Papers, ca. 1890–1945, 100+ boxes. Lecturer, New School of Social Research, 1921–32, and leading American expert on Soviet theatre. The bulk of the material relates to Russian/ Soviet theatre, drama, opera, and film (1895–1945), Includes hundreds of still photographs of major productions by V. Meyerhold, A. Tairov, and others; rare theatre posters; programs, pamphlets, and reviews—mostly collected on his trips to the Soviet Union, 1927–35; manuscript lecture notes and drafts of articles; correspondence with M. Gorkii, N. Evreinov, Alexandra Tolstoi, Upton Sinclair (concerning Que Viva Mexico!), and others; plays in script form, unpublished; clippings from a great variety of sources; and Dana's notebooks. Information on the Moscow Art Theatre, Kamerny Theatre, V. Mayakovsky, N. Pogodin, V. Katayev, V. Meyerhold, A. Afinogenov, Jewish theatre, ballet, the Moscow Children's Theatre, Moscow theatre festivals, opera, the Bolshoi Theatre, the films of Sergei Eisenstein, and productions of works by A. Chekhov, M. Gorkii, I. S. Turgenev, and N. Gogol. Much of the material was used in the compilation of Dana's Handbook on Soviet Drama, 1938. He also wrote Drama in Wartime Russia, 1943, and edited Seven Soviet Plays, 1945. Dana knew K. Stanislavsky, A. Lunacharsky, Eisenstein, Mayakovsky, and Meyerhold. He was a member of the American Russian Institute and of the American League for Peace and Democracy. Restricted while cataloguing is in process. Unpublished finding aids.
Nikolai Grigorevich Sergeev (1876-1951)
Collection, 1892–1913, ca. 270 items. Ballet master at the Mariinsky Theatre and ballet producer. Materials on Russian ballet and ballet music, programs of the Mariinsky Theatre, production drawings by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, synopses by Sergeev, and dance notations by Vladimir Stepanov (1826–76). Roland John Wiley, "Dances from Russia: An Introduction to the Sergejev Collection," Harvard Library Bulletin (January 1976) ; and an unpublished finding aid.
The Russian ballet of Serge Diaghilev, [between 193- and 198-] : the William Beaumont Morris scrapbooks in the Theatre Museum, London (1930)
