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Women's History

Take patrons inside the suffragette movement with Elisabeth Freeman, the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights with Minerva Bernardino, and the modern LGBTQ movement with Jeanne Cordova. Alexander Street’s Women’s History resour...

Dance Online: Dance in Video

Dance Online: Dance in Video addresses a key need for academic dance research by providing access to performances and instruction to scholars, researchers, and students in the field of dance. With the extensive collection of performances, instruction...

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Asian American Drama

Asian American Drama is an online text collection that brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th cent...

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literatu...

Black Drama: Third Edition

Black Drama, now in its third edition, contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora ...

North American Women's Drama: Second Edition

Whether in awards, production, or publication, plays by women have rarely received the attention they deserve. Of the more than 80 Pulitzer prizes for drama awarded since the inception of the prize in 1901, only eight have gone to women. From 1958 to...

Theatre in 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 desig...

Twentieth Century North American Drama: Second Edition

Twentieth Century North American Drama: Second Edition contains 2,050+ plays from the United States and Canada. In addition to providing a comprehensive full-text resource for students in the performing arts, the collection offers a unique windo...