Over 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio, featuring literature from the 19th through 21st centuries performed by leading actors.

Provides access to approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. It also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Provides access to streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.

Watch feature and educational films online, on any device. International content, including the Criterion Collection. Effective October 1, 2018, Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not licensed for use prior to that date will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

Streaming full-length feature films from leading independent distributors and award-winning short films.

Provides access to streaming videos of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

Full productions of every Shakespeare play, originally aired on the BBC.

Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world‘s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video

A collection of drawings, photos, and stills of movie sets by set designer Alfred Junge (1886-1964).

Candid photos from performances by the Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey dance companies.

Sixty-one images of posters advertising 19th and early 20th century theatrical productions, from the collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The collection includes posters for everything from minstrel shows to Broadway premieres.

The portal contains freely available streaming video of the LGBT newsmagazine “In the Life,” which ran from 1992-2012, as well as some contextual readings. This launch is phase one of the project, and includes 15 of the show’s 21 seasons. More complete video content will be available this coming Fall.

Contains digital scans of thousands of issues of trade, popular, and fan magazines about film, radio, and other media. Covers from 1904 to 1963 (years vary by publication).

Dawn, an early special effects cinematographer, worked with many important film pioneers including Mack Sennett, Carl Laemmle, Irving Thalberg, and Erich von Stroheim. The collection includes a number of display cards he created to convince film executives to include his special effects.

Presents a searchable database of 16,000 objects including newspaper clippings; keysheets; music sheet samples; photographs of theatre, dance, and popular performance; and publicity posters and lobby cards.

95 photographic glass plate negatives ca. 1890-1920, the bulk of which show actors in costume, often on a stage set.

304 sound recordings of actors, stage designers, writers and critics, theatregoers, etc., talking about post-war British theatre.

A beta project from JSTOR that links scholarly articles to all 38 canonical Shakespeare plays.