Key databases relevant for the Performance subjects (Acting, Circus, Comedy, Dance, Drama and Theatre Production) are listed below. A full list of all our databases can be found on the databases page.
Box of Broadcasts - BoB: the British Universities Film & Video Council's on-demand TV and radio service for education. This service allows students and staff to view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels.
Drama Online: full text of over 1,920 popular and critically-acclaimed plays, with supporting critical guides.
Digital Theatre Plus: 340+ streamed films of leading British theatre productions; supported by additional content, including interviews with the creative and production teams and written study guides.
Gale Onefile: News: provides access to full-text newspapers. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
JSTOR: contains the back runs of several dance and performance journals, e.g. Asian Theatre Journal, Classical Quarterly, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Shakespeare Quarterly, TDR: Drama Review, Theatre Journal.
National Theatre Collection: gives access to the National Theatre Collections 1 and 2 drawing on 10 years of NT live broadcasts plus high-quality archive recordings of 50 filmed performances.
Project MUSE: contains over 300 journal titles. Similar in content to JSTOR, but the advantage of MUSE is that it covers current journal titles.
Theatre in Video: access to some 500 hours of online streaming video, covering a wide range of topics from productions of Shakespeare plays to rare footage on Samuel Beckett.
If you're looking for a particular e-journal title, use our Journals A-Z. Note that a single e-journal title may be held in several different e-journal collections (databases). Here is a selection of relevant e-journals for Drama and Performing Arts:
BBC Script Library: A selection of BBC TV, Radio and Film scripts made available for private, personal use; categorised under Drama, Childrens and Comedy.
Research Catalogue: A publishing platform for artistic research provided by the Society for Artistic Research. Here you can find open-access articles and journals that include mixed-media.
