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1 Theatre and Drama Premium

2 THEATRE AND DRAMA TEXT VIDEO AUDIO ARCHIVAL THEATRE AND DRAMA PREMIUM has everything students and schoars need to study the dramatic arts from recent productions by Broadway theatre companies to interviews with Arthur Mier and James Ear Jones to previousy unpubished pays from Ed Buins and Jeannie Barroga. The package covers a areas of study, from the stage to behind-the-scenes, and provides the toos and content facuty and students need to discover, teach, and interpret a aspects of performance, incuding: 13,500 fu-text pays, many pubished for the first time, from canonica and emerging paywrights 150,000 pages of origina and contextuaizing materias incuding designs, reference materia, and ephemera 300 audio pays from L.A. Theatre Works 750 hours of fimed stage performances, documentaries, and video training materias 2 Aexander Street, a ProQuest Company

3 Theatre and Drama Premium Students and schoars can conduct in-depth anayses on key writers, creators, and performers, and create a new understanding of estabished pieces of the dramatic canon. For exampe: Theatre and Drama Premium is a must-have for any institution with programs in theatre, drama, iterature, performance studies, or design. It contains the fu contents of the foowing coections: Using the Be s 1623 Edition of the text for comparison, students can examine mutipe video productions of King Lear, focusing on King Lear s speech in Act 3, Scene 2, and begin to understand how acting and directing choices can affect an overa performance. Drama Texts Coection Contemporary Word Drama Back Drama: Third Edition Twentieth Century Drama: Second Edition Facuty can widen the ens of theatrica study to incude a diverse cast of pioneers such as designs from Shirey Prendergast, the first back femae ighting designer on Broadway in 1973, or pays by R. Lynn Riggs, the first American Indian paywright to have his works produced. Theatre in Performance Coection The BroadwayHD Coection The Roya Shakespeare Company Coection Theatre in Context Coection A patrons can reish award-winning Broadway shows from BroadwayHD such as She Loves Me (2016) and Fasettos (2017), without eaving campus. Performance Design Archive Onine In exporing Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream, students can read the origina First Foio version, compare it to modernizing transations (Augustin Day) and adaptations (Frances Eizabeth Carke) for textua variations, or become immersed in fimed stage versions by accaimed directors Juie Taymor and Bevery Buock. 3

4 THEATRE AND DRAMA Drama Texts Coection Contemporary Word Drama Covering the most prodigious dramatic iterature in Engish from the ate 13thcentury to the beginning of the 21st century, this coection incudes 7,000+ essentia, fu-text pays from more than 400 paywrights. Neary 30 percent of this coection incudes rare or previousy unpubished content, and many of these items are drawn from the private coections of the paywrights themseves and can be found nowhere ese. This coection is curated with assistance from an advisory board of respected schoars in the fied. Previousy unpubished portions have evoved under the direction of the iving paywrights themseves. Expore the richness and diversity of contemporary theatre and drama with this coection of new work from estabished and up-andcoming contemporary paywrights from around the word, incuding recenty produced word premieres and previousy unpubished works from every continent. At competion, the coection wi incude 1,000 contemporary pays, from the year 2000 to present-day. Featured paywrights incude Hassan Abdurazzak (Iraq), Reza de Wet (South Africa), Ramón Griffero (Chie), Visoni Hereniko (Fiji), and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (United Kingdom), to name a few. NEW Drama Texts Coection brings the best of Aexander Street and ProQuest drama coections together, giving students and schoars the most exciting and compete toos for study in this area: North American Women s Drama North American Indian Drama Latino Literature (drama content) Latin American Women Writers (drama content) Asian American Drama Engish Drama (ProQuest) American Drama (ProQuest) Back Drama: Third Edition NEW Back Drama, now in its third edition, contains the fu text of more than 1,700 pays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 paywrights from North America, Engish-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other countries of the African diaspora. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the paywright, historian, and curator of the andmark Hatch-Biops Coection, is the project s foundationa editoria advisor. More than 40 percent of the coection consists of previousy unpubished pays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Dominique Morriseau, Ed Buins, Wiis Richardson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Randoph Edmonds, Zora Neae Hurston, and many others. The resut is an exceptionay deep and unified coection that iustrates the many purposes that back theater has served: to give testimony to the ancient foundations of back cuture; to protest injustices; and to give voice to the many and varied expressions of back creativity. 4 Aexander Street, a ProQuest Company

5 Theatre and Drama Premium Twentieth Century Drama: Second Edition Theatre in Performance Coection With 3,500 pays from over 500 paywrights, this coection contains the most important Angophone works from the ast century. More than 1,250 of the works are in copyright and icensed from the authors or their estates. At east 550 of the works have never been pubished before, in any format, and are avaiabe ony in Twentieth Century Drama: Second Edition incuding unpubished pays by major writers and Puitzer Prize winners. The coection s contents range from canonica authors such as Sam Shepard, Eugene O Nei, Nora Ephron, David Mamet, and Thornton Wider, to off-broadway experimentation and South African township theatre. Whie the texts of pays can serve as asting documents, productions are ephemera. The coaborative eements of theatre in performance the work of the actors, directors, and designers have tremendous schoary and educationa vaue ong after a production coses. Now, facuty and schoars wi be abe to revisit great performances again and again, whie earning from masters and professionas as they discuss their crafts. The coection brings together the fu contents of Aexander Street s Twentieth Century North American Drama and Twentieth Century Drama from ProQuest. Theatre in Performance Coection features: Performances: No need to trave to New York or London to see high-quaity performances. Expose your students to professiona productions. Documentaries: Shakespeare is a househod name in many Western cassrooms. Is it the same in Iraq? India? Theatre in Performance Coection s documentaries seek to answer that and many other questions. Instructiona materias and training videos: Learn about the bending of art and technoogy from practicing professionas. Master casses: Learn from the masters of paywrighting, production, and directing (featuring experts ike Lynn Nottage, Lin Manue-Miranda, and Woodie James, Jr.) without the expense of a master cass. Audio pays: Access hundreds of important dramatic works ike Arthur Mier s The Crucibe or Cary Churchi s Top Girs in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation s premiere radio theatre company, L.A. Theatre Works. Theatre in Performance Coection contains the fu contents of the foowing coections: Theatre in Video, Voume I Theatre in Video, Voume II Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Coection 5

6 THEATRE AND DRAMA Theatre in Context Coection Experience the history of the theatre through 40,000 pages of monumenta reference works, encycopedias, images, fyers, paybis, postcards, scrapbooks, and other resources that offer a gimpse into the productions of the past. Theatre in Context Coection heps students of theatre, iterature, and history draw connections between the peope who brought key productions and dramatic stories to ife from the directors to the design teams. With Theatre in Context Coection, students can understand the historica significance of certain pays, their popuarity, and their roe in shaping diaogue outside of the word of theatre. The coection incudes: The BroadwayHD Coection Award-winning writers, directors and actors become partners in theatre, drama, dance, music, and even iterature studies. This excusive coection, avaiabe wordwide for educationa streaming ony from Aexander Street, incudes streaming access to 25 premium performances of pays and musicas from the New York theatre scene. The BroadwayHD Coection incudes musicas and pays ike Fasettos (2017) and Buried Chid (2016) as we as the biggest names from stage and screen, ike Orando Boom, Ed Harris, Zachary Levi, Jane Krakowski, Christian Bore, Andrew Rannes, Kevin Kine, Jennifer Garner, and many others. The Roya Shakespeare Company Coection Essentia reference works, such as O De s Annas of the New York Stage, cataogue historic performances from the Broadway stage Archiva paybis that document the major payers of the day from the 1960s to the 1990s Artices and periodicas that provide contemporary reactions to performances from as eary as 1885 COMING SOON Access high-definition, surround-sound recordings of Wiiam Shakespeare s pays featuring the word s best Shakespearean actors, ike David Tennant, Sir Anthony Sher, Paapa Essidu, and Simon Russe-Beae, and directors ike Robin Lough and Dewi Humphrey. The Roya Shakespeare Company Coection brings The Tempest, King Lear, Hamet and other famous performances fimed at the Roya Shakespeare Company s Stratford-upon-Avon theater to cassrooms around the word. Each production is accompanied by creative interviews, production images, teacher packs, and study notes to enhance student understanding of these important pays. Thirteen performances are currenty avaiabe, with more content to be added in the future. 6 Aexander Street, a ProQuest Company

7 Theatre and Drama Premium TOOLS FOR LEARNING AND SCHOLARSHIP The Aexander Street patform offers students and facuty a unique opportunity to engage with materias in new and exciting ways, and gives ibrarians a better view into what users are doing on the patform. USERS CAN: Performance Design Archive Onine Theatre students and researchers can now see behind the scenes of the word s greatest dramatic performances. Performance Design Archive Onine is the first comprehensive, internationa coection that covers a aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day incuding scenic and set design, ighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup and more. Dramatic interpretation goes beyond the page, and Performance Design Archive Onine aows its users to get a gimpse into a designer s perspective and understand the eve of coaboration necessary between the artistic and directing teams to mount a successfu production. Performance Design Archive Onine features 100,000 pages of primary and secondary resources, incuding sketches, photographs, technica drawings, monographs, artices, and dissertations. Primary resources incude never-beforepubished designs and other crucia research materia for diving deep into the history. Secondary materia, with monograph tites such as Starting Your Career as a Theatrica Designer as we as the compete run of the United States Institute of Theatre Technoogy s (USITT) essentia trade periodica Theatre Design & Technoogy (TD&T) from 1967 to present day, offer practica support for the business of creating designs in professiona appications. The pairing of primary and secondary materia aows for students at a eves to find content to suit their needs. Watch synchronized, searchabe transcripts running aongside amost a tites (JAWS compatibe). Search and browse by tite, performer, paywright, designer, pay/work, character/roe, production company, and other discipine-specific terms. Watch videos on-the-go with most handhed devices. Embed cips and payists directy into an LMS or an externa course page, and share content without requiring students to og in more than once. Cross-search easiy with other Aexander Street products. Export citations in MLA, Chicago, and APA formats to popuar reference management software ike EndNote and Refworks. LIBRARIANS CAN: Receive free detaied MARC records with new records added monthy. Access in-depth statistics compiant with top discovery vendors ike COUNTER, and monitor usage down to the specific tite. Access hepfu instructiona videos, LibGuides, and ive trainings to support new users. 7

8 Product Checkist THEATRE AND DRAMA TEXT AUDIO AND VIDEO REFERENCE AND ARCHIVAL DRAMA TEXTS COLLECTION* THEATRE IN PERFORMANCE COLLECTION* THEATRE IN CONTEXT COLLECTION* BEST VALUE! THEATRE & DRAMA PREMIUM* American Drama (ProQuest) Asian American Drama Engish Drama (ProQuest) Latin American Women Writers (drama content) Latino Literature (drama content) North American Indian Drama North American Women s Drama Back Drama: Third Edition* (NEW!) Contemporary Word Drama* (NEW!) Twentieth Century Drama: Second Edition* Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Coection Theatre in Video, Voume I* Theatre in Video, Voume II* The BroadwayHD Coection* The Roya Shakespeare Company Coection (COMING SOON) North American Theatre Onine Performance Design Archive Onine* *Avaiabe for individua sae Ordering Information Theatre and drama coections are avaiabe to academic and pubic ibraries for annua subscription or one-time purchase. For more information, or to request your FREE 30-day tria, pease visit aexanderstreet.com/theatredramapremium. 8 Aexander Street, a ProQuest Company PQ LB-JGB/03-18