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Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.

Copyright and Public Performance Rights:  Writers hold copyright.  Performers must contact writers to secure public performance permissions.  What the Riverside edition is to the study of Shakespeare, the New Play Exchange is to the study of contemporary drama.

From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video, when complete, will offer more than 500 hours of online streaming video, available electronically for the first time. With live television broadcasts of New York productions from the 50s, revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, as well as important contemporary performances, Theatre in Video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Unlike Hollywood adaptations, these are the actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience.

Includes live performance and cinematic productions of plays from classical playwrights such as Shakespeare, Moliere, Voltaire, and Chekhov, while also incorporating new, contemporary writers such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Alexander Buzo, and William Yang. See Find and Using Streaming Video for information.