Theater holdings in SC&A's American Theater Collection include the following:

• American Theater Association Records - Official records of the American Theater Association such as meeting minutes, correspondence, and general administrative papers, 1972-1986.

• The Arena Stage Collection. The Arena Stage Collection contains materials which span the theater's 50 year history including production notebooks, photographs, playbills, scrapbooks, and handwritten correspondence. Currently, the collection includes 440 linear feet of material.
  
  Below are links to series within the Arena Stage Collection.

  Arena Stage Production Correspondence	Actor Biographical Information and Photographs
  Arena Stage Audiovisual	Arena Stage Dramaturgical Files
  Arena Stage Financial Documents	Arena Stage Stage Managers Reports
  Arena Stage Production Books	Arena Stage Artistic Personnel Files
  Arena Stage Printed Materials	Arena Stage Photographs
  Arena Stage Production Contracts	Arena Stage Production Photobooks
  Arena Stage Theatre Communications Groups Files	Arena Stage Scrapbooks
  Frank Mack Papers	Ken Kitch Papers
  J. Burke Knapp Papers	Zelda Fichandler Papers
  Living Stage Theatre Company Records	Thomas C. Fichandler Papers
  Arena Stage Historical Documents	Arena Stage Records Acc. 2008-18, 1996-2007

  
  
• Jean Louis Barrault Photograph Collection Barrault, born in France in 1910, was an esteemed and innovative fixture in French theatre and film for five decades from the 1930s to 1980s. He trained as a mime and an actor, and later directed both screen and stage productions. With Madeleine Renaud, his wife, he founded a theatrical company in Paris in 1947, after acting and directing with the Comédie Française. Barrault later directed the Théâtre d'Orsay and the Théâtre des Nations. Digital Collection
  
  
• John C. Becher Soldier Show Collection. Playscripts from the Special Services Division of the U.S. Army used in productions for servicemen and women during World War II. Also, several scripts for non-military productions are included. Contains nine linear feet of materials.
  
  
• Robert S. Breen Papers Documents recording the foundation and day-to-day operation of the Arerican National Theater and Academy (ANTA) and the work of its former Executive Secretary, Robert Breen. The collection consists of materials such as correspondence, memoranda, ANTA publications, playscripts and other theater-related items, scrapbooks and newsclippings. Contains over sixty linear feet of material.
  
  
• Federal Theatre Project Collection/Theater of the Thirties. A collection of Federal Theater Project (FTP) materials, oral history interviews, and research aids. Sources of donated materials include persons formerly employed in the FTP, various theater historians, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Library of Congress. Types of materials include administrative records, billboard sheets, music, photograph prints and negatives, playbills, radio scripts and videotaped lectures. Contains over 130 linear feet of materials.
  
  Below are links to series within the Federal Theatre Project Collection.
  
  

  Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection

  Federal Theatre Project Photograph Collection

  
  
• Cynthia Garn Film Production Collection. Original film scripts, including "Colossus" by James Bridges and "Freud" by John Huston and Wolfgang Reinhardt. It also contains scrapbooks representing artistic design research compiled by Hecht-Hill-Lancaster for Universal Studios' 1957 production of George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil"s Disciple." 3 linear ft. of material.
  
  
• Arthur Peterson Papers. Books, published plays, and journals relating to American theater donated by Arthur Peterson, former FTP (Chicago) employee who later appeared in several television programs, most notably in "Soap." The Collection includes scripts for these programs. It contains over twenty-one linear feet of materials.
  
  
• Robert C. Schnitzer Papers. Included in the Robert C. Schnitzer Collection are textual materials, photographs of the ANTA theater troupe in Europe from 1951-1955, posters for ANTA overseas productions, newspaper clippings, working papers, and other materials regarding Schnitzer's work with the University of Michigan Professional Theater Program.
  
  
• Theatre Recordings Collection - Contains 14 LP record albums of originial cast recordings. Some albums include pamphlets with descriptions of the plays as well as the text from the scripts. Many were created by the Theatre Recording Society and Columbia Records.
  
  
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Oral Histories Collection - This compilation contains oral interviews with persons who were associated in the 1930s with various Works Progress Administration WPA) projects. These include the Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and Federal Writers Project.