Play Collection

Laurence Olivier in Costume as Oedipus in Oedipus Rex
(Original Caption) 1946: Laurence Olivier appears as the doomed King Oedipus in a theatrical performance of Sophocles "Oedipus Rex." Oilvier wears an ancient Greek costume of a tunic

Cactus plant with teeth and eyes
Blue cactus plant wearing costume of plastic vampire teeth and bloodshot eyeballs

Patty Duke Paints Her Name on Marquee
(Original Caption) 3/7/1960-New York, New York- Standing atop the marquee of the Playhouse Theater, Patty Duke, 13, helps paint her name on the marquee advertising

Sarah Bernhardt as Lady Macbeth
French actress Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Lady Macbeth at the Porte Saint-Martin theater in Paris

Katharine Hepburn And Van Heflin
(Original Caption) Katharine Hepburn and Van Heflin in the Theater Guild's staging of "The Philadelphia Story." Undated photograph

Composer Richard Rodgers
ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Composer Richard Rodgers, whose 25 years in show business have brought many hits including "Oklahoma" and South Pacific

French Playwright Jean Racine
Hand-tinted engraving of French dramatist, Jean Racine (1639-1699.)

Scene From Play Roshomon On Broadway
(Original Caption) New York, NY: Scene from Broadway play "Rashomon" with Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom

Ruth St. Denis Directing Campfire Girls
(Original Caption) Ruth St. Denis, American singer dancer, directing a group of Campfire Girls in an Indian rain dance. Undated photograph

Helen Hays In Costume As Queen Victoria
(Original Caption) Portrait of actress Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria in the Broadway production "Victoria Regina". Undated photograph

Helen Hayes In Costume As Queen Victoria
(Original Caption) Actress Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria in the Broadway production "Victoria Regina." Undated photograph

A Scene from A Raisin in the Sun
(Original Caption) 1954-Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier and Diana Sands in "A Rasin in the Sun"

Last Scene Of "Antigone;"Man Weeps In Ce
(Original Caption) Scenes from classical plays. Last scene of "Antigone": Creon crying over the body of his son, Haemon. French woodcut, no date

John Barrymore In Costume As Richard I
(Original Caption) John Barrymore in the title role of the play "Richard I, The Lionhearted." Ca. 1940s-1950s

John Gielgud in The Lady's Not for Burning
ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: John Gielgud in "The Lady's Not For Burning." Undated photograph

Ethel Barrymore in Play with Two Ladies
(Original Caption) 1901-Ethel Barrymore in "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, " with two elderly ladies. Photograph, 1901

1913 World Series, Game 4. Philadelphia Athletics Rube Oldring out at home. | Location: Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paul Robeson as The Emperor Jones
Paul Robeson in "The Emperor Jones" (either stageplay in 1923 or film 1933) by Eugene O'Neill

Marshall Field's Customers Playroom
(Original Caption) 09/04/1926-Chicago, IL: Lions, tigers, and everything just like a regular zoo greet these kiddies at Marshall Field's department store playroom

Actress Mae West
(Original Caption) Three New York Sex Plays Raided by Police

Boys Having A Friendly Dispute
(Original Caption) 1927-Harlem: Negro boys having a friendly dispute. (Original Caption)

Mae West in Her Play Sex
(Original Caption) Mae West in a scene from Sex one of the 3 plays raided by police

Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story
(Original Caption) Katharine Hepburn in the stage version of "The Philadelphia Story." Photograph, 1930's

Katharine Hepburn in Warrior Costume
Katharine Hepburn in costume as Antiope in The Warrior's Husband by Julian F. Thompson, which opened at the Morosco Theater March 11, 1932

William Butler Yeats Standing
(Original Caption) 10/26/1932-New York, NY: William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, statesman and dramatist, shown as he arrived at New York, Oct. 26 on the S. S. Europa

Marc Reinhardt Directing Production
(Original Caption) 1933- Picture shows Marc Reinhardt directing a production of, "A midsummer night's Dream"

Alfred Lunt, Noel Coward and Lynn Fontaine
1933- Alfred Lunt, Noel Coward and Lynn Fontaine, in the Noel Coward play, "Design for Living."

Dancers Holding New Deal Banner
A group of dancers from Earl Carroll's Broadway show Murder at the Vanities hold up a banner in support of the National Recovery Administration

Henry Fonda in The Farmer Takes a Wife
(Original Caption) Henry Fonda as a farmer in the 1934 stage play, "The Farmer Takes a Wife, " with June Walker

Mr. & Mrs. Massey Return To Native City
(Original Caption) 01/30/1934-New York, NY: TORONTO STAGE STARS RETURN. Mr. & Mrs

New Sean O'Casey Play to Open Soon
Sean O'Casey, famous Irish dramatist whose play "Within the Gates" opens soon in London, shown with Norman MacDermott, (right), who will produce the opus

Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria
(Original Caption) Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria in a scene from the play "Victoria Regina, " 1935

Player Running To Beat Ball To Base
(Original Caption) 10/2/1935-Detroit, Michigan: Action in the fourth inning of the first game of the 1935 World Series, with Detroit representing the American League and Chicago the National

Noel Coward starring in his own play, "Tonight at 8:30." 1936

Actors Rehearsing for Play
A group of actors rehearse for the Federal Theater Project production of Brother Mose

Gypsy Scene From "Il Trovatore"
(Original Caption) 4/29/1936-New York, NY: A gypsy scene from Il Trovatore, the famous opera, which is being given by a group of students at the WPA Federal Music Project's Harlem Music Center

Vinton Freedley and Cole Porter Practice
(Original Caption) 7/7/1936-New York, NY: The first musical of the 1936 season is in rehersal, it's Vinton Freedley's "Wait For Baby"

Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard
(Original Caption) 9/13/1936-Hollywood, CA- Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard are pictured as they attended a production of "Everyman, " staged by Johannes Poulsen

Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers speak together on July 31, 1937, on the set of Stage Door

Eva Le Gallienne on Stage
Eva Le Gallienne wears her costume for Eddie Dowling's production Madame Capet at the Cort Theatre

Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, 1939

Todd Duncan and Anne Brown in Porgy and Bess
(Original Caption) Todd Duncan and Anne Broun starring in George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." Exact date of photograph unknwon; either 1935 or 1942 production

Actress Audrey Hepburn
(Original Caption) Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) in the Playwrights Company's "Ondine, " directed by Alfred Lunt. Ca. 1940s-50s

Oona O'Neill And Georgie Tapps Talking
(Original Caption) 7/4/1942-New York, NY: Oona O'Neill, New York's current glamour girl No

Actress Mary Martin
(Original Caption) Filed 12/11/1944-Mary Martin as she appeared in the show "One Touch of Venus."

Ethel Barrymore in The Corn Is Green
(Original Caption) 10/6/1944-: With more than four decades of acting behind her

Cast Helping Oscar Hammerstein Celebrate Birthday
(Original Caption) 07/12/1945-New York: Oscar Hammerstein was honored on his 50th birthday with a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria, given by Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner of the Theater Guild

Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier
(Original Caption) 1946-New York, New York: Picture shows actors, Ralph Richarson(left) as lord Burleigh, and Laurence olivier(right) as mr

Martha Gellhorn Rehearses Cast of Play
(Original Caption) 6/24/1946-London, England- Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles, American authors who served as war reporters during World War II

Canada Lee in On Whitman Avenue on Broadway
A scene from Act One of the Broadway hit play, On Whitman Avenue, starring Canada Lee (center, speaking) and Will Geer (center right)

Tennessee Williams On Boat, Sailing
Vulcania Ocean liner

Schoendienst Makes The Play
(Original Caption) 6/20/1948- New York, NY - Schoendienst of the St

Jane Fonda on Stage
Jane Fonda (right), with Ruth Matteson, in "There Was A Little Girl."

Playwright Neil Simon Outside Simon Theater
(Original Caption) June 29, 1983-New York: A big name on Broadway, playwright Neil Simon is, in a sense, an even bigger name 6/29

Players in "Old Times"
Marsha Mason (left), Anthony Hopkins and Jane Alexander on the first day of rehearsal for a new production of Harold Pinter's "Old Times."

Yul Brynner After Performance of The King and I
Yul Brynner stands with an actress and Mitch Leigh, composer and producer, after the opening night of The King and I

David Mamet Outside Golden Theatre
(Original Caption) Playwright David Mamet stands outside the Golden Theatre where his Pulitzer Prize winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross" is being performed

Character of Jennyanydots in Cats
Chicago, Illinois: Players in Cats, the international musical hit, practice during a dress rehearsal for the opening on March 23rd. Cats originally opened in London in May, 1981

Tony Nominees of Joe Egg at Luncheon
Jim Dale, Stockard Channing, and Joanna Gleason are the 1985 nominees for a Tony Award honoring their performance in the play Joe's Egg

Curtain Call for "Starlight Express"
A curtain call for the cast of "Starlight Express", a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber about trains in which the performers, in train costumes, are on roller skates

Maude Adams in the Play L'Aiglon
(Original Caption) 1900-American actress Maude Kiskadden Adams (1872-1953), as she appeared in her role in L'Aiglon. She wears a military unifrom and crosses her arms

Wolliam S. Gilbert Playwright
(Original Caption) William S. Gilbert (1936-1911), playwright and collaboator of Sir Arthur Sullivan

Enrico Caruso In Play; Holding Woman
(Original Caption) Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), Italian singer in Forza Del Destino by Verdi. Undated photograph

Sarah Bernhardt Plays Soldier on Stage
(Original Caption) Sarah Bernhardt in "Due Theatre au Champ d'Honneur." She plays the role of a young actor, Marc Bertrand, who is mortally wounded on the western front. Ca. 1919-1923

Tv Taping Of "The Corn Is Green"
(Original Caption) Scene during shooting of NBC-TV's production of Emlyn Williams play, "The Corn is Green." Photograph, late 1950s

Actress &E.A. Sothern In Scene From Play
(Original Caption) Edward Askew Sothern seated with an actress in a scene from the play

James Stewart And Myron Mccormick
(Original Caption) James Stewart and Myron McCormick performing at the Martin Beck Theater. Undated photograph

Children Bathing a Doll
Two German children give a doll a bath in a wooden washtub

Quartet Scene From Verdi's Rigoletto
The quartet scene from Verdi's "Rigoletto" in the London premiere (1853) at Covent Garden

Painting of Romeo and Juliet
An illustration depicting a romantic scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Illustration Of Ancient Theater Masks
(Original Caption) Illustration depicting shelves of theater masks for Terence's "Andria." From a 1736 edition of the play. BPA2 #2956

Scene From Shakespeare'S "Julius Caesar"
(Original Caption) Illustration depicting act four, scene three of the play "Julius Caesar." Engraving 1832. BPA 2 #2170

Scene, Shakespeare'S Taming Of The Shrew
Playwright: William Shakespeare

Empress of Morocco English Play
(Original Caption) 1673- London, England: The first illustrated English Play. Elkanah Settle's "Empress of Morocco, A Tragedy With Sculptures", as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre

J.Dimaggio Talks W/Manager Casey Stengel
(Original Caption) 5/1/1949-New York City: Itching to get back in play, Joe DiMaggio (L) handles a bat as he talks with New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel in the dugout

Arthur Miller sitting in his office in 1949. He won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for the best play for Death of a Salesman which opened to rave reviews on Broadway

William Carlos Williams Reading Play to Two Actors
(Original Caption) Rehearse for World Premiere play. New York: Poet and author Dr

Judy Garland Performing on Stage
(Original Caption) Judy Garland in a theater production. She wears a cardigan and has her hair pulled back. She leans on a cushion, with one hand supporting her face and the other on the cushion

John Knittel Discuses Direction of Play
(Original Caption) 11/10/1950- Kassel, Germany- The Swiss author John Knittel, who gained world fame through his books "Amadeus", "Via Mala" and others

Rex Harrison in Bell, Book and Candle
(Original Caption) 11/17/1950- Picture shows actor, Rex Harrison, in the play, "Bell, Books and Candle."

Actor John Gielgud in The Lady's Not For Burning
(Original Caption) John Gielgud as he appeared in the stage play, The Lady's Not For Burning

Olivia de Havilland in Early TV Broadcast
(Original Caption) 4/3/1951-New York, NY: Actress Olivia De Havilland, who is appearing at present on Broadway in "Romeo and Juliet, " acting in front of the TV camera

Women Prepare For Performance Of Play
(Original Caption) 5/5/1951-New York

Mickey Mantle Sliding Into Shortstop
(Original Caption) 6/12/1951-New York, NY: Looks as if New York Yankees Mickey Mantle is at the hard end of a swift kick by St

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