City Lit Theater Company Records

Dates: 1957-2007, Bulk Dates 1979-2007
Size: 11 linear feet in 22 boxes (including approximately 800 photographs and circa 290 slides) and 3 oversize folders
Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605
Collection Number: Spe.T00059
Immediate source of acquisition: Donated in 2008 by City Lit Theater Company (Terry McCabe, Artistic Director and Brian C. Pastor, Managing Director), 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, IL 60660
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Finding aid author: Sarah Zimmerman, 2017. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Sarah Zimmerman, 2021.

Abstract

Chicago’s City Lit Theater has been devoted to stage adaptations of literary works. The collection includes scripts, promotional material, photographs, production and administrative records.

Biographical/Historical

Founded in 1979 in Chicago by Arnold Aprill, David Dillon and Lorell Wyatt, City Lit Theater Company became the first theater in the nation devoted to stage adaptations of literary material. Since that time, the theater has operated under the mission that “City Lit Theater is dedicated to the vitality and accessibility of the literary imagination…producing concert readings and full-stage productions of adaptations of literary material, scripted plays by language-oriented playwrights and original material developed especially for City Lit.”

City Lit has explored fiction, non-fiction, biography, essays and drama in performance while also presenting a wide array of voices. Among these are classic writers such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, Oliver Goldsmith, Mark Twain, Colette and P.G. Wodehouse, as well as such contemporary writers as Alice Walker, W.P. Kinsella, Douglas Post, Raymond Carver and Edward Albee.

In 1984, City Lit made a commitment to using diverse casts to present their work. The company also sought to expand its repertoire to include plays by and about underrepresented groups, such as playwright Ruth Prawer Jhabvla and a series featuring the work of black women writers, headlined by an adaptation of Toni Cade Bambara’s Medley. In 1987, City Lit presented its first gay programming, No Apologies, which pre-dated both Bailiwick Theater’s popular Pride series and subsequent transformation into an LGBT production focused theater.

Over the years, City Lit has earned accolades and awards for its body of work, including Jeff Citations, Chicago’s local theater award, for A Tale of Two Cities (1985), Diggory’s Rag (1987), The Good Times are Killing Me (1990), Jeeves and the Mating Season (2002) and Taking Steps (2003), among others.

Despite the theater’s strong success during its first decade in the 1980s, the 1990s found the theater searching for a permanent home after bouncing around to various locations in northside neighborhoods and in the Loop. The multiple moves took their toll on the theater despite seasons that included popular draws like P.G. Wodehouse adaptations featuring the characters Bertie Wooster and Jeeves played by City Lit favorites Mark Richard and Page Hearn.

As a result, in 1999, the theater took a season-long hiatus to regroup. In early 2000, City Lit reopened inside the Edgewater Presbyterian Church on W. Bryn Mawr Avenue with a performance of 20/20 Hindsight: 20 Years, 20 Stories, using a pared-down concert-reading style which they had used to great success at their founding. As of 2021, the company still performed at this location.

In 2005, Terry McCabe, former Artistic Director and founder of Stormfield Theater, became the Artistic Director at City Lit.

Scope and Contents

The City Lit Theater Company Records include scripts, programs, reviews, photographs, slides, administrative records, marketing materials, box office reports, correspondence, touring and outreach papers, Board of Directors notes and set drawings. Video recordings for some performances are also described below for researchers benefit, but have been removed to the Chicago Theater Videotape Collection.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into four series:

  • Series 1: Production History Files, 1980-2007
  • Series 2: Scripts, 1984-2007
  • Series 3: Administrative Files, 1979-2005
  • Series 4: Touring Files, 1984-2004

Researchers are encouraged to review all series for overlapping materials.

Related Materials

  • Chicago Theater Videotape Collection
  • Stormfield Theater Records

Subject Headings

  • City Lit Theater Company – Archives.
  • Theater – Illinois – Chicago – History.
  • Theatrical Companies – Illinois – Chicago.
  • Drama.
  • Theatrical Adaptations.
  • Records (Documents)
  • Photographs.
  • Slides.
  • Aprill, Arnold
  • Hearn, Page, 1959-2008
  • McCabe, Terry
  • Richard, Mark

Container List

Series 1: Production History Files, 1980-2007

Scope and Contents

The Production History Files represent staged works by City Lit Theater Company. Files include scripts, programs, reviews, flyers and photographs, as well as some technical and artistic information, notes and box office reports.

Arrangement

The Production History Files are arranged chronologically by theater season

Box 1 Folder 1 Kickoff benefit, 1980 September 29
Box 1 Folder 2 Kickoff benefit, Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty. Script, circa 1980
Box 1 Folder 3 Kickoff benefit, The Genius by Frank O’Connor. Script, circa 1980
Box 1 Folder 4 Kickoff benefit, First Confession by Frank O’Connor. Script, circa 1980
Box 1 Folder 5 The Domestic Contentions of Frank O’Connor. Review, 1980 November 11
Box 20 Folder 1 The Domestic Contentions of Frank O’Connor. 17 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 1980
Box 1 Folder 6 The Outstation by W. Somerset Maugham. Script, circa 1980 May
Box 1 Folder 7 The Outstation by W. Somerset Maugham, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, circa 1980
Box 1 Folder 8 The Outstation. Reviews, 1981 May 8
Box 20 Folder 2 The Outstation. 4 photographs, 1981
Box 1 Folder 9 Big Blonde and the Constant Reader by Dorothy Parker. Scripts, circa 1982 April
Box 1 Folder 10 Big Blonde and the Constant Reader. Reviews, 1982 April
Box 20 Folder 3 Big Blonde and the Constant Reader. 10 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 1982
Box 1 Folder 11 A Solo Song: For Doc by James Alan McPherson. Script, circa 1982
Box 1 Folder 12 A Solo Song: For Doc. Reviews, 1982 November
Box 20 Folder 4 A Solo Song: For Doc. 6 photographs, 2 negatives, 1982
Box 1 Folder 13 Desecration by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Script, circa 1984
Box 1 Folder 14 How I Became a Holy Mother and Desecration by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Reviews, 1984 May
Box 1 Folder 15 How I Became a Holy Mother and Desecration. Box office, budget, 1984
Box 20 Folder 5 How I Became a Holy Mother and Desecration. 17 photographs, 4 contact sheets, 5 negatives, 1984
Box 1 Folder 16 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script (1 of 2), 1984
Box 1 Folder 17 A Tale of Two Cities. Script (2 of 2), 1984
Box 1 Folder 18 A Tale of Two Cities. Budget, 1984
Box 1 Folder 19 A Tale of Two Cities. Reviews, 1984-1985
Box 20 Folder 6 A Tale of Two Cities, skyline Christmas. 13 slides, 1984 December
Box 20 Folder 7 A Tale of Two Cities, Hefner Hall performance. 6 photographs, 5 contact sheets, 1 negative, circa 1984
Box 20 Folder 8 A Tale of Two Cities. 28 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 10 negatives, circa 1984 [See also: Series 4: Touring, A Tale of Two Cities tour, circa 1984, Box 18, Folder 1]
Box 1 Folder 20 Women’s Voices in Literature, FIBS by Barbara Barg. Script, circa 1984-1985
Box 20 Folder 10 FIBS. 4 photographs, 2 contact sheets [partial], circa 1984
Box 1 Folder 21 Tea, Bertie and Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. Reviews, 1986 April
Box 1 Folder 22 Chaos Doesn’t Run the Whole Show: Selections from the Fiction of Saul Bellow. Press release and reviews, 1986 May
Box 20 Folder 11 Chaos Doesn’t Run the Whole Show. 3 contact sheets, 1 negative, circa 1986
Box 1 Folder 23 Diggory’s Rag and Other Tales of Appalachia Gone Haywire by Annabel Thomas, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Scripts, circa 1986
Box 1 Folder 24 Diggory’s Rag. Prompt script, circa 1986
Box 1 Folder 25 Diggory’s Rag -- Snake-Handling Sunday in the Blue Church. Script, circa 1986
Box 1 Folder 26 Diggory’s Rag -- Save the Whales. Script, circa 1986
Box 1 Folder 27 Diggory’s Rag. Program, press release, reviews, 1986 November-December
Box 20 Folder 12 Diggory’s Rag. 44 photographs [includes tour photos] 56 slides, 3 contact sheets [partial], negatives, 1986
Box 1 Folder 28 Irish Coffee by James Stephens. Program, circa 1987
Box 1 Folder 29 Deep Blue Funk and Other Stories: Portraits of Teenage Parents by Daniel B. Frank. Script [See also: Series 4: Touring, Deep Blue Funk, Box 19, Folder 2] , 1987 March
Box 1 Folder 30 Medley by Toni Cade Bambara, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, circa 1987
Box 20 Folder 13 Medley. 14 photographs, 1 negative, circa 1987
Box 1 Folder 31 No Apologies by Andrew Holleran, et. al. Press release and reviews, 1987 August
Box 2 Folder 1 Awakenings by Dr. Oliver Sacks, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, circa 1987
Box 2 Folder 2 Awakenings. Press release and reviews, 1987 September
Box 20 Folder 14 Awakenings. 5 contact sheets [partial], circa 1987
Box 20 Folder 15 The Beasts and the Children. 1 contact sheet [partial], circa 1987
Box 20 Folder 16 Leave it to Psmith. 79 photographs, 6 contact sheets [partial], negatives, 1988 January
Box 2 Folder 3 Edith and Anton adapted from works by Edith Wharton and Anton Chekhov by Arnold Aprill. Reviews, 1988 November
Box 20 Folder 17 Edith and Anton. 6 photographs, 1988
Box 2 Folder 4 My Oedipus Complex adapted from works by Frank O’Connor and James Stephens by Mark Richard. Script circa 1989
Box 2 Folder 5 My Oedipus Complex. Reviews and clippings, 1989 February
Box 20 Folder 18 My Oedipus Complex. 7 photographs, 4 contact sheets, 1989
Box 2 Folder 6 The American by Henry James. Reviews and news clippings, 1989 March
Box 20 Folder 19 The American. 9 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 6 negatives, 1989
Box 2 Folder 7 The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Reviews and news clippings, 1989-1990
Box 2 Folder 8 The Good Times Are Killing Me. Permission to record, 1989 July 20
Box 20 Folder 20 The Good Times are Killing Me. 18 photographs, 6 contact sheets [partial], 56 slides, 3 negatives, 1989
    The Good Times are Killing Me. Video recording of a live performance, 1989 July 20. Adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill. Sets by David Lee Csicsko and Thomas Myron Batchell, lights by Thomas C. Hase, costumes by Catherine Evans, with Lorell J. Wyatt, Jeannie Affelder, Michael S. Shepperd, Glenda Starr Kelley, Jan Pessin, Maripat Donovan, Page Hearn, Tina Wright, Karen Sheridan, Bob Goddard, Lisa Marie Schultz, Cherene Snow, Raun Ruffin, Jackie Samuel, Joe Plummer and Greg Parker. See: Chicago Theater Videotape Collection, #1.31
Box 2 Folder 9 Riders of the Purple Wage, or The Great Gavage by Philip Jose Farmer. Script source material, undated
Box 2 Folder 10 Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, circa 1989
Box 2 Folder 11 Riders of the Purple Wage. Reviews and news clippings, 1989 December
Box 21 Folder 1 Riders of the Purple Wage. 12 photographs, 4 negatives, 1989
Box 2 Folder 12 The Castle adapted by Mark Richard. Script, 1990 January 18
Box 2 Folder 13 The Castle. Script, 1990 March 26
Box 21 Folder 2 The Castle. 5 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 2 negatives, 1990
Box 2 Folder 14 The Last Pennant Before Aramgeddon [Armageddon] by W.P. Kinsella, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, circa 1990
Box 21 Folder 3 The Last Pennant Before Armageddon. 5 photographs, 4 contact sheets, 2 negatives, 23 slides, 1990
Box 2 Folder 15 The Hero’s Journey: The Poetry of Raymond Carver adapted by Mark Richard. Script, 1990
Box 21 Folder 4 The Hero’s Journey. 5 photographs, 3 contact sheets [partial], 2 negatives,1990-1991
Box 2 Folder 16 Second Son by Robert Ferro, adapted by Michael Salvador. Script, 1991
Box 2 Folder 17 Second Son. Reviews, 1991 April
Box 21 Folder 5 Second Son. 5 photographs, 4 contact sheets [partial], 4 negatives, 1991
Box 21 Folder 6 Meridian. 7 photographs, 8 contact sheets [partial], 2 negatives, 1992 [?]
Box 3 Folder 1 Claiming the Cat’s Eye by Barbara L. Kensey, adapted by Edgar Douglass and Glenda Starr Kelley. Script, 1990-1992
Box 21 Folder 7 Claiming the Cat’s Eye. 4 photographs, 2 negatives, 1992
Box 21 Folder 8 All the Rage. 2 photographs, 2 contact sheets [partial], 1 negative [See also: A Farm Under the Lake, Box 21, Folder 9, photographed together], 1992
Box 3 Folder 2 A Farm Under the Lake. Script, 1992 February
Box 21 Folder 9 A Farm Under the Lake. 4 photographs, 4 contact sheets [partial], 2 negatives [See also: All the Rage, Box 21, Folder 9, photographed together], 1992
Box 3 Folder 3 Discourses on Black Identity. Partial scripts and source material, circa 1993
Box 21 Folder 10 Discourses on Black Identity. 3 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 1 negative, circa 1993
Box 3 Folder 4 Womandigo by Sterling Houston, from a concept by Arnold Aprill. Script, 1991
Box 3 Folder 5 Womandigo. Press release and review, 1992 July
Box 3 Folder 6 The White Paper adapted by Mark Silvia and Jerome Staudunar. Script, circa 1993
Box 21 Folder 11 The White Paper. 2 photographs, 1993
Box 3 Folder 7 Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, 1993
Box 3 Folder 8 Right Ho, Jeeves. Program, 1993 December 3-1994 January 15
Box 21 Folder 12 Right Ho, Jeeves. 15 photographs, 10 contact sheets [partial], 15 slides, 1993-1994
Box 3 Folder 9 Oh, Art! Oh, Memory! Stories by Laurie Colwin adapted by Kathryn Gallagher and Tina Thuerwachter. Scripts, 1993
Box 3 Folder 10 Oh, Art! Oh, Memory! Box office, circa 1993
Box 21 Folder 13 Oh, Art! Oh, Memory! 5 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 1993
Box 3 Folder 11 General season brochure, 1994-1995
Box 3 Folder 12 The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, 1994
Box 3 Folder 13 The Code of the Woosters. Program, 1994 November 21-1995 January 14
Box 21 Folder 14 The Code of the Woosters. 36 photographs, 9 contact sheets [partial], negatives, 1995 March
Box 3 Folder 14 Faith and the Good Thing by Charles Johnson, adapted by Keli Garrett. Script, 1995 January 27
Box 3 Folder 15 Faith and the Good Thing. Programs, publicity, reviews, 1995 March 16-May 28
Box 21 Folder 15 Faith and the Good Thing. 9 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 68 slides, 1995
Box 3 Folder 16 Palpable Fiction: From Hand to Mouth -- Snake Handling Sunday in the Blue Church, Diggory’s Rag and Save the Whales by Annabel Thomas, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Scripts, circa 1995 May 23
Box 3 Folder 17 Palpable Fiction. Program, 1995 May 23
Box 3 Folder 18 General season brochure, 1995-1996
Box 3 Folder 19 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, circa 1995
Box 3 Folder 20 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Programs and publicity, 1995 November
Box 21 Folder 16 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. 10 photographs, 11 contact sheets, 51 slides, negatives, 1995
Box 3 Folder 21 Playboy Stories: 40 Years of Fiction in the Flesh – A Great Voice Stilled by Shirley Jackson, adapted by Andrea J. Dymond, Modern Love by T. Coraghessan Boyle, adapted by Mark Richard, Black Country by Charles Beaumont, adapted by Mark Richard. Scripts, circa 1996
Box 3 Folder 22 Playboy Stories. Program and publicity, 1996 February 21-April 6
Box 21 Folder 17 Playboy Stories. 7 photographs, 2 contact sheets, 1996
Box 3 Folder 23 Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair. Publicity, 1996 May
Box 21 Folder 18 Coffee Will Make You Black. 50 photographs, 2 contact sheets, negatives, 1996
Box 4 Folder 1 General season brochure, 1996-1997
Box 4 Folder 2 Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, circa 1996
Box 4 Folder 3 Thank You, Jeeves. Publicity and review, 1996 November
Box 21 Folder 19 Thank You, Jeeves. 17 photographs, 1 contact sheet, 1996
Box 4 Folder 4 Tea with Saki. Script [includes notes from Mark Richard, 2006], circa 1996
Box 4 Folder 5 The King by Donald Barthelme, adapted by Mark Richard. Reviews, 1997 March
Box 21 Folder 20 The King. 5 photographs, 2 contacts, circa 1997
Box 4 Folder 6 Can’t Quit You Baby by Ellen Douglas, adapted by Mark Richard. Programs, publicity, reviews, 1997 May 9-June 22
Box 22 Folder 1 Can't Quit You, Baby. 16 photographs, 1997 April
Box 4 Folder 7 General season and pre-season brochures, 1997-1998
Box 4 Folder 8 Jeeves in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script with notes, circa 1997
Box 4 Folder 9 Jeeves in the Morning. Script with notes, circa 1997
Box 4 Folder 10 Jeeves in the Morning. Program and publicity, 1997 September-November
Box 4 Folder 11 Jeeves in the Morning. Contracts, notes, set designs, 1997
Box 22 Folder 2 Jeeves in the Morning. 6 photographs, 2 contact sheets, 1997
Box 4 Folder 12 Sleight of Heart by Will Tremonte. Program and publicity, 1998 March 12-April 19
Box 4 Folder 13 Sleight of Heart. Box office statements, 1998
Box 22 Folder 3 Sleight of Heart. 4 photographs, 3 contact sheets [partial], 1998
  Oversize Folder 1 Sleight of Heart. Poster, circa 1998
Box 4 Folder 14 The Horn by John Clellon Holmes, adapted by Mark Richard. Press release, publicity, invitation, 1998 April
Box 4 Folder 15 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, adapted by Kelly Nespor. Script, 1998
Box 4 Folder 16 Alice in Wonderland. Program for a reading at Newberry Library, 1998 June 6
Box 4 Folder 17 Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, 1993-1995
Box 4 Folder 18 Right Ho, Jeeves. Program and publicity, reviews and notes, 1998 September-November
Box 22 Folder 4 Right Ho, Jeeves. 2 photographs, 1998
Box 4 Folder 19 20/20 Hindsight: 20 Years, 20 Stories adapted by Arnold Aprill, Kathryn Gallagher, Kelly Nespor and Mark Richard. Program, reviews and publicity [See also: Individual scripts are filed alphabetically by title in Series 2.], 2000 February-April
Box 22 Folder 5 20/20 Hindsight. 21 photographs, negatives, 1999
Box 4 Folder 20 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, adapted by Kelly Nespor. Script, 1998 [printed 2000]
Box 4 Folder 21 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Notes, budget, 1999
Box 4 Folder 22 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Program, publicity, notes and reviews, 2000 April-June
Box 22 Folder 6 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Photographic negatives, 2000
Box 5 Folder 1 General season, brochure and marketing, 2000-2001
Box 5 Folder 2 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. Program, publicity, reviews, box office, marketing and notes, 2000 September-November
Box 22 Folder 7 The Turn of the Screw. 46 photographs, 3 contact sheets, 2000
Box 5 Folder 3 The Emperor and the Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Page Hearn. Publicity and box office, 2000 December-2001 January
Box 22 Folder 8 The Emperor and the Nightingale. 20 photographs, negatives, 2001 January
Box 5 Folder 4 The Vagabond by Colette, adapted by Kelly Nespor. Script, circa 2001
Box 5 Folder 5 The Vagabond. Program, publicity, reviews, notes and box office, 2001 January 19-March 4
Box 22 Folder 9 The Vagabond. 87 photographs, 3 contact sheets, negatives, 2001
  Oversize Folder 1 The Vagabond. 1 drawing [partial], 2000
Box 5 Folder 6 Jeeves and the Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Page Hearn. Program, publicity, reviews, marketing and box office, 2001 April 13-June 10
Box 5 Folder 7 Jeeves and the Mating Season. Audition sides and casting, circa 1991
Box 22 Folder 10 Jeeves and the Mating Season. 6 photographs, 1 contact sheet, 2001
  Oversize Folder 1 Jeeves and the Mating Season. 3 drawings, 2001
Box 5 Folder 8 General season brochure, 2001-2002
Box 5 Folder 9 Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Page Hearn. Script, circa 2001
Box 5 Folder 10 Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Program, publicity, reviews, marketing and box office, 2001 November 8-2002 January 5
Box 22 Folder 11 Uncle Fred in the Springtime. 26 photographs, 1 contact sheet, negatives, 2001 December
Box 5 Folder 11 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Program, publicity, reviews, 2002 February 7-March 31
Box 22 Folder 12 The Importance of Being Earnest. 4 photographs, 2002 February
Box 5 Folder 12 Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn. Program, publicity, reviews, notes, 2002 April 18-June 16
Box 22 Folder 13 Taking Steps. 2 photographs, 2002 May
  Oversize Folder 1 Taking Steps. 6 drawings, 2002
Box 5 Folder 13 General season brochure, 2002-2003
Box 5 Folder 14 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. Program, publicity, reviews, 2002 September 5-October 27
Box 22 Folder 14 She Stoops to Conquer. 3 photographs, 2002 September
  Oversize Folder 1 She Stoops to Conquer. 6 drawings, circa 2002
Box 5 Folder 15 Cocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Page Hearn. Prompt script, 2002 November 8
Box 5 Folder 16 Cocktail Time. Program, publicity, reviews, box office and set designs, 2002 November 14-2003 January 26
Box 5 Folder 17 Cocktail Time. Stage manager’s reports, 2002-2003
Box 5 Folder 18 Cocktail Time. Props, circa 2002-2003
Box 22 Folder 15 Cocktail Time. 2 photographs, circa 2003
Box 6 Folder 1 Tartuffe by Moliere. Prompt script (1 of 2), circa 2003
Box 6 Folder 2 Tartuffe. Prompt script (2 of 2), circa 2003
Box 6 Folder 3 Tartuffe. Program, publicity, reviews, 2003 February 20-April 13
Box 6 Folder 4 Tartuffe. Stage manager’s reports, research, 2003 February-April
Box 22 Folder 16 Tartuffe. 4 photographs, 2003 February
Box 6 Folder 5 An Ecstasy of Dragonflies by Page Hearn. Program, publicity, reviews and notes, 2003 May 8-June 22
Box 22 Folder 17 An Ecstasy of Dragonflies. 8 photographs, 2003
  Oversize Folder 2 An Ecstasy of Dragonflies, 3 drawings, 2003
Box 6 Folder 6 General season brochure, press release, marketing and notes 2003-2004
Box 6 Folder 7 The Play’s the Thing by Ferenc Molnar, adapted by P.G. Wodehouse. Script, circa 2003
Box 6 Folder 8 The Play’s the Thing, program, promotional material, reviews, 2003 November 13-2004 January 11
Box 6 Folder 9 The Play’s the Thing. Box office, 2003 November-2004 January
Box 22 Folder 18 The Play’s the Thing. 2 photographs, 2003 November
Box 6 Folder 10 The Belle of Amherst by William Luce. Script, undated
Box 6 Folder 11 The Belle of Amherst. Programs, promotional material, reviews, 2004 February 12-March 28
Box 6 Folder 12 The Belle of Amherst. Box office, 2004 March-April
Box 6 Folder 13 The Belle of Amherst. Props lists and notes, 2004 January-February
Box 22 Folder 19 The Belle of Amherst. 6 photographs, 2003
Box 6 Folder 14 The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Script, undated and sound cues, circa 2004
Box 6 Folder 15 The Rivals. Promotional material, programs, reviews, invitation, 2004 May 6-June 13
Box 22 Folder 20 The Rivals. 11 photographs, 2003
  Oversize Folder 2 The Rivals. Poster, 2004
Box 7 Folder 1 General season, press release, 2004-2005
Box 7 Folder 2 The Doctor in Spite of Himself and Pretentious Young Ladies by Moliere, adapted by Page Hearn. Script, undated
Box 7 Folder 3 The Doctor in Spite of Himself and Pretentious Young Ladies. Programs, promotional material, reviews, 2004 November 11-2005 January 2
Box 7 Folder 4 The Doctor in Spite of Himself and Pretentious Young Ladies. Box office, 2004 November-December
Box 22 Folder 21 The Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Pretentious Young Ladies. 7 photographs, 2005
Box 7 Folder 5 Wild About Wodehouse, three short stories by P.G. Wodehouse. Program and press release for 25th anniversary special event, 2005 January 7-16
Box 7 Folder 6 Doctor Knock or the Triumph of Medical Science by Jules Romains, adapted by Richard Hesler. Script, circa 2005
Box 7 Folder 7 Doctor Knock. Annotated script, notes, circa 2005
Box 7 Folder 8 Doctor Knock. Program notes, audition sides, circa 2005
Box 7 Folder 9 Doctor Knock. Promotional material, 2004 February 10-March 27
Box 22 Folder 22 Doctor Knock. 12 photographs, 2005 February
  Oversize Folder 2 Doctor Knock. 2 drawings, 2004
Box 7 Folder 10 Pigs Have Wings by P.G. Wodehouse. Script, published by Penguin Books, [copyright] 1957
Box 7 Folder 11 Pigs Have Wings. Script with sound cues, CD backup of script, 2005 April 26
Box 7 Folder 12 Pigs Have Wings. Program, invitation, 2005 April 28-June 12
Box 7 Folder 13 Somebody Foreign by Douglas Post. Script, 2006
Box 7 Folder 14 Somebody Foreign. Promotional material, 2006-February 10-March 26
Box 22 Folder 23 Somebody Foreign. 1 photograph, 1 CD, 2006
Box 7 Folder 15 Holmes and Watson by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Terry McCabe. Program, promotional material, world premiere, 2006 April 21-June 4
Box 22 Folder 24 Holmes and Watson. 2 photographs, 2006
Box 7 Folder 16 General season brochure, 2006-2007
Box 22 Folder 25 Christmas As We Grow Older. 4 contact sheets, 2006
Box 7 Folder 17 The Juniper Tree: A Tragic Household Tale written and composed by Wendy Kesselman. Script, Chicago premiere, 2007
Box 7 Folder 18 The Juniper Tree. Promotional material, 2007 February 23-April 7
Box 7 Folder 19 Gidget by Frederick Kohner, adapted by Terry McCabe and Marissa McKown, world premiere. Promotional material, 2007 April 20-June 3
Box 7 Folder 20 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Terry McCabe. Stage manager’s script, 2007
Box 7 Folder 21 The Hound of the Baskervilles Promotional material, 2007 August 31-October 14
Box 22 Folder 26 Off Off Loop Theater Festival, directors. 2 photographs, undated
Box 7 Folder 22 Unidentified. Casting, undated
  Oversize Folder 2 Unidentified drawings, undated
Box 22 Folder 28 Unidentified production. 4 photographs, 2 negatives, undated
Box 22 Folder 29 Unidentified productions. 29 photographs, 1 contact sheet, 6 slides, negatives, undated

Series 2: Scripts, 1984-2007

Scope and Contents

The Scripts series includes adapted works and scripts submitted but not presented as part of the main City Lit season. Scripts may have been presented as part of concert readings, special events or not produced at all.

Arrangement

Series 2: Scripts, arranged alphabetically by title.

Box 8 Folder 1 The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Script, 2007
Box 8 Folder 2 After Holbein by Edith Wharton. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 3 The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant by W.D. Wetherell, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 4 Beaux Stratagem. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 5 Bedtime Stories by Mary Scruggs. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 6 Bertie Changes His Mind by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 7 Big Night by Michael Sexton. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 8 Bridge of San Luis Rey. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 9 Birth of a Requiem by Ken Prestininzi. Script, 1993
Box 8 Folder 10 Bonding by Barbara L. Kensey, adapted by Glenda Starr Kelley. Script 1991
Box 8 Folder 11 The Boogeyman by Stephen King. Script source material, undated
Box 8 Folder 12 Brooklyn Wept by W.D. Wetherell, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 13 The Caldron of Kibitsu by Ueda Akinari. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 14 Change by Barbara L. Kensey, adapted by Glenda Starr Kelley. Script, 1987
Box 8 Folder 15 Clustering Round Young Bingo [by P.G. Wodehouse]. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 16 Contra Naturam, or Everybody’s Damaged by Will Schutz. Script, 2000 March 17
Box 8 Folder 17 The Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 18 Day Trading and Jane Austen by Keith Howard. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 19 A Dickens Halloween adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, undated
Box 8 Folder 20 The Drunkard. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 1 The End of Something by Ernest Hemingway. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 2 Ending the Game, Play No More, How to End the Game. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 3 The Execution of Private Slovik by William Bradford Huie, adapted by Joseph Wycoff. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 4 Farrell’s Caddie by John Updike, adapted by Kelly Nespor. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 5 The Feast of Nemesis. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 6 The Floatplane Notebooks by Clyde Edgerton, adapted by Paul Fitzgerald and Jason Moore. Script, 1996 June 1
Box 9 Folder 7 Good Country People. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 8 A Good Man is Hard to Find. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 9 Gorilla My Love by Toni Cade Bambara, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 10 Heat by Marsha Estell. Script, 1999
Box 9 Folder 11 The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann, adapted by John Biser. Script, circa 2004
Box 9 Folder 12 I Am No Good at Love. Script, undated
Box 9 Folder 13 I Owe You a Lullaby by Beverly Wilens Rosen. Script, 2002 June
Box 9 Folder 14 In Search of God, Redemption, and Oblivion by Allen Jonas. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 1 The Involuntary Side Effect of Living by P.E. Dawkins. Script, 2003
Box 10 Folder 2 James Fenimore Cooper Revisited… Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 3 Jeeves and the Song of Songs by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 4 Jeeves Makes an Omelette. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 5 Jeeves Takes Charge by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 6 Kingfish by Marlane Meyer. Script, 1989 January
Box 10 Folder 7 The Last Asset by Edith Wharton. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 8 Life is Sweet at Kumansenu by Abioceh [Abioseh?] Nicol. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 9 M [Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain]. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 10 The Magic Chalk by Abe Kobo. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 11 The Man Who Loved Levittown by W.D. Wetherell, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 12 Mencken and Sara by C. Crupi and R. Aiuto. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 13 My Man Bovanne by Toni Cade Bambara, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, undated
Box 10 Folder 14 My Mistress adapted by Kathryn Gallagher. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 1 The Name-Day Party by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 2 Nelson and Simone by John Susman. Script, 2000
Box 11 Folder 3 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Robert Kauzlaric. Script, 2001
Box 11 Folder 4 Not Even the Children by Philip Dawkins. Script, 2000
Box 11 Folder 5 The Open Window. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 6 The Ordeal of Young Tuppy by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 7 The Philanderer. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 8 A Piece of Pie by Damon Runyon, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 9 Pipistrel by Richard Selzer, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 10 The Prince, based on The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, adapted by Ron. St. Germain. Script, 2000 November
Box 11 Folder 11 Private Lives by Noel Coward. Script, director’s submission, 2004
Box 11 Folder 12 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, adapted by Allan Bates. Script, undated
Box 11 Folder 13 Relatives by Melissa Lentricchia, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 1 A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry, adapted by Terry McCabe. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 2 Revelation. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 3 A Rhinoceros, Some Ladies and a Horse by James Stephens, adapted by Mark Richard. Scripts, undated
Box 12 Folder 4 Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz. Script, [copyright date]1964
Box 12 Folder 5 Roman Fever by Edith Wharton, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, circa 1988
    Roman Fever. Video recording of a live reading and promotional introduction. Adapted and directed by Mark Richard, with Kelly Thompson, Christine St. John and Page Hearn. See: Chicago Theater Videotape Collection, #1.25, 1988 November
Box 12 Folder 6 Romance Language by Peter Parnell. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 7 Salt Creek Writing. Script, 1984 February 3
Box 12 Folder 8 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, adapted by Ed Shimp. Script, 1999 June 4
Box 12 Folder 9 So Much Remains: A Play by and About Katherine Mansfield by Allan Bates. Script, 2000
Box 12 Folder 10 Speaking Out by Adrianne Brown, et. al. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 11 Sredni Vashtar. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 12 The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker, adapted by Arnold Aprill. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 13 The Stronger Sex (Men in Trouble) adapted by Kathryn Gallagher. Script, 1996 February 14
Box 12 Folder 14 The Story of a Scar by James Alan McPherson. Script, undated
Box 12 Folder 15 Three Heavy Husbands. Scripts, undated
Box 13 Folder 1 Tobermory. Scripts, undated
Box 13 Folder 2 To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 3 Tosca (Printers’ Row Bookfair Reading) by Isabel Allende. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 4 The Underpants by Steve Martin. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 5 The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face by Dorothy Sayers. Short story, undated
Box 13 Folder 6 A Very Honorable Guy by Damon Runyon. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 7 Vengeful Creditor by Chinua Achebe. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 8 Ward Six by Anton Chekhov, adapted by David Nava. Script, 1992
Box 13 Folder 9 What Did We Do Wrong by Garrison Keillor, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 10 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 11 Whither Thou Goest by Richard Selzer, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 12 Wimsey – The Image in the Mirror, The Entertaining of the Article in Being, The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste, The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager’s Will, The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey. Scripts, undated
Box 13 Folder 13 Winter Cruise by W. Somerset Maugham. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 14 You Could Look It Up by James Thurber, adapted by Mark Richard. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 15 Young Unicorns by Madeleine L’Engle, adapted by Franette Liebou. Script, 1991
Box 13 Folder 16 Zack and Jill by David Parr. Script, undated
Box 13 Folder 17 Unidentified script, undated
Box 13 Folder 18 Unidentified script, undated
Box 13 Folder 19 Unidentified script, undated

Series 3: Administrative Files, 1979-2005

Scope and Contents

The Administrative Files contain Board of Director records, budget and financial information, grants received and fundraising documents, information on theater space, theater history, correspondence (predominantly outgoing business and artistic) and strategic plans.

Arrangement

Series 3 is arranged topically by subject, and then chronologically or alphabetically within each topic.

Box 14 Folder 1 Articles of incorporation, not for profit applications, 1980-2004
Box 14 Folder 2 Board of directors - development, 1982-1985, undated
Box 14 Folder 3 Board of directors - board donations, Live Bait negotiations vote, hiring, 1988
Box 14 Folder 4 Board of directors - schedule, retreat agenda1990-1991
Box 14 Folder 5 Board of directors - minutes and reports, 1995 January 12-December 6
Box 14 Folder 6 Board of directors - minutes and reports, 1996 April 23-November 6
Box 14 Folder 7 Board of directors - minutes and reports, 1997 January 15-November 28
Box 14 Folder 8 Board of directors - minutes, reports, membership guidelines, 1998
Box 14 Folder 9 Board of directors - minutes and reports, 1999
Box 14 Folder 10 Board of directors - meeting minutes, 2003-2004
Box 14 Folder 11 Board of directors - membership agreement, committee commissions, undated
Box 14 Folder 12 Budget and financial statements, 1979-1984
Box 14 Folder 13 Budget and financial statements, 1983-1987
Box 14 Folder 14 Budget and financial statements, 1988-1989
Box 14 Folder 15 Budget and financial statements, 1993-1999
Box 14 Folder 16 Budget and financial statements, 2000-2001
Box 14 Folder 17 Budget and financial statements, 2002-2003
Box 14 Folder 18 Budget and financial statements, 2003-2004
Box 14 Folder 19 Budget and financial statements, 2004-2005
Box 14 Folder 20 By-laws, undated
Box 15 Folder 1 Contracts and rights - Policy on ownership of adaptations, 1990
Box 15 Folder 2 Contracts and rights - Deep Blue Funk and Rainy Day Stories, 1993
Box 15 Folder 3 Contracts and rights - The Dreyfus Affair, 1998
Box 15 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1982
Box 15 Folder 5 Correspondence, 1988
Box 15 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1989
Box 15 Folder 7 Correspondence, 1990 January-May
Box 15 Folder 8 Correspondence, 1990 June-December
Box 15 Folder 9 Correspondence, 1991 January-December
Box 15 Folder 10 Correspondence, 1992 January-July
Box 15 Folder 11 Correspondence, 1994 May-December
Box 15 Folder 12 Correspondence, 1995 January-May
Box 15 Folder 13 Correspondence, 1995 June-December
Box 15 Folder 14 Correspondence, 1996 January-December
Box 15 Folder 15 Correspondence, 1997 January-December
Box 15 Folder 16 Correspondence, 1998 April-July
Box 15 Folder 17 Correspondence, 2001-2004
Box 15 Folder 18 Correspondence, undated
Box 16 Folder 1 Fundraising - Ladies Night at the Drones Club: A Benefit for City Lit Theater Company, program, invitation, 1995 October 30
Box 16 Folder 2 Fundraising - New Year’s Eve gala, 1998
Box 16 Folder 3 Fundraising - Sponsors and in-kind donations, 1998
Box 16 Folder 4 Fundraising - Appeals for funding, 2000
Box 16 Folder 5 Fundraising - Appeals for funding, donations, fundraising auction, 2002-2003
Box 16 Folder 6 Fundraising - Matching gifts, 2005
Box 16 Folder 7 Grant applications - AT&T, 1991-1996
Box 16 Folder 8 Grant applications - Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, 1993-1997
Box 16 Folder 9 Grant applications - Chicago Community Trust, 1985-1995
Box 16 Folder 10 Grant applications - Chicago Foundation for Women, 1993-1996
Box 16 Folder 11 Grant applications - Chicago Sun-Times, 1987-1994
Box 16 Folder 12 Grant applications - Chicago Tribune, 1991-1993
Box 16 Folder 13 Grant applications - Chicago Tribune, 1993-1994
Box 16 Folder 14 Grant applications - Chicago Tribune, 1995
Box 16 Folder 15 Grant applications - Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation, 1993
Box 16 Folder 16 Grant applications - City Arts Program, 1995
Box 16 Folder 17 Grant applications - City Arts Program, 1996
Box 16 Folder 18 Grant applications - City Arts Program, 1997
Box 16 Folder 19 Grant applications - City Arts Program, 1998
Box 16 Folder 20 Grant applications - Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, 1990-1996
Box 16 Folder 21 Grant applications - Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund, 1994
Box 16 Folder 22 Grant applications - Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, 1986-1998
Box 16 Folder 23 Grant applications - Donors Forum of Chicago, 1993
Box 16 Folder 24 Grant applications - Richard Driehaus Foundation, 1992-1994
Box 16 Folder 25 Grant applications - Fel-Pro/Mecklenburger Foundation, 1987-1992, 1995
Box 16 Folder 26 Grant applications - Fralens Foundation, 1995-1996
Box 16 Folder 27 Grant applications - Lloyd Fry Foundation, 1994
Box 16 Folder 28 Grant applications - GATX Corporation, 1993-1995
Box 16 Folder 29 Grant applications - Harris Bank Foundation, 1995-1996
Box 16 Folder 30 Grant applications - Harris Foundation, 1988-1995
Box 16 Folder 31 Grant applications - IBM, 1992-1993
Box 16 Folder 32 Grant applications - Illinois Arts Council, 1996-1998
Box 16 Folder 33 Grant applications - Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, 1995
Box 16 Folder 34 Grant applications - Joyce Foundation, 1992-1993
Box 16 Folder 35 Grant applications - Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation, 1993-1995, 1998
Box 16 Folder 36 Grant applications - Konica Business Machines, 1996
Box 16 Folder 37 Grant applications - Kraft Foods, 1996
Box 17 Folder 1 Grant applications - Little Chicago, 1995
Box 17 Folder 2 Grant applications - Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 1985, 1989-1991
Box 17 Folder 3 Grant applications - National Endowment for the Arts, Tour reports, 1993
Box 17 Folder 4 Grant applications - National Endowment for the Arts, 1994-1995
Box 17 Folder 5 Grant applications - National Endowment for the Arts, 1997
Box 17 Folder 6 Grant applications - Northern Trust Company, 1988-1997
Box 17 Folder 7 Grant applications - Omron Foundation, 1993-1996
Box 17 Folder 8 Grant applications - Oppenheimer Family Foundation, 1983
Box 17 Folder 9 Grant applications - Osco Drug, Inc., 1987
Box 17 Folder 10 Grant applications - Peoples Gas, 1987, 1993, 1998
Box 17 Folder 11 Grant applications - Pew Charitable Trust, 1993
Box 17 Folder 12 Grant applications - Philip Morris Companies, 1998
Box 17 Folder 13 Grant applications - Albert Pick Jr. Fund, 1985, 1988, 1993-1994
Box 17 Folder 14 Grant applications - Playboy Foundation, 1996
Box 17 Folder 15 Grant applications - Polk Brothers Foundation, 1995
Box 17 Folder 16 Grant applications - Polk Brothers Foundation, 1997
Box 17 Folder 17 Grant applications - Prince Charitable Trusts, 1989-1997
Box 17 Folder 18 Grant applications - Sara Lee Foundation, 1993
Box 17 Folder 19 Grant applications - Sara Lee Foundation, 1994-1995
Box 17 Folder 20 Grant applications - Sara Lee Foundation, 1995-1997
Box 17 Folder 21 Grant applications - Dr. Scholl Foundation, 1993-1995
Box 17 Folder 22 Grant applications - United Airlines, 1991, 1995
Box 17 Folder 23 Grant applications - WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation, undated
Box 17 Folder 24 Grant applications - Woods Charitable Fund, 1991-1993
Box 17 Folder 25 Grant applications - Woods Fund of Chicago, 1995
Box 17 Folder 26 Grant applications - Woods Fund of Chicago, 1997
Box 18 Folder 1 History - City Lit Theater Company, Production histories, 1980-2003
Box 22 Folder 27 History - City Lit Theater Company, Staff and Page Hearn. 34 photographs, negatives, undated
Box 18 Folder 2 History - City Lit Theater Company, Staff biographies, undated
Box 18 Folder 3 Marketing - Press releases, public service announcements, 1980s, 2005, undated
Box 18 Folder 4 Marketing - Marketing plan tactics, notes, circa 2003, undated
Box 18 Folder 5 Marketing - Requests for tickets, but not recognized, 2005-2006
Box 18 Folder 6 Mission Statement and Strategic Planning - City Lit Theater Company Mission Statement, 1988 July 12
Box 18 Folder 7 Mission Statement and Strategic Planning - Strategic plans and planning, 1989-2000
Box 18 Folder 8 Mission Statement and Strategic Planning - City Lit research study, 2002 December
  Oversize Folder 3 Space - Chicago Theater Complex, demolition plans for sixth floor and roof, 2 drawings, 1985
Box 18 Folder 9 Space - Live Bait theater space, 1989-1990
Box 18 Folder 10 Space - “Little Chicago” Theater lease, 1994-1996
Box 18 Folder 11 Space - Fine Arts, Lease, 1995-1996
Box 18 Folder 12 Space - Ivanhoe Theater License and Service agreement, 1998 April 14
Box 18 Folder 13 Space - Theater Building, 1999
Box 18 Folder 14 Space - Storage requirements, undated
Box 18 Folder 15 Vendors - Restaurants, 1993-1994
Box 18 Folder 16 Vendors - Mid City Printing, 2001
Box 18 Folder 17 Vendors - Local neighborhood businesses, undated
Box 18 Folder 18 Vendors - Props and costumes, undated

Series 4: Touring Files, 1984-2004

Scope and Contents

Touring Files contain records of City Lit’s outreach efforts to schools and neighborhood agencies, as well as touring shows.

Arrangement

Series 4 is arranged chronologically.

Box 19 Folder 1 A Tale of Two Cities tour [See also: Series 1: Production History Files, Box 1, Folders 16-19] , circa 1984
Box 20 Folder 9 A Tale of Two Cities, unidentified high school tour. 3 photographs, 1 contact sheet, negatives, circa 1984
Box 19 Folder 2 Deep Blue Funk. Outreach, correspondence, 1987 

[See also: Series 1: Production History Files, Box 1, Folder 29]

    Daughters of the Late Colonel and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill. Special performance at the Newberry Library for the Katherine Mansfield centenary. Video recording of a live performance. See: Chicago Theater Videotape Collection #1.22, 1988 September 9
Box 19 Folder 3 Folktales of the World. Scripts, circa 1989
Box 19 Folder 4 Folktales of the World. Source material, circa 1989
Box 19 Folder 5 Folktales of the World. Notes, clippings, 1989, 1993
Box 19 Folder 6 Surveys, 1989-1990, 1993
Box 19 Folder 7 Urban Gateways history, 1989-1993, 1997
Box 19 Folder 8 Performance contracts, 1989-1994
Box 19 Folder 9 Adaptation requests, 1991, 1994
Box 19 Folder 10 Site reports, 1991-1994
Box 19 Folder 11 Fee schedules, 1993
Box 19 Folder 12 Job specifications, 1993
Box 19 Folder 13 Correspondence, 1993-2000
Box 19 Folder 14 Surveys, 1994-1996
Box 19 Folder 15 Bookings – done, 1996-1998
Box 19 Folder 16 Invoices, surveys, bookings, 1997-1999
Box 19 Folder 17 Invoices, bookings, 2002
Box 19 Folder 18 Bucktown Arts Festival, 2003
Box 19 Folder 19 Urban Gateways, 2003
Box 19 Folder 20 Schedules, 2004
Box 19 Folder 21 Surveys, undated
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