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CUE Library’s subscription to this award-winning digital library provides CUE students, faculty and staff with access to exclusively available playtext content, filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.

Drama Online “is a well-designed and easy-to-use database that succeeds admirably in making the texts of plays available online,” enhanced by the inclusion of video and audio recordings, making it a unique offering among the theatrical databases currently available. ” – Choice, September 2021

Explore by themes, genres, forms, periods, plays, and playwrights:

• 4,500 playtexts from over 1,400 playwrights
• Over 400 audio plays
• 420 hours of video

Available collections include:

• The Core Collection: a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world’s leading dramatists
• National Theatre: 50 plays from 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings.
• Playwrights Canada Press: plays from notable and award-winning authors including Daniel MacIvor and Hannah Moscovich.

Want more resources on performing arts? Watch our Plays & Monologues tutorial to learn how to find these resources in the library catalogue.