Squaring the Circle Collection.

Collection Number: D-143

Correspondence, photographs, and ephemera relating to the play's 1935U.S. production. Also included are several images of the cast that performed at the Moscow Art Theatre. Squaring the Circle, a play written by Russian dramatist Valentin Katayev, was first produced at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1928. TheUnited States production, translated by Charles Malamuth and Eugene Lyons, premiered at the Pasadena Community Playhouse in August 1935 and was later performed at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia and at the Lyceum and Adelphi Theatres in New York City.

Finding Aid

Finding Aid on the Online Archive of California

Inclusive Dates

1935-1691.

Extent

0.4 linear feet

Subject

Performing Arts

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