Best Bet Databases
- Drama Online This link opens in a new windowCollection contains full-text play scripts from ancient, modern and contemporary playwrights, and monologues.
- Musical Theater Songs This link opens in a new windowFind songs according to multiple parameters, including voice type, character's age, tempo, composer, lyricist, and more.
Permitted Uses - Playwrights Canada Press This link opens in a new windowContains 175 plays from notable and award-winning Canadian authors.
- Theatre Performance and Design Collection (National Theatre Collection) This link opens in a new windowProquest
A comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater from production and design to performance, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more.
See Theatre Performance and Design Collection (National Theatre Collection) Guide for technical details.
Permitted Uses
Streaming Video from Films on Demand
There are over 100 titles on drama and the theatre, including numerous full-featured plays like Antigone, Twelfth Night, and Oedipus the King, and video documentaries such as:
Streaming Video from Theatre on Demand
It includes over 250 full-featured productions including most of Shakespeare's plays, many ancient Greek plays such as Agamemnon, and more modern plays such as Death of a Salesman, The Enemies, The Master Builder, Rockaby, and many more.
There are also over 100 video documentaries including titles such as:
DVD and VHS for Plays and Musicals
- The importance of being EarnestGreenwood, Joan, 1921-
PN1997 .I575 2002 - Singin' in the rainMoreno, Rita
PN1997 .S523 2000 - My fair lady : a musical play in two actsLoewe, Frederick, 1901-1988
ML50 .L8256 M9 1956
DVD and VHS for Theatre and Techniques
- Broadway's lost treasures collectionCohen, Christopher A.
PN2270.A93 B75 2006 - Changing stagesMuir, Jamie
PN2595 .C493 2000 - Mask exploration : the process of character creation and transformationCampbell, Stephanie, Professor
PN2071.M37 M375 2008 - Simon Callow on acting in restoration comedyAitkin, Maria
PN2071.C57 C354 2006 - Warm-ups and improvisationPreston, Andrew
PN2071.I5 W376 2004
