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
Good for: Gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation of musical theater.
Contains: Video of musicals, plays, contemporary dance performances, behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, and masterclasses.
Drama Online
Includes recent National Theatre, Donmar and Royal Shakespeare Company productions.
Theatre in Video
Performances from BBC, Broadway Theatre Archive, Stratford Festival, and many more companies and arts organizations. List of plays
BroadwayHD collection
Good for: Watching recent Broadway theatrical productions.
Contains: Streaming video

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

Kanopy
Good for: Streaming videos including documentaries, features and independent films.
Contains: Films.

Source producers include Media Education Foundation, BBC, PBS, Kino Lorber, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, among others.
Academic Video Online
Good for: Learning about various subjects through educational videos.
Contains: Documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, and other videos spanning a wide range of subject areas.
Films on Demand
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
Good for: Finding and using digital images for research and teaching.
Contains: Art digital images and related data.
Getty Images
Good for: Finding images from the J. Paul Getty museum.
Contains: Images.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Good for: Finding images held by the Library of Congress.
Contains: Images.

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
Good for: Reading firsthand accounts of 19th-century American society, history and culture.
Contains: PDF images and scanned text of articles from the popular magazine.
Dates covered: 1830-1898.
American Periodicals Series
Good for: Searching American magazines and journals published mostly before 1900.
Contains: Magazines and journals.
Dates covered: 1740-1940.
British Periodicals
Good for: Searching articles in magazines about British culture and society.
Contains: Popular British periodicals, mostly from the 19th century.
Dates covered: 1681-1920.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure
Good for: Gaining insights into British home life and leisure reading in the Victorian age.
Contains: Magazines.
Dates covered: 1800-1900.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature
Good for: Finding primary sources related to entertainment in the Victorian era in Great Britain, including music, theatre, and popular literature.
Contains: Books, popular magazines, play scripts, playbills, scores.
Dates covered: 1800-1900.
Victorian Popular Culture
Good for: Finding primary sources related to popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe.
Contains: Books, posters, scrapbooks, and optical toys.
Dates covered: 1779-1930.

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