April 28, 2017, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsMel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded the Ransom Center a “Recordings at Risk” grant for $24,600, supporting the project “Preserving the Interview Recordings of Mel Gussow, American and British Theater Critic.” The Ransom Center holds the Gussow (1933-2005) papers.