Monday, September 5: A new play produced by Doorway Arts Theatre Company was presented at the 15th Annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The play, directed by Matt Ripa, featured one minute scenes of all of the U. S. Presidents (including the 2016 Presidential Democratic and Republican nominees), written by playwrights Lindsay Adams, John Bavoso, Patricia Connelly, Rich Espey, Chema Pineda Fernandez, Joshua Ford, Rich Espey, Patrick Gallagher Landes, Annalisa Dias Mandoly, Warren Perry, and Lauren Jane Redmond.
Links to Video
- The Battle of Cedar Creek | C-SPAN
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Portrait in a Minute
- Elaine de Kooning, Portrait in a Minute
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Portrait in a Minute
- Interview with Historian Dan Okrent
- Portrait of John Pelham, Confederate artillery officer
- Interview with Lincoln Schatz, video artist, discussing The Network
- Interview with artist Ronald Sherr on his portrait of Colin Powell
- The Battle of Fredericksburg
- FDR, Portrait in a Minute
- Richard Nixon, Portrait in a Minute
- Lyndon Johnson, Portrait in a Minute
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Portrait in a Minute
- Ernest Hemingway, Portrait in a Minute
- Miguel Covarrubias, Caricature Artist of 1920s America
- Space Shuttle Discovery arrives at the Smithsonian
- Walt Whitman and the Patent Office Building, Civil War
- 1862: The Rise of Ulysses S. Grant
- Interview with artist Rossin
- The Art of Motown - Smithsonian Channel
- Munson's Hill: Battlefield Trickery in the Civil War
- Interview with NPG Curator Frank Goodyear - Portrait of George Custer
- Warren Perry introduces author Roger Di Silvestro on C-SPAN Book TV
- The First Battle of Manassas
- Interview with James Barber on "The Death of Ellsworth" exhibition, National Portrait Gallery
- Interview with NPG historian David C. Ward - Lincoln's Beard
- Interview with NPG Curator Frank Goodyear - Ambrose Burnside, 1861
- Interview with NPG Historian David Ward - Life Masks of Abraham Lincoln
- Interviews with Visitors to Hide/Seek Exhibition at NPG
- Artist interview with photographer Alfred Wertheimer
- Echoes of Elvis Symposium, National Portrait Gallery
- Interview with NPG Curator Ellen Miles
- PBS Newshour - Art Beat: Artists Shake Up Elvis Presley's Image
- Curator tour of One Life: Echoes of Elvis, at National Portrait Gallery
- Smithsonian Magazine - Echoes of Elvis
- Portrait of Walt Whitman, National Portrait Gallery
- Tommy Lasorda Portrait Dedication Ceremony, National Portrait Gallery
Links to Audio of Gallery Talks and Interviews
- Gallery Lecture, Red Grooms portrait of Elvis Presley
- Gallery Lecture, Robert Arneson portrait of Elvis Presley
- Interview with artist Ralph Cowan on portrait of Elvis Presley
- Interview with NPG Deputy Director Carolyn Carr on portrait of President Obama
- Interview with artist Aleksander Titovets and portrait of Laura Bush
- Gallery Lecture, Andy Warhol Portrait of Michael Jackson
- Radio interview on Q102 Winchester, VA
- NPR Interview with Curator Warren Perry on All Things Considered
- Gallery Lecture, Portrait of Eudora Welty by Mildred Wolfe
- Gallery Lecture, Robert McCurdy Portrait of Toni Morrison
- Interview with Saki Yokoyama Tsuiki, Curator of Education at National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
- Interview: Warren Perry and David Ward - Lincoln Symposium
- Gallery Lecture, Ralph Cowan portrait of Elvis Presley
- Warren Perry on Memphis Music, Elvis Presley and Isaac Hayes
- Gallery Lecture, David Silvette portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Interview: Warren Perry and Curator David Ward - The Mask of Lincoln
- Interview: Warren Perry and Curator Sid Hart on Herblock Exhibit
- Gallery Lecture on FDR and the End of Prohibition
Other Associated Sites
- Edmund Warren Perry, Jr. Wikipedia page
- National Portrait Gallery Facebook Page
- Catalog of American Portraits Facebook Page
- Echoes of Elvis Exhibition
- Amazon.com: E. Warren Perry Jr. Author Page
- Elvis at 21 Traveling Exhibition
- National Portrait Gallery weblog - Face to Face
- Doollee - Playwrights Database
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