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Detail of 'A Side Box' (Anon, c. 1780) and a Victoria Hall Playbill

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Backstage provides a single point of entry for finding and searching performing arts collections in the UK.

It is aimed at the research community, plus anyone with an interest in the performing arts

It contains:

  • a directory of institutions [418 records]
  • collection level descriptions [900 records]
  • selected item level records [60556 records]

Backstage is funded as part of the Research Support Libraries Programme.

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SEARCH BACKSTAGE to locate information about UK Performing Arts collections. We also hold information about where collections can be found, and (for some of the collections) details about items within those collection.

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