News and Updates
December 2021: Announcing 8 of the 10 new filmed productions to go live in the National Theatre Collection 2 in February 2022 (with news on 2 more coming soon!)
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22nd September 2021: The National Theatre Collection 2 has launched with 10 filmed productions.
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6th September 2021: Critical Studies and Performance Practice 2021 Update
New titles range from An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre and Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration to The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama.
Download the 2021 Update title list here.
Find out more about the Critical Studies and Performance Practice collection here.
29th June 2021: Oberon Books Collection is now complete
This content update includes stand-out plays from some of today’s foremost British playwrights, such as Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Inua Ellams, Dennis Kelly and Laura Wade, as well as key contemporary writers from the USA, such as Clare Barron and Anne Washburn.
Download the complete Oberon Books Collection title list here.
May 2021: Over 120 new titles from Methuen, Faber & Faber, Nick Hern Books, and L.A. Theatre Works now live.
Download the Core Collection title list
here.
Download the Nick Hern Books title list
here.
Download the L.A. Theatre Works title list
here.
February 2021: Oberon Books Collection is now live
Discover ground-breaking British plays and the best of international drama and plays in translation
Download the Oberon Books Collection title list here.
December 2020: Drama Online is one of Library Journal's Must-Have Databases for Academic and Public Libraries 2020!
Read more on Library Journal here.
November 2020: 90 new titles from Methuen, Faber & Faber, and Nick Hern Books now live.
Download the Core Collection title list
here.
Download the Nick Hern Books title list
here.
October 2020: The Stratford Festival Shakespeare Collection - now live
10 filmed performances including: Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King John, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, The Adventures of Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Timon of Athens
29th September 2020: Critical Studies and Performance Practice 2020 Update
New critical studies titles range from ShakesFear and How to Cure It, to Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama. Performance practice titles include those by working theatre practitioners, such as Patsy Rodenburg and Russell Jackson.
Download the 2020 Update title list
here.
Find out more about the Critical Studies and Performance Practice collection
here.
12th August 2020:
RSC Live Collection completes with 4 new films
As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure and Timon of Athens
Drama Online migration to new platform in July 2020
Access all the same high-quality content as before and benefit from an improved user experience.
April 2020: 6 new films now live in the
National Theatre Collection
Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts and featuring 30 titles, this collection is now complete.
COVID-19 Response
Drama Online is now available to academic institutions upon request through the end of May 2020, at no cost or obligation and on an unlimited access basis. Find out more
here.
The National Theatre Collection, already free to UK state schools and state-funded FE Colleges, is now available to those UK pupils and teachers via remote access. For a temporary period, whilst schools and colleges remain closed, log-in details can be shared with pupils to access resources at home. Register your school
here.
March 2020: 90 new playtexts from Methuen, Faber & Faber, and Nick Hern Books now live.
Download the Core Collection title list
here.
Download the Nick Hern Books title list
here.
Case Studies
Find out how Drama Online has transformed teaching and learning by opening up new themes, topics, and ways of approaching the material.
January 2020: 5 new films now live in the
National Theatre Collection
Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, this collection now offers 24 titles.
