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TheaTre anD DramaAlexander Street drama collections

capture the depth and diversity of

drama in all of its forms, from

the stage to the screen. These

resources fill an important

gap in scholarship by

delivering not only the

best-known names in

drama, but also works

by and about often-

overlooked groups,

including African

Americans, women,

and a range of world

cultures. In addition to

cornerstone text-based

resources, Alexander Street

provides curated video and

audio dramatic performances

that give students and scholars a

rounded view of this powerful art form.

Broad-ranging content includes video of live performances, audio

recordings, previously unpublished works from acclaimed playwrights, film

scripts, reference materials, photographs, performance posters, playbills,

and much more.

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Theatre in Video: Volume ITheatre in Video: Volume I brings together hundreds of the world’s most important plays, video documentaries, interviews, and instructional materials in more than 500 hours of streaming video. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. 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.

Theatre in Video: Volume II Theatre in Video: Volume II features 400 hours of additional classic and contemporary plays and documentaries. With a greater focus on contemporary and international productions, Theatre in Video: Volume II offers a simple way for libraries to acquire highly valued and often difficult-to-find performances. Users can view the works of widely studied playwrights and theatre artists from around the globe, including many new performances from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre collection (Opus Arte), Theatre Arts Films, the BBC, and TMW Media Group. This collection is a must-have for any Performing Arts department, as well as English departments studying narrative, structure, and literary adaptation, or scholars of History, Psychology, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Sociology, and more.

Asian Theater Video BundleThe Asian Theater Video Bundle is an instant-access, streaming video bundle of 27 films and instructional programs, perfect for introductory and advanced studies in Asian culture. By gathering the top videos in the field into one online database, the bundle provides students and faculty with a survey of the cultures and artistic accomplishments of a multitude of Asian countries.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection This collection delivers more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. Performed by leading actors specifically for online listening, the plays include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Audio & Video While the texts of plays can serve as lasting documents, the productions are ephemeral; a live performance is gone when the curtain falls. And yet the collaborative elements of theatre in performance — the work of the actors, directors, and designers — have tremendous scholarly and educational value long after a production closes. Now, faculty, scholars, and patrons of the performing arts will be able to revisit great performances again and again, and these landmark events can become a permanent part of the curriculum.


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North American Theatre Online This online collection combines more than 40,000 pages of renowned reference works, along with new data on nearly 30,000 plays, 22,000 productions, 57,000 people, 5,400 theaters, and 2,500 production companies, plus thousands of best-of-Web theatre sites. Important reference works—most published electronically here for the first time—include O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series. A wide range of theatre ephemera, including tens of thousands of images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks, and other visual materials—many of them from private collections—are particularly valuable for historical research.

Text and ReferenceEvery production begins with an idea and a script. Alexander Street Drama collections fea-ture the texts of the world’s most important writers and thinkers, with special focus on under- represented groups in the world of theatre and drama. Among these collections, scholars of the arts will find hundreds of valuable resources to help them understand the works presented and the process that goes into the roles they see on stage and screen.

“Overall this is an excellent site. Users should

appreciate having so much information

pulled together for them. . . . Highly

recommended.” —CHOICE


Black Drama, Second Edition: African, African American, and Diaspora Two-time winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

This collection contains the full text of 1,450 plays by more than 200 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and other regions. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, out of print, or previously unpublished. Writers include Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Adrienne Kennedy, Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Derek Walcott, and Zora Neale Hurston. The plays are

accompanied by reference materials, theatre ephemera (including playbills and production photographs), a rich performance database, and a wealth of other visual materials. James Vernon Hatch, curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor.

North American Women’s Drama This online collection brings the plays of more than 300 women the attention they deserve, with the full text of 1,500 works written from colonial times to the present by American and Canadian writers, plus an extensive range of related reference and performance information.

Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print, and almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. Authors in the collection include Marsha Norman, Sophie Treadwell, Rachel Crothers, Gertrude Stein, Susan Sontag, Nora Ephron, Emily Mann, Maria Irene Fornes, and many more.

Asian American Drama “Strongly recommended.” –Reference Reviews

This collection contains more than 250 plays—50 percent of them never before published—along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. It includes works by writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent as well as plays by American writers of Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry. Together, these plays offer a fascinating window on the experience of assimilation, integration, and cultural identity. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.

“Essential. All users, all

levels.” — CHOICE

“Highly recommended.” — Library Journal

“Relevant across many

disciplines.” — School Library Journal

“All libraries will find this

resource extremely

valuable.” – Charleston Advisor

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“This wonderful resource

gives voice to the

frequently overlooked

history of women’s drama. .

. . Highly recommended.” —CHOICE


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Twentieth Century North American Drama A 2004 Library Journal Best Reference Winner

Twentieth Century North American Drama brings together the complete works of more than 400 major North American playwrights from the early 1900s through today. Alongside the works of the most successful mainstream writers of the century are the lesser-known, but equally important, works of African Americans, Asian Americans, gay and lesbian writers, and others. Hundreds of unpublished plays, production information, playbills, and theatre details round out the collection. At least 550 of the works have never been published before, in any format, and are available only in this collection. Important playwrights include Sam Shepard, Horton Foote, William Saroyan, August Wilson, David Rabe, Beth Henley, George Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Doug Wright, Garson Kanin, David Mamet, Anna Deavere Smith, and John Guare.

The Alexander Street Drama PackageAlexander Street Drama contains more than 5,000 full-text plays PLUS the powerful North American Theatre Online reference collection. Approximately 85 percent of the plays in Alexander Street Drama are in copyright—you won’t find them free anywhere on the Web. More than 40 percent have never been published anywhere else, in any format, so you won’t see these works in print or find them in any library.

The individual full-text play collections in this cross-searchable, money-saving package include:

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PACKAGES

• Asian American Drama

• Black Drama, Second Edition

• Plays from Latino Literature

• North American Indian Drama

• North American Theatre Online

• North American Women’s Drama

• Twentieth Century North American Drama

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North American Indian Drama With more than 250 plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights, this collection contains scores of otherwise inaccessible dramatic works from the 1930s through to the modern day. The collection includes plays produced by the Native American Theatre Ensemble (NATE) and other experimental companies of the 1970s and 1980s. Native groups represented here include the Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Chippewa, Ojibway, Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, and more. Among the playwrights in the collection are Hanay Geiogamah, Yvette Nolan, Drew Hayden Taylor, and LeAnne Howe.


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Theatre in Video: Volume I

Theatre in Video: Volume II

Asian Theater Video Bundle

North American Theatre Online

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

Black Drama, Second Edition: African, African American, and Diaspora

North American Women’s Drama

Asian American Drama

Twentieth Century North American Drama

North American Indian Drama

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