This guide to archives of the theatre and drama is not intended to be exhaustive. It complements the Archives Catalogue, which includes a subject search facility.
- American theatre and opera scrapbooks, 1875-1892, programmes of plays, concerts and operas performed in the USA, with particular reference to New York and the Metropolitan Opera House.
- Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag papers, c1902-c2008. Includes costume designs, sketches for the theatre.
- Berthold Auerbach papers / Archive of German Theatre, 1881-2002. Auerbach (1874-1960) was a theatre agent. Papers include playbills, memorabilia.
- James Baxter (1926-1972) poet. Letter to John Pocock regarding reviews of plays, The Wide Open Cage, and Jack Winter’s Dream, 1960.
- Cecil Crofton (d 1935) biographical scrapbook with illustrations and small watercolours of theatrical scenes and fellow performers, 1877-1913.
- Florence Farr (1860-1917) actress, mystic, director of the Avenue Theatre in 1894. Includes correspondence, reviews, programmes, c1863-1917.
- Garrick Club playbills for the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1825-1826.
- Grieve Family Collection of Theatre designs including panoramas and perspective ‘cut-outs’ in watercolours and wash, 1813-1857.
- Grieve family correspondence, c1822-1921.
- David Halliwell (1936-2006) dramatist. Correspondence with Alan Denson, c1960s-1980s.
- Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) playwright. Letters, playbills, research papers for biography by Michael Slater.
- Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) dramatist. Papers including correspondence, reviews.
- Robert Lucas (1904-1984) was a writer for Austrian political cabaret in the 1920s and 1930s. His papers include scripts and photographs.
- Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller were exiles from Nazism. Includes correspondence with other notable theatrical figures, theatre programmes.
- Malcolm Morley (1890-1966) actor. Includes play diaries, autobiography.
- Sean O’Casey (1880-1964) playwright. Letters, 1937-1957. Topics include literary critics; the Communist Party; the Catholic Church; his writing.
- Charles Benjamin Purdon (1883-1965), general secretary of Equity. Notebooks on productions of As You like It and Macbeth, 1949-1951.
- Senate House Players, amateur drama at the University of London, c1923-c1999.
- William Smoldon (1872-1974) composer. Papers include manuscripts relating to early church drama.
- William Terriss, actor. Archives relating to his murder in 1897.