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    Theater Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books on Theater: 792-792.9

    Dramatic Criticism and Theater Reviews - Full-Text Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      Theater reviews from newspapers. Roughly from 1980s on.
      Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • FindArticles.com
      • Search for articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
      • Note: Text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc. Nor does it provide volume, issue, or page numbers.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project MuseProvided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • New York Times on the Web: Current Theater
      • Includes reviews of both Broadway and Off Broadway productions.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text theater journals, magazines, etc.. Cannot search for articles.
    • Drama Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale.
      • (Call number: R 809.2 D763) Vol. 1 to present.
      • Essays and excerpts from essays.

    Dramatic Criticism and Theater Reviews- Indexes with Citations

    • Humanities Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes about 500 journals and magazines in archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
      • 2/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format:  4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 001.3 H918)
    • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
      • Note: This is the main index to literary criticism in English.
      • Covers nearly 4,000 journals and series, as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats with scholarly research in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
      • 1963 to the present.
      • Note: this database allows only one user at a time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format: 1926 to 1991; (Call number: R801.6 M689)
      • Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals. Coverage from 1963 to present.
    • World Shakespeare Bibliography
      • Provides annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced worldwide between 1972 to present.
    • Essay and General Literature Index 1900 to present
      • (Call number: Index 040 E78)
      • Author and subject index to essays published in books of collected essays.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.

    General Resources

    Theater Awards

    Glossaries

    Musical Theater
    Dewey call number for books on Musical Theater:  792.6

    Plays

    • Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online (Lewis W. Heniford)
      • Synopses of one-act scripts in many languages for four or fewer actors. Contact information to the playwrights are given.
      1/2/3/4 For the Show: A Guide to Small-Cast One-Act Plays. 2 vols. Lewis W. Heniford. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1999.
      • (Call number: R 808.82 H511)
    • See also Subject Guide to E-texts and Literature.

    Playwriting

    • Dramatists Sourcebook. Eds. Kathy Sova, et al. New York: Theatre Communications Group.
      • (Call number: R 792.0973 D763)
      • Information on markets, prizes, publications, grants, and fellowships.
    • Playwriting Seminars (Richard Toscan)
      • "An Opinionated Web Companion on the Art & Craft of Playwriting." Also has good links.