Join Us for the 2017 TLA Book Awards Ceremony
The Theatre Library Association is thrilled to invite you to the annual presentation of the TLA Book Awards, honoring English language works of scholarship on theatre, film, and broadcasting, published in 2017. The TLA Book Awards Ceremony will include remarks from some of this year’s winners and a pop-up exhibition of materials from the holdings of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and a brief reception.
Where: Café of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts*, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
When: 7 PM on Friday October 12, 2018. (Doors open at 6:45.)
The 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to by Sarah E. Chinn for Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage, published by Oxford University Press. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to by Cindy Rosenthal for Ellen Stewart Presents: Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theater published by the University of Michigan Press. This year’s Freedley Award Jury consisted of James Fisher, Annie Holt, and Don Wilmeth.
The 2017 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Steven J. Ross, for Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, published by Bloomsbury USA. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley for Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, published by the University of California Press. This year’s Wall Award Jury consisted of David Pierce, Shelley Stamp, and Stephen Tropiano.
The Louis Rachow Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award for 2018 will be awarded to Kenneth Schlesinger, former Theatre Library Association President and Chief Librarian at Lehman College. The Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarian Scholarship will be awarded to Jeannie Chen, an MLIS candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a background in classical piano performance and English and American literature.
Reserve your seat online today! (For assistance with online reservations, please visit the welcome desk at the Library for the Performing Arts’ Lincoln Center Plaza entrance, where volunteers will make a reservation for you, even if you do not use email.)
Please email tlabookawards@gmail.com with any questions. See our full press release announcing this year’s winners and finalists here.
*This event takes place in the Library for the Performing Arts’ Cafe, on the first floor, Lincoln Center Plaza level. Enter via the Cafe entrance by ascending the stairs at the corner of Amsterdam Ave. and West 65th St. Mobility impaired people may enter via 111 Amsterdam Ave.