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Title: Theatre Group. Publicity Records.
Date (inclusive): 1959/1967.
Record Series number: 253
Creator:
University Extension. Theatre Group.
Extent:
1 box (0.4 linear feet)
Abstract: Record Series 253 contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, minutes and other material relating to the Theatre Group.
The series also contains biographical information and clippings about John Houseman (artistic director of the Theatre Group,
1959-1963).
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. University Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Copyright of portions of this collection has been assigned to The Regents of the University of California. The UCLA University
Archives can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish
or quote must be submitted in writing to the UCLA University Archivist.
[Identification of item], Theatre Group. Publicity Records. (Record Series Number 253). UCLA Library Special Collections,
University Archives, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
The Theatre Group was a production company founded in 1959 by Abbott Kaplan, Director of UCLA Extension. Under the auspices
of the Extension Division, it operated as an experiment in campus-based professional theater and presented six or more professionally
produced, directed, and acted productions each year. The Theatre Group drew from a group of Equity actors located in Los Angeles
(California). Its productions included such actors as Jack Albertson, Judith Anderson, Edward Asner, Nina Foch, John Kerr,
Cloris Leachman, Carroll O'Connor, Paula Prentice, Robert Ryan, and James Whitmore.
John Houseman served as artistic director of the Theatre Group from its establishment until 1963. With a few exceptions, plays
in the first four seasons were directed either by Houseman, Lamont Johnson, or Paul Shyre .In 1962, the Theatre Group received
a grant of $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to strengthen its artistic and administrative staff. The group used the grant
to employ additional professionals and assistants for a five-year period. The Theatre Group ended its connection with UCLA
Extension Division after seven seasons when in 1969 it moved to the Los Angeles Music Center as the resident dramatic company
known as the Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles.
Record Series 253 contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, minutes and other material relating to the Theatre Group.
The series also contains biographical information and clippings about John Houseman (artistic director of the Theatre Group,
1959-1963).
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.