May 24, 2016, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Smile (or pout!): Photographs of London’s professional primpers Before Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, 1853–1929) became a stage actress, she was known as one of London’s “professional beauties.”
July 25, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsDramaturg uses archival materials to edit new version of Tennessee Williams play for production at The Old Vic Dramaturg James Graham admits he had barely heard of Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth before starting work on the play. Alongside Williams’s other works—including Pulitzer Prize winners A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof—the difficult script often fades into the background. This summer The Old… read more
September 7, 2012, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsIain Sinclair’s "Ghost Milk" includes visit to Austin Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), the latest work by British writer-filmmaker Iain Sinclair, explores the changes in East London as the city prepared for the 2012 Olympics and concludes with his visit to the… read more
