Curator Cathy Haill and Museum Photographer Graham Brandon take a look behind the scenes at Funny Girls cabaret show bar. Pleasure gardens, song and supper rooms, and music halls...
In celebration of Halloween Assistant Curator, Alexander Clayton, takes a look at five spooky objects from the V&A Theatre and Performance Collections. TREAT: Frankenstein’s...
Corrie Tan, volunteer in the Department of Theatre and Performance, describes her experience working with Theatre and Performance Collections. I’m on tiptoes atop a yellow...
Assistant Curator, Janet Birkett, explores V&A Theatre and Performance Collections for examples of pigs in British theatre. Readers of The Stage newspaper will be familiar...
Assistant Curator, Alice Young, takes a closer look at the Actors Touring Company Archive. The V&A Department of Theatre and Performance recently acquired the Actors Touring...
Assistant Curator, Harriet Reed, explores the history of Irish theatre and shares a few of the highlights from the V&A Theatre and Performance Collections. ‘It is...
Assistant Curator, Janet Birkett, remembers the late director, Sir Peter Hall, who died on 11th September 2017. The British theatre would look very different without Peter Hall....
Assistant Curator, Alex Clayton, explores some of the strangest and most extraordinary animal entertainments on offer to Londoners in 18th and 19th centuries, using material from...
In the third post of the series marking the forthcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of modern circus, curator Cathy Haill, focuses on the aquatic entertainments at the...
As part of the Assistant Curator Development Programme, Harriet Reed visited the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond to find out more about its history, restoration and archive...
August 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of playwright, Joe Orton. Curator of Printed Books, Dr Beverley Hart, looks back at Orton’s controversial...
Archive Assistant, Alice Ridgway, gives an introduction to the Felix Dennis OZ Archive and the challenges in cataloguing the collection. Earlier this year the V&A Department...
From April to July 2017, The V&A loaned two paintings and three prints to the Bowes Museum, County Durham for their exhibition Painting the Stage: Garrick In Action. Assistant...
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Vivien Leigh in 1967, Keith Lodwick highlights an area of Leigh’s archive previously unknown to the public: Leigh’s passion for...
Alice Ridgway examines the imagery used by the band, Black Sabbath, and their role in defining a heavy metal subculture. The V&A Department of Theatre and Performance holds a...
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the National Video Archive of Performance, Jill Evans looks back at how the archive has developed. This May, we fêted...
In this second post of the series marking the forthcoming 250th anniversary of modern circus, Curator, Cathy Haill, explores the history of aquatic pageants at Olympia Exhibition...
