoug (1), 1981
Eartheirkus (2), 1982
General (2), 1984
General (4), 1986
General (5), 1986
General (7), 1991 Spring
General (2), 1992 Spring
General (8), 1992 Fall
General (2), 1992 Winter
India (12), undated
Java (15), undated
Madras (3), undated
New Guinea (26), undated
Pahalgam (2), undated
Bali (2), undated
Tengenan (6), undated
Yaqui (2), undated
This series consists of additional papers of Richard Schechner, including the following: manuscripts, professional and personnel correspondence, files of TDR, printed material, theater posters, photographs, grant information, production records, biographical information, production notes, teaching notes, course notes, appointment books, passports, notes on subject cards, betamax video cassette tapes of "Tooth of Crime" and "Dionysus in 69," film reels of "Dionysus in 69," and a small selection of miscellaneous material. This series is unprocessed.
Arranged by genre of material.
Correspondence, undated
TDR Files, undated
Posters, undated
Correspondence, undated
Miscellaneous, undated
Miscellaneous TDR files, undated
Miscellaneous files, 1989-2007
Miscellaneous files, 1960s-2000
December 2012 Accession, 2008-2011
The Performance Group in India, 1976
Works by others, 2006-2009
Diskettes, undated
Minidiscs, undated
TDR Papers, 1996
TDR Consortium, 2009-2010
Personal medical records, 1970-2002
Mother's Will, 1999
Personal Correspondence, 1970-2010
75th Birthday Wishes, 2009
TDR: Author Forms T201, 2008 October
TDR: FINS T201, 2008 October
TDR: Galleys to MIT T201, 2008 December
TDR: FINS T202, 2009 January
TDR: Galleys to MIT T202, 2009 March
TDR: Revises T202, 2009 March
TDR: FINS T203, 2009 March-April
TDR: Galleys from MIT T203, 2009 May
TDR: Galleys to MIT T203, 2009 May-June
TDR: Revises T203, 2009 July
TDR: Second Revises T203, 2009
TDR: MIT Contract, 1993 April
TDR: Miscellaneous, 1993-2006
TDR: Conferences, 2001-2005
TDR: Galleys from MIT T204, 2009 August
TDR: FINS T204, 2009 July
TDR: First Revises T204, 2009
TDR: Second Revises T204, 2009
TDR: Additional Revises T204, 2009
TDR: FINS T205, 2009 October-December
TDR: Misc T205, 2010 February-March
TDR: FINS T206, 2010 January
TDR: Galleys to MIT T206, 2010 April
TDR: First Revises T206, 2010 April
TDR: Second Revises T206, 2010 April
TDR: FINS T207, 2010 April
TDR: Galleys from MIT T207, 2010 May
TDR: Galleys to MIT T207, 2010 June
TDR: First Revises T207, 2010 July
TDR: Second Revises T207, 2010 July
TDR: Art T208, undated
TDR: FINS T208, 2010 July
TDR: Galleys from MIT T208, 2010
TDR: First Revises T208, 2010 August
TDR: Additional Revises T208, 2010
TDR: FINS T209, 2010 October
TDR: First Revises T209, undated
TDR: Misc T209, undated
TDR: FINS T210, 2011 January
TDR: Second Revises T210, 2011 March
- Scope and Contents
The Richard Schechner/TDR Collection contains material related to the individual, Richard Schechner, as well as items pertaining to the academic theater journal The Drama Review. The majority of the information on TDR derives from Schechner's years as editor (1962-1969, 1986- ) and includes correspondence, galley proofs, edited articles, publishing contracts, and photographs. Because of the need to maintain original order within this collection, material on TDR was not isolated from Schechner's personal and professional papers, so the divisions in the above arrangement are somewhat porous. One of the drawbacks to TDR material is the lack of information from the pre- and post-Schechner years. Researchers interested in those particular years are encouraged to examine the correspondence (Series 2, Subseries 2 and 3, in particular) to obtain more information.
Unless otherwise noted, folders are arranged alphabetically and chronologically (earliest to latest). Researchers should be aware that although a particular person, organization, or subject may have its own folder, it is highly recommended that the general correspondence folders in Series 2 be checked as well. Furthermore, conferences, performance studios, and publishing companies may contain material relating to individuals named elsewhere.
- Arrangement
The Richard Schechner/TDR collection is divided into twelve series:
- Collection Creator Biography:
Schechner
Born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 23, 1934, Richard Schechner was the third of Sheridan and Selma (Schwarz) Schechner's four sons. Richard spent his early years in the Jewish Weequahic neighborhood of Newark. His family moved to suburban South Orange, N.J., when Schechner was 14 where he went to Columbia High School, graduating in 1952. He attended Cornell University from 1952 to 1956 earning a B.A. with honors in English. At Cornell he gained considerable editorial experience by serving on the staff of the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1956-57, he attended Johns Hopkins University studying in Elliott Coleman's writing seminars and in the more scholarly English department. He completed his M.A. in English at the University of Iowa in 1958 where he was a member of Paul Engle's Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Cornell and Iowa he frequently wrote reviews of theater productions as increasingly his interests turned to theater. His master's thesis was a play, Briseis and the Sergeant, based on an episode in the Iliad. During the summers of 1957 and 1958, Schechner co-founded and co-directed the East End Players in Provincetown, Massachusetts, writing and directing several productions. From November 1958 until August 1960, Schechner served in the United States Army in Fort Polk, Louisiana, and Fort Hood, Texas. While in the army, Schechner wrote troop information pamphlets, taught, edited a post newspaper, and directed two plays.
After his discharge from the Army, Schechner attended Tulane University. In the summer of 1961, he restarted the East End Players for its final summer season. Schechner earned his Ph.D. from Tulane in 1962. His dissertation was a study of Eugene Ionesco based on 8 months of research in Paris in 1961-62. Upon completing his degree, Schechner was hired by Tulane as an assistant professor of drama from 1962-1965 and associate professor from 1965-1967. Under the terms of Schechner's appointment, he was named editor of the Tulane Drama Review ( TDR). Although Schechner was young, brash, and unproven at the time, Monroe Lippman, chair of Tulane's theater department, took a chance on him --a challenging opportunity that Schechner embraced completely. Within five years, under Schechner's editorship, not only did the number of TDR subscribers grow substantially, but the reputation of TDR as a leading vehicle for writing about radical and experimental theater developed as well.
Schechner's work within the theater world continued to expand as well. While in New Orleans, Schechner served as one of three producing directors of the Free Southern Theater and one of three founding directors of the New Orleans Group. His plays were produced by Tulane and in local New Orleans theaters. Schechner's scholarly interests expanded to include performance in all of its aspects, from ritual and play to the performances of everyday life. While living in New Orleans, Schechner was active in both the African American freedom movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. In 1967, a bitter dispute between the theater department and Tulane's central administration led to the resignations of five faculty members, Schechner among them. Schechner and Lippman were invited to join the faculty at New York University where Robert W. Corrigan, the founding editor of TDR, had in 1966 started the School of the Arts (later the Tisch School of the Arts). Schechner was promoted to full professor when he and TDR, renamed The Drama Review, moved to NYU in September 1967. Shortly after arriving in New York, Schechner continued his theater work by creating The Performance Group (TPG) in 1967. Eight months later, the Performance Group gained national attention by premiering the radical and controversial Dionysus in 69 (textual collage and direction by Schechner). The success of Dionysus launched TPG into a varied repertory of environmental theater productions, including Schechner's deconstruction of Shakespeare, Makbeth (1970), the group-devised Commune (1970-1972), Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime (1972-1974), Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (1975-77), David Gaard's The Marilyn Project (1975-76) Seneca's Oedipus (1977), Terry Curtis Fox's Cops (1978), and Jean Genet's The Balcony (1979), all directed by Schechner. These works were performed both at The Performing Garage and internationally in Europe and then India.
In order to focus his energies more on TPG and to give himself more time for writing, Schechner passed the TDR editorship to Erika Munk in 1969, but continued to serve as contributing editor. Munk was replaced by Michael Kirby as TDR's editor in 1969. Schechner resumed editing TDR in 1986 (these matters will be discussed more fully below in the "Brief History of The Drama Review").
In 1971-72, Schechner and Joan MacIntosh (one of the founding members of TPG and from 1970 Schechner's wife) traveled to India and other destinations across Asia. This trip left a profound mark on Schechner's life, thinking, and work. Since then, he has made many trips to Asia - especially India, China, Japan, and Indonesia - to do research, lecture, lead workshops, and direct plays. In 1977, MacIntosh gave birth to their son, Samuel MacIntosh Schechner. From the late 1960s, and increasingly throughout the 1970s, Schechner wrote a number of influential books: Public Domain (1968), Environmental Theater (1973), Theaters, Spaces and Environments (with Brooks McNamara and Jerry Rojo, 1975), Essays on Performance Theory, 1970-1976 (1976), and Ritual, Play and Performance (co-editor with Mady Schuman, 1976).
In 1980, after artistic differences arose over the direction of TPG, Schechner left his position of artistic director, remaining on the Board of Directors until 1986. Shortly after Schechner resigned, TPG was renamed the Wooster Group. For a considerable period of time, Schechner concentrated on developing his theories of performance, which ultimately coalesced into the field now known as performance studies. Academically and theatrically, Schechner, who became known in the early 1970s for environmental theater, had always been fascinated by the performances of rituals across a wide range of cultures. From the early 1970s, Schechner had been seriously incorporating anthropology into his work. Always a prolific writer, he collaborated with anthropologist Victor Turner planning a World Conference in Theater and Ritual which convened for three meetings in the early 1980s.
From the mid-1970s, Schechner began teaching courses in performance theory and theater anthropology at NYU. In 1980, NYU's Graduate Drama Department its name to the Performance Studies Department suiting the name to the emerging actuality. Many of Schechner's seminal ideas relating theater to the social sciences were collected in his 1985 book, Between Theater and Anthropology. In 1987, Schechner and his then 9 year-old son Samuel co-authored a short novel, The Engleburt Stories: North to the Tropics. In 1988, a revised version of Essays on Performance Theory appeared as Performance Theory; a further revision came out in 2003 . The Future of Ritual, a further collection of essays, was published in 1996 and the first edition of Schechner's textbook, Performance Studies - An Introduction, appeared in 2003 with a second edition coming out in 2006.
Throughout the 1980s, Schechner continued to adapt and direct plays including a Shakespeare collage, Richard's Lear (1981), at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cherry Ka Baghicha (Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, 1982) with the Repertory Company of the National School of Drama in New Delhi, The Prometheus Project (1983-85) in New York, Moliere's Don Juan (in Schechner's translation, 1987) at Florida State University, and Sun Huizhu's Mingri Jiuyao Chu Shan (Tomorrow He'll Be Out of the Mountains, 1989) at the Shanghai Peoples Art Theater. And in 1986, he again took over the editorship of TDR.
Schechner and MacIntosh divorced in 1978. In 1987, Schechner married Carol Martin, and their daughter, Sophia Martin Schechner, was born in 1988. Throughout the 1990s and into the present, Schechner has been extremely active in the USA and internationally as a theater director, editor, workshop leader, lecturer, and professor. In 1992, he directed the first play by an African American ever done in South Africa, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and in 1995 in Taipei, his own adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia (translated into Chinese). In 1992, he founded the East End Players, which continues to the present. With ECA Schechner has directed his own Faust/gastronome (1993), Chekhov's The Three Sisters (1995-97), Shakespeare's Hamlet (1999), Beckett's Waiting for Godot (2002, in collaboration with Cornell University), and Saviana Stanescu and Schechner's YokastaS (2003) and YokastaS Redux (2005). As of 2005, Schechner and Stanescu are working with novelist Paul Auster on a dramatization of Auster's Timbuktu.
In 1991 Schechner was named University Professor at NYU. In 1992-93 he was an Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton where he helped develop the Richard Schechner/TDR Collection. Schechner has also been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth, and an Andrew H. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell. He is also the winner of a number fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1975), the Mondello Prize (Italy, 1985), a Lifetime Achievement Award from Performance Studies International (2002), and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2004). Schechner's books and essays have appeared in many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Korean, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian.
TDR, The Drama Review, one of the world's leading academic performance journals, had a modest beginning as the Carleton Drama Review in 1955. At that point, TDR actually was mostly about drama. Over the years, the journal has changed focus several times - from dramatic literature, to theater and staging, to the broad field of performance studies. At its outset, founding editor Robert W. Corrigan, with the urging and help of advisory editor Eric Bentley, transformed the Carleton from a first idea of publishing a lecture series into a more full-fledged scholarly journal. When Corrigan moved to Tulane in 1957, he brought the Carleton from Minnesota to New Orleans, renaming it the Tulane Drama Review. The journal began to grow, albeit slowly, challenging the prevailing ideas of Broadway theater with a more avant-garde and European approach.
With the appointment in 1962 of Schechner as TDR's second editor, the growth and influence of TDR began to take flight. For the first year of his editorship, Schechner published a backlog of articles, and therefore his impact was not immediate. But by 1963, TDR began to assert its new voice. Schechner instituted an editorial column, TDR Comment, which he often wrote himself. In one of the first Comments (T20), Schechner set the tone for TDR: "You choose Broadway and I'll choose an experimental theater. There are many roads to truth. But neither of us can choose both Broadway and the experimental theater. That's a contradiction in intention." This was a daring statement, for at that time the concept of experimental theater was in its infancy. Two issues later, Schechner and associate editor Theodore Hoffman laid out a seven-point mission statement for TDR: "An absolute commitment to professional standards. The decentralization of the professional theater. A deep and continued interest in both practical and theoretical experimentation. A committed employment of the open stage. The reintroduction of the playwright into the theater. A recognition that the best contemporary theater is international. The redirection of education theater into the mainstream of American theater" (T22).
Whether Schechner was successful or not in fulfilling this mission remains an open question. What is not in doubt was the exploding popularity and success of TDR over the rest of the 1960s. Always controversial and intensely disliked by some of the more traditional theater minds, TDR offered a source for experimental ideas, an outlet for nontraditional playwrights, and an opening which embraced all types of performance, not simply drama. In a series of essays and editorial choices, Schechner not only championed experimental and political theater, he broke ground by publishing a special issue on Happenings (T30, 1965), opening TDR's pages to writings about non-Western theater, and beginning the turn toward the social sciences and critical thought that would eventuate in performance studies.
In 1967, because of frustrations with Tulane University, Schechner joined a group of theater faculty in resigning. Schechner and Tulane theater department chair Monroe Lippman accepted teaching positions at New York University where Robert Corrigan was developing a new school of the arts. Schechner took the Tulane Drama Review with him to NYU, renaming it The Drama Review. Once in New York, TDR became increasingly politically engaged. Schechner invited playwright Ed Bullins to edit a black theater issue (T40) which remains a landmark publication. In 1969, T43 had a feature on the Living Theater's tumultuous return to the USA. T43 was Schechner's last issue during his first stint at TDR editor. He wrote that he resigned his editorship in order to devote more time to writing and theater directing.
Schechner's longtime managing and then associate editor Erika Munk assumed the position of TDR editor in the summer of 1969. The first number under Munk's editorship was a special issue on "Politics and Performance" (T44) that she and Schechner had prepared. In fact, TDR had turned increasingly political during the late 1960s. Many articles concerned the political and social changes within and beyond the United States. For example, Schechner and Latin American theater specialist Joanne Pottlitzer traveled throughout Latin America, including Cuba, in 1968. The results of their encounter were published as TDR's Latin American issue (T46), clearly one of the journal's most radical numbers. However, Munk did not remain TDR's editor long. She was fired by NYU not because of controversial political ideas but because of administrative and financial troubles. With Munk's departure, there was doubt concerning whether or not TDR would continue publishing.
In 1971, with the cautious approval of New York University Michael Kirby - a TDR contributing editor and NYU faculty member - was appointed editor. Kirby brought the financial crisis under control by cutting costs, bringing in a professional managing editor to run the office, and signing up with MIT Press who from that time forward became responsible for the physical production of TDR managing its non-editorial budget. MIT Press has turned a profit running TDR's business and production side and, in fact, subsidizes the editorial offices which are at NYU.
In terms of editorial policy, Kirby was concerned that TDR had concentrated too much on the social science and political aspects of performance, and not enough on the history and practice of theater, drama, and dance. Kirby abhorred what he called "value judgments" and wanted TDR to be "objective." Over the next 17 years, Kirby accomplished his program. He gave up omnibus issues. Every number of TDR was a "special" issue, devoted to one topic or idea. Over time, a very broad range of subjects was featured. The special issue concept began with Schechner but had been used only occasionally before Kirby.
At its height in the late 1960s, TDR's paid circulation approached 20,000. A slow decline began under Kirby's editorship - though it is not correct to blame his policies for the decline. As the activist 60s and early 70s cooled down, and as the cost for subscriptions increased, TDR began to lose significant numbers of individual subscribers. The journal became a mainstay of university libraries - often used in courses and cited by scholars, TDR was no longer a "have to have" magazine for directors, actors, designers, or producers. For all this, TDR is in the forefront of academic theater journals.
After 17 years as editor, Kirby resigned in 1986. Schechner was eager to again become editor, a post he still holds. Joining him in 1986 was associate editor Mariellen Sandford, who still holds that position. During Schechner's second editorial stint, TDR vigorously publishes across the broad range of performance studies. In his TDR Comments, Schechner argues for reforming university theater departments. TDR continues to champion experimentation, interculturality, and the careful study of the broad range of performance from the performing arts to rituals, play, and the performances of everyday life. The current contributing editors come from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia - making TDR the only truly international and intercultural performance journal. TDR's annual student essay contest draws entries from around the world. A freshly designed TDR is widely available online through such services as Project Muse and Jstore. TDR is also offered in an online only format for those subscribers who prefer paperless publishing. As TDR celebrates its 50th birthday in 2006, its outlook is youthful, its core editorial values unchanged. Led by Schechner and Sandford, TDR continues to challenge the conventional performing arts world, broadening horizons while introducing both established and new writers and artists to eager readers in scores of countries.
- Acquisition:
The collection was donated by Richard Schechner in 1988, with additions from 1995-2018.
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Additional contributions in the form of Schechner's personal notebooks/diaries will be added to the collection at a later date.
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This collection was processed by Janet Begnoche in 2001-2002, with the assistance of Caterina Teuscher in 2002 and Hiroko Hosaka in 2002 and additions by Karla J. Vecchia in 2004. Finding aid written by Janet Begnoche in 2001-2002, with the assistance of Caterina Teuscher in 2002 and Hiroko Hosaka in 2002 and additions by Karla J. Vecchia in 2004 and Feng Zhu '14 in 2013.
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