LibGuides: Theater: Open Educational Resources

Theater

This is a collection of openly licensed or free textbooks and materials that can be used to enhance teaching and learning. This page highlights some of the Open Educational Resources (OER) available, but this is by no means an exhaustive list. If you would like to learn more about OER please visit the Open Educational Resources and Textbook Affordability Library Guide.

Theater Textbooks

Arts Integration in Elementary Curriculum This open textbook was created with the support of an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics include art integration, music integration, physical education / dance integration, and the theoretical foundations of arts integration in education.
Lifetime Fitness and Wellness This course provides a study of fitness and wellness and their relationship to a healthy lifestyle. Defines fitness and wellness, evaluates the student's level of fitness and wellness, and motivates the student to incorporate physical fitness and wellness into daily living.
Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook Playback Theatre is a form of community-centered storytelling theater where the audience tells stories, which are then reflected by a company of actors and musicians. Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook is an open education resource consisting of a collection of full-length recordings of online Playback Theatre performances, and a 55-page explanatory guidebook. The guidebook, featuring a foreword by Playback Theatre co-founder, Jo Salas, explains the adaptation to online performances and some of the key concepts, roles, and forms involved in online Playback Theatre. The resource as a whole is suitable for a wide range of theatre students in courses such as applied theatre, theatre for social justice, improvisation, theatre appreciation, or acting. The guidebook contains hyperlinks to specific sections of the archive where students can see a given form or concept in action, allowing for a comparison of how different companies approach a given form.
Theatrical Worlds From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues from across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well.
Transforming Stories, Driving Change A workbook for bringing new voices into public debate based on the performance creation approach developed by Transforming Stories, Driving Change.
Haunting our Biases: Using Participatory Theater to Interrupt Implicit Bias This project invites learners to deepen their self-awareness about the implicit biases that they hold. In participatory theatre, this kind of invitation for self-exploration can haunt us, leaving a lasting impression that can evoke self-reflexive actions and behaviours.
Theater Appreciation A book written by Achieving the Dream College meant for use in a theater appreciation overview course.
LibreTexts - Theater Search A list of textbooks related to Theater and Performing Arts on LibreCommons. LibreCommons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 14 LibreTexts libraries in one convenient location.

Theater Resources

OER Commons - Preforming Arts Search Performing Arts resources from OER Commons, a public digital library of open educational resources.
OER Commons - Theater Search Theater resources from OER Commons, a public digital library of open educational resources.

Theater Media

Creative Commons - Legal Music for Videos Aggregator of links to freely available music created by Creative Commons.
Free Music Archive
TEDEd - Theater
Creative Commons - Theater Search Selection of materials on or about theater by Creative Commons. All resources are free to use.
Google Arts and Culture Link Open resources from Google dealing with Art and Culture.
CrashCourse - Theater and Drama CrashCourse is an educational YouTube channel started by John and Hank Green in 2012. This curated YouTube playlist covers a number of topics related to theater.