Monday, 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 04:31PMWednesday, 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, 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 10:24PMThursday, 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 03:08PMMonday, April 11, 2016
Henry 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 12:04PMMonday, 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 03:57PMLast week I introduced Melissa, a volunteer with the Music Division, who began a series of three blog posts on the newly available inventory of the Music Division's Clipping file. Here is…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:57PMThursday, March 31, 2016
I'm happy to announce that the "Names" portion of the Music Division's Clipping File has been inventoried. This inventory contains over 46,000 names and is a list of folders in our Clipping …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:53PMTo whom it may concern: Today I spoke with a reference librarian about donating my copy of Marc Blitzstein’s original working score of Regina. I worked with Marc for two years singing his …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:53PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
In 1985, a group of musicians fed up with industry-imposed limitations that pigeonholed Black artists into either R&B singers or rappers, formed the Black Rock Coalition (BRC). Founders …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:45PMMonday, 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 04:55PMFriday, 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 05:58PMThursday, 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 10:55AMTuesday, 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 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 05:56PMMonday, 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 02:34PMMonday, 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 04:31PMFriday, September 4, 2015
A guest post by Kate Edney.
Page from the original souvenir program of Golden Dawn
Golden Dawn (1927) is one of those musicals that has been almost completely erased from histories of …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:16PMFriday, 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 04:54PMWednesday, 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 12:14PMMonday, 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 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...
...com…
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 02:53PM 
