LibGuides: Theatre: Resources for Performance

Video Resources

Academic Video Online (AVON)
The most comprehensive video database covering more than 70,000 titles on anthropology, business, counseling, film health, history, music, and more curated for the educational experience of all types of library patrons.
Films on Demand (Coverage varies)
Provides streaming videos from the Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational and many others and includes a comprehensive coverage of major fields of knowledge.

Online Resources

Actors' Equity
Actors' Equity Association (“Equity"), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 50,000 Actors and Stage Managers. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members.
Theatre Communications Group
TCG's mission is to strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. TCG publishes the American Theatre magazine and ARTSEARCH®, the essential source for a career in the arts.
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TCG offers its members networking and knowledge-building opportunities through conferences, events, research and communications; grants approximately $2 million per year to theatre companies and individual artists; advocates on the federal level and serves as the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute, connecting its constituents to the global theatre community. In all of its endeavors, TCG seeks to increase the organizational efficiency of its member theatres, cultivate and celebrate the artistic talent and achievements of the field and promote a larger public understanding of, and appreciation for, the theatre.
International Dialects of English Archive
Created in 1997 as the internet’s first archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world.
Speech Accent Archive
The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.
USITT
The United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. (USITT) connects performing arts design and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialog among practitioners, educators, and students.

Theatre

Keywords for Acting

Books for Acting

Keywords for Staging

Books for Staging

Video Resources

Online Resources