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Eugene O'Neill Symposium - Katie Johnson

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Eugene O’Neill Symposium - Katie Johnson. 2023, The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman's Eugene O'Neill Collection, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/assembled-playwright/item/57260

Title: Eugene O'Neill Symposium - Katie Johnson
Description: Symposium Plenary Lecture, Katie Johnson (Miami University), author of RACING THE GREAT WHITE WAY: BLACK PERFORMANCE, EUGENE O'NEILL, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BROADWAY 

"Following the Archive"

How can an archive influence how we think about theatre and performance? What is the relationship between the archive and performance (or, what Diana Taylor calls ‘the repertoire’)? What does it mean to follow the archive when writing about theatre and cultural production? And what can archival errors reveal to us? This presentation discusses how research in archives like the Hammerman Collection reshaped the contours of Katie Johnson's most recent book, RACING THE GREAT WHITE WAY. In following the archive, Johnson reveals lost histories, fresh stories, and a different way of thinking about O’Neill’s contributions in breaking color lines on the Great White Way.
Contributor: Katie Johnson
Date: 2023, Nov 16
Subject: O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 The plays of Eugene O'Neill ..
Place: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Format: Motion Picture
Language: English