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Welcome

Welcome to the guide on researching Theater. This guide will provide an orientation to locating books, articles, collections of digitized literature, and reference sources. Theater is a varied and interdisciplinary field; if you don't find what you need, contact Ask a Librarian.

Streaming Theater

Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Current American & British theater, musical and opera productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries.
Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. 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.
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Includes Shakespeare's Globe on Screen, the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy, and the National Theatre Collection
An online research tool for theater with videos and full texts of plays from across the history of the theater, published by Bloomsbury. Includes the Core Collection, Aurora Metro Books, Classic Spring Oscar Wilde, National Theatre, Currency Press, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, Oberon Books, Playwrights Canada Press, Stratford Festival Shakespeare, and TCG Books.
Broadway HD Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to 19 performances of plays and musicals from the New York theatre scene.
Ontheboards.tv This link opens in a new window

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