How to access quality information about Drama and Theater Arts, including books, periodical articles, and web sites. Links to websites with monologues, musicals, costumes, and stage work are included. Click HERE for site link.
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ACC Library has access to many databases that provide recordings of live performances. To access, you will need to enter your ACC Student ID and password:
Kanopy provides some live perfomance recordings
Other resources for watching plays online that do not require ACC student login:
Howlround offers live streaming of plays throughout the U.S. and beyond
Latinx Streaming Drama Online offers a great list of resources
BS unlocks Broadway musicals and plays for FREE streaming for a limited time [UPDATING]
Good Theater and Film on YouTube and other on demand resources:
Play at Home scripts: https://www.playathome.org/
A coalition of well-known theatres commissioned well-known playwrights to write short plays that can be performed at home. The scripts are freely available on the website above. You can select the “solo” category if you want only monologues.
NPX (New Play Exchange): https://newplayexchange.org/
An online collection of 34,000 scripts by 8,400 playwrights (not kidding!). It does cost $12 to $18/year to access, but so worth it (and colleges can actually get one account to share with all faculty, if desired). You can search by cast size, genre, keyword, demographics of actors, etc. Scripts are often downloadable from the site directly for perusal, and the site has the playwrights’ information so contacting them or their agents about rights is super easy.
Searching for plays with one or two actors will yield thousands of results great for Zoom performance.
Contemporary Play List (for ACC Students Only)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Aw2MTZryICfoJUaGFg8CTmvSxXsALg7D1Em67fnBcY/edit?usp=sharing
Staging Black Protest: A Play List by Lisa B. Thompson
"As a playwright and professor who specializes in African American theatre and cultural studies, I’ve been thinking about the ways I can help us understand this moment. In times of strife scholars often provide a syllabus or reading list to educate the public, but plays are rarely included. Yet Black dramatists have long used theatre as a social weapon."
https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2020/06/staging-black-protest-play-list-by-lisa.html
A few upcoming Zoom theatre festivals:
Moxie Theatre’s Zoom series: http://www.moxietheatre.com/project/zoomfest/
Moxie Theatre in San Diego is broadcasting a new Zoom play each week. You can reach out to playwrights directly via their websites to ask for the script, or search for it on NPX (see above).
https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2020/06/staging-black-protest-play-list-by-lisa.html
Homesick Play Project:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpbst5Y9WbBxRH0_TAoR2_HfQmz9yjS26Lula2Pw-XkXZc6Q/viewform
A virtual play development series that shares readings/performances of new scripts over YouTube.
Sister Shakes Productions: https://www.facebook.com/SisterShakesProductions/
A young & scrappy company producing plays inspired by classics through a feminist lens.
Contemporary Playwrights of Color
"A website dedicated to playwrights of color from the United States writing in the later half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
The goal of this site is to act as a resource to expand knowledge and understanding of American playwrights of color and the canon of plays they have generated, so that we can have a greater number of options when choosing plays to explore in educational, artistic, and applied theatre contexts."
Love in the Time of Quarantine series: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18p1pUu1Jdh4lw1ewZSMPdBh7GbSvcabi/view?usp=sharing
Two-character short plays written to be performable with social distancing or over Zoom (no physical interaction between characters), focusing on moments of kindness and humanity through the COVID-19 crisis. Performance rights are free during the pandemic.
PBS Learning Media: Theater: https://klru.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/the-arts/theater/
Scenic and Lighting Design resources: https://scenicandlighting.com/article/online-teaching-resources-for-theatre-design-technology/
New York Times Theatre Reviews
Austin Chronicle Theatre Reviews