For my last blog post before retirement, I am pleased to feature the research and analysis of Emma Winter Zeig, volunteer and former intern, on one of the songs discovered for "Laughter, Agi…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:54PMScene from the stage production AmericanaDue to our unique existence as a research center of The New York Public Library and a constituent member of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, I…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:58PMBob Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson, 1902. Image ID: TH-03842The National Museum of African American History & Culture opens on September 24, 2016. The opening ceremonies will be broadcast …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:04PMPhotograph by Myron Ehrenberg, October 25, 1945, “provided by [press representative] Ivan Black for Café Society.” Jerome Robbins Dance Division The Library for the Performing Ar…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:06PMJohn 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 12:34AMA 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 03:46PMAdvertisement for Burnett's adult and juvenile fiction 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 02:58PMRose 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 04:31PMJohn 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 09:10PMHenry V. Stage-plot. Directions for scenery, curtains, drops, etc. with drawings and diagrams. *NDB [RBS] 97-1287 (Shakespeare, W. Henry V) This post is a report by volunteer/former intern …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:04PMJames 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 03:57PMPromotional 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 04:55PMLong 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 05:56PMTallulah 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 02:34PMGuest 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 08:28PMEva 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 04:31PMThe 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 01:16PMContact 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 04:54PMBertha 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 04:39PMEdwin 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 02:52PMPress 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 12:14PMStage 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 10:53AMIrving 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 01:55PMLouis 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 03:47PMRCA 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 01:47PMBeatrice Forbes-Robertson. Image ID: TH-13476 Sometimes, it all comes together. This week, I had the pleasure of dramaturging for an On Her Shoulders evening of readings from British Suffra…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:30PMSo, who are the people in your neighborhood? Bob never sings about them, but the people of Sesame Workshop always include the educational researchers and the script and songwriters. Beyo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:22PMThe Muppets of Sesame Street Courtesy of Sesame Workshop Last week’s blog post looked at some of Sesame Street’s content designed to engage adult attention as well as children’s. S…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:52PMSesame Street is justly famous for the early childhood education components—making young children comfortable with the alphabet and numbers. One key component is providing pre-literacy exp…
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SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:33PMI love collaborative exhibitions because I learn so much about our partners. Working with Susie Tofte, the archivist of the Sesame Workshop and curator of the exhibition, I learned about the…
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