Research Catalog
Charles Gordone collection
- Title
- Charles Gordone collection, 1962-1995.
- Author
- Gordone, Charles.
Items in the Library & Off-site
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4 Items
Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Box 1 (SCM 01-21) | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 691 Box 1 (SCM 01-21) | Offsite | |
Box 2 (SCM 01-21) | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 691 Box 2 (SCM 01-21) | Offsite | |
Box 3 (SCM 01-30) | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 691 Box 3 (SCM 01-30) | Offsite | |
Box 4 (SCM 01-30) | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 691 Box 4 (SCM 01-30) | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 3 lin. ft. (2 record cartons, 1 archival box)
- Summary
- The bulk of the Charles Gordone Collection pertains to the author's Pulitzer-prize winning play "No Place to Be Somebody," which includes several versions of the play script, programs, letters, playbills, flyers, posters, production and showcase materials, press, and two files for awards Gordone received from the Pulitzer Prize and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1970 and 1971, respectively.
- Subjects
- Gordone, Charles > No place to be somebody
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Theater > Production and direction
- American drama > African American authors
- Authors > United States
- Theater programs
- African American dramatists
- African American authors
- Scripts
- Easton, Sidney > Little light around the place
- Gordone, Charles > Little light around the place
- Dramatists, American > 20th century
- Plays
- American drama > 20th century
- Soyinka, Wole > Trials of Brother Jero
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Theater programs.
- Plays.
- Note
- Photographs, slides and negatives have been transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Posters have been transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division.
- Source (note)
- Jeanne Warner Gordone
- Biography (note)
- Charles Gordone (1925-1995) playwright, director and actor, was best known for his 1970 Pulitzer Prize-winning play,"No Place to Be Somebody". For over forty years he directed more than thirty-four productions, including "The Iceman Cometh," "Mamzel Jolie," "Night of the lguana." "No Place to be Somebody," "The Colored Museum," "The Glass Menagerie," "Of Mice and Men," "Death of a Salesman," "Book of the Dead," and "Faust." Gordone had his work produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, in Europe, and in American regional, college, and community theaters. His acting credits include roles in the theater, television, and film.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 691
- OCLC
- NYPW03-A64
- Author
- Gordone, Charles.
- Title
- Charles Gordone collection, 1962-1995.
- Biography
- Charles Gordone (1925-1995) playwright, director and actor, was best known for his 1970 Pulitzer Prize-winning play,"No Place to Be Somebody". For over forty years he directed more than thirty-four productions, including "The Iceman Cometh," "Mamzel Jolie," "Night of the lguana." "No Place to be Somebody," "The Colored Museum," "The Glass Menagerie," "Of Mice and Men," "Death of a Salesman," "Book of the Dead," and "Faust." Gordone had his work produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, in Europe, and in American regional, college, and community theaters. His acting credits include roles in the theater, television, and film.
- Processing Action
- Accessioned 2001Cataloged 20030514
- Source
- SCM 01-21; SCM 01-301.1\a Jeanne Warner Gordone Gift August 2001
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 691