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Theatre and Drama Premium

Theatre and Drama Premium features drama texts from diverse playwrights, high definition performance videos, documentaries, interviews, audio plays, contextual reference material, and production design archival content.

Theatre and Drama Premium

Theatre and Drama Premium features drama texts from diverse playwrights, high definition performance videos, documentaries, interviews, audio plays, contextual reference material, and production design archival content. 

This leading resource for performance provides access to:

  • 13,500 full-text plays, many published for the first time, from canonical and emerging playwrights
  • 150,000 pages of original and contextualizing materials including designs, reference material, and ephemera
  • 300 audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works
  • 850 hours of filmed stage performances, documentaries, and video training materials including content from the BBC and the Royal Shakespeare Company

Highlights of Theatre and Drama Premium

Theatre and Drama Premium provides access to the National Theatre Collection: Volume I and Volume II

 

As well as the filmed recordings, these collections provide exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and costume bibles along with behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.