THA 3399: Design for the Theatre

This collection features drama texts from diverse playwrights, high-definition performance videos, documentaries, interviews, audio plays, contextual reference material, and production design archival content.

View performances broadcast from Millennium Stages at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Artists from around the world showcase their performances.

The Federal Theatre Project Collection contains documentation for stage productions mounted by the Federal Theatre Project in the period 1935-39. These include a wide variety of materials: billboards, cast lists, correspondence, costume designs, ground plans, lighting cue sheets, lighting plots, music, photographs, playbills, playscripts and playscript "sides" (a "side" is an individual role or part), posters, production notebooks, programs, property lists, publicity reports and clippings, radio scripts, research reports, reviews, scenarios, set designs, study guides, and technical reports. There are approximately 5,000 playscripts and 2,500 titles ranging from vaudeville to classic theater. The finding aid for the collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu995001.

This unique resource covers classic and historical plays along with the works of contemporary playwrights. This database covers new editions and translations and includes descriptive annotations to summarize the plot and indicate musical requirements.