Guides: Theatre: Resources for Stage Production

The Lighting Archive
Website featuring collected light plots and other technical documents from many stage productions, as well as an interactive light plot for the 1979 Broadway production of Sweeney Todd.
Theatrical Lighting Database
A collaboration by the Lighting Archive and the New York Public Library, this website features collected light plots and supporting documentation from many stage productions in both theater and dance.
PLSN.com
Projection, Lights and Staging News -- a trade publication for stage and theatrical lighting

Theatrical Sound Design

Theater sound design: PN2091.S6

Sound and Music for the Theatre: the art and technique of design / Deena Kaye and James LeBrecht

Library print copy: Davis Family Library PN2091.S6 K3 2009

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Fashion and Costume

Costume and history: GT510 - GT1565, PN2067.W3

Visual History of Costume: Seven centuries of costume history in one volume [electronic resource] / Aileen Ribiero

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Middlebury College Antique Clothing Collection
This website provides a view into a Middlebury College-owned collection of approximately 450 items of clothing dating from between 1830-1930. Requires Middlebury login credentials.
Europeana Fashion
Portal to the digital collections of 32 major European museums and archives, including modern and period costume and fashion.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections
The Met makes more than 400,000 public domain items available digitally, including more than 40,000 costume-related items spanning four millennia. Search by era, geographic location of origin, or by keyword.
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
This online reference book provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs.
Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby Fashion Plate Collection
Hundreds of images of 19th-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The full-color fashion plates were culled from a variety of women's periodicals and other mass-circulating works published between 1789 and 1914. The images are primarily from France, Britain, America, and Spain, and depict scenes of nineteenth-century middle- and upper-class life. A number of plates also derive from trade journals for tailors, who used the images to create made-to-order garments for fashionable men.
Harper's Bazaar (1857 - 1912)
Via American Periodicals, this database feature complete, full-page scans of Harper's Bazaar magazine from 1857 - 1912.
Ladies Home Journal (1889 - 1907)
Via American Periodicals, this database features complete, full-page scans of the Ladies Home Journal from 1889 - 1907.
Middlebury College Special Collections
Special Collections at Middlebury College serves as a research laboratory for students, faculty, administration, staff, alumni, the Middlebury community, and independent scholars. Special Collections offers research instruction in primary source materials and welcomes class visits, individual researchers, and frequently serves as the classroom/laboratory for semester-long and Winter Term classes.

Theatrical Make-up

Theatrical makeup: PN 2068

The Complete Make-up Artist: working in film, fashion, television and theater / Penny Delamar

Library print copy: Davis Family Library PN2068 .D45 2003

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English Dialects & Accents

Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen
Paul Meier
12 CDs and an accompanying book with instructions and practice material. Covers 24 accents and dialects commonly used by English-speaking actors.
Library print copy: Davis Family Library PE1711 .M45 2009.
British Library - Accents & dialects
Audio samples of regional British accents collected by the British Library.
DARE Fieldwork Recordings
From University of Wisconsin - Madison, this collection offers sound samples of regional American accents recorded in the field.
IDEA (International Dialects of English Archive)
More than 1,000 scripted recordings of English language spoken by natives of nearly 100 countries around the world. Browse by region or by theme, or search all records for key terms.
Speech Accent Archive
From George Mason University, a collection of thousands of scripted recordings of English language spoken by native and non-native speakers. Browse by region or by language.
VADA (Visual Accent & Dialect Archive)
Dozens of scripted video recordings of English language spoken by natives of various regions around the world.
Browse by region, or search for a specific dialect.

Videography

Lynda tutorials on shooting video
Presents clear and practical instruction in shooting video and recording audio effectively for a wide range of purposes.