#theatre program

[mote-historie]

Raphael Kirchner, Ziegfeld Follies, Ziegfeld Girl, The Century Girl - The Expiation, Theatre program, 1916.

Dec 4, 2025: Pinterest sent me an e-mail with a pdf: : This is the pin. Graphic violence, Limited distribution, Graphic violence - they say.

[artdecoandmodernist]

1922 Vladimir Barjansky (1892 Odessa - 1968 Nice) Art Deco Cover illustration Program booklet for Theatre Gaite Lyrique (The Théâtre de la Gaîté on the rue Papin), (Gaîté-Lyrique) in Paris.

[pale-hands-i-love]

1926 Mark Strand Theatre Program ‘The Son of the Sheik’ Rudolph Valentino & Vilma Banky.

(via ebay)

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Lyric Theatre, Morgan Wallace Players.

[nbanerji]

I GOT INTO TISCH’S SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

[med-x-manic]

HELP SAVE OUR THEATRE PROGRAM!

   Hey y'all. College student here. I go to SUNY Stony Brook on Long Island, NY, and I want your help. Our Dean recently sent out an email and told us that our Theatre department is going to be dissolved into a service only program. 

   This means that no more students will be allowed to sign up as a theatre major or minor (while those already enrolled will be allowed to finish their program). Theatre classes will only be offered if they fulfill what we call Stony Brook Curriculums, which are gen-ed credits, so that would basically leave the 101 and other low-level courses that don’t really delve further into the subject.

   In doing this, Stony Brook is really hurting a lot of people. Theatre majors, past and present will lose validity in their degrees; who cares about a theatre degree from a school that dissolved the program? Several professors may lose their jobs because there will be no courses for them to teach. Students who love theatre arts will no longer be able to create, act in, or produce their own shows (our New Works Festival will be impossible, since the shows are written, produced, and performed by current students). Any student who thought they would be able to learn more about the theatre arts will no longer have this professionally offered to them beyond basic 100 and 200 level courses.

   What can we do about this? Stony Brook students have already created a petition, which at the time I’m posting this already has over 2,500 signatures, to be delivered to the Dean. We need to spread this as widely and as quickly as possible; Stony Brook must know we aren’t playing games with our arts and humanities. Additionally, we are organizing on-campus protests as a demonstration of our disappointment and dissent.

   Theatre is so much more than a general education credit; it is a way to express oneself freely, to create something that you can share with others. For some of us, it’s our only outlet. Please, please, please help us save our theatre program. It means the world to us.

   Sign the petition here. Sign it. Reblog it. Pass it on.

“The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.”   ― P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe

[madisontaylor]

'Twas the Night Of The Load Out

'Twas the night of the load out and all through backstage Not a creature stood still, the crew all engaged A late night was later, a delayed load-out One guy was so mad he got a case of the gout! The cases were lined up and ready for gear To take down from truss and placed in, no fear "Unhook the safeties, unmount the clamps Deal with that pile, shake off your cramps" As the movers were held, surrounded with foam Rolled away in a Northern Case, on their way home "Load these in Court's truck" the crew chief yelled out "You know the drill…first in, last out." "Now on crew members, on techs, and you - video guy Don't pretend you don't hear me, don't even try The sooner we're done, the sooner we'll leave And back to our loved ones on this Friday Eve" The gear was all loaded, the truss taken down Ready for the next gig over in the next town The crew chief looked out on this truck of lights and said "Happy weekend to all, and to all a good night!" -adapted from someone who stole it from someone who stole it from someone else

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Much as I prefer how varied (and detailed and thoughtfully designed) theatre programmes are in the UK compared to the Playbill homogeny on Broadway…

… I CANNOT deny that Playbill being so standardised makes the “how do I display these” question so much easier.

How the HELL do I find display frames or any other mount for a 170x240 mm Hadestown West End programme (it’s just a little under B5 size), or for a 235x333 mm Wicked West End programme (somewhere annoyingly between C4 and B4 size)?

What about Matilda? That programme is 190 x 270, which ISN’T EVEN CLOSE TO A REAL SIZE.