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- Oxford Reference Premium
This reference database includes access to almost 400 dictionaries and encyclopedias of fully-indexed, cross-searchable works published by Oxford University Press with detailed information across a broad subject range of topics.
- Theatre TermsFrom the American Association of Community Theatre, over 1000 definitions of theatrical terms, from Aside, Beam Angle, and Camlock, to Upstaging, VU Meter, and Wagon. Fully searchable, our glossary is helpful for technical staff, directors, actors, producers, or anyone wanting to better understand the inner workings of theatre.
In these databases, you can find academic research about drama and theatre.
- Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic Video Online delivers video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
- Digital Theatre+
Digital Theatre+, includes over 600 productions, from musicals to literary classics and in a range of formats including captured theatre, films, TV adaptations, audio theatre, and poetry recitals; more than 800 video resources such as interactive workshops, dynamic e-learning videos, and exclusive interviews, lectures and documentaries; and over 21,000 pages of written resources.
- Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement
This database fills the gap in academic literature about the community and contributions of people who experience disability, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy. Includes 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, archives, documentaries, and interviews along with 125 hours of video.
- JSTOR
A multidisciplinary digital library that includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR; spanning more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access also includes more than two million primary source documents.
And, with the incorporation of Artstor's collections, JSTOR is now home to more than two million images.
- Kanopy
Kanopy is a video streaming collection with over 26,000 films ranging from documentaries, indie, foreign, classic and blockbuster movies in several subjects and sub-subject areas. PBS, New Day Films, Kino Lorber, and California NewsReel are just a few of the content providers.
- eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
This collection contains over 246,000 eBooks on a wide variety of academic subject matter.
- eBook Central (ProQuest)
eBook Central is a collection of nearly 250,000 academic e-books on a wide variety of subjects.
American Dramatists in the 21st Century by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781350340480Publication Date: 2023-02-23Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In addition to covering all their plays, including several as yet unpublished, he notes their critical reception while drawing on their own commentary on their approach to writing and the business of developing a career. The writers studied come from a diverse range of racial, religious and immigrant backgrounds. Five of the seven are women. Together, they open doors on a changing theatre and a changing America, as ever concerned with identity, both personal and national.
The Art of Writing for the Theatre by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781350155589Publication Date: 2022-08-11Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of theatre writing. Includes: * how to analyze and break down a script * how to write a wide range of plays * how to critique a theatre production * how to construct and craft critical essays, cover letters, and theatrical resumes. Accompanying online resources include playwriting and script analysis worksheets and exercises, an example of a playwriting resume, and critical points to consider on playwriting, design, acting, directing and choreography.
Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781350252912Publication Date: 2023-05-04Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance illuminates the relationship between performance, identity, intersectionality, and activism in North America and beyond. It features contributions from scholars, artists, and activists from across disciplines who explore the nuances and varied forms of Black performance in the 21st century while incorporating performance-based methodologies and queer and black feminist theories. Among the many topics addressed by contributors are antiracist pedagogy, Black queer identity formation in Black playwriting, digital blackface, and Black women's subversive practices within contemporary popular culture.
The Costume Supervisor's Toolkit by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781317294726Publication Date: 2018-07-27The Costume Supervisor's Toolkit explores the responsibilities of a Costume Supervisor within a theatrical, opera or dance production company. Rebecca Pride provides an insight into all manner of processes, beginning with a definition of the role, and offers explanations of the timeline from the first design meetings, leading all the way up to managing fittings and final rehearsals. This how-to guide outlines best working practices, including building a team and creating a Costume Bible, whilst also providing helpful resources such as sizing guides, a list of useful addresses, and case studies from renowned theatrical organizations.
Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781350035058Publication Date: 2020-02-06This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays, and theatres within their cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-political contexts. In surveying Native theatre from the late 19th century until today, the authors explore the cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual concerns, as well as the political and revitalization efforts of Indigenous peoples. This book frames the major themes of the genre and identifies how such themes are present in the dramaturgy, rehearsal practices, and performance histories of key Native scripts.
The Director's Toolkit by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781138095229Publication Date: 2018-01-24The Director's Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to the role of the theatrical director. Following the chronology of the directing process, the book discusses each stage in precise detail, considering the selection and analysis of the script, the audition process, casting, character development, rehearsals, how to self-evaluate a production and everything in between. Drawing on the author's own experience in multiple production roles, the book highlights the relationship between the director, stage manager and designer, exploring how the director should be involved in all elements of the production process. The book includes detailed illustrations, step-by-step checklists, and opportunities for further exploration, offering a well-rounded foundation for aspiring directors.
A Little Devil in America by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781984801197Publication Date: 2021-03-30A reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Filled with sharp insight, humor, and heart, A Little Devil in America exalts the Black performance that unfolds in specific moments in time and space--from midcentury Paris to the moon, and back down again to a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio.
Making Your Solo Show by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781839040047Publication Date: 2024-01-30This clear, accessible guide to creating and putting on a solo show is packed with inspiring, practical advice for writers, actors, directors, and anyone who wants to know how solo shows are actually made. Written by two theatremakers with a wealth of experience in the field, it leads you through the whole process - from finding a subject you're passionate about, to developing your ideas and getting the script written, through to rewrites, rehearsals and getting your show on stage. It tackles key questions such as: What makes a 'good' solo show? How do I engage the audience? How should directors and writer-performers work together? And what's the best way of approaching a producer? There's also invaluable advice on looking after yourself, coping with anxieties, dealing with reviews, and taking your show to the Edinburgh Fringe. With practical exercises throughout to help you put everything into action, this book is an indispensable toolkit for making your solo show a reality.
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9783030572075Publication Date: 2021-01-05Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike.
The Production Manager's Toolkit by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781138838840Publication Date: 2016-08-18The Production Manager's Toolkit is a comprehensive introduction to a career in theatrical and special event production for new and aspiring professionals, given by expert voices in the field. The book discusses management techniques, communication skills, and relationship building tactics to create effective and successful production managers. With a focus on management theory, advice from top production managers provide insights into budgeting, scheduling, meetings, hiring, maintaining safety, and more. Through interviews and case studies, the history and techniques of production management are explored throughout a variety of entertainment venues: theatre, dance, opera, and special events. The book includes references, tools, templates, and checklists; and a companion website contains downloadable paperwork and links to other useful resources such as unions, venues, and vendors. This book is written for student and professional production managers.
Staging the End of the World by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781350309913Publication Date: 2023-01-26This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, environmental degradations, warfare, nuclear annihilation, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Using a wide range of plays alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis. The book draws upon the work of contemporary scientists, ecologists, and ethicists to further tease out the philosophical implications of such plays and their relevance to our own troubled times.
The Technical Director's Toolkit by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415747295Publication Date: 2015-12-15In the world of theatre, the technical director is responsible for overseeing the safe and efficient realization and implementation of scenery for the stage. The Technical Director's Toolkit is the first book to address every nut and bolt of this multifaceted job. This book guides readers through the step-by-step processes of technical direction and the responsibilities of the TD in the mounting of a theatrical production. Leadership, management, relationship building, personal responsibility, and problem solving are addressed, demonstrating not only how to become a more efficient and effective TD, but also how to be a collaborative member of a production team that artists will seek to work with again and again. The book also addresses scene shop design, facility repair and maintenance, and finishes with a brief overview of other areas of technical theatre that help round out the far reaching skill set of a successful TD. This book is perfect for university courses in Stagecraft and Technical Direction and for the aspiring Technical Director.
The Writer's Toolkit by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1848428634Publication Date: 2021-09-14Perfect for playwrights and screenwriters of all levels of experience, The Writer's Toolkit will equip you with everything required to kickstart your creativity, develop your craft, and make your writing the very best that it can be. Written by an experienced playwright, screenwriter and producer, this essential book is packed with almost two hundred practical exercises, techniques and ideas for every part of your process, designed to be used either solo or in a group.
Looking for full plays, monologues, or scenes?
- Black Drama: Third Edition
Black Drama: Third Edition contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
- English Drama (ProQuest)English Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth. It offers exhaustive coverage of the dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas, including works by major dramatists such as Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn, William Wycherley, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Synge.
- Twentieth Century North American Drama: Second Edition
This collection contains 2,050+ plays of the 20th century from the United States and Canada.
Art in a Democracy: selected plays of Roadside Theater. Volume 1, The Appalachian history plays, 1975-1989 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781613321911Publication Date: 2023-03-14Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia's Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater's history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people's history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam.
Art in a democracy: selected plays of Roadside Theater. Volume 2, The intercultural plays, 1990-2020 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781613321973Publication Date: 2023The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside’s intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as well as with residents on both sides of the walls of recently-built prisons. Roadside has spent 45 years searching for what art in a democracy might look like. The anthology raises questions such as, What are common principles and common barriers to achieving democracy across disciplines, and how can the disciplines unite in common democratic cause?
The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781493055920Publication Date: 2021-06-01Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other. Revolving around the theme of this is who we are, the one-act plays in this latest edition of the Best American Short Plays series (now in its ninth decade) explore the thoughtful ways in which playwrights are wrestling to make sense of our world today. The selected plays reflect how we perform our identities (private and public) and how we negotiate who we are with others who often have different perspectives, perspectives that make us uncomfortable. The theme of this collection is topical and apt as our country continues to shore up its borders along party lines, from pride parades to strict abortion laws, from inclusivity in education curricula to children in detention centers at the US-Mexico border. Each of the plays presents a clear reflection of who we are (and who we aspire to be) as individuals and as a nation. The styles of the plays also reflect different approaches to storytelling: two characters, four characters, a single setting, multiple settings, or a utopian nowhere. The rich and compelling characters try to work out their differences and overcome obstacles using humor and a sense of magic that comes with simple moments of human connection. This is who we are: people who are grappling with the desire to be understood, the hope to be loved and accepted, and to allow that hope to shape a larger sense of who we could be if we continue to work and listen.
The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781493060450Publication Date: 2021-11-15A collection of thirty new ten-minute plays. Selections include :The Architecture of Desire by Brian Leahy Doyle; Count Dracula's Café by Scot Walker; Extended Play by B.V. Marshall; Go to the Light by Laurie Allen; Greater than Nina by Bruce Bonafede; The Home for Retired Canadian Girlfriends by John Bavoso; Judas Iscariot's Day Off by David Macgregor; Last Dance with MJ by Lindsay Partain; The Lobster Quadrille by Don Nigro; Meanwhile at the Pentagon by Jenny Lyn Bader; Most Wonderful by Jennifer O'grady; Reconcile, Bitch by Desi Moreno-Penson; Trumpettes Anonymous by Rex McGregor; You Are Here by Nandita Shenoy
Contemporary Plays by African American Women by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252039713Publication Date: 2015-12-07African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell draws from the vital wellspring of works created by African American women in the twenty-first century to present ten plays by both prominent and up-and-coming writers. Taken together, the selections portray how these women engage with history as they delve into--and shake up--issues of gender and class to craft compelling stories of African American life. Gliding from gritty urbanism to rural landscapes, these works expand boundaries and boldly disrupt modes of theatrical representation. Selections: Blue Door, by Tanya Barfield; Levee James, by S. M. Shephard-Massat; Hoodoo Love, by Katori Hall; Carnaval, by Nikkole Salter; Single Black Female, by Lisa B. Thompson; Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, by Lynn Nottage; BlackTop Sky, by Christina Anderson; Voyeurs de Venus, by Lydia Diamond; Fedra, by J. Nicole Brooks; and Uppa Creek: A Modern Anachronistic Parody in the Minstrel Tradition, by Keli Garrett.
Humana Festival 2018 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781538133187Publication Date: 2020-04-15The Humana Festival of New American Plays has been a leading home for extraordinary playwrights and their imaginations for more than four decades, making Actors Theatre of Louisville one of the nation's preeminent powerhouses for new play development. For six weeks every spring, Louisville exerts a gravitational pull on producers and theatre lovers from around the country, who travel from far and wide for the adventure of seeing a diverse slate of fully-produced new plays. Many Humana Festival plays have gone on to garner awards and subsequent productions, making a sustained impact on the international dramatic repertoire. Humana Festival 2018: The Complete Plays brings together all six scripts from the 42nd annual cycle of world premieres, featuring a remarkable array of work by some of the most exciting voices in the American theatre. This anthology makes the Humana Festival plays available to an even wider audience, allowing readers to experience the collision of perspectives, styles and stories that makes the festival such an invigorating celebration of the art form. This compilation features the full-length plays Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, Evocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultz, we, the invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton, Marginal Loss by Deborah Stein, and God Said This by Leah Nanako Winkler, as well as You Across from Me, a collaboratively-written play by four writers--Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha, Brian Ota o, and Jason Gray Platt.
Humana Festival 2019 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781538136362Publication Date: 2020-09-01The Humana Festival of New American Plays has been a leading home for extraordinary playwrights and their imaginations for more than four decades, making Actors Theatre of Louisville one of the nation's preeminent powerhouses for new play development. For six weeks every spring, Louisville exerts a gravitational pull on producers and theatre lovers from around the country, who travel from far and wide for the adventure of seeing a diverse slate of fully-produced new plays. Many Humana Festival plays have gone on to garner awards and subsequent productions, making a sustained impact on the international dramatic repertoire. Humana Festival 2019: The Complete Plays brings together all five scripts from the 43rd annual cycle of world premieres, featuring a remarkable array of work by some of the most exciting voices in the American theatre. This anthology makes the Humana Festival plays available to an even wider audience, allowing readers to experience the collision of perspectives, styles and stories that makes the festival such an invigorating celebration of the art form. This compilation features the full-length plays Everybody Black by Dave Harris; The Thin Place by Lucas Hnath; The Corpse Washer, adapted for the stage by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace, from the novel of the same name by Sinan Antoon; How to Defend Yourself by Liliana Padilla; and We've Come to Believe, a collaboratively-written play by three writers-Kara Lee Corthron, Emily Feldman, and Matthew Paul Olmos.
The Kilroys List, Volume One by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781559365352Publication Date: 2017-07-04The Kilroys are a gang of playwrights and producers who came together in Los Angeles in 2013 to stop talking about gender parity in theatre and start taking action. In 2014, they released their first annual List: a vetted collection of plays written by female and trans writers, nominated by hundreds of professional artistic directors, literary managers, professors, producers, directors, and dramaturgs. This collection includes a monologue or scene from each play from the 2014 and 2015 editions of The List.
LineStorm Playwrights Present Go Play Outside by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781493061433Publication Date: 2022-03-15LineStorm Playwrights contributed to and curated this anthology of twenty-five short plays designed to be performed outdoors, written by some of the most well-known playwrights creating ten-minute plays today. These compelling pieces can be performed inside, on a traditional stage, but they can also be site-specific works, set in a backyard, on a front porch, in a park, by a street, in a fountain, on a field, by a pool, or under the stars. The collection contains varied scenes and monologues-selections of comedy, farce, satire, musical theater, and drama-perfect for classroom study and for performance by a wide range of actors.
Zero Tolerance and Other Plays by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789462094505Publication Date: 2013-01-01In May 2007, 15-year old Jordan Manners was shot and killed in the hallway of his Toronto school. One month later, an investigation resulted in a 595-page report entitled The Road to Health. A few months later, in an attempt to provoke discussion about the report among teachers in Toronto, Tara Goldstein adapted the report into a dramatic script called Zero Tolerance. The play was performed for the first time in September 2008 for 500 new teachers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education's annual Safe Schools Conference. Now for the first time, Zero Tolerance and two other play scripts, Lost Daughter and Ana's Shadow are available as an anthology. The plays are based on the themes of racism, xenophobia and homophobia provoke reflection and discussion about the experiences of marginalized families in North America.
Zora Neale Hurston by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813542911Publication Date: 2008-06-03Hurston was a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime they have languished in obscurity for years. Hurston's dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a "real Negro theater" that embraces all the richness of Black life.
- Commercial Pattern ArchiveCoPA-Online contains over 55,000 scanned images (garments & pattern schematics) from 61,000 commercially produced patterns, dating back to 1847.
- De Gracieuse Fashion MagazineThe 74 volumes of De Gracieuse, a Dutch fashion magazine from the period 1862-1936, were digitized. In total, 32,000 pages of text and black-and-white images, 963 sewing patterns and 1200 color images are available. Although you can search in English, the magazine is in Dutch.
- Pattern ProjectThe Pattern Project is an online resource produced by the Costume and Textiles department at LACMA which publishes free downloadable garment patterns of historic dress in the permanent collection. Each printable PDF includes a scaled pattern of an extant fashion object from the collection, a description with historic context and object-based observations, overall and detail images, and instructions for construction of the garment.
Elizabethan Costume Design and Construction by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780240825090Publication Date: 2014-12-16Learn how to create historically accurate costumes for Elizabethan period productions with Elizabethan Costume Design and Construction! Extensive coverage of a variety of costumes for both men and women of all social classes will allow you to be prepared for any costuming need, and step-by-step instructions will ensure you have the know-how to design and construct your garments. Get inspired by stunning, hand-drawn renderings of costumes used in real life productions like Mary Stuart as you're led through the design process. Detailed instructions will allow you to bring your designs to life and create a meticulously constructed costume.
Medieval Garments Reconstructed by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9788779349018Publication Date: 2011-01-11This volume begins with a short introduction by Else Ostergard to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland. It then features chapters on technique - production of the thread, dyeing, weaving techniques, cutting and sewing - by Anna Norgard. Also included are measurements and drawings of garments, hoods, and stockings, with sewing instructions, by Lilli Fransen. A practical guide to making your own Norse garment!
Patterns for Theatrical Costumes: garments, trims, and accessories from ancient Egypt to 1915 by Call Number: TT633 .H65 1984 (3rd Floor)ISBN: 9780896761254Publication Date: 1993-02-01An amazing resource book filled with detailed costume patterns to trace, cut out and assemble. The patterns illustrated range from Ancient Egypt to 1915 and include trims and accessories. The basic pattern shapes allow the designer's creativity free range. Gowns tunics, headdresses, jackets, robes breeches - the patterns will produce an accurate silhouette for each time period, leaving the costumer free to explore variations of cut and surface embellishment within an historic framework. Holkeboar also gives step-by-step instructions for making corsets and hoop petticoats, hats, crowns, and even masks and wigs. The patterns are multiple-sized and easy to adapt and elaborate upon so they may be used opver and over again to create a completely different look each time beause you add the all-important details. The basics are here - just add inspiration!
Practical Fashion Tech by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781484216637Publication Date: 2016-09-21Pull back the curtain on making fun and innovative costumes and accessories incorporating technologies like low-cost microprocessors, sensors and programmable LEDs. Fashion tech can require skills in design, pattern-making, sewing, electronics, and maybe 3D printing. Besides the tech skills, making a good costume or accessory also requires knowledge of the intangibles of what makes a good costume. This book is a collaboration between two technologists and a veteran teacher, costumer, and choreographer. Regardless of whether you are coming at this from the theater costuming, sewing, or electronics side, the authors will help you get started with the other skills you need. Practical Fashion Tech teaches why things are done a certain way to impart the authors' collective wealth of experience.
A selection of online resources on various aspects of the theatre.
- Black Futures: The art of resistance [Podcast]Black History/Black Futures: The Art of Resistance features Hampton Roads’ Brittney S. Harris, in conversation with Endowed Professor of Virginia Black History and Culture, Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, will moderate this discussion, exploring each guest’s artistic genre.
Together, they uncover stories of resistance through music and theatre in the past and present. What does resistance look like or sound like in an artistic medium? How can art affect lasting change? How do their genres intersect to tell the past story of resistance and represent the ongoing resistance to racism in the artistic field? What does the future of composing and playwrighting look like? How does their work now shape the future of African Americans in the arts? - Black Theatre MattersBlack Theatre Matters is a program of Plowshares Theatre Company. Black Theatre Matters covers trending topics in the theatre featuring experts across art form. It is designed to be a liberal arts resource dedicated to supporting, documenting and celebrating the achievements of Black theatre artists throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Includes listing of Black Theatre Companies.
- Indigenous Theater an Performance of North AmericaThis resource guide offers a primer for theater educators, instructors, and academics interested in indigenous theater and performance of North and Central America. The materials are largely culled from Native authors based in the United States and Canada, with some inclusion of indigenous artists in Central America.
- Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)IBDB was created by the Research Department of The Broadway League, the national trade association for Broadway. The League has collected relevant Broadway information and statistics for many years. In 1996, the Research Department began to organize and expand the League's data collection in order to produce a website that would serve as a comprehensive history of Broadway for the benefit of League members, press, theatre professionals and enthusiasts. IBDB provides a comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. IBDB also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway.
- PlaybillThis resource is one of the largest and most popular theatre pages on the Web, reaching a wide audience (amateur, student, and professional) with its listings of theatre-related sites. With a focus on current and future theater happenings in New York City and the United States, Playbill gives readers a sense of the contemporary theater community.
- Theatrecrafts.comA collection of information about technical theatre, including an Archive section which is the home of the Backstage Heritage Collection.
- Theatre Links: Set-design40 Valuable Set Design Resources for Students.
- Broadway World: Broadway grossesData includes, gross revenue, average ticket price, attendance, and capacity. Data is available back to June 1984.
- Playbill: Grosses ListBroadway production grosses going back to 1985.
Library of Congress Classes For Theatre
Looking for physical books? Categories related to the theatre are below and can be found on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
| LC CLASS | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| GT 500 - GT 2370 | Costume, Dress, Fashion |
| GT 1747 | Masks |
| GT 2290 - GT 2341 | Hair, Hairdressing, Cosmetics |
| NA | Architecture |
| ND 2885 | Scene painting |
| NK 8802 - NK 8998 | Textiles |
| PN 1600 - PN3307 | Drama |
| PN 2061 - PN 2071 | Acting |
| PN 2067 | Costumes |
| PN 2068 | Theatrical makeup |
| PN 2080 | Monologues |
| PN 2085 - PN 2096 | The stage and accessories |
| PN 2091.E4 | Stage lighting |
| PN 2091.S6 | Sound effects |
| PN 2091.S8 | Stage setting and scenery, theatres |
| PN 2131 - PN 2193 | Theatre history |
| PN 3202 - PN 3299 | Tableaux, pageants, "Happenings," etc. . . |
| PN 6110.5 - PN 6120 | Play collections |
| TS 545 - TT 850 | Costumes--Construction |