Theatre and Drama Premium is a resource for teaching and studying theatre arts and dramatic writing.
Bringing together over 13,500 written plays; 150,000 pages of original designs, reference material, and ephemera; 300 audio plays; and 750 hours of filmed stage performances, documentaries, and video training materials, Theatre and Drama Premium serves both practical and scholarly purposes for theatre arts and literature programs
Access requires a username and password, which you can find on this password-protected page. To request access, contact the library using an ETB FET institutional (ETB/Training Centre/College) email address. We can't accept requests from webmail accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail as we can't verify who you are. Neither can we fulfil access requests from non-ETB FET institutions, universities or schools.
Basic searching uses a Google-like search box. To search, simply type something in the search box and click on the magnifying glass. To search for a phrase, put quotation marks around the phrase, e.g. "much ado about nothing".
The advanced search page has two columns, one for subject areas and one for specifying search criteria. If you're logged in to Theatre and Drama Premium, then in the first column, on the left, MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS and under that THEATRE will be highlighted in blue to show that you are searching Theatre and Drama Premium.
Advanced searching lets you construct more complex searches, for example, by searching for specific search terms in specific fields of an item (e.g., title, playwright, director) and limiting the results to certain publication or document types.
You can browse through the various collections that make up Theatre and Drama Premium and separate to the collections you can browse through titles, plays, people, content and publishers.
