I feel like I have been waiting a lifetime to see a fully staged version of Don Black, Ivan Menchell’s and Frank Wildhorn’s Bonnie & Clyde having fallen in love with the Broadway cast recording. I attended a workshop version at The Other Palace several years ago and the concert a few months back but … Read more
Reactor presents a conversation on climate change discourse in performing arts and a performance of Habituare (Habituation) by Ioana Hogman, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 29 June and Thursday 30 June at 9 am PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 12 pm EDT (New York, UTC -4 … Read more
The commons involves an identity shift… different roles and perspectives. We can escape from capitalist value chains by creating value networks of mutual commitment. It is by changing the micropatterns of social life on the ground with each other that we can begin to decolonize ourselves from history and culture.— David Bollier (1966–) and Silke … Read more
The following is the final blog post in a four part series connecting readers to archival materials from the Music Division’s Jonathan Larson Papers. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Larson’s “tick, tick…BOOM!” Opened last week, and we hope that the sketches, notes, drafts and other materials highlighted in these blog posts enhance your understanding of … Read more
Frederick Loewe, composer. Full score for “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady,1956. Box-361, folder 10, Warner/Chappell Collection, Music Division. The following is a guest post from Music Division Archivist Jane Cross. It is the first of two blog posts about the newly available Warner/Chappell Collection. Arranging and describing a large collection … Read more