LibGuides: Theatre & Dance: Design + Multimedia & Images

Costume & Production Design

Unbuttoned by Shura Pollatsek
Documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance.
Costumes and Chemistry
Supplies information to designers and interpreters on specialized techniques for use in costumes for theatre, film and TV. Also included are charts detailing the effects of dry cleaning and laundering on adhesives, coatings, colorings, and metallisers.
Character Costume Figure Drawing
Presents drawing instruction with detailed break downs of various types of characters. Hats, props, fabrics, and choice of medium are all thoroughly covered to ensure your ability to develop convincing life-like characters.
Theatrical Design and Production
A comprehensive survey of the technical and design aspects of play production, including scene design and construction, lighting, sound, costume, and makeup. Safety precautions for the backstage crew appear throughout.
Light
Explores the creative potential of light in the theatre through a wide range of extracts from historical accounts, new research, and rare documents.
Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques
Shows how to turn a bare stage into a basic set design.

Multimedia & Images

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Streaming films from Kanopy's "Film & Media Collection." Includes documentaries, foreign films, and classic movies. Films are streamed through a Netflix-like website and can be watched anywhere, anytime, in any setting.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
6,000 streaming documentaries, educational films, and instructional videos from the Films Media Group. Collections include Archival Films & Newsreels.
Shakespeare Plays This link opens in a new window
Provides streaming access to the BBC complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online, in streaming video.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
Contains contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. Encompasses a wide variety of subject areas, including art and architecture, and Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance studies.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
Online access to digital images of books published between 1701 and 1800. Collection includes ancient and contemporary history, accounts of voyages and discoveries, historical biographies and memoirs, genealogical collections, gazetteers, works on church antiquities, and tourist guides of Britain.
To search Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Nineteenth Century Collections Online simultaneously, see the Artemis Primary Sources database.
NYPL Digital Gallery This link opens in a new window
The New York Public Library's image database.
Offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Materials represent the fine and decorative arts, the performing arts, and more.
Ringling Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection includes cabinet cards, postcards, and photographs of 19th-Century American and British actors and actresses. Contains depictions of clothing, hair styles, and other indicators of the period's social mores and attitudes.