Theatre Arts  

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Online Resources:

-The Oxford Companion to American Theatre

-Credo Reference: provides access to titles such as The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers, and more.

-Gale Virutal Reference Library: contains Contemporary Fashion, History of the American Cinema, International Directory of Film and Filmmakers, and more.

Print resources:

-The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance - PN2035 .O94 2003 Ref

-The Cambridge Guide to Theatre - PN2035 .C27 1995 Ref

-The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama - PN1861 .C65 2007 Ref

-Playwright biographies (search PacifiCat for the LAST name of the playwright, and add “and biograph*” to the search.)

Internet Broadway Database: the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides information on productions from the beginnings of New York theatre to the present.

Theatre Central: A fairly comprehensive site, linking to sites on many different aspects of theatre.

The WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama: Here you'll find links to plays and theatre books available in print, and also links to plays and monologues available on the web.