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Joined October 2020
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Native Voices at the Autry on Cultivating, Preserving, and Showcasing Voices youtu.be/k8r3Q7Q7kro
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Dr. @melibssa😆Thanks @TheaterHistory for your wonderful podcast!
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Tomorrow - Mondays at Beinecke, April 25, 4pm, online: Revisiting Jethro Luke and Race and Slavery in 18th Century New Haven and Yale bit.ly/3r0HHhk
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Melissa Barton retweeted
The Hay is hiring a Curator for the Black Diaspora: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/… Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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Late to this, but this article fails to credit Irene Sharaff for her Academy-Award-winning costumes in Cleopatra. Not all the jewelry was Bulgari; some was designed and constructed by Sharaff herself ‘Cleopatra’ May Be 60, but the Jewelry Never Gets Old nyti.ms/37XPFBq
Featuring a script of Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, Alice Childress's play about an interracial couple fighting anti-miscegenation laws
Brava! Women Make American Theater exhibition on view now beinecke.library.yale.edu/br…
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Also being produced this spring by TFANA! Hooray for this Childress renaissance tfana.org/current-season/wed…
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Brava! Women Make American Theater showcases, through archival materials, the ways in which women in the United States engaged in the production and reception of text-based stage performance over its long history. beinecke.library.yale.edu/br…
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Women, Theater, Archives: Collecting & Stewarding Wed, Mar. 16, 12pm ET online Discussion of uncovering & preserving records of theater & performance + important & often-overlooked work of women feat @melibssa @dramaturglia @ecolleary Tiffany Nixon bit.ly/3KBuXpN
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Thrilled to share @AmAntiquarian Seminar in the History of the Book returns Summer 2022 with "Black Print, Black Activism, Black Study" co-led by Derrick R. Spires and Benjamin Fagan. Applications are due April 1, 2022. More info at bit.ly/3LUaxJe. #bookhistory #share
Next Mondays at Beinecke: February 21, 4pm ET “She Had It Comin’”: Recognition, Regret, and Maurine Dallas Watkins with Catherine Sheehy Zoom webinar registration: bit.ly/34HIuLY
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Would you like to join La MaMa archivist Sophie Glidden-Lyon on a virtual tour of the archive at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club? Tues. March 1st, 6:30 EST, register at the link below. eventbrite.com/e/tla-member-…
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Happy birthday Langston Hughes, 121* years young
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Melissa Barton retweeted
In honor of her birthday today, a thread of the top stupidest Edith Wharton jokes I have made on here (1/50)
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Next Mondays at Beinecke: BRAVA – Women Make American Theater with Melissa Barton January 24, 4pm ET; registration: bit.ly/32Ui34R
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Heartbroken. Kenya was a force. I'm so sorry to her family and friends.
We are devastated by the passing of Kenya Flash, Librarian for Political Science, Global Affairs and Government Information @YaleMarxLibrary. Deepest condolences to her family, friends and colleagues on this incalculable loss. Photo: 2018 ALA/ACLR profile bit.ly/32ozefb
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Gwendolyn Bennett’s letters from Paris with Melissa Barton - Mondays at Beinecke, 12/6/2021 WATCH: youtu.be/UAUVvwtoj3E
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ICYMI: Gwendolyn Bennett’s letters from Paris with Melissa Barton - Mondays at Beinecke, 12/6/2021 youtu.be/UAUVvwtoj3E
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