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Performing Arts

 Subject

Subject Source: archiveswest

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Only the brave

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2829
Abstract

Typescript screenplay for the movie "Flames" (working title: "Only the Brave") filmed in Portland, Oregon, 1926, and directed by Lewis Moomaw. Action involves a rescue from a forest fire.

Dates: circa 1926

Oregon Ballet Theatre records and memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1107
Abstract

Records and memorabilia of Oregon Ballet Theatre, a ballet company based in Portland, Oregon. Materials include administrative records, financial records, playbills, and posters. Oregon Ballet Theatre was formed in 1989 through the merger of Pacific Ballet Theatre and Ballet Oregon.

Dates: 1987-2024

Oregon Contemporary Theatre photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1451
Abstract

Collection consists of 29 photographs from Oregon Contemporary Theatre's summer residencies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, from 1981 to 1983.

Dates: 1981-1983

Cartoon for the Orpheum Theatre

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5359
Abstract

Pen and ink cartoon of a bird announcing "They're coming" to a fan in a grandstand. Note on back indicates it was published in the Daily News (Portland, Or.).

Dates: circa 1920-1929

Autographed poster for Pacific Ballet Theatre production of The Nutcracker

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1133
Abstract Mounted poster for Pacific Ballet Theatre's production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, signed by dancers James Canfield, Elena Carter, Patricia Miller, and Joseph Wyatt. The poster is also signed by Bud Clark, who was then mayor-elect of Portland, Oregon. The Pacific Ballet Theatre was founded in Portland in 1983, and in 1989 merged with Ballet Oregon to create Oregon Ballet Theatre. For the 1984 production of The Nutcracker, Bud Clark played the role of the...
Dates: 1984

Performing Arts History Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 314
Abstract

Records of a committee organized by the Oregon Historical Society around 1966 to seek out information and materials documenting performing arts in the state. The collection consists primarily of meeting minutes from 1966-1976 and attached correspondence and other documents, and also includes two papers written for seminars at Lewis and Clark College in 1966 and 1968, concerning music history in Oregon.

Dates: 1966-1976

Poster for the first perennial Poetic Hoohaw and Spring Trip

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1110
Abstract

Poster for the first perennial Poetic Hoohaw and Spring Trip (PHAST), an art, poetry, music, and theater event put on by the Intrepid Trips' Society for Aesthetic Revolutionary Training (ITSART). The event, held at McArthur Court at the University of Oregon in Eugene on June 6, 1976, included figures such as Ken Kesey, William S. Burroughs, Ann Waldman, and William Stafford.

Dates: 1976

Portland Civic Auditorium plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3063
Abstract

Collection includes a design, 3 blueprint plans on 3 sheets, for the Portland Civic Auditorium at SW 3rd Ave. and SW Clay St. in Portland, Oregon, 1913. This design was never implemented.

Dates: 1913

Portland Civic Auditorium plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3124
Abstract

Collection includes 4 blueprint plans and sections on 3 sheets of the Portland Civic Auditorium at SW 3rd Ave. and SW Clay St. in Portland, Oregon. Plans are by the New York firm of Freelander & Seymour, which won the design competition for the auditorium, now known as Keller Auditorium, in 1917.

Dates: 1915

Portland Civic Theatre Guild records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1048
Abstract Records of the Portland Civic Theatre Guild, a volunteer fundraising organization in Portland, Oregon. The collection's contents include administrative records, programs, bylaws, directories, information about the Leslie G. Fulton endowment and the guild's fellowship awards, and clippings. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild was founded in 1958, and dissolved in 2023. The records in this collection reflect the period in the 1990s when the Portland Civic Theatre closed and the guild shifted its...
Dates: 1990-2004