SCF Theater Page
Drama & Theater Videos
- Digital Theatre This link opens in a new windowVideo of live theatre and opera productions. Includes instruction and discussion of acting, stage production and "behind the stage" work.
- Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window More than 590 full-length feature films for classroom use. This collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles for including literary adaptions, blockbusters, classics, Academy Award® winners.
- Films on Demand (Infobase) This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries and videos on many topics. Create clips and playlists.
- Kanopy Videostreaming This link opens in a new windowKanopy offers classic and contemporary films as well as documentaries. Titles in this collection encourage critical thinking about the society, politics, and culture. Well-suited for use in Women's Studies, Sociology, Race Studies, Communication, Anthropology, Education, and Psychology courses.
- National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new windowNational Theatre Collection: Volumes I & II bring the stage to life through access to high-definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.’s National Theatre, the collections offer a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.
Plays and Scripts
- eBook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Find relevant eBooks on a wide range of academic disciplines. Read online, search within the eBook, highlight, take notes and bookmark pages. Download eBooks and chapters to your laptop or mobile device. - eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowConsumer, popular, technical and some academic eBooks. Device agnostic. Read on desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device.
- eBooks (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new windowReference, academic, and general interest eBooks. Searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method.
- OverDrive eBooks & Audiobooks This link opens in a new windowPopular fiction and nonfiction eBook and audiobook collection perfect for recreational reading and some research. Downloading Overdrive software or app required.
- National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new windowNational Theatre Collection: Volumes I & II bring the stage to life through access to high-definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.’s National Theatre, the collections offer a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.
Recommended Library Databases
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
MOST RECOMMENDED. Cross disciplinary coverage from Astronomy to Zoology. Scholarly journal articles, industry magazines and top newspapers. Text with screen reader and translator.
African American Experience (ABC-CLIO)
More than 80 journal articles that provide original, peer-reviewed scholarly arguments on such complex topics as the notion of a post-racial society and the long-term efficacy of Reconstruction.
Contains biographies of such famous political and social figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Barack Obama, Frederick Douglass, and Mary McLeod Bethune as well as such fascinating contemporary figures as Amiri Baraka, Muhammad Ali, Drake, and Oprah Winfrey. Primary and secondary sources, including the complete WPA Slave Narratives collection, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, and statistics. Also contains photographs, maps, and other images.
Art Online (Oxford)
Covers the entries from Grove Art Online, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, & The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
ArtStor Images on JSTOR
An image library for the Arts from international museums, libraries and artists' collections. Images for African-American, American History, Women's, Asian ,and Classical Art Studies. Anthropology, Architecture, Design, Medical History and other images of art, maps, drawings and more are included.
Biography In Context (Gale)
Authoritative Full Text content from Reference sources, Periodicals and multimedia. Search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places or gender.
Bloom's Literature (Infobase)
Bloom’s Literature contains critical essays on thousands of writers and works, synopses, essay topics, print and audio author interviews, as well as performance videos.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale)
Provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
Humanities Source (EBSCO)
Rich database covering religions, art, architecture, journalism, literature, dance, history, literature, drama and comparative studies.
JSTOR
Archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Over 700 titles available.
Pop Culture Universe (ABC-CLIO)
Essays and research from major reference titles. Provides a higher level of scholarship than Wikipedia or Google on popular topics through out the decades. Uses the face and actions of culture to explain political, social and person issues.
Digital Magazines
- Classical MusicA classical music magazine brought by the BBC Music Magazine
- Flipster Digital Magazines (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFlipster is a next-generation digital magazine solution that makes it easy for you to read your favorite magazines on your computer or mobile device.
Theater on the Web
- Broadway.orgThe Broadway League's official on-line headquarters for Broadway information in NYC and across North America.
- Actors' Equity AssociationActors’ Equity Association is the labor union representing American actors and stage managers in the theatre.
- Florida Professional Theatres AssociationNetworking and sharing to empower Florida's live, professional theatre industry.
- Theatre Communications GroupTheatre Communications Group (TCG) exists to strengthen, nurture, and promote professional theatre in the U.S. and globally.
- Stage Directors and Choreographers SocietySDC is the theatrical union that unites, empowers, and protects professional Stage Directors and Choreographers throughout the United States.