The records of the Attic Theatre are quite fragmentary, and best illustrate the administrative, financial and business aspects of the theater. Records of the Board of Governors and membership meetings consist of an incomplete run of minutes and agenda, with scattered correspondence. Committee records are even more sparse, including a few reports and minutes. A more complete file exists of constitutions, revised drafts, and amendments. There is a small file of general correspondence and folders of letters from the presidencies and directorships of Zoe Cloak, Boyd L. Payne, and William M. Schutte. Most of the letters are fairly routine in nature and concern arrangements for facilities at Lawrence College, finances, and production matters. In the financial records, the files of box office and ticket sales records are most numerous, and like the ledgers and associated financial records, span the history of the theater to 1968. There are also folders of miscellaneous bills and invoices, mainly production related; insurance, taxes, and contracts; royalty payments to publishers; and financial statements. Routine financial records and most tax returns and records were separated from the papers and returned to the president of the Attic Theatre.
Only a very few newsletters are found in the collection. Records of plays presented each season are located in the fragmentary files of production records. Materials from the mid-1960's on are the most comprehensive, including some layouts, sketches, and property plots for staging the plays, playbills, publicity and advertisements and other materials. The Theatre's public relations efforts are also illustrated through small files of correspondence and papers of the Public Relations Council and of the publicity director.
