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V&A Theatre and Performance Collections
The V&A Department of Theatre and Performance holds the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and other forms of live entertainment. Between 1987 and 2007 some of this material was housed at the former Theatre Museum in Covent Garden as one of the V&A's branch museums, but this has since moved back into the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The V&A Department of Theatre and Performance continues to expand its extensive archival holdings documenting UK theatre and live performance. Good relationships within the performance sector ensure, that the national performance heritage is captured, preserved and made available, now and in the future.
All archival collections are available for access and research at the V&A Reading Room at Blythe House, near Kensington Olympia, London.
Web: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/
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- Alfred Fagon, playwright, actor and poet: papers
- Alice Delysia Archive
- Allan Aynesworth Collection
- Archive of Sandra Wells, Ventriloquist and Pantomime Artist
- Arts Theatre and Unicorn Theatre Archive
- Benesh Dance Notation Collection
- Bernard Partridge Drawings Collection
- Bertie Crewe, architect: architectural drawings of theatres
- Black Mime Theatre Company Records
- Brian Rix Archive
- C.D. Power, architect: drawings
- Carlotta Addison scrapbooks
- Cheek by Jowl, theatre company: records
- Christopher Fry, playwright: papers
- Clemence Dane, playwright and novelist: papers
- Cliff Richard Scrapbooks
- Collection of Andrew Phillips Photographs
- Collection of H.M. Tennent Correspondence relating to the 1954 Parliamentary Debate
- Collection of material relating to French prisoners' theatricals at Portchester Castle 1810s
- Collection of New Scala Theatre Photographs
- Contemporary Dance Trust Archive
- David Cassidy Collection
- David Gahr Collection of Photographs
- Doreen Langton-Jones Scrapbooks
- Douglas H. Jeffery Archive
- Drury Lane Design Collection
- Drury Lane Theatre Archive - New Renter's Trustees
- Drury Lane Theatre Treasury Sheets
- Ekstrom Collection: Diaghilev and Stravinsky Foundation
- Elsie Griffin and Ivan Menzies, opera singers and actors: papers
- Emile Littler Archive
- Emlyn Williams Correspondence
- English Stage Company/Royal Court Theatre Archive
- Esme Wynne and Noel Coward Collection
- Ethel and Murray Carrington Scrapbooks
- Francis Lister Collection
- Frank Matcham and Company, theatre architects: records
- George Speaight Archive
- Harry Relph (Little Tich) volumes
- Horace and Edna Mashford, performers: papers
- Jack Cole Scrapbook Collection
- John Stone Collection
- Larry Grayson Collection
- Larry Turnbull Circus Scrapbooks and Audio Recordings
- London Pavilion Ltd / Theatres Consolidated, theatre management companies: records
- Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Box Office Returns
- Maudie Edwards Archive
- Michael Codron Ltd.: Financial Papers
- Millie Howes, actress, and "The Devil Bird", theatre sketch: papers
- Nora Nicholson Archive
- Oliver Messel Collection
- Owen Hale Collection
- Paines Plough Theatre Company Archive
- Papers of ACTC Theatrical and Cinematic, agents of Christopher Fry
- Peter Noble Collection
- Peter Streuli
- Records of Talawa Theatre Company
- Rita Bernard Archive
- Ronnie Barker Collection
- Round House and Open Space, theatre companies : records
- Shared Experience Theatre Company Archive
- Sir Ian McKellen, actor: papers
- Sir Michael Redgrave Archive
- Sphinx Theatre Company (formerly The Women's Theatre Group) Archive
- Temba, theatre company and the Black Theatre Collection: records
- The Ellen Terry Collection
- Tom Heslewood Collection
- Tom Kirby Walls and Tom Kenneth Walls Collection
- Trixie Scales Archive
- Unity Theatre, theatre company: records
- Winifred Dolan Collection
