Theater -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- History -- 20th century

Content Description John H. W. Fenyvessy was part of a family deeply involved in the world of theater management and production. His father, Albert, owned multiple Rochester theaters, and John carried on the family business for decades. He is most associated with the Family Theater, a vaudeville house that his family managed from 1912 to 1938. This collection includes personal and professional papers, programs, manuscripts of vaudeville shows, talent evaluations and scrapbooks. Material in this collection dates...

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Mae (Stein) Soble was a drama and speech teacher and theater director in Rochester, New York. her papers include scripts, production notes and photographs, and the manuscript of her book The Amateur Experimental Theatre. The materials in the collection date from 1906 to 1940.

Abstract The Rochester Community Players (RCP) collection represents the records of the oldest community theatre in New York State and one of the oldest continuously operated theater organizations in the United States. The collection includes almost nine cubic feet of photographs, negatives, and playbills from the majority of plays performed from 1925 to 1997, in addition to legal papers, reports, relocation proposals, printed material including history, awards, schedules, newsletters, and...

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This is an artificial collection of motion picture and live theatre programs and associated ephemera collected from various sources. The materials date from 1856 to 2023 and provide a snapshot of Rochester's cultural scene over a century and a half. Many of the 19th century materials were donated by Friedrich H. Haak.