Tom Rea was a theatre professor at the University of Kansas and participated in community theatre programs throughout the state. This collection contains material reflecting those activities, including conference and meeting minutes and notes, local theatre floor plans and seating arrangements, clippings, programs, issues of The Community Call Board, photographs, and correspondence about community theatre.

The University Theatre at the University of Kansas is an educational theatre dedicated to producing quality productions while nurturing student actors, directors, and designers. This collection of records includes artificial records, maintenance and accounting records, scrapbooks, correspondence, and personnel records.