

This is the first comprehensive, international collection to cover all aspects of theater production design, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design and makeup.Īnd still more for researchers. Search for productions, designers and time periods.

Browse thousands of watercolour sketches of sets and costumes, from the 17th century through to the present day.

Up next: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur adventure play, The Lost World.)įor researchers, designers and true theatre addicts: take a deep dive into the archive. (Myself, I started with two plays by Tom Stoppard – Arcadia and The Real Thing – and now I'm hooked. If you like theatre and podcasts, you'll love this collection of 300+ plays in streaming audio from the archive of L.A. There's Shakespeare all over the place!)Īudio Drama: L.A. (And if they don't have the play you need, check the other collections. Includes closed captions, transcripts and citation tools. Watch four different Hamlets and a documentary about Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty.Īttention, students! Watch over 40 different Shakespeare plays, including school favourites like Hamlet and King Lear. Learn about theatre safety and how to block a scene. Here's the trailer for David Horn's Tony-winning 2017 production of Indecent:įor actors (and fans): A grab bag of nearly 600 instructional videos, interviews, and full-length performances. Orlando Bloom as a dirtbike-riding Romeo. A very young Dustin Hoffman as a nebbishy writer in Journey of the Fifth Horse.

Here's the trailer for Benedict Cumberbatch's turn in Frankenstein:Ī small but intense collection of 19 Broadway classics. James Corden in One Man, Two Guvnors! The National Theatre Collection offers 30 plays, plus scripts, costume designs and mor. Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire. Now you can do all of the above, from the comfort of home using your library card, thanks to our Streaming Theatre Collections. Or Leah Harvey and CJ Beckford in Small Island (above)? Leah Harvey and CJ Beckford in the National Theatre's Production of Small Island
