Theater--20th century
Topic
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Howard Shalwitz papers
Collection
0429-SCPA
Abstract
Howard Shalwitz is an American actor, director, and teacher. In 1980, he co-founded the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company with Roger Brady and Linda Reinisch. The company performed in several D.C. venues before establishing its permanent 265-seat theater in the city’s Penn Quarter neighborhood. It produces new plays that are frequently experimental, provocative, or challenging to audiences.Shalwitz served as the Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through the...
Max Waldman collection of performing arts photographs
Collection
0459-SCPA-WALDMAN
Found in:
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
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Max Waldman collection of performing arts photographs
Abstract
Max Waldman (1919-1981) was an American photographer of the performing arts, with a focus on theatre and dance in New York City in the middle twentieth century. Waldman actively documented the theatre and dance communities in New York from the mid-1960s until his death in 1981. Waldman was particularly drawn to more experimental forms of dance and theatre and he documented everyone from Merce Cunningham to the Living Theater to Mikhail Baryshnikov. The Max Waldman collection of performing...