If you live in the City of LA, you can get an e-card right away. If you live elsewhere, you have options: LA County, Glendale, and/or Beverly Hills (LA, Orange, Ventura Counties).
Kanopy offers a number of different streaming titles including documentaries and performances. Please note: the FIRST TIME you use Kanopy, you need to log in at csun.kanopy.com.
Swank has 1000 movies that will be available until July of 2023, including Blade Runner, 12 Angry Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and other theatre favorites!
Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)This link opens in a new windowCollection of more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Access generously provided by Campus Quality Fee.
National Theatre CollectionThis link opens in a new windowThrough a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers high definition streaming video of productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.
Access to current (2012-present) newspapers from all over the world. You can use as a complement to the historical newspapers.
Find scenes and monologues
Most monologues and scenes are in the PN 2080 section of the 4th Floor on Stack 5.
To browse plays by genre, you can use Library of Congress genre headings (go to page 25 of the PDF), such as "comedy plays" or "dialect drama."
Asian American DramaThis link opens in a new windowAsian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of Josephine D. Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Esther S. Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; James S. Moy, University of New Mexico; and Karen Shimakawa, University of California, Davis