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September 16, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts

Q&A: Actor from the London stage Paul O’Mahony

Paul O'Mahony

Actor, writer, producer, and Shakespeare aficionado Paul O’Mahony is one of five actors traveling across the United States with Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS). This year, the acting troupe is performing

September 8, 2016, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing Arts

New digital collection of The Black Crook musical released

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.

April 22, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts

Much ado about a dress

Houston Rogers (British, born South Africa, 1901–1970) Rosalind Iden, ca. 1945 Gelatin silver print Donald Wolfit Papers, Harry Ransom Center Donald Wolfit was frequently criticized for gathering around him a company of sub-par actors, which, besides being “pitifully under-rehearsed,” comprised actors whose talents were no match for the majesty, power, and sensitivity of his own acting. The exception was his third wife, Rosalind Iden, an accomplished Shakespearean actress in her own right whose father, B. Iden Payne, was an English stage director known for his Elizabethan stagings of Shakespeare. In this portrait Rosalind Iden is wearing a necklace later fashioned into an embellishment for the Much Ado about Nothing gown. Links from the same necklace were used on another of Wolfit’s costumes, a black velvet hat.

Rosalind Iden’s gown and the character it plays

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