Theatre Arts

Indexes 1991 to the present. The "Alternative" in the title might suggest any non-mainstream media, but it is actually left or liberal leaning. While API indexes a mix of scholarly and non-scholarly materials, it does not offer a "peer reviewed" check box. It is a bibliographic database; click on the "i" icon for more information about that.

Indexing and some abstracts for over 16,000 journals in all subject areas from 1990 - Present.

Artstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Registered users can save and organize Artstor images into groups, export image groups as a PowerPoint 2007 file for classroom presentations or share with other users at CWU through a stable URL link. For detailed instructions for registering, see Artstor's online help.

Note: Artstor is moving to JSTOR. The Artstor website will be retired next year on Aug. 1, 2024, but you can get started with using Artstor resources on JSTOR now. Link to the Artstor experience on JSTOR. Your existing Artstor user account will work on JSTOR.

Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
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Indexes contents in collected works, such as anthologies, focusing on humanities and social sciences.

Contains the complete back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the natural and applied sciences, as well as the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.

National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.

Digital library of scripts by living writers which can be filtered by title, length, age level, genre, subject matter, production history, script availability, cast size and characteristics, playwright, and playwright demographics. Includes a directory of organizations and one of people, which are faceted by role (dramaturgs and types of writers), gender identity, race/ethnic identity, sexual identity, and location. While the focus is currently North American, the intended scope is international.

Provides searchable full text of over 200 scholarly journals from scholarly publishers and covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and other subject areas.

Provides full text and scanned images of prompt books and other documents from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Prompt books are marked-up scripts that provide information on how a production was staged. Also includes case studies and other archival materials related to Shakespeare's plays. **Stellingwerf gift purchase

This is a resource for the study of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as reconstructed by Sam Wanamaker. The database documents over 300 productions from 1997-2016 including architectural plans, costume designs, prompt books, music, video interviews, oral histories, posters, show reports, audience information, props, performance photographs, and much more. **Stellingwerf gift purchase

OAIster is a database of over 20 million items held digitally at nearly 1100 libraries, museums, and organizations. Types of files include digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles; born-digital texts; audio files (e.g., wav, mp3); images (e.g., jpg, gif); movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime); and datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files).