Theatre + Performing Arts

August 4, 2023, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Finding Henry Street: the Broadway Revival of Funny Girl and New York City Dramaturgy

by BARRIE GELLES My heart was racing because I had just bolted through the New York City theatre district. As far as I was concerned, there was an archival emergency. I recognize the absurdity and humor in claiming that I was having a musical theatre crisis, but the urgency felt… read more

ABOUT BARRIE GELLES

Barrie Gelles is a theatre scholar, director, and educator. She writes about the aesthetics of musical theatre and approaches to pedagogy and practice within the academy with a focus on accessibility in classroom and production practice. Barrie recently defended her dissertation at The Graduate Center, CUNY and is an adjunct instructor at Baruch College, Marymount Manhattan College, and NYU Steinhardt. She directs theatre in New York City with a focus on new musicals and re-envisioned revivals of musicals. For more information, visit barriegelles.com

March 10, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

The Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse

by HANNAH NEUHAUSER In the 1980s, the Harry Ransom Center received a scrapbook from John and Vera Hills along with an extraordinary unpublished account of their survival of the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapse in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 1922. The scrapbook and testimony are available for research in the… read more

ABOUT HANNAH NEUHAUSER

Hannah Neuhauser is a PhD musicology student at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a Pathways Fellow serving as a Curatorial Assistant at the Harry Ransom Center in the 2022-2023 term.

August 16, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts

My Friend Bill Yellow Robe

by JACE WEAVER The Harry Ransom Center is proud to hold the papers of playwright and poet William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. A member of the Assiniboine Tribe, Yellow Robe was a lecturer at the University of Maine and the award-winning author of Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers, Wood Bones,… read more