Theatre Arts

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the New Deal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
An online exhibit of over 13,000 items from the Library of Congress' Federal Theatre Project (FTP) Collection, including stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, and playscripts, as well as selected documents created by the FTP.

Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923
Comprehensive collection of photographs, sheet music, newspaper articles, and sound recordings from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Websites

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:52:33 -0800

Kent State University's Gallery of Costume
Documents various changes in silhouettes, accessories, lingerie, and hairstyles from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Costume Gallery Research Library
This site provides images from original period publications, including fashion magazine articles, catalogs, books, and period photographs dating from 1804-1923.

Dramatic Publishing
Source for plays, musicals, dramas, comedies, one-acts, duet-scenes, monologues, and other theatre resource materials.

Horton's Monologues
Free monologues for students and actors to use in audition.

Internet Broadway Database
A very powerful search engine, similar to the Internet Movie Database, for locating performance-related information on Broadway plays and musicals.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Founded in 1935, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is one of the oldest and largest professional non-profit theatres in the United States.

Monologue Archive
Free monologues from public domain plays.

Theatre Companies

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:13:28 -0700

Artists Repertory Theatre

Oregon Children's Theatre

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Portland Center Stage

Profile Theatre

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Teatro Milagro

Theatre Vertigo

The Wooster Group

Dialects

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:12:18 -0700

The International Dialects of English Archives (IDEA) is a great online source for locating and listening to dialect and accent recordings. Choose the continent or region on the right side of the screen, then select the country. The sound files, which can be downloaded and saved to your computer, are about four minutes long, and typically include scripted readings and unscripted speech.

Mercury Theatre on the Air

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:59:04 -0700

The Mercury Theatre was founded in New York in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. Soon afterwards, the company migrated to the radio, changed its name to the Mercury Theatre on the Air, and, between 1938 and 1940, produced a string of live dramas, including the famous--or infamous--"War of the Worlds" broadcast of October 30, 1938.

The Mercury Theatre site archives all of the surviving Mercury Theatre of the Air shows made from July 1938 to March 1940.

Listen to the very first broadcast of Dracula, from July 11, 1938.

Speak the Speech

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:16:49 -0700

Speak the Speech is a Portland-based non-profit "audio theatre company" dedicated to providing freely available Shakespearean audio performances of online, with local actors taking each of the roles. In addition to audio selections, the site also offers transcribed copies of a small number of texts.

Listen to the first act of Henry IV, Part Two.

Listen to the second act of Twelfth Night.

From Swamp to Stage

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:32:23 -0700

This is the second of 10 short videos documenting the process of bringing Shrek: The Musical to Broadway. Here the focus is on set and lighting design.

Great Performances: King Lear

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:07:09 -0700

Originally broadcast as part of PBS's Great Performance series, this gripping film version of Shakespeare's King Lear features Sir Ian McKellan in the title role.

Greek Drama: From Ritual to Theatre

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:33:28 -0700

"Greek Drama: From Ritual to Theatre," a streaming video available through the PCC Library catalog, traces Greek theater from ancient harvest rites to the golden age of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and includes scenes from Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Medea, and Lysistrata.

Access to this and other streaming video titles is limited to current PCC students, staff, and faculty.

Get Help in Person or by Phone

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:34:41 -0700

You can ask our librarians a question during open hours at any PCC Library.

Need the phone number for your campus? Contact us! If you'd rather come by in person, check the PCC Library locations and hours.

Email Us

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:34:58 -0700

Need to ask a question by email? That's easy too. Use Ask a Librarian, or find your favorite librarian's email address on Library Staff.

Help from Tutors

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:15 -0700

Tutors are available to you both in person and online, and the service is free! Cascade, Sylvania, Rock Creek and Southeast Center each have a tutoring center with excellent in-person tutors in most subjects. If you're working on a paper, the writing tutors are popular (so don't wait until the last minute)! You can get more information about each campuses hours and locations at the links below:

Cascade Campus Learning Center

Rock Creek Student Learning Center

Tutoring at Southeast Center

Tutoring at Sylvania

Or get started working with PCC's online tutors:

eTutoring at PCC

Chat or Text a Librarian for Help

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:30 -0700

You can chat with a PCC librarian any time you see the PCC Ask A Librarian chat widget on any of the library's pages (like the PCC Library home page) or in a subject guide like this one. You can also get to us through AIM, Yahoo!, or Google Talk.

AIM/Y!: pcclib
Google Talk: pcclib@gmail

You can also text a librarian for help at:
971-259-TEXT (8398)

Need help when the library isn't open? Chat with an L-Net librarian 24-7.

Helping Yourself!

bob.kingston@pcc.edu (Bob Kingston) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:44 -0700

PCC Library has lots of resources that you can use on your own. You may already know that about the quiet study spaces as well as study rooms you can reserve.

Citing sources is another way you can help yourself! PCC Library has all the information you need on Cite Sources. The library also has video tutorials on everything from how to develop a topic for your paper to figuring out how to incorporate those citations. You'll find those videos, as well as information about using e-resources, at Tutorials and Handouts.