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Eric Colleary

Grappling with the past: On exhibiting minstrelsy materials

January 29, 2018 - Eric Colleary

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 a way that it is clear that we are not celebrating it.  [Read more…] about Grappling with the past: On exhibiting minstrelsy materials

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Eric Colleary, vaudeville

Exhibition shares the story of vaudeville

January 29, 2018 - Suzanne Krause

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! [Read more…] about Exhibition shares the story of vaudeville

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Eric Colleary, Harry Houdini, vaudeville

Arthur Miller at the center of a network of Ransom Center collections

January 9, 2018 - Megan Barnard

By Megan Barnard and Eric Colleary

Arthur Miller has long had a significant presence at the Ransom Center. In 1961 and 1962, Miller donated a collection of his manuscripts to the Center. [Read more…] about Arthur Miller at the center of a network of Ransom Center collections

Filed Under: Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Arthur Miller, Eric Colleary, PEN, Stella Adler, Tennessee Williams

Grant-funded cataloging project creates greater access to performing arts collections

November 30, 2017 - Joan Sibley

With support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Ransom Center has completed a one-year project to create online access to four of its Performing Arts collections.

[Read more…] about Grant-funded cataloging project creates greater access to performing arts collections

Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Eric Colleary, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, grant, Hillary Bell, John Gassner, Jule Styne, Wilson Barrett

Archive acquired of theatre and film actor Peter O’Toole

April 21, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

The Ransom Center has obtained the archive of British-Irish theatre and film actor Peter O’Toole (1932–2013). [Read more…] about Archive acquired of theatre and film actor Peter O’Toole

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Film, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: acquisition, Bristol Old Vic, British theater, Dustin Hoffman, Edmund Kean, Eric Colleary, film archive, Harold Pinter, Henry Irving, Jeremy Irons, John Gielgud, Kate O’Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Olivier, Lawrence of Arabia, Marlon Brando, Michael Blakemore, Michael Caine, National Theatre, Paul Newman, Performing Arts, Peter Hall, Peter O’Toole, Royal Shakespeare Company, Spike Milligan, Stella Adler; Robert De Niro; Edith Evans; Anne Jackson; George Bernard Shaw; Eli Wallach; Donald Wolfit, T. E. Lawrence, theater, Trevor Nunn

New digital collection of The Black Crook musical released

September 8, 2016 - Eric Colleary

Cover of sheet music for "The Black Crook Waltzes,” 1867.

The Harry Ransom Center is proud to announce that our collection of materials relating to the 1866 megamusical The Black Crook has been fully digitized in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the production. The collection is now publicly available through our online Digital Collections gallery. [Read more…] about New digital collection of The Black Crook musical released

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Abrons Art Center, Art, Broadway, culture, dance, Edwin Forrest, Eric Colleary, performing art, stage, The Black Crook, theater, theatre, William Charles Macready

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