Theater--20th century

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...

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...