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Contains newspaper cuttings about Madame Adelina Patti who lived at Craig-y-Nos Castle in the Swansea Valley. In 1924 the castle was turned into a hospital. The Adelina Patti Theatre at Craig-y-Nos was used for the first time as a public opera house in 1963 by the Neath opera group.

Scrapbooks and a folder containing newspaper cuttings about American theatres, plays and playwrights.

Contains newspaper cuttings about theatres in America and about plays, playwrights and others connected with the theatre. There are articles about the following: Productions and successes on Broadway, Federal Theatres, the New York Theatre Guild, first nights, Lee Shubert (Theatre tycoon), Eugene O'Neill, Walt Disney's 'Pinoccio', Burl Ives, Langner who founded the New York Theatre Guild, and other playwrights such as Behrman, Edna Ferber and Chayefsky.

Contains newspaper cuttings about American theatres in general, mentioning the New York Theatre Guild, Broadway, Mexican theatre and America's influence on the English theatre, and about American plays and playwrights. There are articles about Noel Coward, George S. Kaufman, Sidney Kingsley, Erskine Caldwell's 'Tobacco Road' and several articles about Eugene O'Neill and his plays.

Contains newspaper cuttings about the American theatre in general and about various plays and playwrights. There are articles about the following: the plays of Henry James, Tennessee Williams and his play 'Street-car Named Desire', Arthur Miller and his plays, Paul Robeson in 'The Emperor', Erskine Caldwell's 'Tobbacco Road', Eugene O'Neill, successful musicals, scenic design, the Broadway stage, Porgy and Bess, a theatre at Yale, the Cuban missile crisis.

Contains newspaper cuttings of articles by D. R. Davies in his role as drama critic of several newspapers and poems written by him; press articles on Twm o'r Nant (1928), National Drama and the prospect of a Welsh National Theatre (1929), the Little Theatre Movement in Wales and university and drama in Wales (1937), Drama Festivals and schedules, 1945-49, at which D. R. Davies was adjudicator, letters from the BBC relating to radio broadcasts (1935, 1938) and newspaper cuttings on Amateur Dramatics in the valleys.

Scrapbooks containing articles written by D. R. Davies and others to various newspapers on Welsh drama, playwrights , the Eisteddfod, etc.,.

Scrapbooks containing articles by D. R. Davies under the pseudonym Twm o'r Nant to the Western Mail on a broad range of subjects relating to drama, the theatre, plays, playwrights, etc., in Wales.

Contains weekly articles by D. R. Davies under the pseudonym Gwyliwr on drama competitions, all Welsh drama, a Welsh National Theatre, new plays, steps to save the Grand Theatre, Swansea, The Welsh National Theatre Co., J. O. Francis, Emlyn Williams, Lord Howard de Walden, Prof. W. J. Gruffydd, Dan Mathews, Sarah Siddons.

Contains articles by D. R. Davies under the pseudonym Y Cymro on the financial difficulties of drama companies, Kitchener Davies' play 'Cwmglo', drama in schools, the Urdd festival, the Daniel Owen centenary, the Sarah Siddons Festival, raising funds for unemployed miners, a plea for standard Welsh, a Nationalist scene at the Gorsedd (1937), a performance of Macbeth in Welsh.

Contains articles contributed by D.R. Davies to Y Cymro under the pseudonym Y Sedd Flaen in Welsh on the university and drama, drama schools, effects of TV on drama, drama in various districts of Wales, drama and the National Eisteddfod, J. O. Francis, the scarcity of Welsh plays etc.

Contains reviews of the following Welsh plays: 'Iawn a Orfydd' by Pwca, J. Ellis Williams' plays, 'Yr Ymhonwyr' (translation of Ibsen's 'Pretenders'), 'Y Gennad', by R. Howells. There are also articles on drama for children, the Union of Welsh drama, Beriah Evans, J. O. Francis, and G. B. Shaw.

Contains articles contributed to the Daily Express by J. Eddie Parry under the pseudonym Owen Williams on the drama competition at Fishguard National Eisteddfod, on Dr Stefan Hock's play 'The World is a Stage', on the Neath Little Theatre, on R. G. Berry, The Rev. O. R. Owen and Jack Jones, and on a performance of 'The Desert Song' at Aberamman.

Contains articles on pantomime and drama at Swansea, on Raymond Edwards, principal of the Cardiff College of Music and Drama, on a Welsh National Theatre, on civic theatres in Wales, on the death of Countess Barcynska (Mrs Caradog Evans), on the crown of the National Eisteddfod being offered for drama, and on the first full-time Welsh language theatre company.

Contains articles on listeners' opinions, on the need for a school for radio acting, on individual plays, such as 'The Playboy of the Western World', 'King Arthur', 'Goodbye Mr Chips', 'Hay Fever' and 'The Fall of the City', and on radio broadcasting in general.

Contains articles on the origin and history of the National Eisteddfod, on the 'Gorsedd' ceremony, on the chair and Crown competitions and on the Ebbw Vale Eisteddfod itself.

Contains articles on the ballet including the following: ballet in various countries (especially Russia), tours by British ballet companies, Nijinsky, Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Sadlers Wells, Covent Garden, new ballets.Three copies of ballet magazines are included. They are Ballet Today, July 1946, and Ballet and Opera, June and July 1949.

Scrapbooks containing articles about Beriah Gwynfe Evans and a play by him.