August 16, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsArchive of theatre lighting designer Kevin Adams comes to the Harry Ransom Center The archive of award-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams is now housed at the Harry Ransom Center, a key destination for the study of theatre and performance history. Adams has received four Tony Awards for his lighting designs of Spring Awakening (2007), The 39 Steps (2008), American Idiot (2010), and Hedwig… read more
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.
December 9, 2015, Filed Under: Research + TeachingCommitment to collecting Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.