This collection contains materials related to the administration and productions of Theatre 1707 as well as the Bit Players society. The records include administrative documents, reports, programs, posters, proposals, newspaper clippings, reviews, and photographs.
Fonds consists of records that document every aspect of Neptune Theatre as an organization, including various textual records and graphic and audio-visual material pertaining to productions, events, personnel, and the administration of the Theatre. Types of records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports and newsletters, financial records, box office records, applications, licenses, contracts, scripts, posters, newspaper clippings, production notes, programs, press kits, videocassettes, audiocassettes, negatives, contact sheets, slides, photographs, and other materials.
Fonds consists of Joan and Henry Orenstein's materials regarding their professional activities, including photographs, negatives, sketches, programs, flyers, posters, postcards, slides, correspondence and other materials. Fonds includes several photographs of Joan Orenstein acting, Henry Orenstein's art pieces and sketches, and Joan and Henry Orenstein's family photographic negatives.
File contains flyers and programs for "Revelations," "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid," and "Forever Yours, Marie-Lou" produced at Second Stage; "The Empire Builders" at Pier 1; "The Daughter-in-law" at Theatre New Brunswick; "The Devil's Disciple" at Neptune Theatre; and "The Satyricon" and "All the Queen's Men." File also contains a postcard of the Charlottetown Summer Festival.
File contains certificates awarded by the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia, the Maritime branch of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, and the Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
Series consists of Joan Orenstein's materials regarding her professional activities, including photographs, programs, flyers, postcards, correspondence and other materials. Fonds includes several photographs of Joan Orenstein acting in "Stone Angel," "La Sagouine," "William Schwenck and Arthur Who" or "Shades of G&S," "Wood Demon" and other productions.
File contains photographs of Jeremiah Sparks performing as Louis Armstrong in Eastern Front Theatre's production of "The Satchmo Suite" in 2008. The play was written by Hans Böggild and Doug Innis.
File contains photographs related to Eastern Front Theatre and the National Arts Centre's theatrical production, "Whylah Falls," in 2000. The play was written by George Elliot Clark.
Photographs feature Linda Carvery, Novelee Buchan, and others.
Item is a poster for Neptune Theatre's Maud Lewis production, "World Without Shadows." The play was written by Lance Woolaver, directed by Michael Chaisson, and featured Jeremiah Sparks, Walter Borden, and Nicola Lipman.
Item is a poster for the theatrical production, "Whylah Falls," presented by Eastern Front Theatre Company and the National Arts Centre. The play was written by George Elliott Clarke and the musical score was by Jeremiah Sparks and Joe Sealy. Jeremiah Sparks was also the play's musical director. The play was presented at Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Item is a poster for Neptune Theatre's production of "Death: The Musical" at the DuMaurier Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The musical was written by Jan Morrison and featured the Nova Scotia Mass Choir, Laura Smith, Jeremiah Sparks, Doris Mason, Bill Stevenson, and others.
Item is a poster for Eastern Front Theatre's production, "Portia White: First You Dream," at Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The play was directed by Linda Moore and featured Réjean J. Cournoyer, Sandi Ross, Jeremiah Sparks, and Denise A. Williams.
Item is a poster for Eastern Front Theatre's musical production, "The Satchmo Suite," written by Hans Böggild and Doug Innis. The musical featured Jeremiah Sparks as jazz artist, Louis Armstrong.
Series consists of Henry Orenstein's materials regarding his professional activities, including photographs, negatives, sketches, programs, flyers, posters, postcards, slides, correspondence and other materials. Fonds contains several of Henry Orenstein's art pieces and sketches, including related to the "Sudbury Industrial Landscape" project. In the 1950s, Henry Orenstein was commissioned by the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers of Sudbury to paint a mural for the local union hall, which was the centre of a broad-ranging cultural role of Mine Mill Local 598 in the Sudbury area. At that time, Mine Mill was in the midst of a series of raids by the United Steelworkers.
File contains a photocopied newspaper clipping titled 'Upstart Theatre beats odds and plans second round,' by Tim Arsenault. File also includes a photocopied review of Summer of the Piping Plover, by Tim Carlson, published in the Halifax Daily News. File also contains a ticket stub for of UpStart production of Summer of the Piping Plover.
Item consists of a program created by Dalhousie Theatre Productions for the 1983 season production of Joanna M. Glass's Canadian Gothic and American Modern. The production was directed by Alan Andrews and features a cast and crew of Dalhousie University students. The program contains a list of the cast and crew, advertisements from organizations at Dalhousie University.
File contains a ticket stub for Eastern Front Theatre's production of Miss n Me. The play was presented at the Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Studio March 14 -24, 2019. File also includes clippings of a book, "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, with handwritten notes, "Miss N Me production."
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