Theatre Arts Resources

Finding ARTICLES

Humanities International Complete - Full text from hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes many theatre and drama sources. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

MLA International Bibliography - Modern Language Association's index to articles and chapters in books on literature, including drama. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Academic Search Complete - Interdisciplinary articles including drama, theatre, communication and mass media with extensive full text. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

ProQuest Research Library - Covers a wide range of subject areas dating back to 1985. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)

Academic OneFile - Interdisciplinary articles back to 1980 with many in full text. (Database Service: Thomson Gale) user guide (PDF 75k)

See also Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism for author biographies and literary analysis. (Database Service: Thomson Gale)

Credo Reference - An electronic reference book collection.

Also see Newspapers for reviews of drama and film:

Finding BOOKS

Edgewood's Catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, more. See also new books.

LitFINDER - Includes over 1,000 complete plays covering the range of dramatic expression. Includes many nationalities, all in English or English translations. Select "Play" or "Play Collection" in the "Type of Work" option.

Play Index - Search over 30,000 plays written in or translated into English from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to date. Search for monologues, one-acts or by cast size as well as by subject, author or title. (Database Service: H.W. Wilson) user guide (PDF 1.11mb)

Course Reserves - Search by course number or instructor

WorldCat - for books, videos, etc from libraries nationwide

Theatre Arts WEBSITES

Edgewood College Department of Theatre Arts - Check their links page for more websites.

Edgewood Theatre Productions Calendar

The Actor's Checklist - Site designed for the beginning actor. Provides advice and information on auditioning and acting.

Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) - Records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre - people, facts and production statistics

McCoy's Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies - Scroll down to many drama and theatre sites on the Web.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet.

Musicals101.com - All you ever wanted to know about theatre, film and television musicals.

Performing Arts Encyclopedia - A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress. Searchable by name or topic with a description of the various collections and links to the digitized resources in Music, Theater, Dance, & Film.

Speech Accent Archive - Extensive collection of audio clips demonstrating accents from around the world.

Film

Cineaste - The online version of the journal features scholarly, in-depth analysis of popular cinema, interviews with directors, independent and international cinema, and more. Not all articles available online.

FilmComment - The official website of New York's Lincoln Center Film Society. Includes online version of Film Comment, an outstanding cinema journal.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - One of the largest film resources on the Web, covers virtually every movie ever made; users can search by a film's title, director, characters, and more.