This week’s Caturday should bring back some “memories.” This 1982 photograph of performer Christine Langner is from the Broadway run of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” (one of the longest running Broadway shows in history), and was taken by legendary theater and film photographer Martha Swope. The image is currently located in the incredible Martha Swope Collection at our Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) - a collection highlighted this week in an amazing NY Times profile of Swope (which includes an online slideshow of images), and that is starring in a new (of course, free) exhibition at LPA called Martha Swope: In Rehearsal. The show features rehearsal photos from Swope’s 40-year career documenting NY theater (including photos from the original production of West Side Story) and opens Thursday, Sept. 27. Go down to LPA (conveniently located on the Lincoln Center campus) and check it out!
