59 stories by "Doug Reside"
Get a preview of Syncopated Stages: Black Disruptions to the Great White Way, which features over 250 objects.
A look into the archives of Little Shop through its years of Playbills, casting choices, and more.
A look into the archives of Little Shop through its years of Playbills, casting choices, and more.
The New York Public Library offers a never-before-soon look at the inner workings of the Tony- and Emmy-winning designer's step-by-step process.
You have until March 31, 2020, to see the rest of the wild display of sets, costumes, annotated scripts, and not-to-be-believed correspondences from Prince's body of Broadway work.
Script pages, set photos, and more New York Public Library records from previous stagings of the Greek myth.
Production notes, lighting plots, and design inspiration for Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz's Pippin.
Looking through the archives of the New York Pulic Library for the Performing Arts, the current production was not the first attempt to adapt the 1933 film.
A history of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! through the New York Public Library archives.
From George Furth's work session notes to Jason Alexander's score, look at these rare documents from the famed Sondheim-Furth musical.
Be More Chill’s famous Halloween scene isn’t the first time a major production used a night of disguise to push the story.
From the play Bernhardt/Hamlet to the upcoming film Playing to the Gods, Sarah Bernhardt is all the rage again.
Richard Rodgers, Nicol Williamson, Penny Fuller, and Sheldon Harnick work on Rex
A guest post by Sherman Yellen.
After "The Rothschilds" I left the theater and worked as a screenwriter wh…
Hal Linden and Leila Martin in a scene from The Rothschilds, Classmark *T-PHO B
A guest post by Sherman Yellen, bookwriter of The Rothschilds.
It was sometime in the early 1960s that produ…
Friedman-Abeles Photograph Collection: Image Id: 424286 / Classmark: *T-VIM 1992-013]
A guest post by Philip Lambert, author of To Broadway! To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harn…
A few months ago, I posted three demo recordings of Fiorello! from the Jerry Bock recordings in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. This month, in honor of Fiddler&…
In the following blog post, Columbia University's Alisa Solomon examines three typescripts of Fiddler on the Roof that can be studied at the Library for the Per…
Most of the articles memorializing director and actor Richard Attenborough cite his role as the nearly-mad scientist, Dr. John Hammond, in the film version of Jurassic Park or his directoral…
While reading about riots in my hometown last night, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a headline announcing the shocking death of Robin Williams. I really can add very little to the…
In the week following the announcement of the TONY awards, the winner for best musical, Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, enjoyed its best week ever, bringing in more than $100,000…
Original Cast of Fiorello! / Photo by Joseph AbelesWhen Jerry Bock died in 2010, his papers (drafts, correspondence, business records, etc.) came to the library as he had planned. A year or…
Original Cast of Fiorello! / Photo by Joseph AbelesWhen Jerry Bock died in 2010, his papers (drafts, correspondence, business records, etc.) came to the library as he had planned. A year or…
I am very pleased to announce the first release of Libretto, a prototype open source, e-book reader for reading musicals on Android devices!Like so many fans of musical theater, I spent many…
A guest post by Ben West of UnsungMusicalsCo.
November 1945. The New York Post calls it "a long-awaited musical comedy hit;" Universal purchases the film rights for more than $100,…
I’m very excited to announce that, one enchanted evening (6:00-8:30 on October 5th to be precise), we will host the first Across A Crowded Room meet-up at the Library for the Performin…
