Posts by Annemarie van Roessel

Mourning Harold Prince: A Scholar’s Perspective

 by Annemarie van Roessel, Assistant Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
June 10, 2020
Theatre scholar and 2019-2020 NYPL Short-Term Fellow Ashley Pribyl shares her thoughts on the life and death of Harold Prince and her research in his papers.
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“A Phenomenon Called Katharine Hepburn”: Nostalgia and Aging, Female Stardom on Broadway, 1967-1982

 by Annemarie van Roessel, Assistant Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
May 27, 2020
Theatre scholar and 2019-2020 NYPL Short-Term Fellow explores the Katharine Hepburn papers, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the Library for the Performing Arts.
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Finding the Festival Latino at the Library for the Performing Arts

 by Annemarie van Roessel, Assistant Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
September 25, 2018
What caused the demise of one of the most successful cultural programs of the late twentieth century?
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Beyond the Jersey Shore: 1920s Snapshots From a Chorus Girl's Scrapbook

 by Annemarie van Roessel, Assistant Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
October 1, 2013

Today's guest blog is by Suzanne Lipkin, who processed the Marion Lichtman Setlowe papers for the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Marion Lichtman, 1920'sFriday April 9, 1926 I left Atlantic City to go on the road. I was in Second Year High School. I was 16 years of age on March 25, 1926. I joined the Dancing Debs. at Levoy Theatre, Milville, 

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