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Welcome! This guide highlights the major resources the library provides for your research in Theater & Performance Studies. Use the menu at the left to navigate.
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Quick Resources
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance Covers theater, the peforming arts, and popular performance from ancient times to the present. Biographies, short definitions, and lengthy articles that include bibliographies.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.
Streaming Theater
In response to Covid 19, many theaters are closed and performances canceled. However, some productions have been filmed. Read more from the New York Times: Elisabeth Vincentelli. "No Theater? No Problem. Plays and Musicals Switch to Streaming." The New York Times, March 17, 2020. (Accessed March 19, 2020) and from American Theatre: Jerald Raymond Pierce. "Streams Before the Flood: Streaming and Video-Captured Options for Shuttered Shows Could be More than a Stop-gap Solution." American Theatre, March 27, 2020. (Accessed April 3, 2020).
- BroadwayHDRequires a subscription but has a free 7 day trial. Watch streaming video of plays and musicals.
- Drama Online: National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new windowDrawing on 10 years of National Theatre Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the National Theatre Collection makes this rich body of work available to students in schools, universities and libraries around the world. The collection contains 30 full length recordings of National Theatre performances.
- Drama Online: Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Live Collection This link opens in a new windowBloomsbury's Drama Online: Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Live Collection provides access to filmed Live performances of Shakespearean plays staged and acted by the Royal Shakespeare Company. This growing collection currently consists of 24 performances with more scheduled to be included throughout the year.
