LibGuides: Theatre: DVD, Websites, etc.

DVD & Audiorecordings

Look in the CSI Library Catalog. Type the name of a playwright or the title of a play. When the results list appears, the left column has the heading Limit Search Results. Look under Format.

Select Video disc to limit your results to DVDs
Select Audio disc for audiorecordings on CD
Select Sound recording for downloadable audiorecordings.

Master classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique by Joanna Merlin
Call Number: DVD PN2075 .M37 2007
ISBN: 9780415422581
Publication Date: 2007
A collection of acting workshops led by some of the world's most renowned practitioners of theorist Michael Chekhov's acting techniques. 3 discs. CAMPUS USE ONLY

Websites

AACT: American Association of Community Theatre
Educational Theatre Association
IBDB: Internet Broadway Database
The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) presents The Show Must Go On, an excellent online exhibition detailing theater in America during the Great Depression. Here, readers will find an exploration of the era's theatrical history accompanied by numerous contemporary photographs from the collections of the DPLA and its partner organizations. Beginning with the decade leading up to the stock market crash of 1929, the exhibition provides contextual explanations of the societal and cultural shifts at play before the Great Depression struck. Readers will learn about the Federal Theater Project, which began in 1935 as part of Roosevelt's New Deal, as well as the innovations American theaters developed during this time, such as the Living Newspaper genre which "directly engaged audiences with social issues of the moment" using newspaper headlines as inspiration. The exhibition also pays attention to African-American theater, particularly the 1936 production of Voodoo Macbeth directed by Orson Welles, who reimagined Shakespeare's Scottish play as a Haitian story and cast it entirely with black actors. The Show Must Go On offers a unique window into a fascinating piece of American history.
Tony Awards
USITT: United States Institute for Theatre Technology

Streaming Video

Documentaries and filmed versions of many plays are available to watch online. Start by going to our Electronic Resources: Online Videos page. Try these (You'll need your CSI login):

Academic Video Online: Includes two drama collections: National Theatre Collection and Theatre in Video
Ambrose Digital Videos: BBC versions of four Shakespeare plays: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Much Ado About Nothing
Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection: type the name of a playwright or the title of a play in the search box

Theatre: DVD, Websites, etc.

DVD, Websites, Streaming video

DVD & Audiorecordings

Websites

Streaming Video