Resource Guide:
Production Design and Stagecraft
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- National Archive Photo & Document Database
- National Museum of American History: Costume Collection of Women’s Dresses
- University of Washington Libraries Fashion Plate Collection
- Google Arts and Culture Project
- Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms
- Technical Theatre Handbook
- United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)
- The WWW Virtual Library of Theatre and Drama
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Theatre
- Theatres–Stage-setting and scenery
- Set Designers
- Stage Machinery
- Stage Lighting
- Costume
- Stage Management
- Stage Props
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- American Theatre
- Live Design (formerly Entertainment Design and Theatre Crafts)
- New York Times
- Stage Directions
- Theatre Arts Journal Studies in Scenography and Performance
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Early American Rooms: A Consideration of the Changes in Style between the Arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the Regions Originally Settled by the English and the Dutch | NK 2003 .K4 |
| The Opulent Eye: Late Victorian and Edwardian Taste in Interior Design | NK 2043 .C66 1977 |
| Illustrated theatre production guide | PN 2085 .H64 2002 |
| The theater props handbook: a comprehensive guide… | PN 2091 .J231 2000 |
| Designing and Drawing for the Theatre | PN 2091 .P36 1995 |
| Scenery : design and fabrication | PN 2091 .S6 S73 2001 |
| Developing and maintaining a design-tech portfolio : a guide for theatre | PN 2091 .S8 J33 2006 |
| The performing set : the broadway designs of William and Jean Eckart | PN 2096 .E23 H37 2006 |
Sample Set Designers
- Donald Oenslager
- Robert Edmond Jones
- Ming Cho Lee
- Heidi Landesman
- Tony Walton
- John Napier
- Robin Wagner
- Boris Aronson
- Lee Simonson
- Adolph Appia
- John Lee Beatty
- Jo Mielziner
- Josef Svoboda
- Inigo Jones
- Norman Bel Geddes
- Oliver Smith
- Mordecai Gorelik
Sample Lighting Designers
- Tharon Musser
- James Moody
- Steele Mckae
- Jennifer Tipton
- Jules Fisher
- Tom Skelton
- Richard Pilbrow
- Neil Jampolis
- David Hersey
- Ken Billington
Sample Costume Designers
- Desmond Heely
- Erte
- Theoni V. Aldriedge
- Patricia Zipprodt
- Julie Taymor
- Leon Bakst
- William Ivey Long
- Catherine Zubber
- Bob Mackie