April 23, 2025, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsLorne Michaels Lands at the Ransom Center Creator of Saturday Night Live Donates Historic Archive by CINDY MCCREERY When the director of the Harry Ransom Center, Stephen Enniss, shared the news with me that Saturday Night Live Executive Producer and renowned TV comedy writer/producer Lorne Michaels would be donating his collection to the Center, I literally gasped.… read more
August 4, 2023, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFinding 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
March 10, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsThe 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In the 1980s, the Harry Ransom Center received a scrapbook from John and Vera Hills along with an extraordinary unpublished account of their survival of the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapse in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 1922.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