Theatre & Performance Research Guide: Theatre & Performance Videos

Working in the Theatre is The Wing’s Emmy® Nominated documentary series produced to entertain audiences by revealing theatre’s inner-workings, profiling industry luminaries, and taking a closer look at unique stories that surround important work.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive is an ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today.

The National Theatre Collection makes recordings of shows available to UK schools and the global education sector.

SILLVR (Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources) is a pilot project for ILL video streaming. In order to find/use the streaming service, search as normal in Prospector, but include “SILLVR" in the search bar as well. Once you find a video you would like to borrow, hit the “request it” button and a link to that video will be sent to you via email. You will have 21 days to view this content. After 21 days, the link will expire and the content will no longer be accessible. Renewals are not permitted. If you need the resource again, you can place another request for it with the option to view it for 21 days.

UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.