Monday, February 29, 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, Act III, Scen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night, Act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version of Parolles’s lines fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s lines from The Tempest, Act …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1. As Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy from Act IV, Scene 1. O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMMonday, February 1, 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet’s monologue from the balcony sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMHer champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain’s greatest living stage director – but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Guest post by Emma Thursland
The Dance Broadside Collection was processed by Camille Dee and has recently been made available to the public. A new exhibit showcasing a few pieces from this…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:58PMAdrian Lester as Hamlet, David Morrissey as Richard III, Joanna Lumley as Viola, Daniel Mays as Macbeth … To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMThursday, January 21, 2016
This is one of a series of blog posts related to the NYPL Public Domain Release: discover the collections and find inspiration for using them in your own research, teaching, and creative pr…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:55AMSunday, January 17, 2016
As he arrives at London's Barbican to play an operatic serial killer, John Malkovich talks to Andrew Dickson about being back on stage, doing the Edinburgh festival for the first time – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMSaturday, January 16, 2016
1908 or 1909 or 1912 There's no birthday like Merm's birthday. Ethel Zimmermann is born in Astoria N.Y. today. In years to come she will be acting and belting all over town as Ethel …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Helen Mirren among those remembering the giant of movies and theatre – known best to many as Professor Snape in Harry Potter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:39PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
This is one of a series of blog posts related to the NYPL Public Domain Release: discover the collections and find inspiration for using them in your own research, teaching, and creative pr…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:33PMMonday, January 11, 2016
London show aims to revive the faded reputation of the versatile Cockney performer Anthony NewleyA musical about the life of singer Anthony Newley is to be made in an attempt to revive his r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Actor Tobias Menzies analyses his reflection while looking down the lens of the camera and drawing his self-portrait on an iPad. Through this intimate process he reveals his thoughts about h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMMonday, January 4, 2016
Long before cut and paste, there was cutting and pasting. As part of the development of Head Shots, we searched out articles and books that advised actors and photographers on ideal examples…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:56PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was the UK’s Christmas number 1 in 1975. Forty years later, the song is reinterpreted by a duet from the English National Ballet, a string quartet from the Roya…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
“We have the opportunity to reclaim a history that some of us don’t necessarily think is our own"
SOURCE: time.com at 12:05PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Tallulah Bankhead. Photograph by Florence Vandamm. Image ID: 5057002
If you walk west on 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, you will go past the “blades.” These electron…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:34PMRoyal Ballet principal ballerina Lauren Cuthbertson prepares for her opening performance of the classic Christmas production The Nutcracker at London’s Royal Opera House. Alone in the stud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AMMonday, December 7, 2015
Guest post by Emma Winter Zieg, volunteer and former intern at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Dulcie Cooper. Image ID: TH-04678
If you’ve never heard of Dulci…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:28PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Eva LeGallienne, as the White Queen in the 1982 revival of Alice in Wonderland.. Photograph by Martha Swope
In the mid-1950s, the networks and independent channels campaigned to establish t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:31PMSunday, November 8, 2015
Stadium-filling comedian Michael McIntyre tells Desert Island Discs of 'amazing hostility' from other comicsThe comedian Michael McIntyre has admitted to being shocked by the "hostility…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AMFriday, October 30, 2015
Guardian photographer and film-maker David Levene has created a series of motion portraits of the ZooNation dancers in the fairytale-riffing show Into the Hoods: Remixed – watch and imitat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMMonday, October 26, 2015
1844 William Harrigan, half of the iconic 1880s writing and performing team of Harrigan and Hart, is born today. He and Tony Hart will create the popular Mulligan Guards characters reflectin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 28, 2015
Stars came out to honor Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Debbie Allen (West Side Story, Sweet Charity) at NYC Dance Alliance Foundation at its Bright Lights Shining Stars Gala…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM 
