Research Catalog

  • The Citizen Kane book: Raising Kane, by Pauline Kael. The shooting script, by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles, and the cutting continuity of the completed film.

    • Text
    • Boston, Little, Brown [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MFLK 72-232Offsite
  • Orson Welles / Nemes Károly.

    • Text
    • Budapest : Gondolat, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MWES (Wells, O.) 80-1577Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • The airborne [sound recording] : symphony.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Columbia, p1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LSRX 2698Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Complete working script of "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare Negro version [Voodoo Macbeth], conceived, arranged [and] staged by Orson Welles : opened on April 14, 1936 at Lafayette Theatre / manuscript assembled by Elsa Ryan, of Federal Theatre.

    • Text
    • [1936]
    • 1936
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript *NCP+ (Shakespeare, W. Macbeth. New York, 1936) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript *ZC-176Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • The Mercury Shakespeare / edited for reading and arranged for staging by Orson Welles, and Roger Hill.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper, 1939.
    • 1939
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text *NCM (Welles) (Shakespeare, W. Mercury Shakespeare)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text *NCP 85-2391 (Shakespeare, W. Merchant of Venice. New York, 1939) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Command performance [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • 1942-1951
  • Mail call, radio program [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • 1940-1949
  • Dorothy Schiff papers, 1904-1989, bulk (1950s-1970s)

    • Mixed material
    • 1904-1989
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/6c7f1f50-02e9-013c-795c-0242ac110004
  • Theatre of the imagination [sound recording] : [radio stories by Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre].

    • Audio
    • Santa Monica, Calif. : Voyager Company, c1988.
    • 1988-1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LTCO 113 (F) Program notes on fileOffsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • World War Two [sound recording] : [the original cast]

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : History in Sound, [196-?]
    • 1960-1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 6689Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Highlights of the Russian Dance Festival [electronic resource] / a United Euram production ; produced and directed by Mike Garguilo ; artistic direction by Igor Moiseyev.

    • Moving image
    • U.S. : WNBC-TV, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e6d6a070-ef9b-0133-fded-60f81dd2b63c
  • Orson Welles / dargestellt von Eckhard Weise.

    • Text
    • Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MWES (Welles, O.) 96-16543Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Everybody's Shakespeare; three plays edited for reading and arranged for staging by Roger Hill and Orson Welles.

    • Text
    • Woodstock, Ill., The Todd press [c1934]
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text *NCM (Hill) (Shakespeare, W. Everybody's Shakespeare)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Arts & Entertainment revue [videorecording] / produced by King World in association with the Arts & Entertainment Network ; directed by Mark Gentile ; senior producer, Susan Lester ; broadcast producer, Lisa Zeff.

    • Moving image
    • U.S. : Arts & Entertainment Network, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIA 4-3088Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Handbook for teachers / by Roger Hill, Orson Welles.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper, c1939.
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text NCO p.v. 863Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Native son, by Paul Green & Richard Wright.

    • Text
    • New York, 1941.
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOF+ (Green, P. Native son)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Native son. (The biography of a young American). A play in three acts by Paul Green and Richard Wright, from the novel by Richard Wright. A Mercury production by Orson Welles, presented on March 24, 1941, St. James Theatre.

    • Text
    • [New York, 1941]
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOF+ (Green, P. Native son. The biography of a young American)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Orson Welles' "War of the worlds" [sound recording] : radio play / by Howard Koch.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Evolution Records, [1969?]
    • 1969-1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LSRX 6028 (C)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Complete working script, The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe. (First produced in 1589). Revised by Federal Theatre, 1937. Manuscript assembled by Elsa Ryan ...

    • Text
    • [1937]
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOF+ p.v. 22Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Complete working script of "Horse eats hat" / by Edwin Denby and Orson Welles.

    • Text
    • [New York] : Federal Theatre, 1936.
    • 1936
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text NCOF+ p.v. 23Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Julius Caesar.

    • Text
    • [New York, 1937]
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript *NCP+ (Shakespeare, W. Julius Caesar. New York, 1937)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • "The green goddess" ...

    • Text
    • [New York] 1939.
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Archer, W. Green goddess)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • A Christmas carol, by Charles Dickens. December 23, 1938.

    • Text
    • [New York, 1938]
    • 1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Dickens, C. Christmas carol)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • I lost my girlish laughter: typescript.

    • Text
    • [New York, 1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Lardner, S. S. I lost my girlish laughter)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Call it a day ...

    • Text
    • [New York, 1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Smith, D.G. Call it a day)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Counsellor at law, by Elmer Rice. January 6, 1939. Guest: Aline Macmahon, Mrs. Gertrude Berg, Samuel S. Leibowitz.

    • Text
    • [New York, 1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Rice, E.L. Counsellor at law.)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Burlesque ...

    • Text
    • [New York, 1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Watters, G. M. Burlesque)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Five kings [microform] : incidental music / [Aaron Copland].

    • Notated music
    • [1939].
    • 1939
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Microform *ZB-3615Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Microform JPB 83-160Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Merchant of Venice [sound recording] ; Macbeth / William Shakespeare ; Orson Welles.

    • Audio
    • E. Sussex, England : Pearl : Pavilion ; p1998.
    • 1998-1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LDC 21522 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Citizen Kane [sound recording] : original 1941 motion picture score / [composed by] Bernard Herrmann.

    • Audio
    • [Australia] : Bourne Co., p1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 24348 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • [Call it a day.]

    • Text
    • [1939?]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Smith, D.G. Call it a day)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Counsellor at law / Rice, Elmer L.

    • Text
    • [1938]
    • 1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOH+ (Rice. Counsellor at law.)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Orson Welles : interviews / edited by Mark W. Estrin.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MWES (Welles, O.) 02-4365Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • [Folk dancing on television] [videorecording]

    • Moving image
    • 1976-1978.
    • 1976-1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-7312Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Twelfth night, edited for reading and arranged for staging by Orson Welles and Roger Hill.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper, [c1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *NDB 04-1328Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • A King's story [sound recording] : original motion picture soundtrack.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : DRG Records, [1980]
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 20061 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Trick [sound recording] : treat.

    • Audio
    • Houston, Tex. : Exxon Chemicals, p1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LZR 25948 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Original soundtrack from Jack LeVien's production of The finest hours [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Chicago] : Mercury, [1964]
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 33860 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Night of 100 stars [videorecording] / a Bentwood Television production ; directed by Clark Jones ; written and produced by Hildy Parks.

    • Moving image
    • U.S. : ABC-TV, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIA 4-8047Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIA 4-8047Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Sophie Tucker private recordings collection [sound recording], 1925-1953.

    • Mixed material
    • 1925-1953
  • Calling all stars. Volume #1 [sound recording] : (previously unreleased performances)

    • Audio
    • [United States] : Star-Tone Records, [197-]
    • 197
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 44257 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Welles raises Kane [sound recording] ; The Devil and Daniel Webster / Herrmann.

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Virtuoso Series ; London : Distributed by Pye Records, c1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 47721 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Song of myself [sound recording] : from Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman.

    • Audio
    • London, England : BBC ; New York : Distributed by Westminster, [1970]
    • 1970-1953
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LZR 48864 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Shakespeare in Hollywood [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Ariel, [195-]
    • 195
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LRX 7725 [Disc 2]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LRX 7725 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LRX 7725 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Round a common center [sound recording] / Lukas Foss. Intermezzi for piano quartet / Yehudi Wyner. Quartet for piano and strings (1950) / Aaron Copland.

    • Audio
    • Minneapolis, MN : Pro Arte, p1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 13038 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • War of the worlds [sound recording] : an educational aid for drama students.

    • Audio
    • [New York?] : Audio Rarities, [195-?]
    • 1950-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LZR 52851 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • The small one [sound recording] / Charles Tazewell. The happy prince / adapted and directed by Orson Wells.

    • Audio
    • New York : Decca, [1949]
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LZO 3531 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • A Lincoln treasury [sound recording] : Abraham Lincoln in poetry and prose.

    • Audio
    • New York : Decca, [1959]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Spoken word recording *LZR 58786 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • A critical edition of two modern plays on the dramatic character of Sir John Falstaff : Chimes at midnight, by Orson Welles, and The knight of the moon, or Sir John Falstaff, by Fernand Crommelynck / edited, introduced, and translated by Bert Cardullo.

    • Text
    • Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0706/2006101175.html
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 07-4499Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Around the world: typescript.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text RM 839 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

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