Overview
Professional papers of American theater producer, teacher, and dramaturg, Peter Altman.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1933-2007
- Creation: Majority of material found in circa 1966-2007
Creator
- Altman, Peter, 1943- (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Condition Description
Good, with some fragile clippings.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
19 linear feet (16 boxes and 1 folder)The collection, which is chiefly professional material with very little personal material, includes scripts, production files, programs, reviews and clippings, theater study and curriculum guides, research files, correspondence, a few photographs scattered throughout, and one videotape. Production files include correspondence, clippings, reviews, printed ephemera, and documents used in managing a production.
Biographical / Historical
Peter Altman is a theater producer, teacher, dramaturg, and editor. He retired as producing artistic director of the Kansas City Repertory Theatre in 2007, before which he was founder and producing director of the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston (Mass.). His earlier work included positions at Boston University School for the Arts, the Hartman Theatre Company in Boston and Stamford (Conn.), radio station WBUR-FM in Boston as theater critic, and the Minneapolis Star. He earlier taught at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and was literary manager for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Arrangement
Collection is minimally processed.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2020MT-49. Gift of Peter Altman, 2019 October.
Processing Information
Processed by Melanie Wisner, 2019 November.
Creator
- Altman, Peter, 1943- (Person)
Subject
- Huntington Theatre Company (Boston, Mass.) (Organization)
- Kansas City Repertory Theatre (Kansas City, Mo.) (Organization)
- WBUR (Radio station : Boston, Mass.) (Organization)
- Minneapolis star and tribune (Organization)
- Boston University. College of Fine Arts. School of Theatre (Organization)
- Guthrie Theater (Organization)
- Hartman Theatre Company (Organization)
- Title
- Altman, Peter, 1943-. Peter Altman papers, circa 1933-2007 (inclusive), 1966-2007 (bulk).
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2019 November 13
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou03277
Repository Details
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