English-language plays and secondary sources on theater.
Includes these collections:
• American Drama 1714–1915
• English Drama
• Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
• Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Complete runs of digitized major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2000, including Variety, Billboard, and others.
Including the collections "Cinema, Film and Television" and "Music, Radio and The Stage," this archival research resource contains the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries. Core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting, and theater, together with film fan magazines, and music press titles, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. [More info]
Includes full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and expertly written work overviews.
Combines Gale's literary databases into one cross-searchable research and study environment. Covers authors and their works, literary movements and genres, book reviews, and more from these Gale reference series:
• Gale Literature Criticism
• Gale Literature Resource Center
• Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors
• Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Gale Literature: LitFinder
• Literature Criticism Online
• Literature Resource Center
100+ full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM; resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and film making.
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
Includes these collections:
• American Literary Periodicals, 1782-1834
• American Literary Periodicals, 1835-1858
• American Literary Periodicals, 1859-1891
• Cultural Periodicals from the Southern US, 1797-1877
• Drama, Humor, and Fine Arts Periodicals, 1764-1877
• Fireside Companions and Family Literature Periodicals, 1805-1877
• Literary Periodicals of New England, 1789-1878
• Story Papers, Dimes and Dollar Periodicals, 1828-1877
Valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also include full text ebooks and open access content.
Mostly 3-5 years & older full text. African American studies, anthropology, botany, business, ecology, economics, education, general science, geography, history, language & literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, statistics.
Dates of coverage vary by journal title. All go back to the very first issue published, but most have a "moving wall" embargo that excludes issues from the most recent X years (where X can be anywhere from 0 up to 10 years, depending on the particular journal; most are in the 3 to 5 year embargo range).
Hint: Use documents to find useful keywords and concepts, and retrieve matching JSTOR content, via JSTOR Text Analyzer
Searchable access to the backfile of the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), in full page images digitized from microfilm.
Searchable access to the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), from the first issue on September 18, 1851 to the present. Reproduces the complete full text of every issue in its original printed form, in full page images digitized from microfilm. Also incorporates indexing and subject headings from the New York Times Index, 1851-1993.
Includes clippings from a broad range of newspapers; composite photographs ("keysheets"); music sheet samples featuring popular music, show-tunes, jazz & dance music; photographs of theater, dance, and popular performance; publicity posters & lobby cards.
Performance and architecture-related documents offering insights into the performance practice in the reconstructed Globe Theatre.
This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment, documenting over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programs, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs, and architectural plans.
This project makes available material from the Shakespeare’s Globe performance and architectural archives. The performance archive shows how productions at the reconstructed Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse were conceived, rehearsed, dressed, marketed, and sound tracked, as well as how props were used, how the audiences behaved, and the theatre history and performance lessons that were observed and learned. The documents of the Globe’s performance archive primarily deal with productions from the opening of the theatre in 1997 to the end of Dominic Dromgoole’s tenure as Artistic Director in 2016. It also includes material on performances at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 2014-2016.
The architectural archive contains material on how the reconstruction of the theatre was designed and planned and some of the conversations and debates that informed construction decisions. There is also material on the theatre’s annual reports, communications to its supporters and oral histories detailing some of the early history of the reconstructed theatre.
Important dramatic works in streaming audio from one of the nation's premiere radio theater companies.
The plays, which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, are performed by leading actors from around the world specifically for online listening. Includes plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, and more.
Contains 1,460 full text English plays ca. 1850-present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Black Drama, now it its expanded second edition, contains the full text of more than 1,460 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 230 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor. Over 40% of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Portal to several full-text American and English literature databases.
Includes the following collections:
* AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
* AMERICAN POETRY
* AMERICAN DRAMA 1714–1915
* CANADIAN POETRY
* EARLY AMERICAN FICTION 1789–1850
* EARLY ENGLISH PROSE FICTION
* EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION
* ENGLISH DRAMA
* ENGLISH POETRY, SECOND EDITION
* NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION
* TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
* TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY
These collections will eventually migrate to the ProQuest platform, and this database link and description will be updated.
English-language plays and secondary sources on theater.
Includes these collections:
• American Drama 1714–1915
• English Drama
• Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
• Performing Arts Periodicals Database
British plays licensed between 1737 and 1824, as well as documents that provide their social context.
An archive of almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays, featuring:
• John Larpent Collection of Plays from the Huntington Library, numbering over 2500
• Supplementary documents including Anna Larpent Diaries
• The London Stage, 1660-1800
• A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (Highfill)
Database of songs from musicals spanning 150 years, searchable by 20+ parameters.
Allows you to identify and create lists of songs using various criteria (voice type, character age, range, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, composer, lyricist, etc.). Contains links to buy, rent, trade, or download the sheet music and recordings (subject to availability).
Plays published in the United States in the nineteenth century.
This text collection consists of over 4,700 plays published in the United States from the early nineteenth century to its close. Included within Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture & Entertainment, 1820-1900 are hundreds of annotated copies of prompt books and manuscripts that serve to reveal the changing intentions of authors and the artistic views of directors. Also included is a wide variety of works, such as historical plays, melodramas, political satires, minstrel shows, comic operas, musical extravaganzas, parlor entertainments, adaptations of novels, and many others. The resource seeks to shed light on areas of study generally supported to this point only by imprints and newspapers: daily life in the United States; politics, both local and national; culture in all of its forms; and the shifting and evolving tastes of Americans from across the country.
Provides full-text access to plays by American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.
This edition of North American Indian Drama contains 256 plays by 49 playwrights. More than half of the works are previously unpublished and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others.
The collection begins in the early 1930s with The Cherokee Night and other works by R. Lynn Riggs, the first American Indian playwright to have his works produced. It progresses through the 20th century with plays produced by the Native American Theatre Ensemble (NATE) and other companies of the 1970s and 1980s, including Spiderwoman Theater, the longest continually running Native American or women’s theatre group in North America. The collection also includes contemporary plays produced by Toronto’s Native Earth Performing Arts, Seattle’s Red Eagle Soaring, New York’s Coatlicue Theater Company, and other groups.
Among the playwrights included are Hanay Geiogamah, Diane Glancy, Bruce King, William S. Yellow Robe, Yvette Nolan, Monique Mojica, Terry Gomez, Daniel David Moses, Laura Shamas, E. Donald Two-Rivers, Elvira and Hortensia Colorado, Jason Begay, Joseph A. Dandurand, LeAnne Howe, and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada, including Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, and others. A significant number of the plays have never been published before.
Covers more than 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present, written in or translated into English.
Covers more than 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present, representing a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Allows searching for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); and cast type. Includes descriptive annotations with plot summaries, musical requirements, number of sets, scenery requirements, etc.
Full text collection of over 800 plays written by the sixteen most prolific dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age (XVI and XVII centuries), including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina.
Provides streaming video access to original productions of plays, along with film documentaries on the subject of theater.
Theatre In Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history.
Includes Theatre in Video Supplement, published June 2011.
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Classic and contemporary plays and documentaries in streaming video.
Theatre in Video: Volume II complements Theatre in Video with about 400 additional hours of plays and documentaries. Volume II has a greater focus on contemporary and international productions. Includes performances from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the BBC, Theatre Arts Films and TMW Media Group.
Streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies, experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes, documentaries by and about leading choreographers, videos on dance training, and other items covering a wide range of 20th century dance styles.
Streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,600 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, and other labels and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.
Key features include:
• Over 1600 full-length videos, available anytime, anywhere
• Create custom clips: edit and add them to individual playlists
• Subtitles available in 5 languages
• Search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival
• Access pre-defined video chapters and other points of interest including individual arias and scene breaks
• View video as Full Screen, 2/3 Screen or 1/4 Screen
• Videos stream at 700 Kbps (standard quality) and 2 Mbps (high quality)
• Libretto/text included when available
Videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide.
Covers the major fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, New York and London, as well as Miami swim and New York bridal collections. Topical segments visit events like the Met's Costume Exhibits, CFDA Awards, and feature interviews with top designers, models, and celebrities of the fashion world.
Searchable archive of Women's Wear Daily from first issue in 1910 to within past year: every page, article, advertisement, and cover.
Comprehensive archive of Women's Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included, with searchable text and indexing. The Women's Wear Daily Archive preserves one of the fashion industry's most influential reads. Key moments in the history of the industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers and advertisers are all covered in this publication of record.
Online access to Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to three months ago, in high-resolution color page images.
Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 up to three months ago, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. More than 400,000 pages are included, documenting the work from designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the late 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries. Users can conduct searches to reveal results in all text, captions, and titles throughout the magazine, including advertisements, covers and fold-outs. Page images are provided in both JPEG and Flash digital formats.
Search across all video, audio, and text collections provided by Alexander Street Press, including Theatre in Video Vol. 1 & 2, Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection, Dance Online, Music Online: Opera in Video, Fashion Studies Online, and more.
Search across all video, audio, and text collections provided by Alexander Street Press. By making your own account, you can save and share clips and playlists. Audio and video recordings can be downloaded to an Apple OS or Android phone, available for 48 hours. A complete list of the collections within Alexander Street Press is available online.
Over 30,000 documentary from an array of producers and distributors.
Kanopy Streaming offers a variety of documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active, California Newsreel, Checkerboard Films, Criterion Collection/Janus films, Documentary Educational Resources, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber Edu, Media Education Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, and the DEFA Film Library's (East) German Film Collection.
All videos work on PCs with Flash, iPads, iPhones, and mobile devices. To facilitate teaching, they can be projected in lecture halls, embedded in authenticated web pages, and watched off-campus (with login) with unlimited simultaneous viewers. Users can also create Playlists and make clips.
Streaming access to more than 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances.
Met Opera on Demand: Student Access offers users instant access to more than 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances, including stunning HD videos from the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1935. All videos include English subtitles, and recent HD videos include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and/or Spanish. New titles are added every month, with most of the Met’s Live in HD programs coming online a few months after their live transmission date. Every opera includes an English synopsis, with synopses in multiple languages available for many operas.
NB: This resource is limited to ten simultaneous users. If you cannot access it, please try again later.
Streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,600 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, and other labels and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.
Key features include:
• Over 1600 full-length videos, available anytime, anywhere
• Create custom clips: edit and add them to individual playlists
• Subtitles available in 5 languages
• Search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival
• Access pre-defined video chapters and other points of interest including individual arias and scene breaks
• View video as Full Screen, 2/3 Screen or 1/4 Screen
• Videos stream at 700 Kbps (standard quality) and 2 Mbps (high quality)
• Libretto/text included when available
High-quality films of full-length performances by some of today’s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, and music.
OntheBoards.tv is an on-demand website for HD-quality contemporary performance films available for streaming, download or mobile viewing. This first-of-its-kind site brings contemporary work to a wider public by filming top caliber performances with multiple high-definition cameras, editing the film collaboratively with the artists, and delivering them online as feature-length performance films. Filmed at On the Boards, as well as in peer theaters across the country, the performances present a snapshot of the best new works by current leaders in dance, theater, and music. The films consist of compelling international and northwest contemporary performance, including works by artists who are rarely seen in the US and works that will never be performed again.
Database of songs from musicals spanning 150 years, searchable by 20+ parameters.
Allows you to identify and create lists of songs using various criteria (voice type, character age, range, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, composer, lyricist, etc.). Contains links to buy, rent, trade, or download the sheet music and recordings (subject to availability).
Find e-books and the 25,000+ full text journals held by the Thompson Library in print, microfilm, & online. Updated every 1-2 days. Search by title or ISSN/ISBN.
