Monday, April 4, 2016
James H. Hackett as Falstaff. Image ID: TH-26477
Shakespeare’s Star Turn in America focuses on production of Shakespeare’s works in North American theaters and why certain plays were po…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:57PMFriday, March 25, 2016
The Writer’s Center in Bethesda is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, and what better way could there be to mark the occasion than a program with the premier journalist, author, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMMonday, February 29, 2016
Promotional Brochure, "Thoughts of Prominent Men Regarding Margaret Mather," for her Romeo and Juliet tour, back cover, 1880s.
Shakespeare's Star Turn in America, the new exhibition a…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:55PMSunday, February 14, 2016
Question: Where can you hear more than 30 wonderful songs from the legendary team of Rodgers and Hammerstein performed by talented local artists? Answer: The current production of A Grand N…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:07PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
Who would have thought you could make a musical about something as serious as starting a revolution? Well, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, the 1969 Tony Aw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
To paraphrase an old expression, “big talent can come in small packages!” This observation was never truer than when the diminutive musical superstar, Kristin Chenoweth, took the stage a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:09PMMonday, 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 05:56PMFriday, December 18, 2015
Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, A Christmas Carol, was first published in 1843. Now, in 2015, the Wolf Pack Theatre Company, in association with Community Crisis Services and St. Jo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMMonday, 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 02:34PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
After Martin Freeman admitted he didn’t like to speak out about his views, our writers discuss whether thesps should get involved in politics at allActor Martin Freeman, who doesn’t lack…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMFriday, December 11, 2015
The Music Center at Strathmore was filled with the holiday spirit as the Tony Award-winning Broadway superstar Brian Stokes Mitchell joined Conductor Damon Gupton and the Baltimore Symphony …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:07PMMonday, 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 04:31PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
“Without our traditions, life would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof!” Those satiric words are spoken by Tevye (Brian Lyons-Burke), the narrator and main character of the enduringly …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
Let’s hear it for the Rockville Musical Theatre’s production of Footloose! This bold and bodacious, high-kicking, foot-stomping extravaganza features a dedicated cast of volunteer perfo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:37PMSunday, October 11, 2015
A 40-year-old groupie of the 1980’s British rock band Whitesnake, who is severely down on her luck, wants to sleep in a convenience store while she tries to figure out how to get her l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PMFriday, August 21, 2015
The Library for the Performing Arts is having a photogenic summer. Between Sinatra in the Oenslager Gallery and Geoffrey Holder in the Corridor Gallery, we have many examples of compelling i…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:16PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Contact Strips of Anna Held (above) and Lillian Burkhardt
One of the themes of the exhibition Head Shots is the selection process through which performers view options and chose their heads…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:54PMMonday, 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 04:39PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
“Just lots of goodwill and maybe one small thrill, but there’s nothin’ dirty goin’ on!” This concluding line from the honky-tonk song, “Lil Ol’ Pissant Country Place” perfect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:48PMWednesday, 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 12:14PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Hearken back to New Jersey in the 1980s when self-absorbed Yuppies worshipped Wall Street, hair gel, and blow dryers, and you have the setting for the 2006 Tony-nominated Broadway musical, T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Happy families, Tolstoy mused, are all alike — it's the messy, miserable ones we love to watch. So are great dramas born, from “King Lear” through “Long Day's Journey…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMonday, 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 10:53AMSaturday, May 9, 2015
Consider, if you will, a 15-year-old boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York who longs to be a baseball star with the Yankees, but would give up that dream if he could see a naked woman for two…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PMFriday, 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 01:55PMMonday, 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 03:47PMFriday, April 3, 2015
Have you ever wondered what happened before Dorothy’s arrival in the Land of Oz in the classic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz? How did the Wicked Witch become so wicked? How did the Good Wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
The words “tuneful” and “energetic” only begin to describe Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray. Based on the 1988 John Wat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:36PMFriday, 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 01:47PM 
