Performance programs and tickets from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provide a sampling of a variety of arts and entertainment events. Also included is a historic preservation study of the Westport Country Playhouse, a piece in a 1917 Cheshire Reformatory periodical that includes a description of a vaudeville entertainment provided by the boys, and a letter from actor and playwright William Gillette. To find more resources about the arts and entertainment in Connecticut, use the topic headings and other keywords within records to extend your searches--terms such as “impressionism,” “concert*,” “hip hop,” (enclosing phrases in quotes, and using an * to allow for singular, plural or other forms), and the names of individuals or organizations. Exploring the collections or items to which individual items belong or of which they are a part can be another way to find more items of interest.
