Theater Studies

Search articles on dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, and performance business, mostly from 1998 onwards

Core literature database, good source for critical articles, dramatic literature, but not reviews

Index to more than 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present; includes mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.Search by author, title, cast characteristics; use "get it @ duke" button to find plays in the library or online.

Search for detailed information about Asian American plays

Search and find the full text of plays by 200 leading African dramatists from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean

Search in a collection of 1,000 international contemporary plays, from 2000 to present day.

Contains plays from the earliest Greek works through the present day, in text, video, and audio formats. Includes background and contextual works on playwrights, theater movements, genres, practitioners and periods, as well as scholarly monographs, dictionary content, and practical books on acting and stage craft. 
Duke has access to the following modules:

--Aurora Metro Books Collection 1
--Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection
--Core Collection
--Critical Studies and Performance Practice
--Global Plays Collection 1
--The Hollow Crown
--National Theatre Collection 1, 2, 3
--Nick Hern Books Modern Plays
--Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Live Collection
--Shakespeare Video Collection
--Shakespeare's Globe on Screen
--Shakespeare’s Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 1 & 2
--Shakespeare’s Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 3 
--Stratford Festival Shakespeare Collection 1 & 2
--Theatre Communications Group (TCG) Books Play Collection

Search digital copies of nearly every work printed between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America

Search the full text of English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800

The New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers.

Search for historical plays, melodramas, political satires, black minstrel shows, comic operas, musical extravaganzas, parlor entertainments in the United States from 1820-1900.

Full text of plays by American Indian, First Nation, and Pacific Islanders playwrights of the 20th century; information about the plays and their production, and biographical data.

Search the full text of more than 1,000 plays written by female playwrights from the United States and Canada.

Contain the full text of 2,000 plays written from the late 1800s to the present by more than 300 playwrights from North America.

Provides unlimited access to over 1000+ full-length productions and educational resources. Includes documentaries, masterclasses, lectures, study guides, practical workshop guides or encyclopedia entries.

Access note: To access Digital Theatre+ click the “Sign in” button and enter your Duke email address. You will be redirected to the NetID login page. This resource is not available for Duke Kunshan University users.

Find and watch BBC television productions of the entire Shakespeare canon of 37 plays

Find and watch streaming videos of performances in dance, theater and the arts

Find and stream video of definitive performances of the world’s most important plays beginning in the 1930s and progressing through the 20th century

Search a collection of recorded live theater plays and musicals. Includes 25 performances from the New York theater scene

Find and listen to streaming audio from the curated archive of The L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company

Contains plays from the earliest Greek works through the present day, in text, video, and audio formats. Includes background and contextual works on playwrights, theater movements, genres, practitioners and periods, as well as scholarly monographs, dictionary content, and practical books on acting and stage craft. 
Duke has access to the following modules:

--Aurora Metro Books Collection 1
--Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection
--Core Collection
--Critical Studies and Performance Practice
--Global Plays Collection 1
--The Hollow Crown
--National Theatre Collection 1, 2, 3
--Nick Hern Books Modern Plays
--Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Live Collection
--Shakespeare Video Collection
--Shakespeare's Globe on Screen
--Shakespeare’s Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 1 & 2
--Shakespeare’s Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 3 
--Stratford Festival Shakespeare Collection 1 & 2
--Theatre Communications Group (TCG) Books Play Collection