Theatre
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media

• Reed Library Catalog: Locate materials in Reed Library.
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles

• International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance:  International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains full text for more than 100 periodicals and more than 100 books & monographs.
• Humanities International Complete : This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. 
• Academic Search Complete : Find information on almost any topic. Contains  the full text of over 4,450 magazines, journals and newspapers and indexing for many more. Coverage dates back to 1975 for many publications. A great starting point for research!

Reference

• American Film Scripts Online: Currently contains over 800 scripts by more than 900 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
• Asian American Drama: Contains 252 plays (many previously unpublished) by 42 playwrights. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
• Black Drama: Includes more than 500 previously unpublished plays, including works by a number of leading playwrights - such as Amiri Baraka and Ed Bullins. Also includes a resource file that allows the user to see playbills, stills, photographs, and other ephemera from a wide range of sources.
• Latino Literature, Poetry, Drama and Fiction: Includes fiction, poetry and plays, representing the Chicano culture, as well as the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. 
• North American Theatre Online: Information for every theatrical figure, play, theater, major production, and production company from Colonial Times to present, in both the United States and Canada.
• North American Women's Drama: This collection contains more than 1,500 plays with related biographical, production, and theatrical information as well as playbills and photographs. Covers colonial times to the present.
• Twentieth Century North American Drama: Contains plays by more than 200 twentieth century North American playwrights.
• Oxford Reference: Includes over 175 subject reference works.

Other Tools

• Internet Broadway Database
• World Wide Web Virtual Library--Theatre and Drama:Contains links to theatre sites from around the world.
• Library of Congress Resources for Music, Theatre and Dance
• Musicals101.com: An online encyclopedia of theatre, film, and television.