Research Guides: Theater Research Guide: Video and Audio Recordings

Video and Audio Recordings at Emory

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries.

Emory's subscription spans a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. AVON replaces Emory's subscriptions to America History and Video, World History and Video, and Alexander Street Press ethnography collections.
Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theater+ contains streaming video recordings of live productions from a number of performing arts companies primarily in the U.K., including the Royal Shakespeare Company and Glyndebourne, as well as interviews with practitioners and critical essays.
Drama Online: Collections
Contains full-text plays and recorded productions from ancient Greece to the present, as well as scholarly annotations and special tools for study and performance.

Includes the following collections: Core Collection, The Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on Screen, The Hollow Crown, L.A. Theatre Works, National Theatre Collection 1-3, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, Playwrights Canada Press, The RSC Live Collection, Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 and 2, Shakespeare's Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 1 and 2, and TCG Books Play Collection.
Swank Digital Campus
Swank Digital Campus provides streaming access to feature films for research and teaching at Emory. These films may only be viewed through the Swank Digital Campus platform. The films do not have public performance rights. Please contact reserves@emory.edu to license a title on the platform.
Kanopy
Kanopy offers thousands of streaming videos on all subjects from a wide range of suppliers.

Highlights include PBS, the Criterion Collection/Janus Films, independent film distributors such as Kino Lorber, educational documentary suppliers such as California Newsreel and Media Education Foundation, and and a robust collection of ethnographic/anthropological documentaries.

Broadway Theatre Archive
Video productions of plays, including many classic productions, available either online or on DVD.
L.A. Theatre Works (Digital Theatre+)
Audio recordings of plays from L.A. Theatre Works.
L.A. Theatre Works (Drama Online)
Audio recordings of plays from L.A. Theatre Works.

For more video productions in the library catalog, try these Library of Congress subject headings. These links also sort results by title.

Audiobooks (Searches for works classified as "Audiobooks," sorted by title.)
Musicals (Searches for video recordings only.)
Filmed performances (Includes opera and other musical performances.)
Theatrical adaptations
Television plays