Drama Online is a fast-growing resource which now features over 5,000 playtexts, more than 800 hours of video, 450 audio plays, over 1,000 scholarly books and over 30 volumes of major reference works.
Our unique Play Tools include Character Grids, Words and Speech graphs, and Part Books, offering new ways to engage with plays for study or performance. Video content is supported by a Transcript Player and Video Clipping functionality.
See below for details on all the collections that are available for subscription on Drama Online.
Audio Collections
L.A. Theatre Works
Over 400 professionally recorded audio plays including those from leading American playwrights.
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Book Collections
Critical Studies and Performance Practice
Over 850 academic books on theatre craft and criticism and videos on physical actor training.
Playtext Collections
Aurora Metro Books
Over 125 plays on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by black and Asian writers.
Aurora Metro Books 2
Playtexts Over 100 plays including writers of colour and women playwrights
Core Collection
Currency Press
Nick Hern Books
Oberon Books
Playwrights Canada Press
TCG Books
Video Collections
BBC Drama Films and Documentaries
Award-winning film adaptations and high quality documentaries.
British, American and Australian Theatre
Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection
Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on Screen
The Hollow Crown
Maxine Peake as Hamlet
National Theatre 1 & 2
Playwrights and Practitioners
RSC Live
Shakespeare in the Present
Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1
Video 21 plays recorded live on the Globe stage (2008-15)
Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 2
Video 9 plays recorded live on the Globe stage (2016-18)
Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 3
Video 4 plays recorded live on the Globe stage (2022-24)