Summary Information

Title: Theodore A. Viehman Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1910-1961

Creator:

• Viehman, Theodore A., 1889-1970

Call Number: U.S. Mss 196AN

Quantity: 5.6 cubic feet (13 archives boxes and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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Abstract:

Papers of Theodore A. Viehman, a director, actor, and drama teacher active in American community theater. Included are Annotated scripts, correspondence, clippings, production notes, programs, and set and costume designs from many productions directed by Viehman. The bulk of the collection pertains to productions staged at the Tulsa Little Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma, which Viehman ran from 1942 to 1961; the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Viehman studied and taught, 1915-1926; the Guild Players of Pittsburgh at Carnegie, founded by Viehman in the 1920s; and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 1942-1943. Other materials illustrate Viehman's work as actor, director, and writer of community pageants during the 1910s and 1920s; work by his mentor, Thomas Wood Stevens, on several community pageants; and Viehman's interests in theater organizations and English folk dancing.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0196an

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