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Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized

April 28, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

Mel Gussow and Edward Albee at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, December 13, 1979.

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. [Read more…] about Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Al Hirschfeld, Arthur Miller, audiotape, Caffe Cino, cassette, CLIR, Council on Library and Information Resources, David Hare, David Mamet, digital collections portal, Edward Albee, interviews, Joseph Papp, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Kline, LaMaMa, Lanford Wilson, Laurence Olivier, Living Theatre, Mel Gussow, Meryl Street, New York Times, playwright, Public Theatre, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett, Sigourney Weaver, theater, Tom Stoppard, Woody Allen

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

Houdini speaks to the living

September 28, 2016 - Harry Ransom Center

The trick is to bring Houdini back. Show him to us. Let us hear him speak, watch him make his magic, feel his presence among us, let Houdini live again! [Read more…] about Houdini speaks to the living

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Beth Burns, Harry Houdini, Harry Houdini collection, Houdini Speaks to the Living, Hungarian, Magic, Research, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualism, The Hidden Room, theater, tricks, verbatim theater

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

Fellows Find: Hear inside Stella Adler’s studio

April 5, 2016 - Scott Balcerzak

Stella Adler. This publicity photograph was probably taken in 1937, the year Stella's first film "Love On Toast" was released.

Scott Balcerzak is Associate Professor of film and literature at Northern Illinois University. He was supported by the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies and is currently writing a book on Stella Adler and male movie stars. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Hear inside Stella Adler’s studio

Filed Under: Film, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: acting, acting class, actors, Actors Studio’s, audio recording, Fellows Find, Lee Strasberg, Marlon Brando, plays, Robert De Niro, stage, Stella Adler, theater, Yiddish theater

To quarto, or not to quarto?

April 1, 2016 - Isabel Dunn

Andrew Carlson, Clinical Assistant Professor and Managing Director of the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at The University of Texas at Austin, has worked extensively with Shakespeare’s plays through critical analysis and performance. [Read more…] about To quarto, or not to quarto?

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: African-American, Andrew Carlson, faculty lecture, First Folio, Othello, performance, plays, quarto, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Print and Performance, textual variations, theater

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