Theatre Arts Resources
Finding ARTICLES
MLA International Bibliography - Modern Language Association's index to articles and chapters in books on literature, including drama. (Database Service: EBSCO)
Academic Search Premier - Interdisciplinary articles including drama, theatre, communication and mass media with extensive full text. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 79k)
ProQuest Research Library - Covers a wide range of subject areas dating back to 1985. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 82k)
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)
Also see Newspapers for reviews of drama and film:
- In LexisNexis, click on News, then under Select Sources, choose "Book, Movie, Music, Play & Video Reviews." (Database Service: LexisNexis)
- In the Historical New York Times select "reviews" as the document type. (Database Service: ProQuest)
Finding BOOKS
Edgewood's Catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, more. See also new books.
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 Fine Arts Calendar (including Theatre Productions)
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.