September 22, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsJohn Lahr delves into “treasure trove of Williams material” for new biography, “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” John Lahr, a renowned theater critic who wrote for The New Yorker for more than two decades, took up the task of continuing to record and analyze Tennessee Williams’s life in 2007. In Lahr’s new biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Norton), he draws upon his subject’s plays,… read more
September 18, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Digital tool allows Spalding Gray scholars to compare various drafts of performance notebooks James Sitar is an editor at the Poetry Foundation and teaches literature classes at Loyola University Chicago. Sitar’s work in the Spalding Gray archive was supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. He discusses his digital project that allows comparisons between Gray’s performance notebooks. The Ransom Center is celebrating the 25th… read more
July 15, 2014, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Determining audience taste in eighteenth-century English theater Diana Solomon, associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University, worked with the Ransom Center’s collections of eighteenth-century English playbills and promptbooks. Jointly supported by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the British Studies Fellowship, her research will be utilized in her current book project on comedy and repetition… read more
