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Theatre Subject Guide

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About the Catalog

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Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

  • Acting Costume Theater--Production and direction
  • Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery

Internet Sites

Aisle Say is an index to reviews of current and recent productions, updated bi-weekly.
Broadway World contains news on current and upcoming productions both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. Includes reviews,photos, blogs, and even a map of theatres.
Cesar is a comprehensive resource of French theatrical entertainments and venues during the 17th and 18th centuries, the ancien régime and the French Revolution. Search titles, people, troupes, places, plays, operas, dances, ballets, masquerades, parodies, heroic or lyric dramas, and historical or lyric comedies. Locate full texts of key French monographs, more than 3,500 images of portraits, playbills, title pages, scores, characters in costumes, and scenes. Searchable in French and English.
The EServer Drama Collection contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism, and links to other sites concerned with theatre.
Inter-Play is an online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals.  Search by playwright and/or title.
Internet Movie Database Dates of coverage vary. (IMDb) Updated weekly. Provides access to information about movies (including those made for television) from across the world, starting with the earliest cinema through the latest releases and titles still in production.
McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies is an annotated list of web sites, electronic journals, and listservs related to theatre and performance studies compiled by Dr. Ken McCoy of Stetson University.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet attempts to be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet and to present new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet.
Phrases from Shakespeare a subset of The Phrase Finder, provides information on the origin and meaning of specific phrases from Shakespeare's plays.
The Speech Accent Archive The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. This archive is potentially of interest not only to linguists but also to actors and others interested in spoken English.

About the Department

Theatre Program
Also refer to Abell Library's Subject Guide for Communication Studies.

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