Plays and Players (Philadelphia Theater Company)
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Product Details
CompanyPlays and Players
Certificate Type
Five Percent Mortgage Bond
Date Issued
June 11, 1923
Canceled
No
Printer
Not indicated
Signatures
Machine printed
Approximate Size
11" (w) by 8" (h)
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Guaranteed Authentic
Yes
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Historical Context
Plays & Players began in 1911 as a social club devoted to expanding and developing new theater experiences for and by its membership. The first President, Maud Durbin Skinner, was the wife of the famed American actor Otis Skinner. The Plays & Players Theatre, then called the "Little Theatre of Philadelphia," first opened its doors in 1913.
The theater was founded by Beulah E. Jay and her husband Edward G. Jay, Jr. with acquaintance F.H. Shelton in an effort to produce "American plays of ideas," an underrepresented genre at the time. During its 100 years of performing, Plays & Players theater company has produced innumerable notable performances—some of the most noteworthy being the world premiere of the acclaimed Broadway play Stalag 17 in 1949, and a childhood performance by actor Kevin Bacon in Member of the Wedding in 1974.
The first season of Plays & Players included An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Learned Ladies by Molière, both still popular plays today.
On March 14, 1973, Plays & Players Theatre was entered in the National Register of Historic Places. The theater building was designed and constructed in 1912 by Philadelphia architect Amos W. Barnes as a dramatic school, but soon was used as a theater for Broadway try-outs, known as the Playhouse. The theater company Plays and Players bought the building in 1922 and has performed there ever since. Murals were added in 1923 by the American artist Edith Emerson.
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