Resource Guide:
Theatre

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (access through Credo Reference Database)
• A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
• Voice of the Shuttle: Drama, Theater, & Performance Art Studies
• TheatreCrafts Links
• Stageplays
• Dramatic Publishing
• Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms
• Technical Theatre Handbook

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.

• African-american theater
• Dramatic criticism
• Dramatic production
• Dramatists american
• Theater audiences
• Theater bibliography
• Theater critics
• Theater dictionaries
• Theater England
• Theater Great Britain
• Theater history
• Theater in art
• Theater in literature
• Theater Ireland
• Theater moral and ethical aspects
• Theater political aspects
• Theater religious aspects
• Theater reviews
• Theatrical companies
• Theatrical producers and directors
• Theater United States
• Commedia dell‚Äôarte
• Musical theater
• Drama
• Theater Greece
• Theater Rome
• Classical drama
• Theater United States history
• Theater Great Britain history
• Drama history and criticism
• Actors
• Acting
• Black theater
• Children‚Äôs theater
• Comedy
• Community theater
• Costume (many subdivisions)
• Dialogue
• Drama (many subdivisions)
• Experimental theater
• Improvisation (acting)
• Masques
• Minstrel shows
• Monologue
• Motion pictures and theater
• Musical theater (subdivisions)
• One-act plays
• Pantomime
• Playwriting
• Promptbooks
• Reader‚Äôs theater
• Repertory theater
• Soliloquy
• Stage adaptations
• Stage lighting
• Stage management
• Street theater
• Television and theater
• Theater and society
• Theater architecture
• Theater audiences
• Theater in literature
• Theater management
• Theatrical makeup
• Tragedy
• Tragicomedy

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArchiveGrid
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Business Source Complete
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Credo Reference
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Education Research Complete
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• ERIC
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete
• Humanities International Complete
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MasterFILE Premier
• Newspaper Source Plus
• OAISter
• Oxford Reference
• Regional Business News
• Women’s Studies International

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.

• Stage Directions
• TCI: Theatre Crafts International
• Theatre Journal
• American Theatre
• Comparative Drama
• PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (formerly Performing Arts Journal)
• Renaissance Quarterly
• Renaissance Studies
• Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Bulletin
• Shakespeare Quarterly
• Shakespeare Studies
• TDR: Tulane Drama Review (formerly Drama Review)
• Text and Performance Quarterly
• TCI: Theatre Crafts International
• Theatre History Studies
• Theatre Journal
• Theatre Notebook
• Theatre Research International

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.