Research Databases for Theater
To find a magazine or journal by a known title, use our ECSU Journal Locator.
| 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. |
| General Databases (which include information on theater) | |
| AcademicSearch Premier (EbscoHost) | An interdisciplinary database which covers the humanities,
and includes full-text articles to over 4,595 periodicals.
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| American National Biography | Contains biographies of almost 18,000 deceased men and women,
whose lives have shaped America. Search theater personalities by
choosing "Occupations" - "Performing Arts".
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| Arts & Humanities Search | Access to bibliographic information and citation references
from leading arts and humanities journals.
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| Encyclopedia Britannica | Online version of the familiar work. A good source for general theater research.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 Arts & Sciences I & II collections, which are searched from the initial JSTOR search box seamlessly. |
| Project Muse | Full-text access to over 300 scholarly journals in history and the humanities.
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| Subject Specific Databases (which cross-over into theater topics) | |
| 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".)
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| 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".)
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| A good source for information on architectural details and
ornament, costumes and interior design.
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| Humanities International Index | Covers indexing and abstracting for over 2,000 journals in the humanities. |
| 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.
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