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Author AIDS Theatre Project.
Title AIDS Theatre Project records.
Imprint 1987-2003.
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 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre  *T-Mss 1997-042  Box 1    AVAILABLE SUPERVISED USE
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre  *T-Mss 1997-042  Box 2    AVAILABLE SUPERVISED USE
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre  *T-Mss 1997-042  Box 3    AVAILABLE SUPERVISED USE
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre  *T-Mss 1997-042  Box 4    AVAILABLE SUPERVISED USE
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre  *T-Mss 1997-042  Box 5    AVAILABLE SUPERVISED USE
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre  *T-Mss 1997-042  Box 6    AVAILABLE SUPERVISED USE

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Description 2.92 linear feet (6 boxes)
Arranged in five series: Series I. Administrative records; Series II. Financial records; Series III. Performances; Series IV. Photographs; Series V. Clippings.
Summary Administrative and financial records, play scripts and other performance-related material, photographs, and press clippings.
Note Separated material includes videotapes of company performances, available through the Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT); audio tapes, which have been accessioned by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound; and a few three-dimensional items.
Biography AIDS Theatre Project grew out of a series of acting workshops held in 1987 at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) of New York. Several performers with AIDS worked with playwright and acting instructor Seth Glassman to develop monologues based on the experiences of PWAs (People with AIDS). From that material, Glassman fashioned PEOPLE WITH AIDS, a play that the group--at that time known as The People with AIDS Theatre Workshop (PWATW)--first performed in October 1987. The company split in 1988, with the offshoot group retaining the PWATW name. The remaining group members, with Glassman serving as artistic director, renamed the company AIDS Theatre Project (ATP). Over the next few years, ATP performed PEOPLE WITH AIDS before dozens of local school, church, and community groups, and in 1992, a second play, THIS AIDS THING, was developed by company members under the director of Bill Partlow, who succeeded Glassman as artistic director. Through the 1990s, ATP extended its scope to a national level and gave hundreds of performances. In the early years of the 2000s, the company experienced increasing challenges with funding, and was finally disbanded in 2003.
Indexes Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
Subject Glassman, Seth.
People with AIDS Theatre Workshop.
AIDS Theatre Project.
AIDS (Disease) and the arts.
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
AIDS activists.
Genre/Form Scripts.
Call No. *T-Mss 1997-042
Research Call Number *T-Mss 1997-042