League of Professional Theatre Women Photo Exhibit Set for New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The League of Professional Theatre Women, in association with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, will present Celebrating Our Legacy: Oral History Photographic Exhibit of the League of Professional Theatre Women, March 8 – April 28.

The exhibit will be on display in the Library’s Plaza Corridor Gallery, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, and commemorates the women who have been recorded as part of the Theatre on Film & Tape collection at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

The League of Professional Theatre Women, which celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2012, is honoring the oral history legacy which, since 1992, has documented an outstanding array of women, all of whom have contributed to contemporary American theater. The Library for the Performing Arts’ Theatre on Film & Tape Archive is the repository of this extensive documentation of the more than 100 women who have participated in this ongoing series of individual oral histories, videotaped before a live audience.

“Women in Theatre: Interviews with Notable Women in American Theatre” is a TV series of 65 interviews, taped over five years & broadcast on City University of New York Television (CUNY-TV), with copies on deposit at the TOFT Archive. The oral histories are available to students, theater professionals, researchers & interested members of the public. Select interviews are streamed on the LPTW website www.theatrewomen.org.