Theater

Images of costumes and scenery for Shakespeare and modern classics, opera, ballet, and motion pictures by the Motley Group (Margaret Harris, her sister Sophia Harris, and Elizabeth Montgomery), 1932 to 1976. Includes productions in the West End of London, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the English National Opera, Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera. Browse by production or by theater.

Images from the book, The History of Costume, by Braun & Schneider. Covers antiquity to the end of the 19th-century.

Images of set designs and costumes for professional productions. Soroko is a professional theater designer whose work appears in major theaters across the country.

Images of set designs for regional theaters by Chelsea Warren, a Chicago-based designer.

Images of set designs by award-winning designer, Kris Stone.

Images of set designs of contemporary plays by Boston-based designer, Ruth Neeman.

Based on the hit film of the same name, Billy Elliot tells the story of a boy from a family of coal miners who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, even though his father wants him to box.

HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.

A classic musical from Hammerstein and Kern based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same name. The first Broadway score ever to have a coherent plot and integrated songs. Showboat is the story of the Hawks family and their showboat troop of actors aboard the Cotton Blossom floating theater.

Director and choreographer Matthew Bourne creates a radical contemporary reinterpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet.