Theatre + Performing Arts

July 25, 2022, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Interpreting “Fringe” in the Mel Gordon Papers

Mel Gordon’s Notes on Expressionism with 1917 clipping, Mel Gordon Collection, Box 12, Harry Ransom Center. by MACAELLA GRAY In 2018, The New York Times lauded historian, curator, and writer Mel Gordon as a “drama scholar of the fringe.” At first glance, the so-called “fringe” certainly seems to find a… read more

ABOUT MACAELLA GRAY

Macaella Gray received her B.A in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and is the Visual Materials Intern at the Harry Ransom Center. Her research lies primarily in the modern and contemporary arts, with a focus on early queer histories, post-war print media, and experimental film cultures. She is also the recipient of the Ronald Schuchard Undergraduate Archival Research Prize and the John F. Newnam Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Art and Art History.

February 24, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing Arts

Radclyffe Hall, playwright?

First page of Radclyffe Hall’s Two and One: Comedy in 3 Acts, ca. 1925. Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Collection. Harry Ransom Center. by LIBBY CARR English author Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was one of the first authors to make lesbians visible in mainstream literature, and a forerunner of… read more

October 13, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Choreographer Deborah Hay’s archive goes to the Harry Ransom Center

Award-winning choreographer Deborah Hay has established her archive at the Harry Ransom Center, a major destination for the study of dance and performance at The University of Texas at Austin. A founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, Hay is recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of post-modern… read more