New and improved Theatre Research Guide coming soon - fall 2024. Please contact me if you have questions or suggestions!
- - Louisa Trott, Arts & Humanities Librarian
Streaming videos of current leading theater productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries, as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of theater productions and texts.
Includes filmed performances of National Theatre Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings. The Library has access to collections 1, 2, and 3.
Includes 30 filmed live performances of The Globe stage from 2008-2018. We subscribe to Collections 1 & 2.
A streaming video collection of live performances of theatre productions.
A streaming video collection of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
A fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects published during the 18th Century in the United Kingdom with digitized images.
Books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs, statistics, and other primary source documents from the 19th century. Focus is British.
Color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London. Also includes secondary sources such as maps and essays.
Explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975 in Britain and the U.S. Full-text of documents, images, and video.
With more than 2 million images* (and growing), Artstor is a cross-disciplinary collection of rights-cleared images from around the world.
*Note: The number of images available varies by country due to copyright restrictions.
Books
Check the library catalog or browse the PN1600-3307 areas in the circulating collection on 4th floor of the library.
Articles
For all areas of the Performing Arts: Performing Arts Periodicals Database (International Index to the Performing Arts)
For American and Canadian Theatre: North American Theater Online
For recent articles and reviews: Academic Search Complete
Video
See our streaming media guide to learn more about accessing streaming videos. Search the library catalog to find a DVD (or VHS!) in our collection, and watch it in The Studio or at home.