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About Dr. Eric Colleary

Colleary oversees research, access, and interpretation of the Ransom Center’s theater and performing arts materials.

Houdini: Illusionist and collector

September 22, 2016 - Eric Colleary

Unidentified photographer, [Harry Houdini in chains and ball weights with police], ca. 1900. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 9.5 cm.

This Halloween marks the ninetieth anniversary of the death of the great illusionist Harry Houdini. Born Ehrich Weisz in Budapest in 1874, he got his start as a trapeze artist before turning his attention to magic. [Read more…] about Houdini: Illusionist and collector

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Budapest, conjuring, digitized collections, Discoverie of Witchcraft, Ehrich Weisz, Harry Houdini, Harry Houdini collection, Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Library, hypnotism, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Magic, magician, McManus-Young collection, Mystery!, playbills, posters, Ransom Edition, Reginald Scot, scrapbooks, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sleight of hand and stage magic, Spiritualism, witchcraft

New digital collection of The Black Crook musical released

September 8, 2016 - Eric Colleary

Cover of sheet music for "The Black Crook Waltzes,” 1867.

The Harry Ransom Center is proud to announce that our collection of materials relating to the 1866 megamusical The Black Crook has been fully digitized in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the production. The collection is now publicly available through our online Digital Collections gallery. [Read more…] about New digital collection of The Black Crook musical released

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Abrons Art Center, Art, Broadway, culture, dance, Edwin Forrest, Eric Colleary, performing art, stage, The Black Crook, theater, theatre, William Charles Macready

Celebrating the reissue of Adrienne Kennedy’s memoir

March 25, 2016 - Eric Colleary

Adrienne Kennedy and her son Adam Patrice Kennedy, 1970. Photograph by Jack Robinson, the Jack Robinson Archive, LLC; www.robinsonarchive.com

The Harry Ransom Center celebrates the reissue of Adrienne Kennedy’s groundbreaking memoir People Who Led to My Plays from Theatre Communications Group. First published in 1987 as a response to the frequently asked question of what inspirations have influenced her work, Kennedy recorded brief, fragmentary memories covering 1936–1961. A deeply influential and radically innovative kind of memoir, novelist Ishmael Reed called these glimpses into her life “a new form of black autobiography.” [Read more…] about Celebrating the reissue of Adrienne Kennedy’s memoir

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Adrienne Kennedy, African-American, American, Funnyhouse of a Negro, OBIE award, People Who Led to My Plays, playwright, theater, theatre

Arrival of Dame Edith Evans papers

December 1, 2015 - Eric Colleary

Dame Edith Evans, from the Brian Forbes Collection of Edith Evans at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

The Harry Ransom Center has recently acquired a large collection of papers from the late actress Dame Edith Evans (1888-1976) from the estate of Bryan Forbes, who was Evans’s biographer and directed in her in a number of projects [Read more…] about Arrival of Dame Edith Evans papers

Filed Under: Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Dame Edith Evans, dance, Dance Heritage Coalition, theater

Anne Frank and the archive

October 6, 2015 - Eric Colleary

The Diary of Anne Frank Original Broadway Production, Fred Fehl Theater Photograph Collection

It has been over 60 years since The Diary of Anne Frank was first published in the United States.

[Read more…] about Anne Frank and the archive

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Alfred Knopf, Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, Undergraduate

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