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1979ref. 162878Rome: Comune di Roma 1979. Vintage poster for an Italian staging of the 1974 groundbreaking American experimental theatre production. Staged in Rome at the Teatro Alberico circa 1979. Founded in 1947 in New York by Julian Beck and Judith Malina The Living Theatre is the oldest active experimental theater group in the United States. In the fifties and sixties the company became an epicenter for revolutionary culture performing both original and repertory works. "Seven Meditations" was largely written in response to the imprisonment of several members of the company under the Medici dictatorship in Brazil in 1971 drawing on their experiences of suppression and torture in the Brazilian prison system. The show addressed seven different types of actions relationships or statements governed by power including sexuality capitalism private property and law enforcement and attempted to begin a dialogue with audience members regarding ways to move forward from these dynamics. As with many of the group's performances "Seven Meditations" proved controversial and even courted obscenity charges largely due to a section of the show depicting a simulated torture scene-as shown in the poster on offer. 39 x 55 inches. Rolled. Very Good plus. Comune di Roma unknown books
1959ref. 160200New York: The Living Theatre 1959. Vintage mailer for a performance by American classical pianist William Masselos held at The Living Theatre on May 4 1959. Founded in 1947 The Living Theatre laid the foundation for a robust underground art scene in the New York City. After more than a decade of successful original radical stage productions and adaptations of works by playwrights such as Bertold Brecht and Gertrude Stein founders Judith Malina and Julian Beck used their space and resources for the nourishment of the arts more broadly offering the theatre for literary benefits film screenings and musical performances such as the one advertised here. Approximately 9 x 4 inches. Very Good plus with faint discoloration on the bottom right portion of the mailer. The Living Theatre unknown books
1960ref. 160201New York: The Living Theatre 1960. Vintage flyer for an experimental music performance held at The Living Theatre on November 7 1960. Flyer advertises performances by composers Stephen Addiss Peter Hartman Ezra Sims William Sydeman and Charles Wuorinen. Founded in 1947 The Living Theatre laid the foundation for a robust underground art scene in the New York City. After more than a decade of successful original radical stage productions and adaptations of works by playwrights such as Bertold Brecht and Gertrude Stein founders Judith Malina and Julian Beck used their space and resources for the nourishment of the arts more broadly offering the theatre for literary benefits film screenings and musical performances such as the ones advertised here. 14 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus with faint age toning on the left and right edges and a few nicks at the corners. The Living Theatre unknown books
1990ref. 159725San Francisco: 1800 Square Ft 1990. Vintage hand-colored poster for the premiere of the 1990 play "Hold On to Let Go: A Dumpster Play by . Moon of the Loon" by playwright Andrew Vermont at the San Francisco performance venue 1800 Square Ft at 719 Clementina Street January 26-28 1990. 11 x 17 inches. Several small pin holes else Near Fine. 1800 Square Ft unknown books
1989ref. 159726San Francisco: Bindlestiff Productions 1989. Vintage "A Boxing Match: Chris 'Bread Box' Brophy Goes 15 Rounds with 5 Opponents from San Francisco's Cutting Edge" poster for a performance Easter Sunday March 26 1989 at 612 Howard Street San Francisco featuring "Paul 'Codzilla' Codiga of 'Dude Theatre'"Mark Steger the Buoy Wünder of 'Elbows Akimbo" Kieth 'Peace Punk' Hennessey sic of 'Contraband'"'Totured' Oscar Eustis sic of 'Eureka Theatre'" ". and The Surprise Opponent from Hell" designed by Chrystene R. Ells presented by Bindlestiff Productions. Bindlestiff Studio was founded in 1989 the year of the poster on offer here by Chris Brody Chrystene Ells and a group of local theater artists and is the only permanent community-based performing arts venue nationwide dedicated to showcasing emerging Filipino American and Pilipino artists. The venue still operates today at 185 Sixth Street San Francisco. Paul Codiga is the artistic director and producer for Intersection for the Arts a Bay Area arts nonprofit founded in 1965 which continues its mission to this day. Keith Hennessy is a San Francisco-based dancer choreographer and performance artist and is widely hailed as a pioneer of queer and AIDS-concerned performance. Mark Steger was a member of Elbows Akimbo an avant-garde performance ensemble in the San Francisco underground scene of the late 1980s through the mid 1990s. Oskar Eustis has been a director dramaturg and artist director for theaters around the US and has been the Artistic Director at the Public Theater in New York since 2005. 11 x 17 inches. Light edgewear and several small pinholes else Near Fine. Bindlestiff Productions unknown books
2004ref. 132996Los Angeles: Pandemonium Theatre Company 2004. An archive of 10 original posters for productions staged by Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company from 1988 to 2004. The plays were performed in Southern California predominantly at The Court Theatre Falcon Theatre Theatre West The Raven Playhouse and Melrose Theatre. The archive includes posters from 10 productions including "Fahrenheit 451" "The October Country" "Past Present & Future" "The Time of Going Away" and "Drunk and In Charge of a Bicycle." and his Irish play "Falling Upward!" "Falling Upward!" was one of Bradbury's favorite plays and especially as he advanced in age he was know to encourage its frequent production simply for the joy of being able to see it again. Bradbury was an avid playwright and a familiar and enthusiastic presence in the Southern California theatre circuit near his home. In 1963 he and director Charles Rome Smith founded Pandemonium Theatre Company. The two friends would go on to work with the company together for the next four decades until Rome's death in 2004. This archive is a solid representation of the company's latter half before Smith's passing and Bradbury's hearing loss which would necessitate that he stop attending performances. Posters approximately 11 x 17 inches. About Fine condition. Pandemonium Theatre Company unknown books
1960ref. 131291New York: Self published 1960. Archive of two pieces from one of the New York Underground's most creative and charismatic orators Spencer Holst. Includes Holst's self-published first book "25 Stories" 1960 and a flyer from a reading shortly after publication at The Living Theatre in New York on February 1 1961. Holst was already a well-known and gifted speaker by the time "25 Stories" was published with the help of his wife abstract expressionist painter Beate Wheeler. He frequently held audiences with his psychedelic and surrealistic tales and would give performances at Judith Malina and Julian Beck's The Living Theatre selling copies of "25 Stories" at the show. Holst's work continued to fascinate audiences and "25 Stories" was reprinted in 1993 by Station Hill Press as the better part of a career-spanning collection "The Zebra Storyteller." Book: tall handbound perfect-bound wrappers 4.5 x 14 inches. Spine ends chipped cracked front hinge dampstains and soiling overall Good plus and still serviceable surviving copies of this fragile book are scarce in any condition. Flyer: 8 x 12.5 inches. Very Good plus with one vertical fold and minimal toning along the fold. Self published unknown books
2017ref. 87733Leuven: Peeters 2017. First Edition. First Impression. Thick octavo 24.5cm; original pictorial card wrappers; xxxvi34-940pp; illus.; text is entirely in French. A Fine copy of this substantial monograph on Tibetan ache lhamo theatre as it was performed in the pre-modern era before 1950 and as it is still performed today in the Tibet Autonomous Region and within the Tibetan diaspora in India and Nepal. 87733. Peeters unknown books
1969ref. 168709N.p.: N.p. 1969. Archive of 29 original photographs from The Living Theatre performances dating between 1959 and 1969 including 27 borderless photographs and eight double weight photographs. Four photographs with Gianfranco Mantegna photographer stamps on the versos six photographs with Horace Dimayo photographer stamps on the versos two with "L'Express/Manuel Bidermanas" photographer stamps on the versos and one with a "Photo Pic" stamp on the verso. The archive includes: One borderless photograph from the January 13 1959 premiere performance of William Carlos Williams' "Many Loves" on The Living Theatre Playhouse's opening night. Three borderless photographs of the June 29 1966 performance of "Mysteries and Smaller Pieces" 1964 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris. Three borderless photographs from the September - October 1966 performances of Jean Genet's "The Maids" 1947 at the Berliner Festwochen including two double weight. Seven borderless photographs from the July 1968 performance of Bertolt Brecht's "Antigone" 1948 performed at the Avignon XXII Festival at the Cloître des Célestins. Two double weight borderless photographs of Julian Beck and Judith Malina being interviewed in 1968 at the Avignon XXII Festival at the Cloître des Carmes. Six borderless photographs from the October 1969 performance of "Mysteries and Smaller Pieces" 1964 at the Circo Medini in Milan. Two photographs from the October 1969 performance of "Paradise Now" 1968 at Teatro Alfieri in Turin. One borderless photograph of Julian Beck from Bernardo Bertolucci's segment "Agonia" from the 1969 compilation film "Love And Anger." Lastly four borderless photographs we have been unable to definitively identify including a photograph of a stage set a photograph of a performance of three actors a photograph of Jean-Jeacques Lebel and a photograph of a woman in profile possibly Living Theatre actress Mary Mary. The latter two photographs are likely from the 1968 Avignon performance of "Paradise Now." Founded in 1947 in New York by Julian Beck and Judith Malina The Living Theatre is the oldest active experimental theater group in the United States. In the fifties and sixties the company became an epicenter for revolutionary culture performing both original and repertory works. The company produced often radical stage productions and adaptations of works by artists and writers such as Bertold Brecht Gertrude Stein Jean Cocteau William Carlos Williams T.S. Eliot Pablo Picasso Luigi Pirandello and Federico García Lorca among others and laid the foundation for New York's robust underground art scene in the ensuing decades. The Living Theatre and its founders were the subject of the 1983 documentary "Signals Through the Flames" directed by Sheldon Rochlin. Photographs generally 7 x 5 inches to 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall five with light toning. All housed in a 9.75 x 12.17 inch Near Fine black folder with a "The Living Theatre" sticker on the front board. N.p. unknown books
1933ref. 86187Leningrad: TRAM Theater for Working Youth 1933. Original program for the Leningrad State Theater for Working Youth during their 1933 national tour. Single sheet 25cm x 69cm printed both sides folded to form eight panels. Printed in black and white on newsprint with halftone reproductions of production photographs to each panel. Minor toning; panels slightly mis-folded; Very Good. TRAM under the direction of Mikhail Sokolovsky was a working theater for proletarian youth focused on producing plays of working-class life promoting Marxist ideology. This program issued for the group's 1933 tour of the Soviet Union promotes the season's two offerings Alexei Tolstoy and Aleksandr Starchakov's "The Right to Live"; and Sokolovsky's adaptation of Denis Fonvizin's 18th-c. comedy "The Minor." Also illustrated are scenes from past productions - A.I. Piotrovsky's "Rule Britannia;" a performance by Ivan Dzerzhinsky's music and dance ensemble "Green Workshop" and two others. A rare program; very little primary material relating to TRAM has appeared in the marketplace and the current program does not appear to be held by any OCLC member institution. TRAM (Theater for Working Youth) unknown books
1908ref. 167304N.p.: N.p. 1908. Vintage postcard photograph of the Unique Theatre an early nickelodeon theatre circa 1908. Although there were ironically multiple Unique Theatres during the nickelodeon era the theatre in the photograph on offer is likely the Unique of Ontario founded in 1908 at 8 Market Square in Hamilton. The Unique would go on to be renamed the Little Theatre in 1925 and the New Princess Theatre in 1927 before closing in 1932. 3.5 x 5.75 inches. Very Good plus in a white mat. N.p. unknown books
1928ref. 82025Moscow: Russian Theater Society N.d. 1928. Octavo 23cm. Bifolium with cover portrait and 2pp text within a black border; final page blank but for imprint. Slightly toned; trivial wear at corners; Very Good or better. Text entirely in Russian cyrillic. A memorial tribute to the legendary Russian actor Maria Yermolova likely from context printed to be handed out at her funeral. The text within a black mourning border states: ".The lamp that long and brightly illuminated and warmed the lives of entire generations has gone out and today what contained this dazzling light will be buried in the ground. May this land be a comfort for the one who devoted all her great soul her incomparable art to the service of her people." translation ours with assistance from Goole Translate. Signed in type below text by V.I. Gradov as secretary of the Russian Theatre Society. Yermolova 1853-1928 is considered one of the greatest performers in the history of the Russian stage. In 1921 she became the first performing artist to be named "People's Artist of the Republic" the USSR's highest honor for artistic achievement. Not separately catalogued under subject or title in OCLC. Russian Theater Society unknown books
1946ref. 161682N.p.: N.p. 1946. Vintage photograph of the foyer at the Civic Theatre in Auckland New Zealand circa 1946. With annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso and a stamp identifying the theatre. Opened in 1929 the Civic hosts both live theatre performances and music as well as motion pictures. The theatre is famous for its interior design including the Indian-inspired foyer with sitting Buddhas and domed ceilings presented in the photograph on offer. The theatre continues to operate today. Featured in this photograph is a poster for the 1946 film "The Bandit of Sherwood." 8 x 6 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 80631New York: Chappell & Co. Inc 1948. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on title page: "For Joe Littau a merry Christmas and thanks for a beautiful job!" signed "Kurt Weill" undated but annotated in pencil presumably by Littau: "Xmas 1948." Quarto 30cm. Original buff wrappers printed in red on front cover; 274pp. Professional paper repairs at spine ends; expected tanning to exterior and text; still a superlative copy overall and quite uncommon. Housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box. A terrific association copy of this acclaimed late work by Weill for which he won the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1947. Street Scene is perhaps the apotheosis of Weill's socially-engaged musical theater a blend of operatic and theatrical elements with which he first experimented in his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht of the Thirties including Three Penny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Street Scene based on Elmer Rice's naturalistic working-class drama of the same name was especially noteworthy for including lyrics by the African-American poet Langston Hughes whom Weill sought out specifically to "lift the everyday language of the people into a simple unsophisticated poetry" quoted by Jane Vial Jaffe in her program notes to a 2008 production. This was Hughes' first experience writing for musical theater. Street Scene premiered at the Adelphi Theater in New York in January 1947 and met with critical success though its high production costs forced the production to close in April. The show has never been revived on Broadway but it has been staged regularly by operatic companies including revivals by the New York City Opera in 1959 1979 and 1990. Inscriptions by Weill are uncommon; it's an honor he appears to have bestowed only on very close friends and collaborators. In this case the presentation is to Joe Littau the well-known pit conductor who was at this time the Musical Director for Weill's 1948 musical "Love Life" which ran on Broadway from October 1948 to May 1949. Chappell & Co., Inc unknown books
1926ref. 160406Seattle WA: Blue Mouse Theatre 1926. Vintage newsletter for Seattle's Blue Mouse Theatre Vol. 1 No. 4 for the week beginning Saturday March 17 1923. Newsletter features a two-color promotion for "The Beautiful and Damned" attached to the top left corner of the cover. The Blue Mouse Theater still in operation today as the Tacoma Blue Mouse Jr. is Seattle's oldest movie theater. During the 1920s the theater published a weekly newsletter every Saturday promoting current and upcoming films as well as Hollywood news and local interest. Promoted in the issue on offer here are the films "A Woman's Woman" 1922 "Suzanna" 1923 and "The Beautiful and Damned" 1922. 7.75 x 10.75 inches one-color bi-fold with a two-color attachment. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal crease and a tiny closed tear and chip to the top left. Blue Mouse Theatre unknown books
ref. 61859New York: Morris Guest 1924. First edition. Quarto 31cm. Pictorial thick paper wrappers; 40pp; illus. Some trivial dusting to wrappers still a Fine copy free of markings or notable wear. Lavish souvenir program for the New York premier of Reinhardt's renowned adaptation of Vollmöller's wordless play illustrated throughout with color reproductions of Bel Geddes' costume and set designs. "The Miracle" was originally produced in 1911 at London's Olympia Theatre; the show traveled throughout the Continent until 1914 when it was closed due to the onset of the Great War. The 1924 American revival began as a traveling show playing in Detroit and Milwaukee before its spectacular grand opening on at the Century Theatre on January 16th. An uncommon program beautifully produced. unknown books
1905ref. 37202London: Harper & Brothers 1905. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Boards. 365 pp. Illustrated. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1962ref. 37795München: Prestel Verlag 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto. Illustrated boards printed in sepia and black. With illustrations in text and illustrative plates some in color tipped-in. From the collection of American musicologist and critic Edward O.D. Downes 1911-2001 with his small address label to front pastedown. Prestel Verlag hardcover books
1929ref. 155506N.p.: N.p. 1929. Collection of ten vintage route cards advertising the showing schedules of five different traveling theatre shows produced by Cincinnati producer George E. Wintz between 1926 and 1929. Among the shows represented in this collection are "Ziegfeld Follies" Irving Berlin's "Music Box Revue" "The Vagabond King" "Rio Rita" and "George White's Scandals." The shows apparently toured primarily in the mid-Atlantic and southern United States. Four cards have postmarks on the verso and are addressed to a Charlie North likely a crew or cast member for Wintz's run of "George White's Scandals" from Harry Cook the props master of Wintz's shows. Itinerant or traveling theatre shows gained popularity during the early and mid-1920s with commercial genres such as vaudeville and musical revues finding particular success during Prohibition when jazz cabarets speakeasies and nightclubs would stage elaborate shows in order to hide the fact that audiences were actually flocking in to obtain alcohol. Cards range from 3.25 x 5.5 inches to 3 x 5 inches. Generally about Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1984ref. 36975Firenze: Leo S. Olschki 1984. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 219 pp. photographic plates. With detailed bibliographical descriptions of 643 Italian Renaissance plays. Leo S. Olschki unknown books
1955ref. 132427London: N.p. 1955. Nine vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1955 release of the 1954 US film "There's No Business Like Show Business" at the Odeon Theatre in London. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Several celebrities attended the premiere of the Marilyn Monroe-starring film including Arlyn Roberts and Vernon Gray Helene Cordet Elizabeth Welch Yolande Donlan Beth Douglas and Vera Lynn all represented in this collection. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good withmoderate toning and short creases to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 41956New York: The Living Theatre 1963. First Edition. Near fine. Flyer for a benefit event for Amiri Baraka then Leroi Jones hosted by the experimental theater company The Living Theatre. Consisting of readings concert lectures and other entertainments performers included Frank O'Hara Larry Rivers and Joel Oppenhieimer. Proceeds for the event went to Baraka and his then-wife Hettie Jones who were both ill and unable to work. 8.5" x 11" approxinately printed recto only in black. Ink mildly faded with slight toning. The Living Theatre unknown books
1794ref. 373435Boston: Printed for John West 1794. 62pp. 12mo. Disbound. Foxing a few edge tears to title staining to final few leaves small hole with minor loss to final leaf. 62pp. 12mo. Theater had been banned in Boston since the times of Increase Mather at the end of the 17th century. But in 1792 a group of Bostonians petitioned the legislature to repeal the Puritanical laws prohibiting theatrical performances and illegally established a theater in Board Alley. When Governor John Hancock sent his sheriff to shut down a performance a riot ensued. The following year an even bigger theater designed by an American architect and supported by John Quincy Adams and other notables was built at the corner of Federal and Franklin Streets. Known as the Federal Street Theatre or Boston Theatre the building opened at the beginning of February 1794 with a performance of Henry Brooke's Gustavus Vasa. Widespread publication of the plays did occur until after the Revolution when a rising middle and upper class demanded the cultural improvement of the young nation. "The market in America for published plays was determined by the theatre. It was the playgoer who bought plays and he bought the text of the play he had just seen or the one he was about to see performed on the stage. The absence of sustained theatrical activity-in fact the failure of the theatre to establish itself-in the English colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century suggests why no editions of plays were published in America during that time" Stoddard. In December 1793 with the opening of the Federal Street Theatre imminent Boston publishers David and John West proposed the publication of a selection of plays. "West proposed 'to obtain from the manager of the new theatre such plays of merit as will be performed in Boston the ensuing winter and it will be his aim to have them ready for delivery as near the time of performance as possible . They shall be printed weekly . The price to subscribers stitched in blue paper will be twenty cents each play' . West's ambition exceeded his capabilities but between January 4 and April 30 1794 he published thirteen numbers i.e. plays'" Stoddard. This of course included the first play at the Boston Theatre: Gustavus Vasa. The work was issued separately although also published within West's nonce volume A Selection of the Most Esteemed Plays Performed at the Theatre in Boston. Scarce. Evans 26704; ESTC W12546. Alden John Eliot. "A Season in Federal Street". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society vol. 65 no. 1 1955. Stoddard Roger. "Notes on American Play Publishing 1765-1865." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society vol. 81 no. 1 1971 Printed for John West unknown books
1924ref. 345886New York 1924. Single leaf wrapper folded; two typescript leaves; one handbill. 4to. Illustrated unbound pamphlet wrapper folded with toning and some soiling along edge on recto two spots on verso and small tear near center at edge of page on verso; two typescript leaves folded in: Anna Cora Mowatt's prologue to Fashion and Count Jolimaitre prologue from the Provincetown Player's production; a typescript leaf with a subscription handbill laid in; overall a very good copy of a scarce program and novel piece of New York and theatre history. Single leaf wrapper folded; two typescript leaves; one handbill. 4to. The Greenwich Village Theatre playhouse opened on November 15 1917 on Sheridan Square at Christopher Street where W. 4th Street and 7th Avenue meet and was designed by Herman Lee Meader in a Dutch Colonial style. Actor Frank Conroy was integral in its development and ran the theatre. As early cinema became popular in 1921 The Greenwich started showing films between play engagements. The theatre caused controversy with some residents of Greenwich Village who took offense at the Bohemian lifestyles the space cultivated and promoted and many complaints were lobbied against it over incidents such as a "lewd poster" for an Audrey Munson film Heedless Moths. In May 1926 the theater management announced that it had merged with the Actors' Theatre. The name Actors' Theatre was retained and while its permanent home had not been decided upon the announcement made one thing clear: "It will not be the Greenwich Village." In January 1928 N. Brewster Morse signed a five-year lease with owner Marguerite A. Barker. Marguerite Abbott Barker b.1893 - d.1930 was a woman of wealth through her father who was president of Eastman Kodak. She was very active in the Greenwich Village theatre scene and hoped to provide a more experimental approach to the theatre experience that included "musical dramatic and motion picture features with a change of program every two weeks." In the lounge area art exhibitions were to be held "where tea coffee and cigarettes will be served during the intermissions." Among the first films screened was Paul Fejos's The Last Moment described by one critic as an "impressionistic picture." She intended to show "unusual films at popular prices" beginning on April 9 1928. Fashion was the first play produced by a woman playwright Anna Cora Mowatt in 1845 and revived by the Provincetown Players the original Players included George Cram Cook Susan Glaspell Eugene O'Neill John Reed Louise Bryant Floyd Dell Ida Rauh Edna St. Vincent Millay and Djuna Barnes who maintained residence The Provincetown Playhouse at 133 MacDougal Street. This production for The Greenwich Village Theatre ran from April to July 1924 and in the program here states Eugene O'Neill among it's directors. On February 4 1930 The New York Times announced "Demolition of the Greenwich Village Theatre on the northwest corner of Christopher and Fourth Streets.will begin early in March." The article explained that developers George and Edward Blum had filed plans for a 19-story apartment building the tallest in Greenwich Village. The demolished theater was replaced with the two-story Art Deco style Stewarts Cafeteria building that survives significantly altered at street level. unknown books
1959ref. 40873New York: The Living Theatre 1959. Near fine. Two original flyers for Jack Gelber's THE CONNECTION directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck. A hit production of The Living Theatre and one that helped cement its reputation as the premier company for avant-garde theater. The play centered on Jazz musicians and junkies waiting on their dealer was an early realistic portrayal of heroin addiction at the end of a decade beset by drug hysteria. 11'' x 8.5'' and 13.25'' x 6.75''. Offset printed recto only in black and red. Minor toning to both. The Living Theatre unknown books
