The earliest posters from the Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance in the Special Collections Research Center are from the 1920s and continue to the present. All posters on display are from the 1960s through 1980s. In 1702, a group of students from the College of William and Mary presented a Latin "pastoral colloquy" for the Royal Governor, the first recorded instance of a theatrical performance in the United States. The early roots of theatre in the colonies include later touched Williamsburg where the first theatre in America was constructed in 1716, and in 1736 William and Mary students presented America's first known college production of a play, Addison's Cato. Images of the posters are available from the SCRC's Flickr page.

All material is from the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library. Curator: Amy Schindler, University Archivist; Exhibit design and installation: Chandi Singer, Burger Archives Assistant.