LibGuides: Theatre: Home

Welcome to the Theatre guide! Here you will find information about finding books, articles, and other sources of information related to theatre.

Theatre-specific databases:

Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library This link opens in a new window Interdisciplinary primary sources, scholarly and reference books, articles, and videos on the study of dress and costume history, design and making. Terms of Use. Coverage: 3300 BCE-present.
Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window Video recordings of theatre, audio, and poetry productions as well as interviews, lectures, documentaries, teaching materials, and written resources on all aspects of theatre. Terms of Use.
Drama Online: National Theatre Collections 1-3 This link opens in a new window Videos and images of National Theatre Live Broadcasts, including Greek legend, Shakespeare, and contemporary plays. Terms of Use. Coverage: 2010-2024.
Drama Texts Collection This link opens in a new window Cross-search drama e-resources from Alexander Street Press including Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Contemporary World Drama, English Drama, North American Indian Drama, North American Women's Drama, and Twentieth Century North American Drama. Terms of Use.
Musical Theater Songs This link opens in a new window Allows users to search 150 years of musical theater repertoire by over 20 parameters (voice type, character age, range, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, etc.) to generate a list of songs tailored to specific needs. Terms of Use.
Play Index (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Provides citations to some 31,000 plays with coverage of a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, puppet performances, mysteries, and classic drama. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1949-present.
ProQuest Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Indexes 400 scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers covering theater, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1864-present. Restricted to 4 users at a time.
Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library This link opens in a new window Rare prompt books that tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as performed in Great Britain, the United States and internationally. Gift of the Wilkinson Family Library Endowment. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1600-present.

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