May 22, 2018, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly “The literary value, if I may say it, of this span of empty space on the page, which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one’s simultaneous view of the entirety of the page…” (Stéphane… read more
May 7, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingScholarship, time machines, and madness by Beth Burns, Hidden Room Theatre Artistic Director John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook for Richard III “Ready trumpet. Boy ready with armor. Take time. More piano. Long flourish continued till discovery, next Sc. – and do not W Till Mr Booth is on stage.”
April 16, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsVaudeville Film Series runs throughout May During the month of May, the Ransom Center hosts the free Vaudeville Film Series in conjunction with its exhibition Vaudeville!, which is on display through July 15. For more than a century, vaudeville was the most popular form of American entertainment and one of the country’s largest cultural exports.
