Saturday, August 8, 2015
Star is latest in a line of film actors to be lured by live shows When John Hannah was a young boy in East Kilbride, the son of a toolmaker and a supermarket cleaner, a future as the star of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMSaturday, August 1, 2015
The Sick of the Fringe initiative highlights the mental health toll of Edinburgh’s endurance testIn Edinburgh from Friday, audiences of festival fringe-goers will sit in the dark in venues…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Image from published sheet music of Little Nemo. Image ID: g99c836_001
A guest post By Brian D. Valencia
In one of two overblown patriotic spectacles, the Act 2 finale of Little Nemo in S…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:21AMMonday, July 27, 2015
Bertha Kalich. Image ID: TH-25311
While curating Head Shots, we looked for unusual formats that performers believed would represent their careers better than the standard portrait. Or, at…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:39PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Edwin Booth. Stereograph by J. Gurney & Son. Image ID: 89096
When we started to think about an exhibition on Head Shots based on the Library for the Performing Arts’ collections, we…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:52PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Press photograph of Frank Sinatra, ca. 1946
The Sinatra: An American Icon exhibition has many wonderful media stations for visitors—songs, excerpts from television specia…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:14PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
Moscow’s ‘smallest but noisiest playhouse’ perseveres with latest documentary project in the face of legal threats and eviction by the authorities Peering at the audience from behind m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
This week sees the film premiere of London Road, a musical based on one of Britain’s most infamous serial killings. Local people say the area has finally moved on from a tragic timeWhen re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08PMMonday, May 18, 2015
Stage Door Canteen, NY. Photograph by Florence Vandamm. Image ID: ps_the_4036
We have received many questions recently about this, the secondary key image for the exhibition. In t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:53AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
What made Monica declare she saw the 'worst show ever'? Is comedy the last battleground for sexism? And will documentaries always play second fiddle to features? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
After the wildly successful 2013 edition of Across A Crowded Room, we are about to launch a second edition that is more exciting than ever before.
If you are a musical theater...
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SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:26PMFriday, April 17, 2015
Irving Berlin. Photograph by Vandamm Studio.
Frank Sinatra was, as the Library for the Performing Arts exhibition attests, an American icon. The project, a collaboration of LPA and the …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:55PMThursday, April 16, 2015
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is proud to announce that the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Inc, records, Additions is now open. This collection is 141.44 linear feet comprising 315 bo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:53PMMonday, April 13, 2015
Louis Moreau Gottschalk cover caricature in Vanity Fair (October 11, 1862)
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the final battles of the Civil War, followed all too closely by the anniv…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:47PMMonday, April 6, 2015
For some reason, I decided to just start going through my links over the right side of the page there. These are the links to sites that cover theater in the Boston area and beyond, includin…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 05:20PMFriday, March 27, 2015
RCA Victor catalogue promoting Mexican early sound film star Libertad Lamarque. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
As well as being a research center for The New York Public…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:47PMFriday, March 20, 2015
The following is an excerpt from a conversation between Jim Hart, regular TCG Blog Salon contributor and Director of Arts Entrepreneurship at SMU and American and international theatre artis…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:58PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is pleased to announce that the five interviews documented with the Mertz Gilmore Foundation grant to record African choreographers and teachers are now on…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:12PMSaturday, February 7, 2015
Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne and Seline Hizli all pull out of performances of the new West End musical adaption of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMFriday, January 30, 2015
Performer Adrienne Truscott, of standup and Wau Wau Sisters fame, joins the Guardian Australia culture team to discuss this year's Sydney festival and the ideas it inspired, from the art of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19PMSunday, January 18, 2015
The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMMonday, January 12, 2015
Cartoons depicting Muhammad are unthinkable in Muslim countries. But there are plenty of homegrown satirists poking fun at reactionaries, autocrats and jihadis. Our writers in Egypt, Turkey,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PMSaturday, December 27, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Eamon Flack and Brigid Delaney join the Guardian Australia culture team to look back at a year of controversy, delight and some surprising Australian cultural highlights for 2014 Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:40PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Ferguson Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCullochEverything is theater, right?In his book The Necessity of Theater; The Art of Watching and Being Watched, philosopher Paul Woodruff attempts a d…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:18PMTuesday, November 25, 2014
The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:37PMMonday, November 24, 2014
The cast of Peter Snoad's Identity Crisis. At Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, a quiet riot is taking place. Peter Snoad’s play Identity Crisis, directed by Jackie Davis, has a diverse…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 06:46PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:48PMFriday, October 3, 2014
The Fun Palaces project will scatter hundreds of pop-up events around the UK and beyond, combining arts and science. Are you going? Tell us about your weekend and share your pictures via Gua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMSaturday, August 2, 2014
Famous for playing Danish detective Sarah Lund, Gråbøl tackles roles of two powerful women a queen and a governor in TV thriller Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSuki Webster's Edinburgh Fringe play explores the relationship between performers and their obsessive fans Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
