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Category: Theatre & Performance

Medici.tv Jazz

Medici.tv Jazz The Jazz module of Medici.tv adds 500 Jazz Programs onto our existing medici.tv subscription. Medici.tv is a streaming video database that specializes in providing video recordings of live music performances. Traditionally, they have focused on Classical and Opera music but have since expanded their offerings to include a Jazz module as well.

The American Stage to 1819

The American Stage to 1819 The most comprehensive collection about the American theatre from 1702 to 1819, The American Stage to 1819 features more than 2,000 primary sources representing the era’s range of genres. Historical plays, melodramas, comedies, satires, musicals, operas, dramatic adaptations, and more reveal the American theater’s importance as a cultural institution. And,

Play With a Pro

Play With a Pro Over 200 hours of educational videos from structured advanced fundamentals to studies of repertoire in HD quality and superb sound featuring 17 world-renowned artists and pedagogues across bassoon, breathing technique, cello, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe, trombone, trumpet, tuba. Registration and activation with Northwestern University email address is required for access.

Drama Online: Stage on Screen

Drama Online: Stage on Screen Capture the atmosphere and tension of live theatre with four high-quality recordings of classic plays from Stage on Screen for students and theatre enthusiasts everywhere. Filmed in front of a live audience at London’s historic Greenwich Theatre, the plays are directed, designed, and performed by talented and experienced theatre professionals.

OPERA America

OPERA America Features OPERA America, an association that serves the field of opera by providing information, technical, and administrative resources to the opera community. Discusses advocacy and awareness programs, publications, and membership information. Highlights professional development services, as well as other benefits and services. Links to information resources and databases. Access to North American Works

New Play Exchange

New Play Exchange The New Play Exchange (NPX) is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. Find, read, and download scripts, view writer profiles, contact writers, and read professional script recommendations. Search for scripts by cast size, play length, genre, subject matter, and more. Search people by writer type and demographics.

Shakespeare’s Globe Archive

Shakespeare’s Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance Shakespeare’s Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance documents the performance and construction history of the new Globe and the indoor theatre space of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The material in this archive will be essential to any students or researchers interested in Shakespeare in performance, theatre history, early-modern

National Theatre Collection, Part 2 (Royal National Theatre in London)

Northwestern University Libraries now has access to collection 2 of the National Theatre Collection (in addition to collection 1). Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the collection includes the following films. Access at the publisher’s website or through NUsearch.    Part 2 titles

26 New Streaming Videos from Docuseek

New streaming documentary films from Docuseek.  Docuseek provides exclusive educational streaming access to documentary and social issues films. Access available via NUsearch or the Docuseek2 website.   Maguy Marin: time to act / Naïa Productions et Compagnie Maguy Marin présentent en coproduction avec Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes cinéma un film de David Mambouch; écrit et réalisé par David

Nineteenth Century American Drama: Popular Culture and Entertainment, 1820-1900

Nineteenth Century American Drama: Popular Culture and Entertainment, 1820-1900 Comprehensive collection of 4700 American plays published between 1820 and 1900. Includes comedies, tragedies, satires, pantomimes, melodramas, extravaganzas, and much more.  Nineteenth-Century American Drama represents a goldmine for Drama and Theater programs around the world. Broad geographic coverage—the stages of New York, Chicago, New Orleans, San