OPEN IN OUR NEW LOCATION!
31 AUGUST 2009
The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute has opened its doors in the renovated Thompson Library with a beautiful new reading room for Special Collections on the main floor, just off the Oval (view our new location). The new address for the visits we hope you will make and for mail is:
The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
The Ohio State University
119 Thompson Library
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
The telephone and fax remain the same: 614-292-6614 (phone) 614-688-8417 (fax).
Lawrence and Lee Institute staff who will be on hand to greet you are: Curator Nena Couch, Associate Curator Beth Kattelman, and Assistant Curators Kathleen Kopp and Orville Martin, joined by newly appointed Director Mary Tarantino.
A gala opening of the Thompson Library on Saturday, 22 August, was attended by more than 2300 people including some special visitors for the Institute. Toy Theatre specialist Fritz Kannik was in attendance and left a gift for the collection, and Pittsburgh theatre critic Alice Carter and husband Rod toured the previous day while delivering Alice's papers to the Institute.
Dawn, Nena, and Chuck McCaghy join "Mame" who greeted all the gala guests with her trumpet! Chuck established, and continues to build, the Charles H. McCaghy Collection of Exotic Dance from Burlesque to Clubs, an outgrowth of his own research and publication, which has already been used in a master's thesis, for coursework, and a digital exhibit: "Loose Women in Tights: Images of Femininity in Early Burlesque Performance."
Nyle and Helen Stateler, donors of the Curtiss Show Print Collection, admire the poster and printing block in the exhibit celebrating the opening of the Thompson Library. This is a small taste of the wonderful exhibit on the Curtiss collection that the Lawrence and Lee Institute will be mounting in the Thompson gallery in summer 2010.
This collection includes costume and scene designs from more than fifty productions by British designer Daphne Dare (1929-2000). Dare designed for major theatres on both sides of the Atlantic as well as for television and film. Throughout her career, she had a part in over sixty productions, serving in such roles as art director, costume designer, production designer, and set designer. Dare designed at the Bristol Old Vic from 1958 until 1963. She worked as a costume designer for BBC TV from 1964-1968, designing the first two years of costumes and monsters for Dr. Who. In 1967-1968 she became the Head of Design at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. In the early 1970s Dare worked with Robin Phillips on a number of acclaimed productions including Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1970) with a young Patrick Stewart, Abelard and Heloise (Wyndham's, 1970) with Diana Rigg, Dear Antoine (Chichester and Piccadilly, 1971), and Miss Julie (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1971). 1973 was a very productive year for Daphne Dare and Robin Phillips with a season at Greenwich, a company including Jeremy Brett, Mia Farrow, Elisabeth Bergner, Penelope Keith, and Lynn Redgrave, in productions such as The House of Bernarda Alba, Three Sisters, Born Yesterday, Cats Play, and Zorba...
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Welcome to the homepage of The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI) of The Ohio State University. The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute serves as an archive for performers, playwrights, choreographers, designers, producing organizations, and theatre and dance companies, among others, and advances the study and inspiration of the performing arts. In association with the Department of Theatre, the Institute acquires, preserves, and makes accessible materials documenting the performing arts for the purposes of scholarship, education, and enjoyment; provides an active teaching component; serves as a source for new works creation, development, and reconstruction; and enriches patrons' experiences of these materials which reveal our performing arts culture and history.
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