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Where to look for plays in the Library

Most plays are assigned call numbers according to the playwright (same as novels).

You can also try the following:

Know the title: enter title of play in Search@UW
Browse plays: Using Search@UW, type "drama” and then you could include "Samuel French" or "Dramatists play services" (both popular play publishers).
- Limit your search to "Available at My Libraries" or by specific library location (Stevens Point library, Marshfield library, or Wausau library)
General Search Terms: search general keywords such as “one act plays” or "drama" or "script".
- Musical Theatre Terms: search keywords such as "lyrics" or "vocal scores" or "libretto"

Streaming Video Collections (free and subscription based)

Plays Online

Digital Theatre Plus

Databases

If you are looking for reviews of plays, you can limit your search by document type "review" or include "review" in your search.

Academic Search Ultimate (full text) This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary article database providing information across all areas of academic study.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary index to scholarly articles in the arts and humanities, including times cited information
A subset of Web of Knowledge

Humanities International Complete (Full Text) This link opens in a new window Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books in the humanities, including all data from Humanities International Index. Provided by Badgerlink
JSTOR (Full Text) This link opens in a new window An archival full-text journal database which includes coverage in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences, ethnic studies. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue.
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Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)

Project Muse (Full Text) This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to scholarly arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Topics covered: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
SPORTDiscus (Full Text) This link opens in a new window Includes coverage of journals in all areas related to sports, including wellness, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, physical therapy, nutrition, sport psychology, recreation, and leisure studies.

Core Journals

Web Resources

American Alliance for Theatre & Education
American Society for Theatre Research
American Theatre Wing - Podcasts
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Billy Rose Digital Theatre Collection NYPL
Costume History Collection - Western Michigan Univ. This collection includes four books housed in the Special Collections and Rare Books Room of the Waldo Library at Western Michigan. Each of these books illustrates aspects of dress from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Topics covered are descriptions of widely used fabrics, lists of clothing appropriate for a trousseau, hand-colored fashion plates from a Parisian women's magazine, color drawings of clothing of peoples of Persia, and a pattern diagram. Digital images and descriptive text from these books are available through the LUNA Insight management and presentation system.
Internet Broadway Database
Internet Off-Broadway Database
Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design The Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is a valuable source of documentation on the history of theatre. There is a number of rich digital resources available here.
New York Theatre Guide
Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923
Playbill Vault
Production Art Database This database includes original artwork in the library's collection, including costume design and production design drawings, animation art, storyboards and paintings. Search the digital collections for more accessible information.
Set Design
Speech Accent Archive
The Broadway League
Theatre Archive Project - Sound
Theatrical Lighting Database

E-BOOKS RELATED TO THEATRE

EBooks on Theatre

Theatre and Performance Studies

Video clip

Search@UW (articles, books, and more)