About the project

The exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance, a collaboration between The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the League of Professional Theatre Women, featured works by 110 distinguished designers of scenery, costumes, lighting, props, and projections from various performing arts disciplines, including dance, theater, and opera, from the 1890s to the present. Including photographs, sketches, drawings, set models, costumes, performance videos, ground plans, and interviews with designers, it focused on women designers as participants in the major artistic movements of the period, from experimental theater through the development of modern and, later, postmodern, dance. It also illuminated women’s roles in developing new technologies and materials for performance while investigating the connections among women designers and women-run businesses.

This package of an educator’s guide, disc, poster, and stickers was distributed to schools throughout New York City and used across all grades to educate students through the arts.