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 Theater and Dance: International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains full text for more than 100 periodicals and more than 100 books & monographs.
• Academic Search Premier: Find information on almost any topic! Contains  the full text of over 4,450 magazines, journals and newspapers and indexing for many, many more. Coverage dates back to 1975 for many publications. A great starting point for research!
• Oxford Reference: includes over 175 titles language and subject reference works from the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and the Encyclopedia of

Reference

• 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.
• 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. 
• Black Drama: Includes more than 500 previously unpublished plays, including works by a number of leading playwrights - such as Amiri Baraka and Ed Bullins.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.
• 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.
• Asian American Drama: Contains 252 plays (many previously unpublished) by 42 playwrights.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.
• Twentieth Century North American Drama: Contains plays by more than 200 twentieth century North American playwrights.

Other Tools

• 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: A nice list of resources for the topic.  
• Musicals101.com: An online encyclopedia of theatre, film, and television.