Welcome to the Wayne G. Basler Library at Northeast State Community College
Welcome to the Wayne G. Basler Library at Northeast State Community College
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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in theatre education (filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material) with previously unpublished production designs, reference texts, and top-of-the-line teaching tools, there really is no better way for faculty to bring the brilliance of stage right into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.
This database contains over 190 performances of leading plays and more than 350 film documentaries. The plays were recorded while performed before a live theatre audience, and the documentaries cover various aspects of theatre. Works by well-known playwrights, directors, actors, and acting companies are represented in Broadway and off-Broadway productions for each decade from the 1950s through the 2020s.
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, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Helen Mirren, John Cleese, Charles Gray, Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, David Gwillim, Anthony Quayle, and many more. Videos recorded between 1978-1985.
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.
Thousands of exclusive streaming educational videos from top producers, segmented into easy-to-use clips.
Also includes Archival Films & Newsreels.
Check out our Theatre Journals, available online!
These books are available online - clicking on the book will take you to it. If you are off-campus, you will need to enter your login information to access the books.
Running Theaters: Best Practices for Leaders and Managers by
Advice culled from interviews with more than 100 experts in the field The best practices that consistently lead to successful theater operation are now revealed in this comprehensive resource. Culled from surveys and interviews with theater managers and experts in crucial functional areas, this guide provides important tips for all people who work or want to work in regional, campus and community-based theaters. Proven strategies from managers, staff, and volunteer leaders cover virtually every aspect of running a theater - from audience development and fundraising to facility development and community involvement. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
So You Want to Be a Theatre Designer? by
A theater designer needs to be able to draw on a wide spectrum of skills, work collaboratively with all the different members of the production team, and deliver designs that work in the testing conditions of performance. Written by an experienced practitioner and teacher, this book is an essential guide for any aspiring or emerging theater designer.
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing by
This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors, designers, other collaborators and audiences, and treatment of dramatic material. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova explore the different rehearsal and staging principles and methods of such earlier groundbreaking figures as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Brecht, revising standard perspectives on their work. The authors analyse, as well, a diverse range of innovative contemporary directors, including Ariane Mnouchkine, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peter Sellars, Robert Wilson, Thomas Ostermeier and Oskaras Korsunovas, among many others. While tracing the different roots of directorial practices across time and space, and discussing their artistic, cultural and political significance, the authors provide key examples of the major directorial approaches and reveal comprehensive patterns in the craft of directing and the influence and collaborative relationships of directors.
The A to Z of African American Theater by
The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions to the field from its birth in 1816 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, directors, playwrights, plays, theater producing organizations, themes, locations, and theater movements and awards.
The following newspapers feature theatre news and reviews. To find these articles, enter "theatre" in the box entitled "Search within Publication."
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