May 13, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsL.A. theater company resurrects deleted monologue in Sebastian Barry’s “The Steward of Christendom” Sebastian Barry’s play The Steward of Christendom tells the story of Irishman Thomas Dunne, the former chief of the Dublin Metropolitan Police who is now confined to an asylum. He reminisces about his personal and professional life, going back and forth between lucidity and seeming incoherence. A Roman Catholic still… read more
April 18, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsNew Tom Stoppard play to premiere next year at London’s National Theatre In January 2015, Tom Stoppard’s newest play—yet to be titled—will premiere at the National Theatre in London. Stoppard, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, is best known for the production, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, first performed by Oxford University students in 1966. Throughout his career, Stoppard has received… read more
April 8, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsScholar explores rich collections of stage photographs David S. Shields, the McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, visited the Ransom Center this year to research the history of theatrical photography in North America. The Ransom Center houses large collections of stage photographs, such as the Ziegfeld photographs, the dance collection, the card… read more
