Theatre Associates was an organization that staged a production of James Joyce’s play, "Exiles," at The New School Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street on May 6, 1933. The details of this production have been established through the donation of a hand-made poster for the production received by The New School Archives in 2021. Derek Fox, art director for U.S. News and World Report from 1940 to 1973, produced the show, according to his obituary. Fox was a member of George Pierce Baker’s 47 Workshop as a graduate student in drama at Yale University, after receiving a bachelor’s degree in journalism from University of Michigan in 1931.

The "Exiles" poster was donated to The New School by the daughter of Elwood Williams III, who was a stagehand in the production. Williams joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1940 and served in the Atlantic and Pacific as a naval officer during World War II. He graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Affairs in 1948 and served in the Bureau of German Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where he became a decorated expert in German-American relations. He retired in 1974. James Joyce’s only existing play, "Exiles", was written in 1914 and published in 1918. Its first American production was at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City in 1925, and it was again revived Off-Broadway at the Renata Theater in New York in 1957.

Bibliography

Clark, Earl John. “James Joyce's Exiles.” James Joyce Quarterly 6, No. 1 (Fall 1968): 69-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25486739.

“Derek Fox, 70, Ex-Art Director of U.S. News & World Report.”. Washington Post, March 15, 1979. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/03/15/derek-fox-70-ex-art-director-of-us-news-38/ffbd632d-2c61-47e7-99ef-e18e13502b93/.

“Elwood Williams III, Retired Official at State.” Washington Post, July 2, 1982. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/07/02/elwood-williams-iii-retired-official-at-state/289f5a5a-369b-49d2-8ea0-ba0d33d467d2/.

MacNicholas, John. “The Stage History of Exiles.” James Joyce Quarterly 19, No. 1 (Fall 1981): 9-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25476401.