Finding Plays for Beginning and Intermediate Acting: Library Databases

Comprehensive video collection covering American History, Area Studies, Art & Architecture, Asian Film, Black Studies, Business & Economics, Counseling & Therapy, Criminal Justice & Public Safety, Current Affairs, Dance, Education, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Ethnography, Fashion Studies, Film Studies, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Global Business & Economics, Health, Humanities, Music, Opera, Philosophy, Psychology, Rehabilitation Therapy, Religion & Science, Sports Medicine & Exercise Science, Theatre, Women's & Gender Studies, World History, World Languages & Literature, and a special collection for The March of Time.
Coverage: Varies

Streaming video of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare broadcast by the BBC in the 1980s.
Coverage: Complete collection

Anthropology, Archival Films & Newsreels, Area Studies, Art & Architecture, Biology, Business & Economics, Careers & Job Search, Communication, Criminal Justice & Law, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, English & Language Arts, Environmental Science, Family & Consumer Sciences, Geography, Guidance & Counseling, Health & Medicine, History, Mathematics, Music & Dance, Philosophy & Religion, Physical Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Technical & Trade Education, Technology & Society, and World Languages. Films are closed captioned.

Multidisciplinary video collection. Anthropology, Art, Business & Economics, Foreign Language Films, Gender/Race/Class studies, History (modern and North American), Media Communication, Multicultural studies, Nursing & Health studies, Psychology & Sociology, Sustainability & Environmental studies, plus 319 films from The Criterion Collection. The platform allows you to make playlists and clips, and share the links.

American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music: genres including country, slave spirituals, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. Collection contains over 49,000 albums totaling more than 650,000 recordings.
Coverage: Recording dates are from 1911 to present.

Includes nearly one million licensed tracks s that users can listen to on the Internet. All major genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas and the avant-garde. Browse by discipline, release date, language, label, performer, and more.

Over 150,000 albums delivering contemporary genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, ska, etc. The Voice of the People from the Topic label, a 20-volume series of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh traditional music, is included in its entirety.

Dance productions, documentaries and instructional videos by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Search and browse by performer, dance company, technique, genre, choreographer, venue, and more. 1955-present.

Theater and film. High quality filmed versions of British theatrical productions along with documentaries and other educational materials such as study guides and making. Exclusive behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews with professionals from all aspects of bringing a play to the stage.

American music recordings by New World Records and other independent labels. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, and electronic music. 1975-present.

Theatre, drama and literature. Comprehensive database with hundreds of full-text plays combined with critical analysis, contextual information, biographies, and genres. Search for plays by theme, setting, time period or genre. Subscription includes Includes Nick Hern Book collection; and video collections Globe on Screen, Stage on Screen, Maxine Peake as Hamlet, and Patsy Rodenburg acting masterclass. Not all content is accessible to Texas State University users. If you are looking for the L.A. Theatre Works Collection, please go toAudio Drama.

The largest and most comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music, featuring thousands of jazz performers from legendary record labels. It currently provides streaming access to more than half a million tracks, with new recordings added monthly. Browse by hundreds of distinct instrument categories, genres and sub-genres, artists and ensembles. 1920s to present

Classical music from Medieval to contemporary. Access over 98,000 CDs from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 375 classical, jazz and world music labels.

Contains audio speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds, including native and non-native speakers of English.

A selection of feature films from well-known studios such as MGM, Miramax, United Artists, Columbia Pictures, and Dreamworks. Titles include The Hurt Locker, Dallas Buyers Club, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Citizen Kane, Brokeback Mountain, Selma and many more.For best results access with the most recent version of Chrome.

Graphically rich primary sources depicting popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four sections: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment and Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema.

Film & television theory & research, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. 1914-present.

Searches scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports.

Area studies, theology, religion, performing arts, literary & political criticism, language & literature, music, philosophy, history, and classical studies, area studies, art, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, and journalism. Indexing from 1907, full text from 1942-present.

Multi-Subject. -- Access begins with the first volume for many journal titles, but usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal.

Approximately 350,000 works of English & American poetry, drama & prose. Literature journals, key criticism & reference resources. The Poets On Screen Library contains 839 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work. 8th century-present.

Literary biographies and criticism, covering approximately 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Includes several major Gale publications such as: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, & other Gale publications.

Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.

1930-present.

Archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, radio, television, film, religion, and theater.
Coverage: 1975 to present

Multi-subject. World's largest collection of full text theses and dissertations. Contains 1.7 million full-text graduate works and 3.8 million abstracted or indexed records along with the ability to cross-search with other ProQuest resources. Coverage: 1861 to present

Indexes items owned by libraries throughout the U.S. and parts of the world. Texas State does not own all the items listed in WorldCat. For fuller searching capabilities, use WorldCat on FirstSearch.