According to the scant information the Boston Athenaeum has about the Copley Theater, it was built on Dartmouth and Stuart St in 1922, was a gorgeous jewelbox of a place with a staircase donated by regular theatergoer Isabella Stuart Gardner, featured Federal Theatre Project shows in the 30s, and then was a victim of the Mass Pike cutting through that swath of downtown Boston.
Dammit, Pike. I hope there are at least photographs. A staircase donated by Gardner has possibilities.
Presumably Corey and his wife worked with the FTP there, quite possibly along with Joseph Cotten, whom the Athenaeum mentions as working there as well.
They did act with the Federal Theatre Project! Hannsberry mentions it (as did some of his obituaries). She doesn't mention which shows.
The playbills would be neat to see but the Athenaeum lists their collection as "not intact".
What does that even mean? Incomplete? They have half of each playbill? I wish archives were easier to get into these days.
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Dammit, Pike. I hope there are at least photographs. A staircase donated by Gardner has possibilities.
Presumably Corey and his wife worked with the FTP there, quite possibly along with Joseph Cotten, whom the Athenaeum mentions as working there as well.
They did act with the Federal Theatre Project! Hannsberry mentions it (as did some of his obituaries). She doesn't mention which shows.
The playbills would be neat to see but the Athenaeum lists their collection as "not intact".
What does that even mean? Incomplete? They have half of each playbill? I wish archives were easier to get into these days.