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Triad Stage Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0529

Content Description

The collection includes publicity and marketing materials, newspaper clippings, playbills, photographs, and scale models set designs from Triad Stage's history.

Dates

  • 1999 - 2019

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information. Please see our Sensitive Materials Statement.

Biographical / Historical

Triad Stage is a regional theatre that was co-founded by Preston Lane and Richard Whittington in 1999. In September 1999, Triad Stage purchased downtown Greensboro's Montgomery Ward building, built in 1936 and vacant for almost 40 years. The founders began renovations on the building in 2001, transforming the space into the Pyrle Theater. After the renovations, Triad Stage's building included a 300-seat theatre, rehearsal hall, offices, and lobbies.

The theatre's grand opening occurred in January 2002, with a production of Tennessee Williams's "Suddenly Last Summer." In 2008, Triad Stage completed additional renovations to the Pyrle Theater. Renovations included adding a scene shop annex, the creation of a 90-seat Upstage Cabaret performance space, and the creation of a rehearsal hall and studio for WUNC Radio's Greensboro Bureau.

In 2011, Triad Stage purchased a 30,000 square foot building near the Greensboro Coliseum Complex to serve as the theater's new production facility, relocating its scene, costume and properties shops as well as its warehouse.

Triad Stage has put on over 75 productions over the course of its 18 seasons. The theatre company has received accolades on the national, state, and local levels, including being named "One of the Best Regional Theaters in America" by New York's Drama League, voted the Triad's "Best Live Theater" by the readers of the News & Record's GoTriad seven years in a row and "Professional Theatre of the Year" by the North Carolina Theatre Conference.

Extent

61.5 Linear Feet (10 archival boxes, 1 cello music box, and 30 model boxes.)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The collection includes publicity and marketing materials, newspaper clippings, playbills, photographs, and scale models set designs documenting Triad Stage's history.

Triad Stage is a regional theatre that was co-founded by Preston Lane and Richard Whittington in 1999. In September 1999, Triad Stage purchased downtown Greensboro's Montgomery Ward building, built in 1936 and vacant for almost 40 years. The founders began renovations on the building in 2001, transforming the space into the Pyrle Theater. After the renovations, Triad Stage's building included a 300-seat theatre, rehearsal hall, offices, and lobbies. The theatre's grand opening occurred in January 2002, with a production of Tennessee Williams's "Suddenly Last Summer." Triad Stage has put on over 75 productions over the course of its 18 seasons. The theatre company has received accolades on the national, state, and local levels.

Arrangement

Series are arrnaged alphabetically, with folders arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Triad Stage, June 2021.

Offensive Language Statement

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Processing Information

Processed by Patrick Dollar, November 2021.

Title
Triad Stage Records
Status
Completed
Author
Patrick Dollar
Date
January 2022
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository

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