Recent TLA News
New PAR Volume Holds Up the Mirror to Shakespeare
The latest volume of Performing Arts Resources, Holding Up the Mirror: Authenticity and Adaptation in Shakespeare Today, was mailed to all Theatre Library Association members last month, and is now available for sale. PAR 30 presents the addresses and panel discussions from TLA’s Third Symposium, held in April 2011 at The New York Public Library for […]
MLA/TLA Program at the ALA Annual Conference: Performing Vegas: Documenting Music and Stage in Sin City
On Saturday, June 28, it was my pleasure to moderate the co-sponsored 2014 program of the Music Library Association and the Theatre Library Association at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Titled “Performing Vegas: Documenting Music and Stage in Sin City,” the program featured three speakers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who […]
Woodlawn Cemetery Tour
Last month, a small enthusiastic group enjoyed a tour of Woodlawn Cemetery. Our fabulous guide, Susan Olsen, historian for Woodlawn, walked us past numerous memorials for performing artists interred at Woodlawn. Here is what Dan Venning had to say about the day! On Saturday, June 21, a beautiful sunny day, a small TLA group […]
Book Review: The Octoroon
The Octoroon: The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition (Broadview Editions) Boucicault, Dion Edited by Sarika Bose Calgary, Canada: Broadview Press, 2014 ISBN: 9781554812110 138 pp. Dion Boucicault’s romantic melodrama, adapted from the 1856 Thomas Mayne Reid novel The Quadroon, opened on December 6, 1859 at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre. In the over […]
Book Review: The Group Theatre
The Group Theatre: Passion, Politics, Performance in the Depression Era Chinoy, Helen Krich Edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Milly S. Barranger New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013 ISBN: 9781137294593 283 pp. The Group Theatre is the posthumous publication and culmination of author Helen Krich Chinoy’s lifelong dedication to the history of this landmark American theatre […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: New Paradigms in Performance Documentation Working Session
TLA’s own Laurie Murphy of New York University convened one of the two final working sessions of the conference. New Paradigms in Performance Documentation consisted of a wonderful group of presentations, each focusing upon a unique performance documentation project. While the presentations were devoted to very diverse projects, together they provided insight into the common challenges […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: Six Presentations in Sixty Minutes
Exhibition Papers at the SIBMAS-TLA Conference The Exhibition Papers, presented after lunch on Friday, were varied and informative. Chaired by Susan Cole of the Constellation Center, Cambridge, this session consisted of a “lightning round” of 10-minute presentations that introduced a number of projects and initiatives being undertaken by repositories around the world. Presentations included: […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: Sizing Up Day Three
Keynote Marvin Taylor from the Fales Library at NYU evoked the work of theorists Ann Cvetkovich (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures) and Diana Taylor (The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas) ) to frame his discussion, focusing on aspects of NYU’s Downtown Collection which features work by […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: Nic Leonhardt Keynote
I knew when the morning began with Daft Punk’s “Technologic” we were in for an interesting session. Thursday marked the SIBMAS-TLA conference’s session dedicated to Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts, hosting an interesting array of case studies, projections, and vendor perspectives on what Digital Humanities means and where libraries lie in the discipline. Nic […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: Digital Humanities
With such a contentious debate still brewing over what exactly digital humanities means, the plenary session at the SIBMAS-TLA conference provided the perfect smorgasbord of innovative projects that are seeking to not only define the movement, but challenge and push it into new spheres. The session opened with a joint presentation from Agathe Sanjuan of […]