Theater: Library Online

Combining the most important video content types used in theatre education (filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material) with previously unpublished production designs, reference texts, and top-of-the-line teaching tools, there really is no better way for faculty to bring the brilliance of stage right into their classrooms. Now, faculty, scholars, and patrons of the performing arts will be able to revisit great performances again and again.

Videos. Coverage: 1937 - 2011.

Description: This database contains over 250 performances of leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries. The plays were recorded while performed before a live theatre audience, and the documentaries cover various aspects of theatre. Additional works will be added to the collection in the future to cover a wide range of twentieth century theatre history. Works by well-known playwrights, directors, actors, and acting companies are represented in Broadway and off-Broadway productions for each decade from the 1930s through the 2010s.

Videos. 1978-1985.

Description: Streaming videos of the BBC's productions of all of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays. Watch the entire play or individual acts and enjoy the quality productions featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent: Derek Jacobi, Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, John Cleese, Charles Gray, Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, David Gwillim, Anthony Quayle, and many more.

Partial Full-Text. 1980-present.

Description: Find information on arts-related topics from over 150 journals with over 5 million articles. Search for topics in architecture, art, dance, film, music, and theatre, covering a broad range of styles, periods and movements. The content of this database is also part of Academic OneFile and General OneFile, along with additional original material.

Thousands of exclusive streaming educational videos from top producers, segmented into easy-to-use clips.

Also includes Archival Films & Newsreels

Partial Full-Text. 1980 - Present
Description: Comprehensive database with millions of articles from journals and other reference sources. Includes articles on a variety of subjects such as: business and small business, communications and mass media, computers, criminal justice, diversity, education, environmental studies, health and medicine, landscaping and horticulture, military and terrorism, pop culture, psychology, religion and philosophy, and science. Includes the full-text coverage of The New York Times from 1985 to present.

Partial Full-Text. 1982 - present.

Description: A one-stop multidisciplinary database covering many subjects such as: education, sciences, humanities, social sciences, etc. Contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full-text) in the other Wilson databases: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Index & Retrospective, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Business Full Text, Education Full Text, General Science, Humanities Full Text, Legal Periodicals Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text.

Full-Text. Coverage: Current.

Description: Search for information on a variety of social issues by using the thousands of viewpoint articles and topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles from national and international sources, primary source documents, court cases, biographies and profiles, statistics, images, videos, podcasts, audio files, and links to evaluated websites.

Full-Text. Coverage: Current.

Description: Provides access to full-text articles and internet resources on a variety of subjects such as economics, health, history, business, science, literature, the arts, philosophy, film, etc. An excellent source for government information and U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Includes a Pro vs Con section that discusses multiple views of major issues.