Theater

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Basic Databases

new! Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that searches a total of 10,900 publications including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Full text is provided for 5,300 journals. For discussion of current theater, use Advanced Search and specify Theater-Reviews as the subject, or you can limit the document type to Entertainment Review to include televison and movies.

ProQuest Research Library from ProQuest
Similar to Academic Search Premier. Use the Advanced Search mode and click More Options to limit the Document Type to Performance Review. For reviews in major newspapers like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, use the ProQuest Newspapers database.

Humanities Databases

Humanities Full Text from WilsonWeb
Covers core journals in the humanities. For drama criticism, enter the playwright's last name and a word from the play's title. Full text is provided for some journals back to 1995.

new! International Bibliography of Theater and Dance from WilsonWeb
Expands on the 16-year coverage of its multi-volume predecessor with an additional 100,000 articles, essays and book chapters mined from internationally selected publications in drama, dance, media, mime, mixed entertainment, storytelling, music-drama, and puppetry. IBTD is a research tool for university theater and language departments, theater organizations, primary schools, social scientists and professionals within the field.

MLA Bibliography from EBSCOhost
Covers journals, books and dissertations in the fields of literature, film, languages, linguistics, and literary criticism. Classical Greek and Latin literature are not covered.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Provides annotations for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1969 and mid-2002. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 92 languages.

Journals

Subscriptions and online availablilty are subject to change. For complete, current journal holdings, and online access info, search the Journal Locator.

Web Sites

• AASU's Theater Program
• AEA: Actors Equity Association
• Al Hirschfeld, Beyond Broadway Well-known artist who depicted performers & productions
• Federal Theatre Project Collection 1935-1939
• New York Library for the Performing Arts
• New York Times Theater Reviews
• Opera America
• Playbill Broadway & Off Broadway news
• The Savannah Theatre
• Talkin' Broadway
• Theatre Resources from Artslynx
• Tony Awards
• Trustee's Theater (SCAD)

Finding Books in Lane library

Use GIL, Lane Library's online catalog, to search for books on specific professions. Search for books with vocational guidance or career in their subject headings:

• Acting
• Costume design
• Theater or Theaters
• Theater--history and criticism
• Drama
• Dramatic criticism
• Drama--history and criticism
• Motion picture or Motions pictures
• Motion picture--acting
• Motion pictures--history and criticism
• Performance Art
• Stage

Selected Books in Lane library

THEATER STUDIES AND CRITICISM
Acting is believing	PN2061 .M18 2004
Book of dialogue: how to write effective conversation in fiction, screenplays, drama...	PN1551 .T85 2004
Companion to twentieth-century American drama	PS350 .C655 2005
Drama: a guide to the study of plays	PN1655 .S73 2000
Improv for actors	PN2071.I5 D54 2004
Instant Shakespeare : a proven technique for actors, directors, and teachers	PR3091 .F36 2002
Reinventing drama : acting, iconicity, performance	PN2071.P78 S53 1999
Scenic art for the theater: history, tools & techniques	ND2885 .C73 2005
Student guide to play analysis	PN1707 .R77 2005
Ultimate scene study series	PN2080 .U49 2001
Will Power: How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days	PR3091 .B374 2006
THEATER HISTORY
Acting naturally : Victorian theatricality and authenticity	DA533 .V67 2004
Age of Shakespeare	PR3095 .K466 2004
The essential theatre	PN2101 .B72 2004
The living art of Greek tragedy	PA3131 .M38 2003
Living theater: a history	PN2101 .W54 2004
The theatre : a concise history	PN2101 .H3 1998
Why Shakespeare? An inroduction to the playwright's art	PR2995 .P56 2005
MONOLOGUES AND SHORT PLAYS
2 minutes and under...	PN2080 .A443 2002
30 ten-minute plays for 3 actors from Actors Theatre...	PS627.O53 A17 2001
Best stage scenes of 2004	PN2080 .B4775 2004
Dramatic monologue	PR509.M6 B97 2003
Monologues for men by men	PN2080 .M538 2003
Talk to me: monologue plays	PS627.M63 T35 2004
Young women's monologs from contemporary plays	PN2080 .Y69 2004
CAREER GUIDES
Auditioning : an actor-friendly guide	PN2071.A92 M47 2001
Careers for the stagestruck & other dramatic types	PN1580 .M38 2004
Classical monologues from Aeschylus to Bernard Shaw	PN2080 .C58 2002
Great Jobs for Theater Majors	PN2074 .G66 2005
How to act and eat at the same time...do's and don'ts of landing a professional acting job	PN2055 .L64 2004
Tips II: more ideas for actors	PN2061 .J595 2004

Recent Acquisitions in Lane Library

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