Research Guides: Drama and Theater Resources: About This Guide

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Resources of Interest

The Kilroys' List Volume I The Kilroys' List Volume II

Shakespeare in Performance
Prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Bloomsbury Drama Online
The Theatre Performance and Practice Collection; Playwrights and Practitioners Collection; Theatre Making and Performance Training Video Collection have been added to the Libraries’ current access to Bloomsbury Drama Online. Additionally, the Currency Press Collection of ebooks has also been added to the Libraries' collection.
Shakespeare's Globe-to-Globe Festival
In the summer of 2012, as part of the London Olympic Games' Cultural Olympiad and the World Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare's Globe hosted the hugely successful Globe to Globe Festival. This unprecedented six-week event saw companies from across the world perform at Shakespeare's Globe in over 30 different languages.
Character Studies Interviews
The Character Studies Interviews collection contains dozens of interviews with America's leading playwrights, actors, directors, choreographers, lyricists, and composers. Created and conducted by playwright and producer Tony Vellela, this interview series features in-depth discussion of the art and craft of theatre and discusses various roles in the following productions: A Delicate Balance, A Raisin in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, Carousel, Chicago, Fences, Grover's Corners, Gypsy, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Mame, Oklahoma!, Our Town, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Glass Menagerie, The Heidi Chronicles, The King and I, The Music Man, The Piano Lesson, The Price, The Rose Tattoo, The Seagull, The Zoo Story, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Using this Research Guide

This guide is intended to point you to books, periodicals, subscription databases, and websites that will help you to define and complete your research projects in Drama. The guide is organizes into the following set of pages (which you can see listed in tabs above).

How to Find... features information on locating plays, people, and reviews.
Reference Works points you to print and electronic dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reviews of literature.
Articles & Essays provides links and call numbers for journals, databases, and other resources for searching articles on drama topics.

If you have any favorite resources that are not a part of this guide, feel free to contact me.