Maine Jews in theater from Greater Portland

Backstage

date not known (Portland)
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Jewish Community Center Applying makeup for theater production date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Scenery Crew date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop Putting on makeup for a performance II date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop Putting on makeup for a performance I date not known (Portland)
Scenery crew for Jewish Community Center Workshop Productions date not known (Portland)
JCC Theater costume fitting circa 1950 (Portland)
Theatre Presentation : set construction - Jewish Community Center 1950 (Portland)
Joe Taylor and Van Dernoots backstage 1957 1957 (Portland)

Children's Theater

Children Theatre Presentation about countries of the world date not known (North Windham)

Jewish Community Center Theater

Spring Goes to Their Heads -- B'nai B'rith Models date not known (Portland)
Astor, Packet and One Other Person - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Clayman and Astor - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Counselor at Law - JCC Theater Workshop production date not known (Portland)
Fink, Cox, and Yormack - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Frager, Astor, Small, Fink, and Cox - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Halpert,Waxman, Astor, and Critchley - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Harold Ross and Two Other Actors at the Jewish Community Center date not known (portland)
Jacobson -Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Jacobson, Waxman, and Cutler - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Jacobson, Waxman, and Cutler - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
JCC Theater presentation date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center 1958 Theater Production “The Country Girl” date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Players I date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Players II date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater 2 date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater 4 date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater 4 date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater 8 date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater 9 date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Play “STATE OF THE UNION date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Production “STATE OF THE UNION date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Production “Counselor at Law” Jerry Lewis and Cynthia Frager date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Production “Dark Tower date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop ? Engle and Shirley Levine date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop Jane Glassman and Irving Small date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop Shirley Levine and Marian Taylor date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop Yudy Elowitch and Ruby Packet? date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop Scenery Crew date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop Three People “toasting date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Three people seated on couch date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Two Men in Mirror date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Workshop 5th SEASON date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Workshop Production Cast date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Workshop Production I date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Workshop Production II date not known (Portland)
Lucille Potter Lavin Performing at the Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Packet and Astor - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Packet, Silverman, and Lavin - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Ross and Astor - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Six people holding hands -Jewish Community Center Theater date not known (Portland)
Taylor and Astor - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Taylors, Yormack, and Rubinoff - Jewish Community Center Theater Workshop date not known (Portland)
Theater at JCC date not known (Portland)
Theater performance at the JCC date not known (Portland)
Four actors at the Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Frances Stern / Dot Potter in Threater Presentation - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Irv Small, Freda and Phil Schilling - Theatre Presentation - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Jocelyn Lavin Pollard and Two Male Actors at the Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Performance by Fritzi Cohen - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation I - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation II - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation IX - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XI - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XII - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XIV (Four Men Playing Women) - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XIX- Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XXII - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Gypsy Nights' theater program, Portland 02/18/30 (Portland)
JCC Production circa 1945 circa 1945 (Portland)
5 people on stage at JCC circa 1950 (Portland)
JCC Theater production circa 1950 (Portland)
JCC Theater with Harold Ross and 2 others circa 1950 (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Center Theater Workshop 1950 (Portland)
Jewish Community Center production 1950 (Portland)
State of the Union - JCC Theater production 3 actors circa 1950 (Portland)
Glovsky, Hyman, Levinsky, Modes, Sohn and Three Other Girls in a Theatre Presentation (Hawaiian scene) - Jewish Community Center 1951-1952 (Portland)
Roz Bernstein putting on a costume for a JCC play Jan-51 (Portland)
Roz Bernstein putting on make up for a JCC play Jan-51 (Portland)
JCC cast of The Country Girl circa 1955 circa 1955 (Portland)
Jewish Community Center “Give Me Carnations” 1955 circa (Portland )
Picnic - Center Theater Workshop production 1957 (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Theater 10 1965 (Portland)

Not Yet Classifed

Twiddlers On the Roof - A Feature of Shaarey Tphiloh Donors' Entertainment date not known (Portland)

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Arnold Potter and a woman rehearsing for a JCC play I date not known (Portland)
Putting on a show, Portland, 1930 02/18/30 (Portland)
Putting on a show circa 1970 (Portland)

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Sidney Lerman at the piano date not known (Portland)

Not Yet Classified

On stage with luggage circa 1955 (Portland)

Performer Interviews

Q & A: Linda Lavin on 'The Lyons' 4/22/2013 (Portland)

Playbill

"Star Light Star Bright" Program Cover Portland High School 1950 (Portland)

Plays

Sweet Tooth Lollipop Tree Made by Mrs Jay Ketover date not known (Portland)
Potter and Elowitch - Jewish Community Center Theater Play “STATE OF THE UNION date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation ' Song & Dance" - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Waxman and Potter - Jewish Community Center Theater Play “STATE OF THE UNION date not known (Portland)
"Front & Center" - Theatre Presentation - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
"Wizard of Oz" Theatre presentation - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
"Spark Plugs" Federation Leadership Men's Division 1940 - 1942 (Portland)
Theatre Presentation ' The Night of January 16, 1941" - Jewish Community Center 1/16/1941 (Portland)
"The Hasty Heart" Jewish Community Center Theater May, 1951 (Portland)
Dave Astor and two other actors in JCC play Medea Jan-51
Double Take : Linda Abromson as Dolly Levi in the 'Matchmaker' Nov-87 (Portland)

Press Coverage

They Had a Ball : Blowing Up A Storm , Portland Press Herald date not known (Portland)

Rehearsal

Jewish Community Center Theater Cast rehearsal date not known (Portland)
JCC Theater Dress Rehearsal circa 1950 (Portland)
Rehearsal for JCC play Medea and The Seagull with eight actors Jan-51 (Portland)

Religious Plays

Temple Beth El Purim Play 10 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 11 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 4 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 5 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 6 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 7 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 8 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 9 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 2 date not known (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 1 February 1999 (Portland)
Temple Beth El Purim Play 3 February 1999 (Portland)

Same Scene - Play Name Not Known

Theatre Presentation V - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation VI - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation VII - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation VIII - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation X - Jewish Community Center 1950 (Portland)

Same Scene - Play Name Not Known II

Theatre Presentation XVI - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XVII - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)

School Theater

Portland High School Senior Players, Star Light Star Bright. Press Herald 1950 (Portland)

Stage Design

Jewish Community Center Stage Design 1 date not known (Portland)
Jewish Community Center Stage Design 2 date not known (Portland)

Summer Camp Theater

Boys in Native American costume date not known (Portland)

Theater

Linda Lavin New York Times article 9/26/2016

TV - Dave Astor Show

Dave Astor Show' Regulars, Portland, ca. 1960 c. 1960 (Portland)
“Dave Astor Show” rehearsal, Portland, ca. 1960 c. 1960 (Portland)
Dave Astor Show: For Teenagers Only,' Portland, ca. 1962 c. 1962 (Portland)
Ellen Warren on 'Dave Astor Show,' ca. 1962 c. 1962 (Portland)
Ellen Warren, 'Dave Astor Show,' Portland, ca. 1962 c. 1962 (Portland)
“Dave Astor Show,” Portland, April 1962 April 1962 (Portland)
Dave Astor Cerebral Palsy Show, Portland, 1964 10/01/64 (Portland)
“Dave Astor Show,” Portland, ca. 1964 c. 1964 (Portland)
“The Dave Astor Show” 07/04/11 (Portland)

Yiddish Theater

Yiddish Mock Trial May 16, 1923 (Portland)
'Two Goyim' program, Portland 1948 (Portland)

Youth Theater

The Wizard of Oz - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XIII - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XV - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XVIII - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Theatre Presentation XX - Jewish Community Center date not known (Portland)
Portland Youth on stage 1950 (Portland)

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