LibGuides: Theatre: Streaming Video & Images

Streaming Video Resources

The UNLV Libraries subscribes to several resources that allow you to stream productions from the comfort of your own home! For more information on our streaming databases, please visit our Online Movies & Streaming Video Guide.

Broadway on Demand Collection This link opens in a new window
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Along with musicals, plays, and contemporary dance performances, the collection of videos includes unique behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, and masterclasses to help researchers gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the art of theater.
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
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Includes recent National Theatre, Donmar and Royal Shakespeare Company productions.
Over 1000 full text plays, from Aeschylus to the present day, including modern classics from Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Alan Bennett, Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, John Osborne, April De Angelis, and David Hare; contemporary writers include Polly Stenham, Katori Hall, D.C. Moore, James Graham, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Lucy Prebble.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
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Performances from BBC, Broadway Theatre Archive, Stratford Festival, and many more companies and arts organizations. List of plays
Theatre in Video presents online streaming video of complete professional performances of more than 250 well-known plays, together with more than 500 video documentaries. View and bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples.
BroadwayHD collection This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video of 19 recent Broadway theatrical productions, including Indecent, She Loves Me, Long Day's Journey into Night, Present Laughter, and Buried Child.
UNLV has perpetual access to only the 19 plays (spreadsheet) in this collection. This is not a subscription to the BroadwayHD.com web site, which does not offer academic licenses.

BBC Shakespeare Videos
Online access to all 37 Shakespeare plays produced by the BBC.

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This streaming video service provides access to thousands of titles in such areas of the arts, humanities, business, sciences, media/communications, education and more.
Source producers include Media Education Foundation, BBC, PBS, Kino Lorber, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, among others.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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Academic Video Online provides access to almost 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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See list of theatrical performances here.

Image Resources

Theatrical images

Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library
The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive archives devoted to the theatrical arts.
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Encompassing dramatic performance in all its diversity, the division is an indispensable resource for artists, writers, researchers, scholars, students, and the general public.
19th Century Actors and Theater Photographs by University of Washington Libraries
The 19th Century Actors and Theater Photographs database consists of over 600 photographs including cartes-de-visite and cabinet card studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.
Portraits of Actors, 1720-1920
3,500 pictures of actors — studio portraits and actors posing in costume for a particular role or performing a scene from a play. The images were digitized from etchings, engravings, lithographs, mezzotints, aquatints, wood engravings, photographs, and photomechanically-reproduced prints, all from the University of Illinois Theatrical Print Collection.
Ringling Collection: images of 19thC actors
Cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses
Vandamm Theatrical Photographs, 1900-1957
NYPL. The Vandamm archive documents almost comprehensively three decades of theatrical history in New York.
Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
Materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric.
LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection
Digitized items from Folger Shakespeare Library. Select Folger Digital Images collection to search images, books, costumes and ephemera.
Victoria & Albert Museum, Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories
"The collection covers fashionable dress from the 17th century to the present day, with the emphasis on progressive and influential designs from the major fashion centres of Europe. The V&A collections also include accessories such as jewellery, gloves and handbags." Click on "collections" link to search the entire database by designer, garment, place, date, etc.

Art and museum collections

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.
Getty Images This link opens in a new window
Images from the J. Paul Getty museum - use the search filters to choose the type of material for your results.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
Images held by the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress.
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress. About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations.

VADS: Visual Arts Data Service
Images from art and design collections in the UK, free for educational use.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
National Gallery of Art Images
Images from the National Gallery of Art
Europeana
Europeana is a European digital library which gives access to online collections of many European institutions (archives, libraries, museums).
Special Collections and Archives Portal

Periodical collections

Godey's Lady's Book This link opens in a new window
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1830-1880
American magazine with firsthand information on social, historical and cultural aspects of the 19th century.
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
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1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.
British Periodicals Collection I and II This link opens in a new window
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1681-1920
Popular British periodicals mostly from the 19th century.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
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1800-1900
Magazines revealing British life in the Victorian age and the events, lifestyles, values, and ideas that shaped their world.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
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Primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores
Victorian Popular Culture, 1779 to 1930 This link opens in a new window
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1779 to 1930
Primary source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. Has books, posters, scrapbooks and optical toys.

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