Best Databases for Theater I
Theater-specific Databases
- Theatre in Video A resource that includes streaming video of 250 complete performances of classic plays, as well as 100 documentaries relating to these works.
Best Databases for Theater II
General Databases (which include information on Theater)
- Academic Search Premier An interdisciplinary database which covers the humanities, and includes full-text articles to over 4,595 periodicals.
- American National Biography Contains biographies of almost 18,000 deceased men and women, whose lives have shaped America. Search dance personalities by choosing "Occupations" - "Performing Arts".
- Arts & Humanities Search Access to bibliographic information and citation references from leading arts and humanities journals.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online version of the familiar work; a good source for general theater research.
- iCONN Newsstand A collection of 6 major newspaper titles including the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Hartford Courant. Newspapers include reviews of theater productions.
- In the First Person An index to English language personal narratives allowing users to perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. Includes various comments about theater personalities.
- JSTOR JSTOR is an archive of core scholarly journals in cross-disciplinary fields such as anthropology, economics, mathematics, and the arts and sciences. Our collection includes the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII collections, which are searched from the initial JSTOR search box seamlessly. Theatre related topics are included.
- Project Muse Full-text access to over 300 scholarly journals in history and the humanities.
- WorldCat Search the libraries of the world for theater topics; request the books through Smith Library inter-library loan!
Best Databases for Theater III
Subject Specific Databases (which cross-over into theater topics)
- Contemporary Authors Contains biographical and bibliographic information on approximately 112,000 American and international authors, including modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. (Choose tab for "Contemporary Authors".)
- Contemporary Literature Criticism A collection of critical essays about the works of more than 600 significant American and international authors, as well as their biographical information. (Choose tab for "Contemporary Literary Criticism".)
- Oxford Art Online A good source for information on architectural details and ornament, costumes and interior design (formerly Grove Dictionary of Art).
- Humanities International Index Covers indexing and abstracting for over 2,000 journals in the humanities.
- MLA International Bibliography An index to critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage from 1963-current. A good source for play criticism, and bio-critical articles on playwrights.
Theater Journals
Journal Titles for Browsing
You'll find current issues of these titles and more in our current periodical reading room (Floor 2).
Theater (from the Yale School of Drama)
Theatre Notebook (from the London Society for Theatre Research)
Theatre Research International
Theatre Survey (from the American Society for Theatre Research)
Theatre Journal (from the University & College Theatre Association)
How to Find a Journal
Suppose you have identified an article that you want to read, and know the journal and issue where it was published, but don't know if the library has the journal. The ECSU Journal Locator can tell you if the library has a subscription in print or online format. When you have online access, the Journal Locator provides a link to a list of issues.
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