Recent TLA News
President’s Report
President’s Report for Spring 2015 The TLA Board met in New York City on February 20, 2015. We had a productive meeting and successfully connected with our members on the west coast using good old fashioned technology – the telephone. It was my pleasure to welcome our new members Tanisha Jones and Joseph Talley and to welcome […]
2015 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards
The TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards will be presented tonight, May 1, 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. Congratulations to Jess Goldstein, Douglas W. Schmidt, Brian Hemesath, and Gino Bifulco – T.O. Dey Shoes. There will be a Memorial Tribute to Raoul Pène Du Bois. Additional information can be found here. Image Description: Racks […]
Distinguished Service Award — Call for Nominations
Louis Rachow Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award Call for Nominations A CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE The Theatre Library Association wants to celebrate the excellence of our profession by selecting an individual who embodies its best qualities. Please take a moment from your busy schedule to identify that person. Your Distinguished Service nominee should be […]
Harry Ransom Center Announces New Curator of Theater and Performing Arts
TLA’s very own Eric Colleary (Webmaster and Co-Chair of the Website Editorial Committee) has been appointed Cline Curator of Theater and Performing Arts at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Colleary will oversee access and interpretation of the Ransom Center’s theater and performing arts collections, including […]
Book Awards Committee Update
Hello from TLA’s Book Awards Committee! Submissions are now closed for the 2014 TLA Book Awards. We’ve dispatched the final boxes of books to our jurors, and they are now busily reading the 107 nominated titles for this year’s GEORGE FREEDLEY MEMORIAL AWARD and RICHARD WALL MEMORIAL AWARD. The winners will be announced in early […]
TLA Tours at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference
You are cordially invited to attend two different TLA tours at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference. RSVP Form: http://goo.gl/Jiyy8F For this year’s Annual Conference in San Francisco, the Theatre Library Association will be offering two different options to TLA and ACRL Arts Section members. The tours will take place on Friday and Saturday, June 26-27, […]
Meet Our New Webmaster — Welcome Eric Colleary!
I am delighted to introduce Eric Colleary as TLA’s new webmaster. Eric has extensive experience working with WordPress and social media. In addition, he has been appointed Co-Chair of the Website Editorial Committee and will work with Angela Weaver to further the activities related to the website and Broadside Digest. His interests include archives, performing arts […]
BROADSIDE Digest
The second issue of BROADSIDE Digest is now available. Don’t have time to click back through all of the previously posted items? No worries; we’ve compiled all of the posts from September 21, 2014 through February 13, 2015 in one handy document. You’ll be able to find all of the issues of the new BROADSIDE Digest under News & Events/BROADSIDE News […]
A Conversation With James Fisher
Congratulations to James Fisher on the publication of his new work entitled Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts), 2015. James, can you tell us more about the thinking behind this volume? I had previously worked on two “Historical Dictionaries” – the first, co-authored by Felicia Hardison Londré, […]
Join the Wikipedia edit-a-thon!
Artists! Archivists! Scholars! Students! Join us on February 17, 2015 (4 – 7:30pm) for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. New and experienced Wikipedians are invited to come together to create, edit, and expand Wikipedia articles on under- or unsung theatre artists–with a focus on artists who are queer, women, of color, or otherwise underrepresented–as part of a […]