414 stories from The New York Public Library
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, …
The Jitney Players. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Image ID: TH-24201
During the Elizabethan era, traveling troupes of actors would perform in different towns throughout the United Kingdom.
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Edwin Booth. Â 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…
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Press photograph of Frank Sinatra, ca. 1946
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The Sinatra: An American Icon exhibition has many wonderful media stations for visitors"songs, excerpts from television …
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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…
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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Irving Berlin. Â 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 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…
The New York Public Library has an enormous amount and variety of collection materials, and those collections require care to help them last. But the Library also has a Preservation Divis…
Our beloved Sony AV8650 EIAJ ½" open reel deck has been repaired by Bob Shuster, alias Midnight Bob. Up and running, the 8650 is sending both color and soft grey sometimes ghostly mov…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Frank Sinatra is known first and foremost as a singer and recording artist; after all, before he acquired the nicknames "Chairman of the Board" or "Ol' Blue Eyes," he was known as "The Voice…
Beatrice 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…
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…
As a member of the Wertheim study, I was honored to be invited to write a blog post about the Library's significant holdings related to flamenco. The footage of Juana Vargas "La Macarrona" (…
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division's most recent Annual Report FY 2014 is now online on the Library's website. The Dance Division has continued its work, assuring its place in the world, a…
So, 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. …
The 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. Share…
Sesame 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 exper…
Still from Jessen's animated credit sequence for Theme and Variations. Â The filmmakers name descends with wisps of cotton clouds.
Like the ever branching dendritic pattern water takes in…
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…
 Emily Dickinson ca. 1847. Courtesy Special Collections, Amherst College. Used with permission.
We celebrate the birthday of Emily Dickinson (December 10) with an exhibit at The New York…
