LibGuides: Theatre: Home

Where to get help

You can get help for research in several ways.

Contact the subject librarian,
Taylor Greene, at (714) 532-7782 or
tgreene@chapman.edu

Room 115 in the Leatherby Libraries

Face-to-face during Reference Desk hours

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Performing Arts Librarian

Taylor Greene

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Contact:

Leatherby Libraries, room 115
tgreene@chapman.edu

(714) 532 - 7782

Subjects: Dance, Music, Theatre

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:

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.
Drama Online: National Theatre Collections 1 and 2 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.
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.
ProQuest Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Delivers complete information from popular and scholarly performing arts journals, as well as access to the IIPA thesaurus (controlled indexing with the added depth of full-text searching), ProQuest Performing Arts Periodicals Database (Formerly known as International Index to Performing Arts) 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 and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeares plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Gift of the Wilkinson Family Library Endowment. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1600-present.
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.

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