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Welcome to my Research Sources page for Theatre and Performance Studies! Chao Chen, your TPS research librarian |
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Historic Texts
1. Digital Texts and Imprints
- Afro-Americana Imprints 1535-1922
- American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900)
- AM Explorer (millions of pages of primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries.)
- Archives of sexuality & gender. LGBTQ history and culture since 1940
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701-1800)
- John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera (includes historical playbills)
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online
- Hathi Trust digital library
2. Historic Newspapers and Magazines
- African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
- America's Historical Newspapers
- American Periodicals 1740-1900
- More
3. Archives, Local and Beyond
- North American Theatre Online
- The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Library
- Harvard Theatre Collection
- Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Two archives locating tools:
4. Visual Sources
Digital Images
- ARTStor
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
- Library of Congress American Memory Project
- New York Public Library Picture Collection and Web Gallery of Images
Streaming Videos
Words, Definitions and Overviews
Finding a Play
- American Drama, 1714-1915 (more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth.)
- Twentieth Century North American Drama (Full texts of 1,900 plays from the United States and Canada)
- Play Index (find where a play is published -- in a collection, magazine, etc..)
Bibliographies, Journals, Books and Current News
1. Annotated Bibliographies & Review of Books:
- Oxford Bibliographies Online
- The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1994 - )
- New York Review of Books (1963 - )
Dissertations, published and forthcoming:
(Check out the bibliographies in recent dissertations on relevant topics.)
- Dissertations and Theses
- Dissertation Reviews (yet to be published dissertations)
- DART - Europe E-theses portal
2. Journals and Jounral Articles:
A. Two (familiar) collections of journals in all disciplines:
B. A few notable theatre journals:
C. Subject-databases of journal articles:
- In EBSCOhost, you can select to search across the following subject databases, among others:
- America: History & Life
- Art & Architecture Source
- Anthropology Plus
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Film & Television Literature Index
- Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
- LGBTQ+ Source
- MLA ( for drama criticism & theatre history)
- Music Index Online
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
- (Atla) Religion Database
- Women's Studies International
- In ProQuest, you can select and search across the following subject databases among others:
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database
- Index Islamicus (on Islamic subjects throughout the world)
3. JumboSearch for Books
Note: Worldwide Libraries (also known as WorldCat is still a better place to get a fuller picture of books on a topic,)
**Check the Boston Public Library's catalog for eBooks (and sign up for a BPL , Tufts students and faculty eligible)
**"Digital books" on Internet Archive
4. Current Newspapers:
- Access World News (rich U.S. regional news)
- Factiva (more international coverage)
**A complete list of Newspaper Collections, current and historical
web sites
- Broadway.com. (upcoming Broadway productions.)
- CurtainUp.com Current productions in NYC and a few other metro areas.
- Internet Broadway Database.
- New York Times Theater Listings. (current Broadway and Off-Braodway productions, with capsules of Times reviews).
- Playbill.com. (news stories about casting, new productions, etc..).
- Show Business Weekly. Up-to-date capsule reviews and news of theatre.
- Theatre Communications Group (TCG). (information on non-profit theaters in the U.S..)
- Theatermania.com. (news stories, current shows, etc. )
- UK Theatre Web.
- United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)