Stars and Treasures Exhibition to Open at NYPL at Lincoln Center

A new exhibition titled Stars and Treasures: 75 Years of Collecting Theatre will open at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center on November 21 and will run though May 5. Admission is free.

The exhibition will be drawn from the collections of the library’s Billy Rose Theatre Division. Among the items on view will be the bejeweled belt worn by Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Cleopatra; a draft of House of Flowers, annotated in Truman Capote’s hand; Cecil Beaton’s costume designs for the original production of My Fair Lady; circus drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec; and the cornerstone of the demolished Ziegfeld Theatre, with its contents. Artifacts of Edwin Booth, Gypsy Rose Lee and her mother Rose, Tennessee Williams, and many other theater notables will also be featured.

Among the stars who have loaned personal treasures for the exhibition are Jane Alexander, Harvey Fierstein, Julie Harris, Patti LuPone, Angela Lansbury, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, Roger Rees, and Ben Vereen.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a related season-long series of free programs will be presented in the library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. For more information, visit www.nypl.org/lpaprograms or phone 212-642-0142.