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Theatre in Video/Audio

Digital Theatre Plus
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Live performances in high quality, with content from leading global producers, and a distinctive range of curriculum-linked educational resources such as exclusive interviews, full transcripts, and in-depth study guides.
Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works
More than 400 professionally recorded audio plays, including those from leading American playwrights.
Theatre in Video
Contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. The collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history via interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Video recordings of 30 productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Featured Videos: Stephen Sondheim
Videos include filmed productions and interviews.

Drama Texts Collection
Over 13,000 plays from the following collections: American Drama, Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Contemporary World Drama, English Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, North American Women’s Drama, Twentieth Century Drama, and Twentieth Century North American Drama
New Play Exchange
The world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers.
Drama Online: Aurora Metro Books
With over 125 plays, this collection offers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by black and Asian writers.
Drama Online: Nick Hern Books
Includes hundreds of plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.
Drama Online: Oberon Books Collection
From ground-breaking British plays to the best of international drama and plays in translation, this is a unique and inspiring collection that features a diverse gathering of canonical and contemporary drama.
Drama Online: Playwrights Canada Press
Offers plays from notable and award-winning authors, including Daniel MacIvor and Hannah Moscovitch.

International Bibliography of Theater & Dance w/ Full Text
Journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations covering all aspects of theatre and performance for more than 126 countries.
Humanities International Complete
This resource provides full text of journals, books, and other published humanities sources from around the world.
JSTOR
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Academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Literature Criticism
Includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Drama Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Short Story Criticism; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

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