Theatre Databases
Recommended starting places
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
North American Theatre Online (Alexander Street Press)
(reference resource)
Contains over 40,000 pages of full-text material from major reference sources, as well as in-depth details about more than 10,000 plays, theatrical ephemera such as playbills and posters, and links to related web sites. The database will continue to grow quarterly, with the goal of eventually covering everything related to the North American stage from the 1600s to the present.
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ArtSearch
(reference resource)
ArtSearch provides job listings in all areas of theatre work. Requires a user name and password, available from the online user name and password list (click on User Names and Passwords, then enter your name and UNC ID number) or from the Michener Library Reference Desk at 351-2562.
Humanities International Complete - content now available in Humanities Source
Humanities Source
(article index, e-books)
Providing full text for thousands of journals, books and other published sources from around the world, this authoritative resource offers an invaluable collection for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. As the most comprehensive resource available in its field, Humanities Source provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and much more.
Latino Literature (Alexander Street Press)
(reference resource, e-books and digital collections)
Contains approximately 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.
Oxford Reference - Performing Arts
(reference resource, e-books)
Full-text access to several Oxford University Press reference resources, including Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford Companion to American Theatre, Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Oxford Dictionary of Dance, and Who's Who in Opera.
Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
(digital collection)
Definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with film documentaries, online in hundreds of hours of streaming video. Includes the BBC Shakespeare Collection.
More choices may be found on the General Arts and Humanities page.
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