Nicholas A. Patricca Collection, Chicago Theater Collection, 1980-1998.

Author: Patricca, Nicholas A.

Description: 3 linear feet

Subject(s): Patricca, Nicholas A. Archives.
Victory Gardens Theater Sources.
Bailiwick Repertory Theater Sources.
Radiance of a thousand suns Sources.
Theater Illinois Chicago Sources.

Notes: Additional information on plays written by Patricca can be found in the Bailiwick Repertory, Commons Theater, Organic Theater, and Victory Gardens Theater collections (see printing finding aids in the Special Collections and Preservation Division Reading Room). Several of his published plays can also be found in the Chicago Public Library's Literature and Language Division.
Materials are available for research in the Special Collections and Preservation Division Reading Room only.

Summary: The Nicholas A. Patricca Collection contains biographical information, play production documentation and scripts of works written by Patricca. The collection contains significant research material and script versions for The Radiance of a Thousand Suns, a play about Hiroshima that Patricca wrote with Anne V. McGravie, Dwight Okita, and David Zak, and which was produced at the Bailiwick Repertory in 1995. Additional scripts document Patricca's involvement as Playwright-in-Residence at Victory Gardens Theatre and Bailiwick Repertory.