Journal Articles and Other Resources for Theatre

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• ARTstor Digital images and related data. Hundreds of thousands of images for academic use.
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR (Journal Storage)  
• MLA Bibliography
• Project Muse

Reviews

• General Reference Center (1980 to the present).
• Lexis Nexis Academic (for reviews from 1980 to the present).
• Proquest Historical Newspapers (for reviews in the New York Times, L.A. Times, and Chicago Tribune from 1851-2004). 

Web Sites for Theatre

• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920. Play scripts, motion pictures (including several dance films), and sound recordings. A bonanza of popular entertainment from 1870 to 1920. From the Library of Congress' American Memory collection.
• Artslynx International Theatre Resources A meta site linking dozens of topics in theatre to resources on the web. Take a look at children's theatre.
• BBC Radio Four Broadcasts a radio play each week.  
• Bibliomania The full text of many classic plays are available to read online. Try this for Shakespeare and other European classics.
• Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today A good jumping-off point if you are interested in ancient drama and its modern production.
• Doollee Good website for beginning research on contemporary American playwrights.
• EServer Drama and Theatre A collection of plays, screenplays, and criticism in full text. From Iowa State University.
• FINDaPLAY.com A free service by Playscripts, Inc.that enables you to locate the publisher or agent for a playwright or play.
• Inter-Play: an On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies, and Periodicals Quick access to the location of plays in anthologies. Supplements our two paper indexes in the reference collection. (See Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections, REF PN1655 .O87 1976 and H. W. Wilson's Play Index, REF Z5781 .P53).
• Internet Broadway Database Extensive database for Broadway theater information (credits, shows, and dates).
• Mercury Theatre on the Air Radio broadcasts and an amazing history resource on the early work of Orson Welles.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet An annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Includes full text of his work!
• New Deal Stage Primary source documents of theatrical productions sponsored by the Federal Theatre Project, Works Progress Administration, from 1935 to 1939.
• Playbill Covers news, tickets, casting, and jobs; and contacts in the theatre world.
• Theatre Communication Group National network of theatre professionals and non-profit theatres that publishes plays, play collections, etc. and the monthly American Theatre Magazine (which is available at Hamsphire in print and online). 
• Theatre poster art (mostly Broadway)
• The Playwriting Seminars A practical guide to playwriting and the conventions of a play typically sought by regional theatre companies.
• WWW Virtual Library of Theatre and Drama An all-purpose finding tool with links to international and multilingual sites; a good source for theatre companies and schools.