Guide to the Stage for Action, 1945-1948

  • IdentificationMS99
  • Title
    • Guide to the Stage for Action
    • Stage for Action
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Date1945-1948
  • OriginationStage for Action (Theater company)
  • Physical Description1.00
  • RepositoryCharles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections Deering Library, Level 3 1970 Campus Drive Evanston, IL, URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec Email: special.collections@northwestern.edu Phone: 847-491-3635
  • AbstractThis collection of scripts, playbills and brochure produced by Stage for Action, Inc. includes material from theatre seasons between 1945 and 1948. Playwrights represented include Robert Adler, George Bellak, Lewis Allan, Jerome Bayer, Norman Corwin, Arthur Miller, Les Pine, and Malvin Wald.

Stage for Action was a post World War II theater group organized by young writers, actors and directors who envisioned a new society blessed with social justice and full expression of the aspirations of the "common man." It was the descendant of the Group Theater, active in the East in the late 1930s, and the Federal Theater. Stage for Action performed in union halls for labor audiences, churches, community centers and theaters in the late 1940s. Bunny Kacher, who donated this collection of scripts and who wrote the above brief history, was one of the actresses with the group. Studs Terkel and Arthur Miller were also associated with the company.

  • NamesStage for Action (Theater company)
  • Subject
    • American drama--20th century
    • Theatrical companies--United States

The programs and scripts in this collection were donated to the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections in 1990 by Bunny Kacher.

Sigrid Pohl Perry, March 1997

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This collection of scripts, playbills and brochure produced by Stage for Action, Inc. includes material from theatre seasons between 1945 and 1948. Playwrights represented include Robert Adler, George Bellak, Lewis Allan, Jerome Bayer, Norman Corwin, Arthur Miller, Les Pine, and Malvin Wald.