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  • Collection: Mayer Theatre History

SCU Theatre Ticket 1941.JPG
This is a photot of a Santa Clara University Theatre ticket for the show Cenodoxus in 1941, which was discovered being used as a bookmark in a volume in the Santa Clara University Archives and Special Collections.

Theatre without a home Newspaper CLipping.jpg
This is a newspaper clipping from the June 20, 1962 Santa Clara Journal, which talks about the end of "The Ship" on the Santa Clara campus, and how the end of their physical place on campus, left the theatre community essentially "homeless," for the…

Aerial View of Santa Clara, ca. 1970.jpg
Black-and-white photograph of an aerial view of Santa Clara, ca. 1970. cn 27068

Aerial view of University of Santa Clara, ca. 1940.jpg
Black-and-white photograph of an aerial view of the University of Santa Clara.

Educational Theatre Diagram.jpg
This is a photograh of a diagram that represents the ideal flow of backstage of educational theatres. The diagram was printed in a book called "Architecture for the Educational Theatre," published in the 1970 as a guide to planning effective…

weird map.jpg
This 1972 map , printed in the student and family bulletin, shows the location of some of the new buildings being planned at the time. This map is particularly interesting because it shows the Mayer Theatre in a proposed location that is far from…

mayer green room.jpg
This is a 2020 photograph of the "green room" in the Mayer Theatre -- a place for students, faculty, and performers to spend time and build community.

Mayer theatre lib stairs.jpg
This is a 2020 photograph of the hallway behind the Fess Parker Studio Theatre in Mayer, including the large set of steep stairs and the cold walls that characterize the theatre today.

Mayer theatre lib stairs.jpg
This is a 2020 photograph of the hallway behind the Fess Parker Studio Theatre in Mayer, including the large set of steep stairs and the cold walls that characterize the theatre today.

This is a survey created in February, 2020, in order to gather the most current possible data on the reception of SCU's Mayer Theatre by the on campus community.
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