DT+ includes streaming video and audio of plays and performances produced on the contemporary British and American stage, interviews with professional practitioners and masterclasses on technique, study guides on classic works, and pedagogical guides for the classroom and theater production.

Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here. Also included are the diaries of Larpent’s wife and professional collaborator Anna, recording her criticisms of plays, as well as insights into theatrical culture and English society.

A comprehensive collection of over 1,875 playtexts which includes texts from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill. Major foreign works in translation from Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, and Frank Wedekind are included, as well as student editions and first night program texts.

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. 

North American Indian Drama contains 256 plays by 49 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others.

Theatre in Video: Volume I contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions.

Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 2,059 plays by 434 playwrights, and more than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. This collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Scholars and students who use the database will have a new way to study the signal events of the twentieth century—including the Depression, the role of women, the Cold War, and more—through the plays and performances of writers who lived through these decades.

Literature Online (LION) is a large collection of full-text works of prose, poetry and drama. Works may be located by author or title, or searched full-text for specific words or phrases. Additionally, you can search secondary sources for biographical and critical pieces on authors and their works.

Includes the full text of plays by African, African American, and other Black playwrights. This edition of Black Drama contains over a thousand plays, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

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