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Subject Terms

When searching any database (the library catalog, article databases, web searches) the following terms will be useful:

The following links will take you to registration pages for various listserve groups focusing on theater and film.

ASTR-L
Discussion list devoted to theatre history run by the American Society for Theatre Research.
ATHE-NEWS-ONLINE
Mailing list run by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Open to non-members.
Costumes Info Group
This list is offered as part of the Costume Design & Technology Commission of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT). Members are professional costume designers, technicians, makeup and wig artisans, theatre educators and others in related fields.
The LightNetwork
The Lightnetwork is a public service to promote an online community devoted to the sharing of ideas and information regarding the lighting industry.
Props Listserv
Props Listserv Subscribe by sending a blank email to props-subscribe@topica.com
Stagecraft
Discussion group devoted to all aspects of stage work, design, production and management.
Theatre Sound
The Theatre Sound mailing list is a forum for people who do audio for musical theatre or plays, concerts, worship services, etc.

Ensemble Theatre Making by Rose Burnett Bonczek; David Storck
ISBN: 9780415530095
Publication Date: 2012-11-20
The Pekin by Thomas Bauman
ISBN: 9780252038365
Publication Date: 2014-04-25
The Theatre of the Occult Revival by Edmund B. Lingan
ISBN: 9781137451309
Publication Date: 2014-11-19
Philosophy and Theatre by Tom Stern
ISBN: 9780415604505
Publication Date: 2013-09-26

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Contains online Dictionary of Literary Biography.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences, JSTOR Life Sciences, and JSTOR eBooks This link opens in a new window
An advanced, multidisciplinary database featuring secondary resources in history, scholarly articles, over 57,000 eBooks and other resources spanning the humanities and sciences.
Academic OneFile Select (Gale) This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database featuring scholarly articles, trade and popular news features.
Music & Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles to provide an unparalleled learning environment for the teaching of music.

Critical Survey of Drama REF PN 1625.C74

The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre, 1900-1975 REF PN2266.B68

The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater REF ML102.M88G3 1994

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, 2nd ed. (5 vol.) REF PN1625.M3 1984

The New York Public Library Performing Arts Desk Reference REF PN1584.N49 1994

Play Index REF PN1655.P53 1949-2002

Full-text eBooks:

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre by Martin Banham
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781849720533
Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre by Colin Chambers (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. PN2035.C65 2002
ISBN: 9780826449597
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
This work details practical topics such as directing, acting, design, lighting, sound, voice, wig and prop-making, to historical surveys raging from black theatre to gay and lesbian theatre; from pantomime, experimental theatre, theatre-in-the-round to architecture, funding, drag and circus.
Shakespeare's Theatre by Hugh M. Richmond
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781849723503
Publication Date: 2008-10-29