Drama and Theater Resources: About This Guide

The Character Studies Interviews collection contains dozens of interviews with America's leading playwrights, actors, directors, choreographers, lyricists, and composers. Created and conducted by playwright and producer Tony Vellela, this interview series features in-depth discussion of the art and craft of theatre and discusses various roles in the following productions: A Delicate Balance, A Raisin in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, Carousel, Chicago, Fences, Grover's Corners, Gypsy, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Mame, Oklahoma!, Our Town, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Glass Menagerie, The Heidi Chronicles, The King and I, The Music Man, The Piano Lesson, The Price, The Rose Tattoo, The Seagull, The Zoo Story, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

The Theatre Performance and Practice Collection; Playwrights and Practitioners Collection; Theatre Making and Performance Training Video Collection have been added to the Libraries’ current access to Bloomsbury Drama Online. Additionally, the Currency Press Collection of ebooks has also been added to the Libraries' collection.

In the summer of 2012, as part of the London Olympic Games' Cultural Olympiad and the World Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare's Globe hosted the hugely successful Globe to Globe Festival. This unprecedented six-week event saw companies from across the world perform at Shakespeare's Globe in over 30 different languages.