November 5, 2013, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsZarzuelas: The music of the sueltas As cataloging of the Texas collection of comedias sueltas continues at the Harry Ransom Center, new features about these plays continue to be identified. The sueltas collection comprises nearly 14,000 titles published from the second half of the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century. More than half of the… read more
October 16, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsCurator of Norman Bel Geddes exhibition discusses influence of the industrial designer Donald Albrecht, exhibition organizer and curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York, discusses industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes’s influence on the American landscape. Albrecht—editor of Norman Bel Geddes Designs America (Abrams)—emphasizes the breadth of the Bel Geddes collection at the Ransom Center, which… read more
July 25, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsDramaturg uses archival materials to edit new version of Tennessee Williams play for production at The Old Vic Dramaturg James Graham admits he had barely heard of Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth before starting work on the play. Alongside Williams’s other works—including Pulitzer Prize winners A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof—the difficult script often fades into the background. This summer The Old… read more
