A Note on Spelling:
You will need to use both spellings (theatre, theater) or truncation
(theat*) where available to find all possible information.
You may need to play around with spellings on non-English works
& authors.
Finding Plays
Use the WSU
online
catalog to find location and availability of plays, books and
media (VHS, CD, etc.) in Stewart Library. This also
finds books available electronically via Netlibrary.
- Use General Keyword search to search by keywords in the title
OR the author's last name & keywords from the title:
- Laramie Project
- mamet buffalo (finds David Mamet's American
Buffalo)
- Use author alphabetical to find plays by an author (last name
first)
- shakespeare, w (finds all plays written by Shakespeare)
- vogel, paula (finds all plays written by Paula
Vogel
- Use Title alphabetical to find plays by title (drop initial
articles like: the, a, an)
- Lysistrata (finds all editions we own of Lysistrata)
- kentucky cycle (finds all editions we own of The
Kentucky Cycle.)
Use World
Cat to find books in other libraries. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login. Stewart
Library Interlibrary
Loan services will order for you.
Use the Play
Index (print only: REF table 3B) for plays
in collections and magazines.
Older plays that are no
longer under copyright may be available online. Try:
Finding Reviews
Use databases & print
indexes to find reviews of plays. Be aware of dates of coverage.
Many online databases go back only to the mid 1980s. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- New York Times Theater Reviews,1870-1970 Ref
Table 3B - Full text of reviews that appeared in the New York
Times. For reviews from 1994 to the present, see LexisNexis
Academic below. For plays between 1970-1994, use the
New York Times Index in print REF AI21.N45 and
read the reviews on microfilm (lower level, AN1.N42)
- IIPA
(International Index to the Performing Arts - Citations,
abstracts and some full-text articles on all aspects of the performing
arts including plays and playwrights. For reviews use the
keyword search and type term reviews and keywords from title:
for Anna in the Tropics type: reviews and anna
and tropics
- Reader's
Guide Retrospective - covers reviews in magazines
from 1890-1982. Use keyword: reviews with author or
title: kushner and reviews OR angels america
reviews
- American Drama Criticism - Ref Z 1231.D7 P3 (up to 1970s)
- Literature
Resource Center - (Includes Contemporary Authors,
Dictionary of Literary Biography and other materials)
- Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies,
bibliographies, some reviews and critical analysis of over 90,000
authors from every age and literary discipline. Search by Author
Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes. Contains
timelines. A great place to start any theatre research project
or paper.
- CurtainUp
- The Internet Theater Magazine of reviews, features, annotated
listings
- trospective -
- Theatre Reviews
Limited - online guide to reviews of productions
around the country.
- Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide
to Periodical Literature - Located in Special
Collections, Top level. - Indexes reviews from 1890 to 1899, with
supplementary coverage from 1900-1922. Approximately 51 periodicals
are indexed with access under dramas-criticism, plots, etc., and
by playwright's name. Most titles covered in Reader's
Guide Retrospective.
- Opening Night on Broadway
- Ref Table 3A
- Also use all article databases listed below to find reviews
of plays and performances
Finding Literary
Criticism
Reference resources include
encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer"
to. Use these resources for background information on a topic. Reference
books, including theatrical dictionaries and encyclopedias are available
on the library's middle level, in the Reference area shelves under
the call number PN2035 and on Reference Table 3. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- Literature
Resource Center - (Includes Contemporary Authors,
Dictionary of Literary Biography and other materials)
- Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies,
bibliographies, some reviews and critical analysis of over 90,000
authors from every age and literary discipline. Search by Author
Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes. Contains
timelines. A great place to start any theatre research project
or paper.
- IIPA
(International Index to the Performing Arts - Citations,
abstracts and some full-text articles on all aspects of the performing
arts including plays and playwrights.
- MLA
Bibliography - search by play title or author.
The most comprehensive guide to articles, books and conference
proceedings on literature of all nations. no fulltext
- Academic
Search Premier - covers basic literary and theater
journals.
Finding Production
Information
You can find production
information in many of the databases listed above, especially IIPA.
In many cases, the fastest way is to use reference resources.
ONLINE REFERENCE RESOURCES
PRINT REFERENCE
BOOKS
- American Drama Criticism - Ref Z 1231.D7 P3
- American Musical Theatre - Ref Table 3A
- Cambridge Guide to World Theatre - Ref PN2035.C27
- Encyclopedia of The Musical Theatre - Ref Table 3A
- Ganzl’s Book of the Musical Theatre - Ref MT 95.G2
- Index to Plays in Periodicals - Ref PN1721.K43
- International Directory of Theatre Language Ref PN 2035.I5 1985
- McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama Ref table 3B
- Opening Night on Broadway - Ref Table 3A
- Oxford Companion to American Theater - Ref PN2220.C35
- Oxford Companion to the Theatre - Ref PN1625.G3 1969
- Ottemillers Index to Plays in Collections - Ref Table 3B
- Play Index - Ref Table 3B
- Readers Encyclopedia of World Drama - Ref PN1625.G3 1969
- Theatre and Stage - Ref PN2037.D6
- Theatre Backstage from A to Z - Ref PN2091.M3 L68
- What Where and When of Theater Props - Ref PN2091.S8.J35 1992
- World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre - Ref PN1861.W67
1994
Web Resources
For more web links, go to the general theatre
guide.
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