Jackson District Library offers Theatre Treasures!

All you need is your library card to view Theatre in Video's more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 60 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Hamlet, Othello, Awake and Sing, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, and others. Notable actors include Gene Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, and more. For the first time, students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging, and these landmark performances can become a permanent part of the curriculum.

Go to http://www.jackson.lib.mi.us/ and click on 'eJDL' under 'Navigation' on the left side of the page. Then scroll down to 'Theatre in Video!' You have to have your library card and pin number. If you need to get a library card, click here.