May 1, 2012, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsNorman Bel Geddes: From the Nutshell Jockey Club to War Game to Futurama From September 11, 2012, to January 6, 2013, the Harry Ransom Center hosts the exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, which explores the career of stage and industrial designer, futurist, and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes. The Ransom Center holds Bel Geddes’s professional archive, personal… read more
March 28, 2012, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsStories from the Sueltas: Cataloger sheds light on gems in the Spanish comedias sueltas collection Cataloging of the approximately 14,000 titles in the Texas collection of comedias sueltas at the Harry Ransom Center is well underway, funded by a grant received from the Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program. Appropriately named, this program seeks to support “libraries, archives,… read more
January 31, 2012, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsTom Stoppard’s "Arcadia" opens this week in Austin Playwright Tom Stoppard wanted to incorporate ideas of chaos theory and thermodynamics into the intricately structured plot of his play Arcadia. His archive shows how he consulted with his son, a physics graduate student at Oxford University, and with his son’s colleagues to get the details just right. The play… read more
