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Robert Chesley (1943-1990) was a pioneering gay playwright who created homoerotic plays. The Robert Chesley papers date from 1978 to 2005 (bulk dates 1980s-1990s) and contain scripts, correspondence, clippings, publications, photographs, posters, and audio-visual recordings

This collection consists of scripts of plays and musicals written by Clint Jefferies and recordings of performances of these pieces by Wings Theatre Company of New York City.

The collection comprises scripts, theater production records, promotional materials, bylaws and incorporation papers, tax and financial records, correspondence, medical records, photographs, an audiocassette and other material, 1976-1994, from writer and AIDS activist James Carroll Pickett. As a playwriter in Los Angeles theater, Pickett also co-founded Artists Confronting AIDS (ACA) and was instrumental in a number of theater productions and benefits promoting AIDS awareness. The Writing Career Series includes Pickett's manuscripts, production files, press photographs and press materials documenting Pickett's award-winning plays (Bathhouse Benediction, Dream Man and Queen of Angels) and lesser known works; as well as his work teaching playwriting and producing the Gay Writers Series. The Artists Confronting AIDS (ACA) Series includes administrative records from ACA, such as incorporation papers and production files for events that Pickett wrote and produced, such as AIDS/US and the ...

Programs, flyers, press kits, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings including reviews, and periodicals primarily documenting gay and lesbian actors and theater 1980-2000. The core of this artificial collection was formed from performing arts materials from the collection of Ken Dickmann, supplemented with materials from the Purple Circuit collection, an information clearinghouse for gay and lesbian theater, founded by Bill Kaiser

Programs, playbills, fliers, agendas, clippings, notes and promotional photographs (1968-2008) collected by the Los Angeles theater committee of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for its annual Media Awards. The annual ceremony honors outstanding representations in news, entertainment, and social media that have portrayed the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in just, precise and all-encompassing representations.

This collection comprises press material, theater production files, contracts, correspondence, clippings, financial records, photographs, a promotional videocassette (VHS) and other material, 1996-2006, from the Ivy Theatre, a lesbian theater founded in Los Angeles in 1998 and named in honor of lesbian feminist activist, Ivy Bottini. The collection includes production files from Letters Home, The Rape of Djuna Barnes and Shame on the Moon, plays produced by the Ivy Theatre between 1998-2000

Programs, playbills, fliers, agendas, notes, clippings, photographs and promotional materials collected by the Los Angeles theater committee of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for its annual Media Awards. The collection includes materials from Los Angeles theater productions from 1968 to 2008. While the GLAAD Media Awards is national in scope, the theater categories are local

Programs, flyers, press kits, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings including reviews, and periodicals primarily documenting gay and lesbian actors and theater 1980-2000. The core of this artificial collection was formed from performing arts materials from the collection of Ken Dickmann, supplemented with materials from the Purple Circuit collection, an information clearinghouse for gay and lesbian theater, founded by Bill Kaiser.

Robert Chesley (1943-1990) was a pioneering gay playwright who created homoerotic plays. The Robert Chesley papers date from 1978 to 2005 (bulk dates 1980s-1990s) and contain scripts, correspondence, clippings, publications, photographs, posters, and audio-visual recordings.

The collection includes correspondence, scripts, sheet music, contracts, production notes, photographs, clippings, publicity material, theater administration files, DVDs, audiocassettes, posters, promotional objects and other material from Naked Boys Singing!, bulk 1998-2004, an off-Broadway musical revue co-created by Robert Schrock. The administration files include scripts, sheet music and creative notes; programs and publicity material for the show and related events; clippings and theatre reviews; and other administrative records from Naked Boys Singing! shows performed throughout the United States, and international shows in Norway, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Japan, Italy, South Africa and Australia. The DVDs and audiocassettes include video recordings of performances as well as recording demos from the show's composers. The collection also includes promotional posters and objects such as a bathrobe, hats, a duffle bag, buttons, magnets and T-shirts