Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gangel, Jamie
2. Didion, Joan
3. Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
4. NBC Television Network
5. Shubert Organization, donor

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (6 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. News segment devoted to the Broadway production of Joan Didion's one-person play The year of magical thinking. The play is an adaptation of Didion's memoir concerning the death of her husband, author John Gregory Dunne. Segment includes brief performance excerpts, and excerpts from interviews with Didion and with actor Vanessa Redgrave, who portrayed Didion. The play opened at the Music Box Theatre on March 29, 2007, and closed on Aug. 25, 2007.

Uniform title

1. Today show (Television program)

Subject

1. Grief > Drama
2. Theater > New York (State) > New York
3. Television
4. Didion, Joan > Drama
5. Didion, Joan > Interviews
6. Death > Psychological aspects > Drama
7. Didion, Joan > Year of magical thinking
8. Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- > Interviews
9. Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 > Drama
10. Didion, Joan > Family > Drama
11. Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 > Death and burial > Drama
12. Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Television.

Call number

1. NCOX 2298

Note

1. No credits on tape. Title supplied by cataloger.

Access (note)

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

1. Featuring Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave. Interviewer: Jamie Gangel.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped at the Booth Theatre and elsewhere in New York, N.Y. Originally broadcast on NBC-TV on April 13, 2007.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. [The year of magical thinking on the Today show] [videorecording] / Produced for NBC-TV.

Imprint

1. New York, 2007.

Access

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

1. Featuring Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave. Interviewer: Jamie Gangel.

Event

1. Videotaped at the Booth Theatre and elsewhere in New York, N.Y. Originally broadcast on NBC-TV on April 13, 2007.

Local note

1. Gift of the Shubert Organization.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Gangel, Jamie, interviewer.
2. Didion, Joan, interviewee.
3. Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- interviewee.
4. NBC Television Network.
5. Shubert Organization, donor.

Added title

1. Today show (Television program)

Research call number

1. NCOX 2298