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The Drama Library
holds more than 20,000 volumes, including plays by American,
British and foreign playwrights, books on the history of theatre,
theatre architecture, dramatic criticism, costume and stage
design, stage lighting and production, theatre management, biographies
and related reference books. Periodicals collected range from
scholarly theatre journals to weekly trade papers. In addition
to theatre, there are books on the other performing arts: film,
dance, radio, television, and opera.
Special items in
the collection include files of scene designs from the Crawford
Collection, more than 80,000 theatrical prints and photographs in
the Rockefeller Theatrical Prints Collection, the Doolittle Collection
of Japanese theatre prints and bound copies of master's theses and
doctoral dissertations from the Drama School. The library also has
a substantial archive of Drama School and Repertory Theatre production
material. This includes: scripts, production books, programs, reviews,
photographs, posters and dramaturgical production notebooks.
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Location
222
York Street; Box 208244; New Haven, CT 06520-8244
Hours
(during the academic year-starting Thursday September
6 in 2007)
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Saturday,
1:00-5:00 p.m.; Sunday, Closed
Short hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.;
Saturday and Sunday, Closed) are in effect Wednesday
November 22, Friday December 15 through Wednesday
December 20, Thursday January 4 through Sunday
January 14, Friday March 9 through Sunday March
25.
Short hours are in effect for the summer of 2007
starting Sunday May 13. Extra short hours (Monday-Friday,
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, Closed)
are in effect starting Tuesday May 29. Short
hours resume Monday August 27. Regular hours resume
Thursday September 6.
Short hours are in effect for the summer of 2008
starting Sunday May 11. Extra short hours (Monday-Friday,
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, Closed)
are in effect starting Tuesday May 27. Short
hours resume Monday August 25. Regular hours resume
Thursday September 4.
The
library is closed on the following days in 2007-2008:
Commencement Day / Memorial Day Monday May 28
(2007), Independence Day Wednesday July 4, Labor
Day Monday September 3, Thanksgiving weekend November
22 through 25, semester break December 22 through
January 6, Martin Luther King Day Monday January
21, Good Friday March 21, and Commencement Day
/ Memorial Day Monday May 26(2008).
Telephone
203-432-1554
Fax
203-432-1550
E-mail
drama.library@yale.edu
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