Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Title bar from Olive Wong's Original Draft for the Costume Guide
Download: Costume Design Research Guide by Aileen Abercrombie
Anyone who has ever had the good fortune to visit the Libra…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:19AMStephen Moss learns the art of impersonation from two masters: Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner. Will Moss impress his tutors with his Boris Johnson? Can he manage to stretch his words and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMThursday, July 28, 2016
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Tom Walker, creator of Jonathan Pie, says it’s now time to move on from the channel that made his name Jonathan Pie, the fictional television reporter who is regularly pushed to the edge o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Record numbers of people in Britain now see themselves as transgender. But does the way transgender people are represented on stage and on screen reflect reality? Jenny Kleeman meets trans a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29AMMonday, July 11, 2016
The Dance Division has over forty-five original costume designs by artist and designer Boris Anisfeld. We are thrilled that we have been given permission to digitize the designs and include …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:39PMTuesday, July 5, 2016
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Dim Lustre" with Patricia McBride and Antony Tudor, choreography by Antony Tudor. Image ID: swope_1209509
As the new Oral History Assistant, I have observ…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:16PMMonday, July 4, 2016
On March 21, 2016, the Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) debuted Archives of Sound, an interactive audio installation inspired by collections in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of R…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:34AMJohn Street Theatre, NYC, c. 1791. Image ID: 1650651
A guest post on the research that informed the earliest material in Shakespeare's Star Turn in America, by volunteer (and former intern)…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:34AMTuesday, June 28, 2016
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is pleased to announce that the Ted Shawn papers, Additions is now open for research.
This material was donated to the Library in 1992 by the John Ch…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:14PMFriday, June 24, 2016
A guest blog by volunteer and former intern Emma Winter Zeig
Photograph taken by the author.
Before a television ad sells a product to the consumer, the company behind the product has …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:46PMThursday, June 23, 2016
Leonard Bernstein's hostility towards writer of musical's book almost halted project, newly released correspondence revealsIt is regularly judged one of the best musicals of all time, yet We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32PMMonday, June 20, 2016
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Anti-Prom 2016 was a great success. The outfits designed by the High School of Fashion Industries were beautiful interpretations of t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:58PMThursday, June 9, 2016
Much has been written about the diversity reflected in the 2015-2016 Broadway season. A recent Playbill.com article states “Of the 40 acting nominations in eight categories, 14 went to a…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:37PMMonday, June 6, 2016
Rose dancer, 1914. Image ID: 5208659
It is almost time for the Library’s fabulous Anti-Prom. On Friday, June 17, New York teens will assemble on the steps of the Schwarzman Building and…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:31PMNational Post theatre critic Robert Cushman and his son Mitchell Cushman, who is directing adaptations of Shakespeare's histories, discussed the Bard and his works
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:43AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jaques’s lines on the seven ages of man fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has launched a new Fellows of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division program. This class of six fellows was chosen by the Committee for the Jer…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:49PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
A New York Times theater critic, the theater reporter and the theater editor discuss how the awards derby shapes up from here.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:52PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques’s lines on the seven ages of man fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony’s lines from act III, scene 2 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMThursday, April 28, 2016
Palo Alto Players staging a wonderful production of the classic musical
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:21PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
The Music Division is celebrating the completion of its Clipping File inventory (done entirely by volunteers) with a blog series. Melissa is one of the volunteers who contributed so much to …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:37PMMonday, April 25, 2016
As the world commemorates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this year, The New York Library for the Performing Arts is doing its part by sharing with the world some of our uniqu…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:24PMFriday, April 22, 2016
Shakespeare’s ability to distil human nature into an elegant turn of phrase is rightly exalted – much remains vivid four centuries after his death. Less scrutiny has been given to statis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMThursday, April 21, 2016
John Street Theatre, NYC, c. 1791. Image ID: 1650651
A guest post on the research that informed the earliest material in Shakespeare's Star Turn in America, by volunteer (and former intern)…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:10PMOn March 21, 2016, the Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) debuted Archives of Sound, an interactive audio installation inspired by collections in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of R…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:08PM 
