Remembering Tony Walton
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Mark Eden Horowitz remembers designer Tony Walton.
Posted in: In Memoriam, Musical Theater, Theater
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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 …
Five Questions: Melissa Young and the Many, Many Awards of Roger L. Stevens
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
In this week’s post we are revisiting an older “In the Muse” series, Five Questions. In the past, we used this interview format as a way to get to know Music Division interns and contract archivists, but in today’s five questions, Processing Technician Melissa Young talks about theatrical producer and Kennedy Center founding chairman Roger …
Posted in: Staff Interviews, Theater
Waiting with Jonathan Larson
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Concluding the series on Jonathan Larson, Mark Eden Horowitz takes a look at Larson's day job as a waiter at New York City's Moondance diner.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
Turning a Life Into Art: The Evolution of tick, tick…BOOM!
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Continuing the series on Jonathan Larson, Music Division Archivist Janet McKinney examines the composer's exploration of how to turn life into art.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
Jonathan Larson in His Own Words
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Senior Music Specialist Mark Eden Horowitz discusses his connection with the early work of Jonathan Larson in the second of four blog posts leading up to the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Larson’s "tick, tick…BOOM!" this month.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
This Day in History: a Relief Concert for the Midwest Fires of 1871
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Anita M. Weber reintroduces the Samuel P. Warren Collection and takes a look back at a benefit concert held on this day in 1871.
Posted in: Special Collections
Frank A. Florentine: Master of Shadows and Light, Part 2
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Processing Technician Pam Murrell takes a closer look lighting designer Frank A. Florentine's work with dancer Rudolf Nureyev in this second of a two-part series.
Posted in: Dance, New Acquisitions
Frank A. Florentine: Master of Shadows and Light, Part 1
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
In the first of a two-part series, Processing Technician Pam Murrell introduces the local-born lighting designer, Frank A. Florentine, and presents the expansive scope of his career.
Posted in: Dance, New Acquisitions