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Shepard Traube

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Director 1907–1983

Shepard Traube (1907–1983) was a theatrical producer and director who is best known for his Broadway production of Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street (Gas Light), for which he won the 1941 New York Drama Critics' Circle award for best director. The play ran for 1,295 performances, one of the longest-running nonmusical productions on record, and was adapted into George Cukor's Oscar-winning 1944 film Gaslight, from which the term "gaslighting" is derived.

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The Girl in the Pink Tights

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In the literature5 passages

  • Direction : Shepard Traube; Producers : Shepard Traube in association with Anthony B. Farrell; Choreography : Agnes de Mille; Scenery and Lighting : Eldon Elder; Costumes : Miles White; Musical Direction : Sylvan Levinebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • KEEP OFF THE GRASS By Ronald Alexander; Director, Shepard Traube: Scenery, Peter Harvey; Costumes, Zoe Brown; Presented by Shepard Traube and Edwin S. Lowe; Opened Monday, Apr. 3, 19/2 at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore, and closed at the Hanna in Cleveland on Apr. 22, 1972.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
  • CHARLEY'S AUNT directed by James Burrows, with Louis Nye ANGEL STREET directed by Shepard Traube, with Margaret Phillips, Joseph Campanellatheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
  • BELASCO THEATRE Opened Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1973.* Shepard Traube and Buff Cobb present:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • CHILDREN OF THE WIND By Jerry Devine; Director, Shepard Traube; Leo Kerz; Costumes, Sara Brook; Production by The Lucky Company.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

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