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Rare ephemera shows legacy of Henry “Box” Brown

May 6, 2021 - Eric Colleary

Henry Box Brown emerging from a box

In his day, Henry “Box” Brown was a celebrated stage magician who incorporated performance into his lectures on abolitionism in the United States and England. Much of what we know about him comes from his memoir, the Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself (1851).

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Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: African American Creators, Magic, magician, Performing Arts

Picturing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

March 19, 2020 - Aaron T. Pratt

The Ransom Center’s Spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition features some of the earliest printed examples of illustrated English plays. [Read more…] about Picturing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Books, early books and manuscripts, Performing Arts, Shakespeare

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: Film, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, 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

Stage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare

March 30, 2016 - Rebecca Johnson

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” — As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII)

For four centuries, Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies have held up a mirror to society, showing us our facility for both greatness and weakness. [Read more…] about Stage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Costumes and Personal Effects, Cranach press, Donald Wolfit, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Colleary, Exhibitions, Hamlet, McNay Art Museum, Norman Bel Geddes, Performing Arts, Rosalind Iden, set designs, Shakespeare in Print and Performance

Un resultado positivo para un negativo en placa de vidrio

August 6, 2015 - Diana Diaz Canas

The glass plate negative of the Rialto Theater before treatment, broken into two pieces.

Antes de la invención de materiales plásticos, el vidrio y el papel eran los materiales principales para producir negativos en blanco y negro. Las placas de vidrio con emulsión de gelatina fueron producidas desde finales del siglo diecinueve (XIX) hasta mediados del siglo veinte (XX). La transparencia del vidrio facilitó [Read more…] about Un resultado positivo para un negativo en placa de vidrio

Filed Under: Conservation, Photography Tagged With: Albert Davis, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Broadway, broken glass, Conservation, fotografía, fragmentos, glass mending, glass plate negatives, New York City, NYPL, Performing Arts, photography. Conservación, Rialto Theatre, vidrio roto, White Studio

A positive outcome for a glass plate negative

August 6, 2015 - Diana Diaz Canas

Photograph of the Rialto Theatre in New York City, taken around 1920 by White Studio.

Before the invention of plastics, glass and paper were used to produce black and white photographic negatives. Glass plates with gelatin emulsion were produced from the late- nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century. The transparency of glass made the plates very [Read more…] about A positive outcome for a glass plate negative

Filed Under: Conservation, Photography Tagged With: Albert Davis, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Broadway, broken glass, Conservation, glass mending, glass plate negatives, New York City, NYPL, Performing Arts, Photography, Rialto Theatre, White Studio

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