January 29, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsGrappling with the past: On exhibiting minstrelsy materials The decision to include collection material depicting blackface minstrelsy in our exhibition on vaudeville is a decision we do not take lightly. Minstrelsy is part of the history of American performance and vaudeville. We have a responsibility not to hide this troubling history, but also to display it in such… read more
January 29, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsExhibition shares the story of vaudeville Above: Unidentified photographer, [Adele and Fred Astaire], ca. 1914. Gelatin silver print, 21.8 x 19.8 cm. Dance Collection, Harry Ransom Center. The Harry Ransom Center draws on its extensive performing arts holdings to tell the story of one of American theatre’s most popular forms of entertainment in the exhibition Vaudeville!
January 9, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsPlaywright Arthur Miller’s archive comes to the Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of American playwright Arthur Miller (1915–2005). Obtained from the Arthur Miller Trust, the archive spans Miller’s career.
