Performing Arts, Visual Arts & Music

Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides.

UOW Library provides access to select Playtext Collections, such as the Nick Hern Books Modern Plays Collection, playtexts and scholarly works from Faber Faber, modern plays, student editions, and other texts from Bloomsbury's Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare imprints.

Selected Performance Video Collections, including National Theatre Collection 2 and National Theatre Collection 3, are also availabe.

Perspectives in the arts, communication, education, history, linguistics, politics and more. Dedicated to full-text content from 1998+ about Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and South East Asia.

Used by academics and teachers to find and share their work. Use the bibliography to find an index of international journals, books, websites, and other publications covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic art from 1926+.

Full-text, international journal articles from 1997+ with a strong focus on humanities. You can refine your search by subjects such as "theatre" and "performance studies" or "performance theory".

Digital Theatre+ collaborates with world-class theatre companies, industry associations, practitioners and scholars to provide access to a growing collection of full-length theatre productions and educational resources.

The database contains recordings of hundreds of live captured performances across theatre, ballet, opera and classical music; Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.