Theatre Resources

Full-text access to over 250 plays by Asian American playwrights from the late 19th to early 21st century, with details on productions, theaters, companies, and selected ephemera.

 

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Television adaptations of all 37 Shakespeare plays, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985. These have become standard productions for educational purposes.

Full text access to over 1,700 plays by 200+ Black playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and diaspora regions, plus production details, theater information, playbills, photographs, and other related ephemera, spanning from the mid-1800s to today.

A digital streaming collection of over 1000 full-length films of Shakespeare plays, modern dramas, classical music, dance, musicals, opera and adaptations of classic novels. Digital Theatre Plus includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.

A research database that combines playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations and audio plays. This database is intended for drama and literature students, professors and teachers.

Access over 13,000 plays spanning nearly a millennium, from key Western dramatists to rare, lesser-known works. It’s ideal for in-depth study of English-language drama and offers exclusive, hard-to-find texts unavailable elsewhere.

Coverage: 1850+
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Features hundreds of published and unpublished plays and thousands of pages of poetry and fiction from authors of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Chicano, Central American, South American, and Cuban descent. The plays, poems, and prose touch on many topics but often return to the unique experiences of being Latino in the United States.

Coverage: 2010-
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A streaming video collection of thirty recent productions by the Royal National Theatre (London, England). Productions include Greek theatre (Antigone by Sophocles and Medea by Euripedes), William Shakespeare (Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello and Twelfth Night), classic European (Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard) and American (A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) plays, adaptations of novels (Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Treasure Island), comedies and new writing.

A digital library of scripts by living writers, offering an open platform for sharing and discovering new plays. It serves writers, producers, directors, and theater fans alike.

A collection of plays showcasing the stories and creativity of 20th-century American Indian and First Nation playwrights. Many are unpublished or hard to find, highlighting often overlooked dramatic material.

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Contains selected plays by North American women playwrights from colonial times to the present together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

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OntheBoards.tv is an on-demand website for HD-quality contemporary performance films available for streaming. It includes full-length performances of plays and dance, produced at an experimental theater in Seattle, Washington.

Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.

Features selected 20th-century North American plays, along with information on productions, theaters, and production companies. It also includes playbills, production photos, and related ephemera.