March 15, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: Stella Adler’s notes on Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Glass Menagerie’ Stella Adler was considered one of this country’s most important teachers of the principles of acting, character analysis, and script analysis. Adler began acting when she was just four years old, alongside her parents, Jacob and Sara Adler, in a production of the Yiddish play Broken Hearts by Z. Libin.… read more
March 10, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: Marlon Brando’s little black book “On bended knee I beg you to return this. I lost eight others already and if I lose this I’ll just drop dead!” These are Marlon Brando’s words inscribed on the flyleaf of his address book, which was later dropped on the stage of the Barrymore Theatre in New York… read more
November 9, 2010, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsRonald McDonald swims to Cambodia: A first glimpse at Spalding Gray’s notebooks During the initial staff inspection of Spalding Gray’s papers at the Ransom Center some weeks ago, when each shipping carton was opened and its contents checked for condition, I passed my hands over multiple audio tapes, notebooks, and other documents marked with the single word “Swimming.” It had been around… read more
