Theaters -- New York (State) -- Rochester

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...

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...