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Archive: January 2022 (2 Posts)

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Roger L. Stevens, the early years

Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon

First chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, founding chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, one-time owner of the Empire State Building, producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals, recipient of Tony Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a Knight Commander of the British Empire, Roger …

Posted in: Special Collections, Theater

Woman with dark hair, fancy dress and pearls with eyes closed and mouth slightly open, singing

Theater for the People: transcribing the Federal Theatre Project

Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon

The Music Division is proud to announce the launch of its first collaboration with By the People, a crowd-source transcription initiative from the Library of Congress. Today marks the start of Theater for the People: Federal Theatre Project playbills, a campaign to transcribe more than 7,750 pages of theater programs and fliers documenting productions from …

Posted in: Outreach, Theater