Dr. Richard Davis Theatre Collection, 1954-2011

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Davis, Richard
Title
Dr. Richard Davis Theatre Collection
Dates
1954-2011 (inclusive)
Quantity
15 linear feet, (30 boxes)
Collection Number
MSS 10
Summary
This collection includes materials related to the Theater, Dance, and Music programs at Western Oregon University from 1954-2011.
Repository
Western Oregon University Archives
Hamersly Library
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth, OR
97361
Telephone: 5038388419
Fax: 5038388399
libarchives@wou.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is available for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Dr. Richard Davis came to Western Oregon University in 1964 after the completion of his master’s in English literature from the University of Washington. He received his B.A. at Central Washington University in 1963 and later returned to the University of Washington to receive his doctorate in drama arts in 1976. In his nearly four decades at WOU, Davis brought recognition to the university through his work both in the classroom and on the stage. He taught college classes for 38 years and taught many of the theater teachers in the Oregon public school system.

Dr. Davis directed and costumed more than 100 main stage productions in Western Oregon University’s Rice Auditorium. Davis’ productions at WOU were often regional winners and toured competitive venues. He was noted throughout his career for his experimental productions and costume designs.

Of his many productions, those that stand out most for Davis are the more experimental ones. “I attempt to create something other than what you would normally expect when you come to the theater.” Productions by Davis were often unique due to his creativity and his drive to do things that are different and unusual. “You never know what the audience will take away from the production. As a director I can guide them and, in a sense, the audience creates their own production. Audiences are individuals and they will take what they want from a production.” Costume design was perhaps the area of the theater in which Davis excelled, as he found ways to express himself through creations, which contribute to the uniqueness and the success of his productions. Working in the theater also gave him an opportunity to express himself and he felt that “directing is a way of influencing people. A director should be out to save the world because productions can affect the audience in moral ways and choices that contribute to life.”

While Davis held goals for each of his individual students, there was one attribute he wanted all of them to develop. “Students need to be individuals and be on their own in the theater. They should not become dependent on other people. Students have a responsibility to themselves to be creative on their own and to see that as a challenge. If they have that attitude, they will be more successful in whatever they choose to do in life.”

Dr. Davis and his productions are listed in the national Who’s Who in Entertainment and in Who’s Who in the West. Dr. Davis has received numerous awards for his work in the arts, including an award of excellence from the American College Theatre Association and WOU’s Faculty Honors Award for Scholarship in 2002. He was chairman of the Creative Arts Division from 1989 to 1995 and was the head of the Theatre/Dance Department. Dr. Davis retired from the university in 2003.

Text adapted from 2002 Commencement Program

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection includes materials related to the Theater, Dance, and Music programs at Western Oregon University from 1954-2011. Materials were collected by the donor and include playbills, flyers, postcards, photographs, slides, negatives, and posters.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

For further information, see the Western Oregon University Archives Research Rules.

Copyright Information: Researchers are hereby cautioned that materials within archival and manuscript collections may be protected by copyright laws (Title 17, U.S. code). Researchers who plan to eventually publish their work are responsible to inquire about publication restrictions before beginning their research. Researchers wishing to quote from materials in any collections held by University Archives should consult the University Archivist. Reproduction of any item must contain a complete citation to the original.

Preferred Citation

Dr. Richard Davis Theatre Collection, MSS 10, Western Oregon University Archives

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into four series: I. Theatre Materials (1954-2011), II. Dance Materials (1977-2009), III. Music Programs (1968-2003), and IV. Oversize Theatre and Dance Posters (1954-2011). All materials are arranged by academic year/season and then chronologically. The Theatre series includes playbills, flyers, postcards, photographs, slides, and negatives. Dance materials include photographs and programs. Music programs are arranged chronologically. The posters series contains both theatre and dance posters, arranged chronologically by theatre season.

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated by Dr. Richard Davis in 2006 in multiple accruals.

Processing Note

Collection reprocessed according to DACS standards in 2011.

Related Materials

Other materials related to Theatre and Dance performances at Western Oregon University can be found in University Archives.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

I:  Theatre Materials, 1959-2011Return to Top

Series I includes playbills, flyers, postcards, photographs, slides, and negatives.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 0
"Plays Performed From 1964-2006 Synopsis" (compiled by Richard Davis, plays arranged by season)
1 1
Summer and Smoke (playbill), Pirates of Penzance (playbill)
1959-1960
1 2
Teahouse of the August Moon (playbill)
1960-1961
1 3
The Curious Savage (playbill), H.M.S. Pinafore (playbill), All My Sons (playbill)
1964-1965
1 4
Bernadine (playbill), Love in a Morris Chair (playbill)
1965-1966
1 5
The American Dream (playbill), The Trial (playbill)
1965-1966
1 6
Hansel and Gretel (playbill)
1965-1966
1 7
The Fantasticks (playbill), The Long Christmas Dinner (playbill)
1966-1967
1 8
Chronicles of Hell and Escurial (playbill and poster)
1966-1967
1 9
A View from the Bridge (playbill), A View from the Bridge (flyer)
1966-1967
1 10
The Lottery (playbill), The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd (playbill)
1966-1967
1 11
Leah the Forsaken (playbill and flyer), OCE Theatre Season (flyer)
1967-1968
1 12
The Three Sisters (playbill)
1967-1968
1 13
Antigone (playbill)
1967-1968
1 14
Summer Arts Festival (playbill), Enjoy Summer Theatre in Oregon in 1968 (flyer)
1967-1968
1 15
The School for Scandal (playbill), Under Milk Wood (playbill), The Lion in Winter (playbill), A Man for All Seasons and Riders to the Sea (playbill)
1968-1969
1 16
The Sandbox and The Lesson (playbill), Ghosts (playbill), The Birds (playbill), Eoscene (playbill), Dark of the Moon (playbill)
1969-1970
1 17
Twelfth Night (playbill), Lion in Love (playbill), Spoon River Anthology (playbill), I'm Really Here (playbill)
1970-1971
1 18
Carousel (playbill and slides)
1969-1970
1 19
The Lady's Not for Burning (playbill and photographs)
1970-1971
1 20
Summer Arts Festival (playbill)
1970-1971
2 1
The Crucible (playbill), Miss Julie (playbill)
1971-1972
2 2
Biedermann and the Firebugs (playbill), Everyman and the Case of the Crushed Petunias (playbill), The Gentleman Dancing Master (playbill), Alice in Wonderland (playbill)
1971-1972
2 3
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (playbill), Western Star (playbill)
1971-1972
2 4
Summer Festival (playbill)
1971-1972
2 5
Act II (playbill), The Prowler (flyer), R.U.R. (playbill), The Proposal and The Bald Soprano (playbill)
1972-1973
2 6
Androcles and the Lion (playbill and photographs)
1972-1973
2 7
The Gazebo (playbill and slides)
1972-1973
2 8
Oklahoma (playbill, slides, and photographs)
1972-1973
2 9
Summer Arts Festival (playbill and flyer), Ticket Prices (poster)
1972-1973
2 10
No Exit (playbill), Riders to the Sea (playbill), Tartuffe (playbill), Waiting for Godot (playbill and flyer)
1973-1974
2 11
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (playbill, slides, and photographs)
1973-1974
2 12
Death of a Salesman (playbill and slides)
1973-1974
2 13
A Midsummer Night's Dream (flyers)
1973-1974
2 14
The Music Man (playbills, photographs, slides and negatives)
1973-1974
2 15
Ticket Prices (poster), Summer Festival (playbill)
1973-1974
3 1
King Lear (playbills), Endgame (playbill), Sexual Conflict (playbill), The Police (playbill)
1974-1975
3 2
Come Blow Your Horn (playbill and slides)
1974-1975
3 3
Marat Sade (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1974-1975
3 4
Hello, Dolly! (slides and photographs)
1974-1975
3 5
Summer Arts Festival (playbills)
1974-1975
3 6
Zoo Story (playbill and poster), A Taste of Honey (playbill), The Taming of the Shrew (playbill), A Streetcar Named Desire (playbill), The Golden Fleece (playbill), The Maids (playbill and flyer)
1975-1976
3 7
Rip Van Winkle (playbills, slides, and photographs)
1975-1976
3 8
Fashion (playbill and slide)
1975-1976
3 9
Summer Arts Festival (playbill)
1975-1976
3 10
Construction of Rice Auditorium (photographs)
1975-1976
3 11
Rosmersholm (playbill), The Wall (playbill)
1976-1977
3 12
Measure for Measure (playbills and photograph)
1976-1977
3 13
Give Us Gals (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1976-1977
3 14
What the Butler Saw (playbills and photographs)
1976-1977
3 15
My Fair Lady (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1976-1977
3 16
Summer Arts Festival (playbill and flyer)
1976-1977
3 17
The Dedication of the Fine Arts Auditorium (program), The Fine Arts Auditorium (pamphlet)
1976-1977
4 1
Sotoba Komachi (playbill), Changing the Shape of Television (playbills), Alcestis (playbill), Fourposter (playbills), The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria (playbills)
1977-1978
4 2
Hecuba (playbills, slides, and photographs)
1977-1978
4 3
Blithe Spirit (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1977-1978
4 4
Land of the Dragon (photographs and negatives)
1977-1978
4 5
Romanoff and Juliet (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1977-1978
4 6
Bus Stop (photographs)
1977-1978
4 7
Guys and Dolls (slides, photographs, and negatives)
1977-1978
4 8
The Miser (photographs and negatives)
1977-1978
4 9
Summer Arts Festival (playbill)
1977-1978
5 1
The American Dream (playbill), The Owl and the Pussycat (playbill), Passion, Poison and Petrifaction (playbill), Guernica (playbills), A Pheonix Too Frequent (playbill), Travesties (playbills), Theatre Season (flyer), Summer Arts Festival (playbills)
1978-1979
5 2
J.B. (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1978-1979
5 3
Pippin (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1978-1979
5 4
Waiting for Godot (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1978-1979
5 5
Reynard the Fox (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1978-1979
5 6
Student's Workshop (photographs)
1978-1979
6 1
Butterflies are Free (slides and photographs)
1978-1979
6 2
Humanities and Theatre Arts (flyer), Summer Arts Festival (flyer)
1978-1979
6 3
Man of La Mancha (photographs and negatives)
1978-1979
6 4
Puss 'n' Boots (photographs and negatives)
1978-1979
7 1
Eat Your Heart Out (playbill), Entertaining Mr. Sloane (playbills)
1979-1980
7 2
Images of Silence (playbill), The White Liars (playbills)
1979-1980
7 3
Hansel and Gretel (photographs and negatives)
1979-1980
7 4
Two Gentlemen of Verona (playbills and slides)
1979-1980
7 5
Die Fledermaus (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1979-1980
7 6
The Incredible Jungle Journey of Fenda Maria (photographs and negatives)
1979-1980
8 1
Cinderella (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1979-1980
8 2
The Creditors (playbill and photographs)
1979-1980
8 3
From a High Place Falling (slides)
1979-1980
8 4
Going to Pot (slides and photographs)
1979-1980
8 5
Jack and the Beanstalk (photographs and negatives)
1979-1980
8 6
A Little Night Music (slides, photographs, and negatives)
1979-1980
8 7
Summer Arts Festival (playbills), Theatre (flyer), Summer Graduate Assistant (flyer), Ticket Sale (flyer), Summer Auditions (poster), A Symphony of Silence (playbill)
1979-1980
9 1
Entertainment for You (flyer), Entertaining Chaos (playbill), You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (playbill and negatives)
1980-1981
9 2
Aladdin (playbills, slides, and photographs)
1980-1981
9 3
The Cid (playbills and slides)
1980-1981
9 4
Story Theatre (slides, photographs, and negatives)
1980-1981
9 5
West Side Story (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1980-1981
9 6
Life With Father (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1980-1981
9 7
Picnic on the Battlefield (slides)
1980-1981
9 8
Buried Child (slides, and photograph)
1980-1981
10 1
Pinocchio (story book)
1980-1981
10 2
Pinocchio (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1980-1981
10 3
Camelot (slides, photographs, negatives)
1980-1981
10 4
Puppet Workshop (photographs)
1980-1981
10 5
The Emperor's New Clothes (photographs and negatives)
1980-1981
10 6
Northwest Drama Conference (programs and flyers)
1980-1981
10 7
Summer Arts Festival (playbills), Summer Theatre Season (flyers)
1980-1981
11 1
Arms and the Man (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1981-1982
11 2
Sleeping Beauty (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1981-1982
11 3
Once Upon a Mattress (slides, photographs, and negatives)
1981-1982
11 4
Once Upon a Mattress (photographs)
1981-1982
12 1
A Doll's House (playbill)
1981-1982
12 2
Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer (playbill), Androcles and the Lion (playbill), The Zoo Story (playbill)
1981-1982
12 3
Confusions (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1981-1982
12 4
The Mikado (playbills and photographs)
1981-1982
12 5
Story Theatre II (photographs and negatives)
1981-1982
12 6
Aladdin (playbill and photographs)
1981-1982
12 7
Aladdin (photographs and negatives)
1981-1982
12 8
Building Outdoor Stage (negatives)
1981-1982
12 9
Josephine and the Mouse Singer (slides)
1981-1982
12 10
A Woman of No Importance (playbills and slides)
1981-1982
12 11
Entertainment for You (flyers), Summer Fantasies (flyers), Summer Arts Festival (playbills)
1981-1982
13 1
God (playbill), Black Comedy (playbill), 5th of July (playbills)
1982-1983
13 2
Hamlet (playbills and slides)
1982-1983
13 3
Jack and the Beanstalk (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1982-1983
13 4
Kiss Me, Kate (playbills, photographs and negatives)
1982-1983
13 5
The Hostage (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1982-1983
13 6
The Unknown Soldier (playbill and photographs)
1982-1983
13 7
Story Theatre III (slides)
1982-1983
13 8
Oliver! (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1982-1983
13 9
Entertainment for You (flyers), American College Theatre Festival (flyer)
1982-1983
14 1
Theatre Season (flyer), Spend Three Weeks with Shakespeare (flyers)
1983-1984
14 2
Cinderella (playbills, slides, and photographs)
1983-1984
14 3
Dracula (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1983-1984
14 4
The Gin Game (playbill and negatives)
1983-1984
14 5
The Silver King (playbills, photographs, negatives)
1983-1984
14 6
Carnival (playbills), The Duck Variations (playbills), Good Evening (playbill), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (playbills), Ladies at the Alamo (playbill and slides), P.S. Your Cat is Dead (playbills), The Wizard of Oz (slides)
1983-1984
15 1
Sister Mary Ignatious Explains it All for You (playbill and negatives)
1984-1985
15 2
Snow White Goes West (playbills and slides)
1984-1985
15 3
Northwest Drama Conference (flyers, program, and photographs)
1984-1985
15 4
Cloud 9 (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1984-1985
15 5
Story Theatre IV (slides and photographs)
1984-1985
15 6
Arsenic and Old Lace (playbills, set design, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1984-1985
15 7
The Importance of Being Earnest (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1984-1985
15 8
High School Original Plays Contest Winners (playbill, slides, photograph, and negatives)
1984-1985
15 9
Annie (playbills), The Bremen Town Musicians (playbills)
1984-1985
15 10
Theatre Season (flyer)
1984-1985
16 1
Celebrate (flyers)
1985-1986
16 2
The Oresteian Trilogy (playbills), High School Original Plays (playbills), Miss Sara Sampson (playbill)
1985-1986
16 3
The Butler Did It (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1985-1986
16 4
The Tingalary Bird (playbills and photographs)
1985-1986
16 5
Angels Fall (photographs and negatives)
1985-1986
16 6
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1985-1986
16 7
The Music Man (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1985-1986
16 8
Crimes of the Heart (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1985-1986
16 9
Sleeping Beauty (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1985-1986
16 10
Hello, Dolly! (playbills and photographs)
1985-1986
17 1
Let Us Put Some Drama in Your Life (flyers), John Brown's Body (playbill)
1986-1987
17 2
A Christmas Carol (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1986-1987
17 3
Foiled by an Innocent Maid and Lonestar (playbills, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1986-1987
17 4
The Way of the World (playbill and slides)
1986-1987
17 5
A Ghost Sonata (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1986-1987
17 6
True West (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1986-1987
17 7
High School Original Plays (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1986-1987
17 8
Ten Little Indians (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1986-1987
17 9
Extremities (slides)
1986-1987
17 10
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (playbill, slides, and photographs)
1986-1987
18 1
Home at Six and Bringing it All Back Home (playbill), A Midsummer Night's Dream (playbill)
1987-1988
18 2
Bringing it All Back Home (photographs and negatives)
1987-1988
18 3
Home at Six (photographs and negatives)
1987-1988
18 4
High School Original Play (playbill and negatives)
1987-1988
18 5
No, No, Nanette (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1987-1988
18 6
The House of Bernarda Alba (playbills and photograph)
1987-1988
18 7
Laundry and Bourbon and PVT. Wars (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1987-1988
18 8
Irene (playbills and flyers), Sleeping Beauty (playbill and flyers), The Woolgatherer (playbill), Irene and Sleeping Beauty (playbill), Let Us Entertain You (flyer), Commencement Breakfast (program)
1987-1988
19 1
Fall 88 Season (flyer), Neal W. Werner College Center Dedication (program)
1988-1989
19 2
A Christmas Carol (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1988-1989
19 3
The Still Alarm (photographs)
1988-1989
19 4
Suppressed Desires (playbills and photographs)
1988-1989
19 5
Impromptu (playbills, flyer, and photographs)
1988-1989
19 6
The Convert (playbills, flyers, and photographs)
1988-1989
19 7
Merchant of Venice (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1988-1989
19 8
Oliver (playbills and photographs)
1988-1989
19 9
Chinamen (playbills and flyer), The Foreigner (playbills), Lysistrata (playbills), Plaza Suite (playbills), Vanities (playbills), Comedy, Classics and a Christmas Special (flyers)
1988-1989
19 10
42nd Street (playbills, flyer, slides, and photographs)
1988-1989
19 11
Hurly-Burly (playbills and photographs)
1988-1989
19 12
Manohra (playbills and photographs)
1988-1989
19 13
Cinderella (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1988-1989
19 14
Jesse (playbill), Waiting for Godot (playbills), Little Mary Sunshine (playbills), Show Stoppers (flyers), 3+1 (playbills)
1988-1989
20 1
Reaching Home (playbill), The Flyaway Highway (playbills), Western Theatre Season (flyers)
1990-1991
20 2
A Christmas Carol (playbills, slides, and photographs)
1990-1991
20 3
Dear Ruth (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1990-1991
20 4
Leaving Home and In and Out (playbills and photographs)
1990-1991
20 5
A Little Wam (playbills and photographs)
1990-1991
20 6
We the People (playbills and photographs)
1990-1991
20 7
Noises Off (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1990-1991
20 8
Grease (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1990-1991
21 1
Western Theatre Season (flyers), A Momentary Lapse of Discretion (playbills), Hopscotch and Zoo Story (playbills)
1991-1992
21 2
Western Oregon State College Faculty Exhibition (postcard)
1991-1992
21 3
Corporate Ladder (playbill)
1991-1992
21 4
Scapino (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1991-1992
21 5
Vanities (playbills and photographs)
1991-1992
21 6
Wenceslas Square (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1991-1992
21 7
Chess (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1991-1992
21 8
Largo Desolato (playbills and photographs)
1991-1992
21 9
Winnie the Pooh (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1991-1992
21 10
The Calliope Played at Midnight (playbills)
1992-1993
21 11
Twelfth Night (playbills and photographs)
1992-1993
21 12
The Country Wife (playbill)
1992-1993
21 13
Talley's Folly (playbill and photographs)
1992-1993
21 14
LUV (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1992-1993
21 15
Thieves Carnival (playbills)
1992-1993
21 16
Goin' West to Oregon (playbills)
1992-1993
21 17
The Owl and the Pussycat (playbills and photographs)
1992-1993
21 18
Theatre Season (flyer), Summer Theatre (flyer)
1992-1993
22 1
WOSC Season Tickets (flyer), Leadership Recognition Reception (program), Northwest Passage (magazine), Student Recognition Night (program)
1993-1994
22 2
A Christmas Carol (playbills)
1993-1994
22 3
You, the Night, and the Music (playbills)
1993-1994
22 4
Adam and the Experts (playbills)
1993-1994
22 5
Love Letters (playbills)
1993-1994
22 6
The Sound of Music (playbills and photographs)
1993-1994
22 7
Talking Withà (playbills)
1993-1994
22 8
Eastern Standard (playbills)
1993-1994
22 9
Little Shop of Horrors (playbills, slides, photographs, and publicity packet)
1993-1994
22 10
Faculty Honors Award Presentation (program), Theatre Season (flyers), Holiday Tree Lighting (program)
1994-1995
22 11
Wet Cheese (playbill), Steel Magnolias (playbill)
1994-1995
22 12
Barefoot in the Park (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1994-1995
22 13
Unrelenting Dreams and Family Scrapbook (playbill)
1994-1995
22 14
Oedipus the King (playbills)
1994-1995
22 15
Oleanna (playbills and photographs)
1994-1995
22 16
Death Trap (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1994-1995
22 17
Little Shop of Horrors (playbill and publicity packet)
1994-1995
22 18
Something's Afoot (playbill, photographs, and negatives)
1994-1995
22 19
The Mystery of Irma Vep (playbill and photograph)
1994-1995
23 1
A Christmas Carol (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1995-1996
23 2
The Mystery of Irma Vep (playbill)
1995-1996
23 3
Sight Unseen (playbills), Theatre Season (flyer)
1995-1996
23 4
The Odd Couple (playbill and photographs)
1995-1996
23 5
Sweet Charity (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1995-1996
23 6
I Hate Hamlet (playbill, slides, photographs, and negatives)
1995-1996
23 7
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (playbill and photographs)
1995-1996
23 8
The Sorcerers Apprentice (playbills, table tent, photographs, and negatives)
1995-1996
24 1
Theatre and Dance Department Season (flyer), Faculty & Staff Recognition Ceremony (program), Student Academic Excellence Week (program)
1996-1997
24 2
Hedda Gabler (playbills), Jeffrey (playbill), Beyond Therapy (playbills), All in the Timing (playbills)
1996-1997
24 3
King Lear (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1996-1997
24 4
Bus Stop (playbills, flyer, photographs, and negatives)
1996-1997
24 5
No One Will Marry a Princess with a Tree Growing Out of Her Head (playbills, table tents, and photograph)
1996-1997
25 1
Standing on My Knees (playbill), The Apple of Contentment (playbill), States of Shock (playbills), Sylvia (playbills), Department of Theatre and Dance (flyers)
1997-1998
25 2
A Christmas Carol (playbill, set design, photographs, and negatives)
1997-1998
25 3
The Real Inspector Hound (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1997-1998
25 4
Crazy for You (playbill, set design, photographs, and negatives)
1997-1998
25 5
Hauptmann (photographs)
1997-1998
25 6
Twilight of the Golds (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1997-1998
25 7
The Men's Cottage (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1997-1998
WOU Theatre Picture Archive Disc I (CD-DVD), WOU Theatre Picture Archive Disc II (CD-DVD), WOU Theatre Picture Archive Disc III (CD-DVD)
1998-2001
Box Folder
26 1
Fall Schedule (flyer), Theatre and Dance Schedule (flyer), The Stage Volume One, Issue One (newsletters), The Stage Volume One, Issue Two (newsletters), Northwest Passage (magazine)
1998-1999
26 2
Evening of One-Acts (playbill), The Bourgeois Gentleman (playbills), The Glass Menagerie (playbills), Dearly Departed (playbills)
1998-1999
26 3
Beautiful Bodies (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1998-1999
26 4
Biloxi Blues (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1998-1999
26 5
A Christmas Carol (playbills, photographs, and negatives)
1998-1999
26 6
Hauptmann (playbills and negatives)
1998-1999
26 7
Table Manners (playbills and photograph)
1998-1999
26 8
Theatre and Dance Schedule (flyers), The Stage Volume Two, Issue One (newsletters), Matinee Performances (letter)
1999-2000
26 9
Best Friends with Benefits (playbills and flyers), When You Comin Back, Red Ryder? (playbills and flyers), Into the Woods (playbills), Line (playbills), Extremities (playbills), Lovers and Executioners (playbills), An Afternoon of One Acts (playbill), An American Daughter (playbills)
1999-2000
26 10
Theatre Arts (flyers), Creative Arts Volume I, No. 1 (newsletters), Matinee Performances (letter), Honors Thesis Presentations (program), Academic Excellence Day Student Presentations (program)
2000-2001
26 11
Fools (playbills), Hippolytus (playbills and postcards), Speed the Plow (playbills), Ardy Fafirsin (playbills and postcard)
2000-2001
26 12
The Grapes of Wrath (playbills, postcards, and photographs)
2000-2001
26 13
As You Like It (playbills, postcard, and photograph)
2000-2001
26 14
Laughter, Sex and Tears: An Evening of One-Acts (playbill), An Evening of One Acts (playbill)
2000-2001
27 1
Theatre and Dance Season (flyers), Creative Arts Volume II, No. 1 (newsletters), Creative Arts Volume III, No. 1 (newsletters), Northwest Passage (magazine)
2001-2002
27 2
Ardy Fafirsin (playbill), Two Original Student Plays: Dad or Limit as Sex Approaches Infinity and Emily on the Hill (playbills), Endgame (playbills), Not Now, Darling (playbills and postcard)
2001-2002
27 3
Dad or Limit as Sex Approaches Infinity (playbills), Kiss Me, Kate (playbills and postcard)
2001-2002
27 4
Seven Keys to Baldpate (playbills)
2001-2002
27 5
Dorm Room Mirrors (playbills), Move Over Mrs. Markham (playbills and postcard)
2001-2002
27 6
Theatre and Dance Season (flyers)
2002-2003
27 7
A Night of One Acts (playbill), A Short Evening of Short Plays (playbill), An Evening of One Acts (playbill)
2002-2003
27 8
God's Country (playbills and postcard), Goodnight, Desdemona Goodmorning, Juliet (playbills)
2002-2003
27 9
Two Original Student Shows: Gardening at Night and Hush, Little Baby (playbills), The State of Innocence and Fall of Man (playbills)
2002-2003
27 10
Our Country's Good (playbill and postcard), The Playboy of the Western World (playbills and postcard), Sounds of Silence (playbills)
2002-2003
27 11
Fuddy Meers (playbills and postcard)
2002-2003
27 12
Director's Cut (playbill), The Laramie Project (playbill), Victor/Victoria (playbill), Wasp (playbill), Incorruptible (playbills)
2003-2004
27 13
Moon Over Buffalo (playbill), PVT. Wars (playbill and flyers), Twelfth Night (playbill), Boy Gets Girl (playbill), As Bees in Honey Drown (playbill), The Rope and The Seventeenth of June (flyer), Auditions for Lucky Stiff, Tales of the Lost Formicans and Twelfth Night (flyer)
2004-2005
27 14
The Serpent (playbill), West Side Story (playbill), Agnes of God (playbill), The Distance from Here (playbill)
2005-2006
27 15
OCE Stage Crew (patch)
2007-2008
27 16
The House of Yes (playbill), bobrauschenbergamerica (playbills and postcard)
2008-2009
27 17
Stanton's Garage (playbill), Rabbit (playbill), Reefer Madness (playbill and postcard), How I Learned to Drive (playbill), Rumors (playbill)
2009-2010
27 18
Picnic (playbill), Almost, Maine (playbill), Lysistrata (playbill and flyer)
2010-2011
27 19
More Fun Than Bowling (playbill), Flaming Idiots (playbill), The Odd Couple (playbill), The 3 Musketeers (playbill), The Marriage of Bette & Boo (playbill), Free Will & Wanton Lust (playbill), The Life of King Henry V (playbill), Debris Tossed About (playbill)

II:  Dance Materials, 1977-2009Return to Top

Series II includes programs and photographs.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
28 1
Dance photographs
1998-1999
28 2
Dance programs
1977-2009

III:  Music Programs, 1968-2003Return to Top

Series III includes programs.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
28 4
Music
1968; 1972-1973; 1976-1977
28 5
Music
1978-1983
28 6
Music
1983-1987
28 7
Music
1988-1990
28 8
Music
1991
28 9
Music
1992
28 10
Music
1993
28 11
Music
1994
28 12
Music
1995-1999; 2002-2003
28 13
Music

IV:  Oversize Theatre and Dance Posters, 1954-2011Return to Top

Series IV includes both theatre and dance posters. The Theatre posters date from 1954-2011 (Box 29); the Dance posters date from 1981-2005 (Box 30).

Description Dates
Theatre Posters
1954-1996
Mr. Pim Passed By
1954
All My Sons
1964-1965
Antigone
1967-1968
The Lion in Winter
1968-1969
The School for Scandal
1968-1969
Under Milk Wood
1968-1969
Ghosts
1969-1970
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
1971-1972
The Gentleman Dancing Master
1971-1972
R.U.R.
1972-1973
Summer Festival 1978
1972-1973
Tartuffe
1973-1974
Come Blow Your Horn
1974-1975
Hello, Dolly!
1974-1975
King Lear
1974-1975
A Streetcar Named Desire
1975-1976
American Season
1975-1976
Fashion
1975-1976
Rip van Winkle
1975-1976
Give Us Gals
1976-1977
Measure for Measure
1976-1977
Season Poster
1976-1977
What the Butler Saw
1976-1977
Blithe Spirit
1977-1978
Bus Stop
1977-1978
Guys and Dolls
1977-1978
Hecuba
1977-1978
J.B.
1977-1978
Land of the Dragon
1977-1978
Romanoff and Juliet
1977-1978
Season Poster
1977-1978
Summer Festival 1978
1977-1978
The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria
1977-1978
The Miser
1977-1978
Pippin
1978-1979
Reynard the Fox
1978-1979
Season Flyer
1978-1979
Summer Shows
1978-1979
Travesties
1978-1979
Cinderella
1979-1980
Die Fledermaus
1979-1980
Hansel and Gretel
1979-1980
OCE Summer Theatre
1979-1980
The Creditors
1979-1980
The Incredible Jungle Journey of Fenda Maria
1979-1980
Two Gentlemen of Verona
1979-1980
Aladdin
1980-1981
American College Theatre Festival and Northwest Drama Conference
1980-1981
American College Theatre Festival XIII
1980-1981
Life with Father
1980-1981
Pinocchio
1980-1981
Story Theatre
1980-1981
Summer Theater Season
1980-1981
The Cid
1980-1981
West Side Story
1980-1981
A Doll's House
1981-1982
A Woman of No Importance
1981-1982
Aladdin
1981-1982
Androcles and the Lion
1981-1982
Arms and the Man
1981-1982
Sleeping Beauty
1981-1982
Story Theatre II
1981-1982
Summer Theater Season
1981-1982
The Island and Sizwe Bansi is Dead
1981-1982
The Mikado
1981-1982
The Zoo Story
1981-1982
Black Comedy
1982-1983
Fifth of July
1982-1983
God
1982-1983
Hamlet
1982-1983
Jack and the Beanstalk
1982-1983
Kiss Me, Kate
1982-1983
Oliver
1982-1983
Story Theatre III
1982-1983
The Hostage
1982-1983
Unknown Soldier
1982-1983
Carnival
1983-1984
Cinderella
1983-1984
Dracula
1983-1984
Gin Game
1983-1984
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1983-1984
P.S. Your Cat is Dead
1983-1984
The Duck Variatons
1983-1984
The Importance of Being Earnest
1983-1984
The Silver King
1983-1984
The Wizard of Oz
1983-1984
American College Theatre Festival and Northwest Drama Conference
1984-1985
American College Theatre Festival XVII
1984-1985
Annie
1984-1985
Arsenic and Old Lace
1984-1985
Cloud Nine
1984-1985
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You
1984-1985
Snow White (Goes West)
1984-1985
Story Theatre IV
1984-1985
The Bremen Town Musicians
1984-1985
Three Plays by Oregon High School Students
1984-1985
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking
1985-1986
Angels Fall
1985-1986
Crimes of the Heart
1985-1986
Hello, Dolly!
1985-1986
Miss Sara Sampson
1985-1986
Sleeping Beauty
1985-1986
The Butler Did It
1985-1986
The Music Man
1985-1986
The Oresteian Trilogy
1985-1986
Three Award Winning Original Oregon Thespian Plays
1985-1986
Tingalary Bird
1985-1986
A Christmas Carol
1986-1987
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1986-1987
Extremites
1986-1987
Foiled by an Innocent Maid
1986-1987
Lone Star
1986-1987
Ten Little Indians
1986-1987
The Ghost Sonata
1986-1987
The Way of the World
1986-1987
Three Award Winning Original Oregon Thespian Plays
1986-1987
True West
1986-1987
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1987-1988
Home at Six and Bring it All Back Home
1987-1988
Irene
1987-1988
Laundry and Bourbon and PVT Wars
1987-1988
Napthali's Flute or SHHH!, Speed-E-Mart, and Ring Around Rose
1987-1988
No, No, Nanette
1987-1988
Sleeping Beauty
1987-1988
The House of Bernarda Alba
1987-1988
A Christmas Carol
1988-1989
Lysistrata
1988-1989
Merchant of Venice
1988-1989
Oliver
1988-1989
Plaza Suite
1988-1989
The Foreigner
1988-1989
3+1
1989-1990
42nd Street
1989-1990
Cinderella
1989-1990
Hurly-Burly
1989-1990
Jesse
1989-1990
Little Mary Sunshine
1989-1990
Mahonhra
1989-1990
Season Poster
1989-1990
Waiting for Godot
1989-1990
A Christmas Carol
1990-1991
A Little Wam
1990-1991
Dear Ruth
1990-1991
Noises Off
1990-1991
Seasonal Poster
1990-1991
The Flyaway Highway
1990-1991
Two Original One-Acts
1990-1991
We The People
1990-1991
Chess
1991-1992
Corporate Ladder
1991-1992
Grease
1991-1992
Largo Desolato
1991-1992
Momentary Lapse of Discretion, A
1991-1992
No Sex! Non-Violence!
1991-1992
Noises Off
1991-1992
Scapino
1991-1992
Vanities
1991-1992
Wenceslas Square
1991-1992
Winnie the Pooh
1991-1992
Goin' West to Oregon
1992-1993
LUV
1992-1993
Seasonal Poster
1992-1993
Talley's Folly
1992-1993
The Calliope Played at Midnight
1992-1993
The Country Wife
1992-1993
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
1992-1993
The Owl and the Pussycat
1992-1993
Thieves' Carnival
1992-1993
Twelfth Night
1992-1993
A Christmas Carol
1993-1994
Catch the Fire WOSC
1993-1994
Eastern Standard
1993-1994
Little Shop of Horrors
1993-1994
Love Letters
1993-1994
Talking Withà
1993-1994
The Sound of Music
1993-1994
Barefoot in the Park
1994-1995
Death Trap
1994-1995
Little Shop of Horrors
1994-1995
Oedipus the King
1994-1995
Oleanna
1994-1995
Seasonal Poster
1994-1995
Something's Afoot and Irma Vep
1994-1995
Steel Magnolias
1994-1995
A Christmas Carol
1995-1996
I Hate Hamlet
1995-1996
Odd Couple, The
1995-1996
Seasonal Poster
1995-1996
Sight Unseen
1995-1996
Sweet Charity
1995-1996
The Mystery of Irma Vep
1995-1996
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
1995-1996
Whos Life Is It Anyway?
1995-1996
Dance posters
1981-2005
Give Us Gals (oversized photographs)
1977-1978
J.B. (oversized photographs)
1978-1979
All In the Timing
1996-1997
Beyond Therapy
1996-1997
Bus Stop
1996-1997
Hedda Gabler
1996-1997
Jeffrey
1996-1997
King Lear
1996-1997
No One Will Marry a Princess with a Tree Growing Out of Her Head
1996-1997
Season Poster
1996-1997
A Christmas Carol
1997-1998
Crazy for You
1997-1998
Perfromance Season
1997-1998
Standing on my Knees
1997-1998
States of Shock
1997-1998
The Real Inspector Hound
1997-1998
Twilight of the Golds
1997-1998
A Christmas Carol
1998-1999
Dearly departed
1998-1999
Hauptmann
1998-1999
Open Auditions
1998-1999
Theatre and Dance Season
1998-1999
An American Daughter
1999-2000
Auditions
1999-2000
Bad Timing
1999-2000
Extremities
1999-2000
Into the Woods
1999-2000
Line
1999-2000
Lovers and Executioners
1999-2000
Theatre and Dance Season
1999-2000
When You Comin Back, Red Ryder?
1999-2000
As You Like It
2000-2001
Fools
2000-2001
Hippolytus
2000-2001
Speed the Plow
2000-2001
The Grapes of Wrath
2000-2001
Theatre and Dance Season
2000-2001
Ardy Fafirsin
2001-2002
Department of Theatre and Dance
2001-2002
Dorm Room Mirrors
2001-2002
Endgame
2001-2002
Kiss Me, Kate
2001-2002
Move Over Mrs. Markham
2001-2002
Not Now Darling
2001-2002
Seven Keys to Baldpate
2001-2002
Smith Fine Arts Series
2001-2002
Two Original Student Plays
2001-2002
God's Country
2002-2003
Goodnight, Desdemona Goodmorning, Juliet
2002-2003
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
2002-2003
Our Country's Good
2002-2003
Sounds of Silence
2002-2003
The Playboy of the Western World
2002-2003
The State of Innocence and Fall of Man
2002-2003
Theatre and Dance Season
2002-2003
Two Original Student Plays
2002-2003
Incorruptible
2003-2004
Season of Excitement and Theatrical Splendor
2003-2004
The Laramie Project
2003-2004
Victor/Victoria
2003-2004
Wasp
2003-2004
As Bees in Honey Drown
2004-2005
Auditions
2004-2005
Boy Gets Girl
2004-2005
Moon Over Buffalo
2004-2005
PVT Wars
2004-2005
Theatre and Dance Party
2004-2005
Twelfth Night
2004-2005
Agnes of God
2005-2006
The Distance from Here
2005-2006
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2005-2006
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
2005-2006
West Side Story
2005-2006
10 Minute Play Auditions
2010-2011
Auditions for Lysistrata
2010-2011
Almost, Maine
Auditions!!!
bobrauschenbergamerica
Dancing at Lughnasa
Dangerous Liaisons
Debris Tossed About
Flaming Idiots
Henry V
Lysistrata
More Fun Than Bowling
Picnic
Rabbit
Rumors
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
Student-Directed One Acts!
The 3 Musketeers
The Girl Who Loved the Beatles and The World Tipped Over, and Laying on Its Side
The House of Yes
The Marriage of Bette & Bob
The Odd Couple
The Serpent
Dance Theatre
1981-1982
Disk Dance Theatre
1985-1988
Dance Theatre
1990-1992
Spring Dance Concert
1992-1994
Dance Concert
1994-1995
WOSC Dance Concert
1995-1996
Spring Dance Concert
1996-2003
Rainbow Dance Theatre
2004-2005
Dance Theatre of Oregon & Rainbow Dance Theatre

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • College and school drama, American--Oregon--Monmouth.
  • Drama--Study and teaching--Oregon--Monmouth.
  • Music in universities and colleges--Oregon--Monmouth.
  • Theatrical posters.
  • Western Oregon University (Monmouth, Or.)--Archives

Personal Names

  • Davis, Richard (creator)

Corporate Names

  • Oregon College of Education
  • Western Oregon State College
  • Western Oregon University

Geographical Names

  • Monmouth, Or.--Social life and customs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Negatives
  • Photographs
  • Plays
  • Posters
  • Programs
  • Slides