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Digital Theatre+ is the worlds leading educational platform for the performing arts, with unlimited access to over 1000+ full-length productions and educational resources. DT+ collaborate with renowned theatre companies, actors and creatives to capture and curate live performances in stunning quality and bring you insights from behind the scenes, and commission bespoke educational resources to support study at every level.
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An online directory of academic, peer-reviewed, open access books. Search by keyword or browse by subject.
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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
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Contains abstracts of selected New Zealand serials, including newspapers, about New Zealand and the South Pacific. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities.
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Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 1500 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
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Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch concerts, operas, ballets and music documentaries online.
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Includes over 390 journals from over 70 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Te Puna Search (WorldCat Discovery) provides a view of New Zealand libraries holdings and the holdings of other libraries around the world for both library staff and patrons. Discovery searches over OCLC WorldCat plus other databases.
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online This link opens in a new window
The collected works of Renaissance writer Ben Jonson. This searchable edition complements and extends on the print edition published by Cambridge University Press in July 2012, edited by David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson, with a wide array of textual and contextual materials.
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Complete digital edition of the Times (London) is a primary source for researchers of world history, politics, and literature. Contains articles and letters to the editor from famous writers. The entire newspaper is searchable, including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photographs.
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Annotated Dictionary of Technical, Historical, and Stylistic Terms Relating to Theatre and Drama
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The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
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ISBN: 0521434378Publication Date: 1995-09-21This guide offers a wealth of information on the history and present practice of theatre in all parts of the world. It clearly depicts the dynamic interaction of performance traditions from all cultures in present-day theatre. -
Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater
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ISBN: 9780810855984Publication Date: 2007-02-21Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives. -
International Dictionary of Theatre
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ISBN: 1558620958Publication Date: 1992-02-01The International Dictionary of Theatre is a three-volume work, international and historical in scope, covering the theatre from the festivals of ancient Greece to the productions, plays, players, directors and designers of the modern stage. The 3 volumes comprise 1500 entries, selected by an international advisory board. -
Key Concepts in Drama and Performance
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ISBN: 1403934363Publication Date: 2005-07-08This book is intended for undergraduates taking courses in drama, theater or performing arts, providing an informative and accessible guide to the subject. -
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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ISBN: 1423740394Publication Date: 2004-01-01The Oxford Companion to American Theatre provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. -
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
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ISBN: 0198601743Publication Date: 2003-05-01This encyclopedia views theatre and performance as "human expressions with large cultural significance." These expressions extend beyond traditional theater to include opera, film, dance, radio, and even circuses, rituals, and parades. -
Performing Arts Handbook
ISBN: 0340773006This handbook contains a series of activities that are structured around four ready-made frameworks that should enable students and teachers to work towards a play, video, musical event, or exhibition. -
Shakespeare's Theatre
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ISBN: 0826456405Publication Date: 2003-01-31Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, this text reviews knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins.
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About PerformanceThis peer reviewed journal is concerned in the broadest possible way with the phenomenon of performance and with the processes involved in its production and reception.
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Asian Theatre JournalDedicated to the performing arts of Asia, focusing upon both traditional and modern theatrical forms. This engaging, intercultural journal offers descriptive and analytical articles, original plays and play translations, book and audiovisual reviews, and reports of current theatrical activities in Asia.
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Australasian Drama Studies (ADS)Established in 1982, Australasian Drama Studies (ADS) is the official journal published by the Association. This peer-reviewed journal contains articles, interviews, and production casebooks on world theatre by Australasian and international scholars. Also reviews scholarly books and published play texts.
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Canadian Theatre ReviewProvides the Canadian theatre community with in-depth feature articles, manifestos, slideshows, videos, design portfolios, photo essays, and other documents that reflect the challenging forms that theatre takes in the contemporary Canadian arts scene. Peer reviewed.
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Comparative DramaAn international interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal devoted to studies in all areas of drama.
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Contemporary Theatre ReviewAn international peer-reviewed journal encompassing new playwrights and devisors to theatres of movement, image and other forms of physical expression, from new acting methods to music theatre, live art and multi-media production work. Covers physical theatre, opera, dance, design and the increasingly blurred boundaries between the physical and the visual arts.
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Digital CreativityA peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of the creative arts, design and digital technologies. Articles cover practical and theoretical aspects of making or using digital media in creative disciplines. Topics include visual arts, interaction design, physical computing and making, computational materials, textile and fashion design, filmmaking and animation, game design, music, dance, drama, architecture and urban design.
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Illusions: A New Zealand Magazine of Film, Television, and Theatre CriticismThe magazine of the Drama Studies department at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Junctures: The Journal for Thematic DialogueFocusing on New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific, Junctures seeks to address the matters which concern us all as we negotiate the contemporary environment.
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Modern DramaPeer reviewed journal focussed on dramatic literature. Contains articles from a variety of geo-political points of view, both formal and historical, on the dramatic literature of the past two centuries; and an extensive book review section.
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New Theatre QuarterlyThis peer reviewed journal provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet. Contains news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies.
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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and ArtPAJ explores innovative work in theatre, performance art, dance, video, writing, technology, sound, and music, bringing together all live arts in thoughtful cultural dialogue. Issues include critical essays, artists’ writings, interviews, plays, drawings, and notations, with extended coverage of performance, festivals, and books. Podcasts, video and audio clips appear on PAJ’s online home.
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Performance ResearchThis peer-reviewed journal has an emphasis on contemporary performance arts within changing cultures and technologies which is reflected in the interdisciplinary vision and international scope of the journal. It combines writings and works for the page in an interplay of analysis, anecdote, polemic and criticism; interweaving the oblique with the conflicting, the pivotal with the resistant, and the eclectic with the indispensable.
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Playmarket AnnualBilled as "the magazine of New Zealand plays and playwrights" this yearly publication contains articles, interviews and advice from practitioners, round-ups of theatre in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, and a yearly calendar of professional productions of New Zealand plays.
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Research in Drama Education (RIDE)A refereed journal aimed at those who are interested in applying performance practices to cultural engagement, educational innovation and social change.
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Shakespeare BulletinA peer-reviewed journal containing articles at the cutting edge of Shakespearean and early modern performance studies and theatre history. Also contains theatre, film and book reviews, providing a record of performance and scholarship in a variety of media throughout the world.
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South African Theatre JournalFeatures peer-reviewed articles on the history, theory and practice of the performing arts, as well as the methodology of theatre research and performance studies in Southern Africa and further afield on the African continent.
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TDR: The Drama ReviewWith an emphasis on experimental, avant-garde, intercultural, and interdisciplinary performance, TDR covers performance art, theatre, dance, music, visual art, popular entertainments, media, sports, rituals, and the performance in and of politics and everyday life.
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Theatre JournalContains scholarly articles and reviews from noted practitioners and scholars. Features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production.
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Theatre Research InternationalContains articles on theatre practices in their social, cultural, and historical contexts, their relationship to other media of representation, and to other fields of inquiry. The journal seeks to reflect the evolving diversity of critical idioms prevalent in the scholarship of differing world contexts.
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Theatre SurveyA theatre history journal containing performance-centered and historiographic studies from all points across the historical, cultural, and methodological spectra.
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Transgender Studies QuarterlyAn interdisciplinary journal for innovative research and scholarship that contests the objectification, pathologisation, and exoticisation of transgender lives. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.
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Internet Broadway DatabaseThe official database that provides records of productions from the beginning of Broadway theatre to the present.
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McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance StudiesOnline resources in theatre and performance studies.
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Theatre AotearoaAn archive of stage productions in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The project was initiated by Theatre Studies at Otago University in 2004 and is still in active progress.
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Theatre ReviewThe New Zealand Performing Arts Review and Directory provides details of productions, as well as links to reviews and venues.