Theatre Research Guide

provides links to some encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, texts, video documentaries, and other resources for which the UCF Libraries provide online access.

collection of selected recordings which may be listened to online; includes performances from musicals composed by Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Noel Coward, George Gershwin, Richard Kapp, Jerome Kern, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, John Philip Sousa, and more.

"contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700," including over 600 works with the subject keyword of "drama" or "theater".

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 - "Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans," including over 300 plays.

International Phonetic Alphabet Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs & Arias "with over 3500 texts including 500 opera-aria texts"

"a major initiative to provide detailed reference information for every theatrical figure, every play, every theatre, every major production, and every production company, from Colonial times to the present, in both Canada and the United States."

contains more than 100 definitive performances of the world's leading plays and more than 130 documentaries, online in streaming video.
See also:

• Working in the Theatre - "Bringing together performers, directors, playwrights, designers, choreographers, producers and behind-the-scenes personnel from the American and international theatre, the program offers a rare opportunity for students and audiences to see the people who create theatre engaged in thoughtful conversation with one another."
• Downstage Center - "a weekly theatrical interview program that spotlights the creative talents on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world"
• Career Guides - "a series of one-on-one video interviews with the theatre's leading artists and professionals, explaining each specific discipline in the theatre and what it takes to pursue that specialty and make a career in the theatre."

Use the online catalog to locate books and multimedia on theatre in the UCF Libraries. You can search by author, title, keyword, or subject.

• To search for a person, as AUTHOR or SUBJECT, search by last name, first name without punctuation; for example:
  • Hagen Uta
    Stanislavsky Konstantin
• To limit by FORMAT in order to find multimedia and scores, go to the Advanced Search in the Library Catalog and use the Limit Your Search Further By option.

• SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. Here are some sample subject headings:
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Actresses
  • Costume
  • Costume--History
  • Costume design
  • Drama--History and criticism
  • Ethnic theater
  • Mime
  • Monologues
  • Musicals
  • Playwriting
  • Puppet theater
  • Stage lighting
  • Stage management
  • Stage props
  • Theater
  • Theater--History
  • Theater--Production and direction
  • Theater audiences
  • Theaters
  • Theaters--Sound effects
  • Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery
  • Theatrical makeup
• If you are unsure of the exact title or unsure of the correct Library of Congress subject heading, try a KEYWORD search using two or three of the most significant words from the title or subject you are trying to find.

Databases covering leading art publications from around the world; useful for locating articles on set design and costume topics.

"a cumulation of the forty-one annual volumes of the Dramatic Index...for articles and illustrations concerning the stage and its players that have appeared in American and British periodicals.... More than 150 quarterly, monthly and weekly periodicals are indexed.... The critical, historical and biographical articles cited cover information about dramatists, librettists, performers, notices of production, scenes, synopses and reviews of plays, and stage portraits that include costumes from Shakespearean productions, grand opera and famous characters."
Appendices:

• Author List of Books about the Drama - over 6,500 books
• Title List of Published Play Texts - about 24,000 entries
• Author List of Published Play Texts - approximately 20,000 entries

"a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries....contains more than 400 full-text titles, including more than 130 full-text journals...and more than 270 full-text books & monographs."

International Bibliography of Theatre - A bibliography of books, articles, dissertations, and miscellaneous materials dealing with theatrical performance worldwide. Book and performance reviews are excluded, as are most literary studies of plays without a substantial discussion of performance. Entries are arranged in nine genres (e.g., drama, dance, music-drama, puppetry) and have brief annotations. Subject, geographical, and scholar indexes.

"a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,250 journals in the collection."

"a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals."

Index to collections of essays in books, with emphasis on the humanities. In the print edition, arrangement is by authors, subjects, and some titles in one alphabet, with full titles of books indexed listed in the back of each volume.

"is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles — of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed — in all disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage."

provides full-text backfiles to the first volumes for over 1,000 journal titles across 47 disciplines, with the earliest content published in 1665.

Both a print index and an electronic database referred to variously as the MLA or MLAIB; sometimes called the PMLA Bibliography, but it should not be confused with the journal PMLA. In the print version Part 1 is arranged first geographically (e.g., American literature), then chronologically by century (e.g., 1900-1999) with authors listed alphabetically; Part 2, commencing in 1981, is a subject index to Part 1.

provides full-text "online access to over 380 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers."

A selective list of citations to reviews of New York stage productions. Excludes productions of plays written before the late nineteenth century. Plays are listed alphabetically by author; musicals, by title. Under each work, reviews are organized alphabetically by periodical title.

Useful for locating reviews of plays in popular periodicals such as Time and Newsweek.

Gives a good overview of trends and happenings in the non-profit American theatre.

"creative and technical journal for live entertainment professionals in lighting, staging, and projection. Each issue provides designers, programmers, and technicians with tips and trends, news and reviews of the latest gear, reports from the field, and industry viewpoint and commentary."
Quarterly supplement TQ: Theatre Quarterly "will focus on all the design disciplines of the stage--sets, lights, sound, costumes, wigs and makeup, and projection."
Formed by the merger of several publications:

Usually contains eight to ten scholarly articles covering issues of modern performance and dramaturgy Includes book reviews.

Covers contemporary international performance: theatre, dance, and performance art. Often contains performance reviews and, occasionally, book reviews.

The magazine of the New York commercial theatre scene, although there is some non-New York coverage. Has links to news, tickets/listings, cast calls, features, and "celebrity buzz."

A serious journal devoted to performance. Most issues contain 10 to 20 articles organized around a central theme. Extensive performance reviews and descriptions of contemporary and avant-garde performances, frequently with photographs.

A journal devoted to contemporary theater. Issues have published pathbreaking plays from writers as diverse as Athol Fugard, August Wilson, and Adrienne Kennedy. Contributors include a roster of distinguished critics, including Eric Bentley and Stanley Kaufmann. It has printed writings on theater by dramatists from Heiner Müller to Dario Fo. Special issues have covered a range of topics: Soviet theater, theater and photography, and theater and the revolution.

Features refereed social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production. Includes book reviews.

Publishes articles on the dramaturgy of a particular country and technical and historical studies of plays and performances. Extensive book reviews.

Contains articles dealing with dramaturgy, performance and theatre pedagogy. The target audience is the theatre practitioner; consequently, the articles are practical in scope rather than historical or analytical.

Contains extensive information on the entertainment business, especially film, television, and theatre. Many reviews of theatre, film, and television.

Arranged alphabetically, the terms are also grouped into eight categories of the thematic index: dramaturgy, text & discourse, actor & character, genres & forms, the staging, structural principles & aesthetic questions, reception of the performance, semiology

Contains some 10,000 English-language and 5,000 foreign-language terms, historical and current, covering drama and theatre worldwide. Definitions are very brief but do cite works in the accompanying bibliography that offer fuller definitions or discussions.

"its 5000 articles include entries on actors, playwrights, directors and producers, plays, venues and companies, genres, technical terms, organizations, and other related topics."

A three-volume set that provides summaries of stock and resident acting companies founded between 1749 and 1986. Each volume has an index of play titles and personal names.

• Volume 1: 1749-1887
• Volume 2: 1888-1930
• Volume 3: 1931-1986

An international dictionary of theatre, classical to contemporary, that emphasizes performance, popular entertainment, and traditions outside Europe and North America. Entries cover traditions, theories, playwrights, performers, movements, folk drama, types of performance, and acting companies.
See also:

• The Cambridge Guide to African & Caribbean Theatre
  Reference PN 2969.C36 1994
• The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
  Reference PN 2220.C36 1996
• The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre
  Reference PN 2860.C35 1993

Covers plays written or adapted by British and American authors and produced on and off Broadway. Entries cite date and place of original production, length of run, cast, producer, director, screen adaptations, and include a brief synopsis.

Details the physical structure of 199 American theatres of historical, architectural, and social or cultural importance with both primary and secondary readings culled from diaries, letters, journals, autobiographies, magazine articles, playbills, and other sources. Illustrations include architectural drawings, etchings, and photographs.
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"The portion of each chapter on clothing begins with a general introduction to the themes in dress of the age and place. Then dress is looked at in terms of gender, with men's and women's clothing separately discussed.... Each chapter is illustrated with images that reflect what is described--paintings, decorations, or photographs of the actual clothing, depending on the time period.... At the end of each chapter, there is a list of recommended books for further study, along with a few websites that will help with further research on the topic and time period. These resources are followed by a [brief] list of suggestions of films, documentaries, or television shows that do a good job of depicting the costume history of the time and place in question."

• Vol. 1 - Prehistory to 1500 CE
• Vol. 2 - 1501-1800
• Vol. 3 - 1801 to the Present

While the focus primarily is with dramatists and dramatic literature, there are extensive articles on national and ethnic theatre traditions in individual countries or areas, as well as entries for theatre companies, major directors, and selected performance topics.

provides access to Grove Art Online which includes subject entries for individual countries describing architecture, sculpture, textiles, dress, furniture, theatre, puppets, etc.

Entries on actors, directors, playwrights, theatre companies, etc., as well as on individual plays or musicals. Emphasis is on Broadway and the New York stage.

Entries on actors, actresses, producers, directors, designers, dramatists, groups, movements, and theatrical techniques and technology.

"provides useful information and brief commentaries on the 1,000 most significant plays of the world theatre."

"The Encyclopedia pays special attention to non-Western styles through articles on theatre and performance throughout the many countries and traditions of Asia and Africa, often written by practitioners or critics from those areas. Dance, opera, performance art, radio, film, and television are covered at length. The Encyclopedia also embraces para-theatrical, non-dramatic, and popular performance, including ritual, carnivals, parades, the circus, and public executions. Biographical entries cover the lives and work of major figures from the past and present: actors, playwrights, directors, designers, and critics. Innovative entries on cities and regions place performance in its local social and political context. A particular feature of the Encyclopedia is the series of entries on concepts, theories, and critical approaches to theatre and performance, from short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres, and from detailed discussion of movements such as feminism and psychoanalytic criticism to discussions of semiotics and post-colonial studies."

An illustrated yearbook of the American theatre, emphasizing the New York scene, but also including productions of national touring companies, professional regional companies, and Shakespeare festivals. Gives cast, production credits, dates of run or season. Also includes brief performer biographies, obituaries, awards, and name/title index.

Aims to document artistic development all over the world, country by country, region by region, from 1945 to the present day. Coverage includes playwriting, music theatre, dance theatre, theatre for young audiences, puppet theatre, design, architecture and developments in theatre technology, theatre training, criticism and scholarship.

Facts on over 1,800 songs from over 500 musicals from 1886 through 1994. Gives information on the song's author, original performers, and dates and history of recording. Brief glossary of theatre music terms. Bibliography.

• Volumes 1 & 2 "focus on 4,863 shows from Broadway musicals to regional productions, from television musicals to ice shows, from nightclub scores to foreign shows by American writers, and many others. Each entry...contains not only more commonly known information -- such as the name and type of show, the cast list, composer, librettist, lyricist, director, producer, and choreographer -- but also lesser-known facts. In addition, each entry contains a complete list of all the songs in the show -- including those that were cut or written but not performed."
• Volumes 3 & 4, subtitled The Complete Companion to Tin Pan Alley Song, explore "the work of major pop songwriters from 'Tin Pan Alley' not included either in a Broadway show or film from the period 1880 to today. This carefully researched encyclopedia covers 125 composers with hundreds of entries on each."

Contains over 4,000 entries with production and performance information, characters, and plot summaries. Does not include information about opera, pantomime, revue, dance shows, or musical film and television. Covers works in France, Austria, Germany, England, and America. Lacks an index. Discographies are brief.

Covers songs, both published and unpublished, from 1891 through 1983. Title listing with name of composer and lyricist, plus name and date of the show in which the song appeared. Index of composers, lyricists, and authors; alphabetical list of shows; chronology of shows.

Search for Reference books by keyword "Shakespeare"

"The first three volumes contain concordances to the individual plays, to the characters, tot the poems (singly and together), and to the complete works.... The last three volumes contain a concordance to the complete works with cumulative statistical information, a context for each word, an index of all the words arranged according to frequency of occurrence, and a complete list of homographs."

"The essential reference to his plays, his poems, his life and times, and more"

Critical Interpretations of As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, and Romeo & Juliet

"A multiplicity of viewpoints documenting the critical reaction of scholars and commentators from the seventeenth century to the present day derives from hundreds of periodicals and books excerpted for the series." Over 100 volumes. Cumulative indexes: Character Index, Topic Index, and Topic Index by Play.

A comprehensive encyclopedia of over 500 terms and words used in stage technology. It embraces all aspects of the technical operation of the stage including the use of flying and other machinery.

Describes a wide range of tools, hardware, materials, electrical devices, mathematical formulas, architectural elements, and stage machinery through line drawings, charts, and tables. Also has a separate table of standard conversions.

Each volume includes a general introduction to the period, followed by illustrated descriptions of the costume of specific cultures and smaller time divisions, discussions and illustrations of stage properties, and stage setting and lighting considerations.

A dictionary-style arrangement of entries on technical aspects of stage production. Includes an historical essay on scenery and lighting practices in the United States.

Covers more than 250 years of Broadway musical theatre, encompassing all musical entertainment from plays, revues, opera bouffe and operettas to one-man and one-woman shows. Includes mini-biographies and detailed song, show, and people indexes. Provides summaries of the creative trends during each season.

Chronicles, in order by opening, every Broadway comedy and drama, show by show, season by season, offering a plot synopsis, principal players, and important statistics. Scenery and costumes are described where they might be of interest, and comments of the plays' contemporary critics are quoted. Useful for tracking trends in theatre production in the United States.

Shows developments in various countries and cultures, arranged by time periods, from 3000 BCE in Egypt to the early 1980s.

"indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.... BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual. Sources...are of several types:

• Biographical dictionaries and who's whos, which supply information on a number of individuals.
• Subject encyclopedias, which include some biographical entries.
• Volumes of literary criticism, which may contain only a limited amount of biographical information but give critical surveys of a writer's works.
• Indexes, which refer the user to a body of information found elsewhere."

"cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus select other titles. What’s more, some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Besides biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews.  People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities." Biography & Genealogy Master Index identifies entries in Biography Index from the first print volume in 1946 forward.

Contains biographical information on over one million individuals from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor. The "Biographical Facts Search" allows searching for people based on one or more personal facts, such as occupation. Provides online access to:

Focus is on "regional" critics. Provides biographical information and sample pieces of criticism.

"The scope...is historical (ranging from the theatre of Ancient Greece to that of the present day) and international, covering plays of some 20 languages, and playwrights, actors, directors, and designers of many nationalities."

• Volume 1: Plays - over 620 notable plays. "Every entry contains, where known, the date and location of first publication and first production; a chronological list of books and articles about the play; and a critical essay on the play."
• Volume 2: Playwrights - 485 writers for the stage. "Each entry contains: a summary of the writer's life and career; a list of works by the entrant; a list of publications (bibliographies and critical studies) about the entrant; a signed critical overview of the entrant's work for the stage by one of the Dictionary's contributors. If any of an entrant's plays has an entry of its own in Volume 1 (Plays), a cross-reference makes this explicit at the end of the entry."
• Volume 3: Actors, Directors & Designers - 300 actors, directors, & designers for the stage. "Each entry contains: a summary of the subject's life and career; a list of relevant productions and roles, including film, television, and radio credits; a list of publications by the subject; a list of publications about the entrant; a signed critical overview of the entrant's work for the stage by one of the Dictionary's contributors."

Lengthy articles on approximately 350 actresses, directors, scholars, and designers. Appendix lists names by professional category. Cross-references and topical index.

Gives articles on approximately 270 set, costume, and lighting designers of drama, opera, dance, and film productions, as well as theatre architects and theoreticians. Index of personal names and titles of stage works.

Articles on about 300 prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century directors. Indexes of personal names and play, film, and television title.

Reprints in chronological order from Variety news stories, editorials, and obituary columns the death notices of individuals connected with the entertainment industry.

Contains approximately 20,000 biographical sketches of prominent individuals in the entertainment industry.

• Search by Call Number PN2080
• Search by Subject Heading "Monologues"

Indexes monologues from published plays. Arranged by sex and approximate age. Each entry lists the title and author of the play, name and age of character, approximate time of performance, the first line of the speech, and the act and scene in which it appears. Nationalities are given when an accent is required. Lists publisher or journal location of the play and the page number where the monologue begins.

A listing of two-character scenes classified by the gender of the characters and the style of the play (comic, serious, etc.). Running time and beginning line are indicated.

Search for plays, characters or scenes by various criteria. Provides full text of plays from:

• Asian American Drama
• Black Drama - 1850 to Present
• Latino Drama
• Twentieth Century North American Drama
• North American Women's Drama

Indexes 2,610 monologues from 1,420 plays. Entries describe the source play, character, scene, setting, & length in minutes of the monologue. The indexing identifies gender, contemporary/classic, dramatic/seriocomic/comic, ethnic/nationality/religious affiliation, time periods, geographic area, occupations, and character types/situations.
Identifies a specific Smith & Kraus anthology containing the monologue, e.g.

• The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1990-1997
• The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1990-1997
• 100 Great Monologues from the Neo-Classical Theater
• A Brave & Violent Theatre: Monologues, Scenes, & Critical Context from 20th-Century Irish Drama
• etc.

In addition to basic information about each play listed (author and publisher), entries give a brief synopsis, brief critical comments, and the number of "audition-worthy" monologues and scenes in the play.

• For a specific play, try a keyword search for the playwright's surname and one or two keywords from the title. DO NOT restrict your search to the author or title fields, since such a search might miss the play where it is part of a collection.
• Browse the call numbers beginning with "P" from the results of a search by Subject Heading "drama", e.g., PT 1-4897 German Literature
• For individual screenplays, browse the call numbers beginning with "PN1997" through "PN 1997.85" from the results of a call number search or a search by Subject Heading "motion picture plays"

Full text of hundreds of scripts by writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.

Search for plays, characters or scenes by various criteria. Provides full text of plays from:

• Asian American Drama
• Black Drama - 1850 to Present
• Latino Drama (The same content is also listed in the Latino Literature database.)
• Twentieth Century North American Drama
• North American Women's Drama

An author index to over 6,500 plays in various languages, including translations, in 1,350 collections published primarily in the United States and Britain. Plays are keyed by symbol to the list of anthologies.

A selective author, title, and subject index to English-language plays and translations -- classical through contemporary -- published separately or in collections. Entries usually include a brief plot summary and production specifications, and are keyed to a list of collections in the back of each volume.
The Cast Analysis section "is designed to locate plays by type and number of players or readers. It is divided into these six sections: (1) all male cast (2) all female cast (3) mixed cast (4) puppet plays (5) unidentified cast (6) variable cast. Unidentified cast is used for non-human characters. Variable cast is used when roles can be acted by either male or female characters, or when an actor can take several parts.... Under each type of cast the arrangement is by total number of characters in ascending order.... The symbol "c" denotes a play intended for children through grade six. A "y" indicates material for grades seven through twelve approximately."
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"Over 1,000 complete plays covering the range of dramatic expression: including one-act plays, puppet plays, Harlinquinades, tragedies, gothic, children's, religious, romantic, historical, children's and comedic plays. The collection includes many nationalities, all in English or English translations. Plays are analyzed for subjects, and also list all characters."

A selective author and title index to plays, and scripts or radio, television, and film productions in a variety of languages. Coverage extends from eighteenth-century collections through the early 1980s.

Includes Cast Index, Index of Selected Subjects (The Black Experience, The Woman Experience, Plays Requiring No Scenery), Prize Plays, Long Running Plays on the New York Stage, Popular Plays for High School Production (1974-1975), Frequently Produced Plays (High School Theater), Most Popular Plays for Amateur Groups, Plays Recommended for "All Groups"

provides the scripts of plays, organized by historical period: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance/Early Modern, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Modern Drama, Contemporary Drama.

Arranged by playwright's name, the entries include:

• general classification, e.g., drama, melodrama, tragedy, comedy, fantasy, farce, verse play, morality play, documentary
• the number of acts or scenes, or in the case of short plays, the approximate playing time
• information about set requirements
• information about costumes
• number & sex of the players

Indexes: Number of players, topical, author, and title

• Part I - Non-Musical Plays - approximately 30,000 major & minor characters appearing in some 3600 plays by 1400 authors, from the late 5th century B.C. to the 1964-1965 Broadway season.
• Part II - Operas, and Musical Productions - approximately 20,000 major & minor characters appearing in 2542 musical productions from folk plays of the 13th century to the 1965-1966 Broadway season.
• Part III - Ballets - approximately 3000 major & minor characters appearing in 818 ballets from the late 16th century to those of the present day.
• Part IV - Radio & Television - approximately 20,000 characters, actors & actresses appearing in approximately 2500 programs from the inception of these broadcasting media to about 1955 for radio and to the Fall 1972 season for television.

The 1895 to 1944 volumes have a title index giving author, translator, number of acts, and other production specifics, followed by author and subject indexes referring to the title index. The 1944 to 1964 volume combines author, title, and subject indexes in one alphabetical list.

Title, author, and subject indexes to English-language one-act plays in collections and also to separately-published scripts. Five supplements have been published, indexing collections published between 1900 and 1964. The third supplement includes radio plays; the fourth and fifth, radio and television plays.

Indexes 7,800 plays by over 2,200 authors that have been published in collections. Includes only plays written or translated into English. Title and subject index.

Both are an author list with title index. Helpful in locating many plays not separately published or anthologized. Many of the entries in the 1977-1987 volume come from pre-1977 issues of periodicals.

An online index to plays in collections, maintained by Portland State University. Searchable by author, play title, and source (collection) title.

"Examines 327 works of twentieth century drama from 148 playwrights from around the world...arranged alphabetically by the title best known to an English-speaking audience. Each essay is divided into six sections:

• The author and his or her birth and death dates, the time and place of the work's first performance, the setting, and the principal characters.
• 'The Play' presents an overview of the action and plot.
• 'Themes and Meanings' gives insight into the issues with which the playwright is concerned.
• The 'Dramatic Devices' section describes such elements of the theatrical presentation as plot devices, staging techniques, and characterization.
• In 'Critical Context,' the work is analyzed in relation to its place in the playwright's canon, its genre, and its social and historical background.
• 'Sources for Further Study' offers a listing of readily available secondary reference material on the work and its author."

Some of the publishing companies provide online indexes

• FINDaPLAY - searches the catalogues of many major play publishers in North America
• Baker's Plays
• Dramatists Play Service
• Samuel French

The UCF Library has many scores included in the collection; some dramatic music publications are shelved on the 3rd floor in the General Collection at M 1500 through M 1527.8, but search the UCF library catalog for specific pieces. Examples:

• M1507.B76 1995 - Broadway Deluxe - over 125 of Broadway's Best Loved Melodies
• M1507.B761 1991 - Broadway Musicals: Show by Show, 1891-1916
• M1507.B762 1991 - Broadway Musicals: Show by Show, 1917-1929
• M1507.B763 1991 - Broadway Musicals: Show by Show, 1930-1939
• M1507.B764 1991 - Broadway Musicals: Show by Show, 1940-1949
• M1507.B765 1991 - Broadway Musicals: Show by Show, 1950-1959
• M1507.B766 1991 - Broadway Musicals: Show by Show, 1960-1971
• M1507.B767 1991 - Broadway Musicals: Show by Show, 1972-1988
• M1630.18.A57 - The All-American Song Book: The Big Hits of the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's & 60's
• M1630.18.A647 - American Rock & Roll: The Biggest Hits of the Late 50's and Early 60's
• M1630.18.B226.M7 1970 - Bacharach and David Song Book
• M1630.18.B4757 1988 - The Best of Rock & Roll: The Complete Original Sheet Music Editions (12 volumes)

• Orlando Public Library has a card file index by song title of the popular music books in their collection.
• Sheet Music Database Search (Clearwater Public Library) identifies which source contains a particular song title.
• Popular Song Index is an index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Public Library in New York. There are approximately 102,786 entries from 1,118 books which have been indexed.

"a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music" provides an online index with links to full text sheet music.

"offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others."

"contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. The collection documents the attitudes and tastes of a bygone era with music of many varieties and sources, all of it published in the United States."

The Duke University Library maintains a web directory of sheet music collections available at other institutions.

"Information on admissions, degrees offered, faculties, courses, facilities, productions and philosophy of training."

"Complete opportunities for playwrights, translators, composers, lyricists and librettists," including:

• Script Opportunities - not-for-profit professional theatres, playwriting contests, play publishers, literary magazines, small presses, conferences, festivals, workshops, programs, playwright groups, play development organizations
• Career Opportunities - agents, fellowships & grants, emergency funds, state arts agencies, colonies & residencies, membership & service organizations
• Resources - useful publications, online resources, submission calendar
• Special Interest Index - adaptations, African American theatre, Asian-American theatre, comedy, disabilities (theatre for & by people with disabilities), experimental theatre, gay & lesbian theatre, Hispanic/Latin American theatre, Jewish theatre, Media (film, radio, television), multicultural theatre, multimedia, musical theatre, Native American theatre, one-acts & short plays, performance art, religious/spiritual theatre, senior citizens, social-political theatre, solo performance, student/college submissions, translations, women's theatre, young audiences, young playwrights programs
• General Index

Directory of ministries of culture & funding agencies, supra-national organisations & networks, national organisation & resource centres, opera companies, orchestras, early music groups, choirs, drama, festivals, competitions, ballet & dance companies, venues, puppets, promoters, agents & producers, radio, television, recorded media, publications, arts administration & management courses, products & services, conferences & trade shows, further education

"A national guide to employment in regional & dinner theatres for performers (Equity & Non-Equity), designers, technicians & management, with internship opportunities for students. Including: hiring & casting procedures, seasons. Plus appendices of useful resources: union information, book reviews, guide to looking for work."

"A national guide to summer employment, combined auditions information, summer opportunity at over 350 summer theatres & 80 training programs; also theme parks, Renaissance Faires, outdoor drama, cruise lines. Hiring & casting procedures for apprenticeships, conservatory programs & internships. Plus: guidance in preparing for your summer audition & choosing the right summer theatre."

"Personnel information, including artistic directors, managing directors & board chairpersons for 466 theatres; complete personnel index; theatre addresses/business/FAX & box office phone numbers; email & website addresses; performance seasons; Actors' Equity Association contract information; Special Interests listing for all theatres; regional index listing by state, theatre index listing by budget size, listings for 71 arts resource organizations, including descriptions of their programs & services."

Provides a wide range of Internet links. Categories include general resources, digital libraries, databases & archives, Shakespeare, costumes, and organizations.

"provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics. Get a list of every production of Hamlet on Broadway or a list of your favorite actor's credits. Find out what played at a particular theatre or what shows opened in a specified Broadway season."

Performing arts libraries & research aids, periodical indexes, doctoral dissertations, obituaries & necrologies, dance sites, theater sites, opera, film music, church music, music organizations, music industry sites, music publishers' sites, copyright information, sheet music sites (databases with music), sheet music sites (databases only), song lyrics sites

Indexes to Internet theatre resources, play indexes, full text play sources, journals & e-zines, history, Shakespeare, Broadway & Off-Broadway, musical theatre, theatre companies, libraries, archives & museums, associations & organizations, vaudeville, circus, comedy & improv, playwriting & dramaturgy, design & stagecraft, international theatre

"pointers to resources in more than 50 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages" including: theatre auditions, academic/training institutions worldwide, book dealers, conferences for theatre scholars, electronic text archives & plays online, general organizations & resources, journals online, mailing lists, monologues in print, news groups, plays in print, scholarly books selection, theatre books in print, theatre companies worldwide, theatre image collections online, theatre studies, articles & resources, theatre syllabus bank, theatre on film

See also other WWW Virtual Library guides for The Arts

A standard guide to research, writing, and the mechanics of paper presentation in literary studies, including some examples for citing electronic publications (Internet sites, electronic journals, online books, etc.). See also the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (Reference PN 147 .G444 1998).

"In 1963, the Free Southern Theater was organized by John O'Neal and Gilbert Moses to act as a cultural and educational extension for the Civil Rights Movement in the South. The Free Southern Theater provided presentations for numerous community groups in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida." Arranged by four major series with subseries: Administrative Series, Theater Production Series, General Correspondence Series, Financial Records Series.

A bibliography of studies of the drama worldwide since Ibsen. Excludes publications in non-Latin alphabets, discussions of theatre not related to a dramatic text, most production reviews, and most popular journalism. The entries are classified in divisions for general studies and national literatures or languages. Under each dramatist are separate lists of primary works, reference works, collections of essays, and critical studies.

See also: TonyAwards.com - the official website of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards