Databases
- WorldCat DiscoveryThe Cressman Library catalog. Find books, ebooks, DVDs and streaming video. Look for journal articles, too.
- EBSCOhostChoose from over 15 index and full text databases. Includes Art Index, Humanities Full Text, MLA International Bibliography, and several others.
- Gale Artemis Literary Sources Academic
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Includes access to 4 databases:
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Gale eBooks
Literature Resource Center - LRC
Something About the Author Online - Project MuseAccess to the indexing and/or full text of articles in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
Journals at Project Muse include: Asian Theatre Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, Early Theatre, Latin American Theatre Review, Theatre History Studies, Theatre Journal, Theatre Notebook, Theatre Symposium, Theatre Topics
- see also: JSTOROn the results page, select: CONTENT I CAN ACCESS. And/or register for a MyJSTOR account. With a MyJSTOR account, you can read up to six articles each month for free--then select: ALL CONTENT.
- Streaming Video LibGuideAlexander Street Press, Films on Demand, and Ambrose BBC Shakespeare Plays
- Nexis Uni (The new LexisNexis)Sample search: broadway limited to newspapers and New York
- US Major DailiesSearch the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
Streaming Video -- featured videos
- Commedia dell'Arte: The Story, the StyleJourneying back to the dawn of Italian theater, this program unmasks the intriguing and often underappreciated tradition known as commedia dell’arte.
- Introduction to Set DesignHead of Set Design at the University of California Irvine, Dipu Gupta, explores the fundamentals of set design, asking everything from “what is set design” to “are set designers artists”.
- "Expressive Actor" search at ProQuest Academic Video Online1. Expressive Action
2. Improvisation
3. Voice and Body Exercises
4. The Lugering Method
eBooks
Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939–1966: Staging Freedom by Call Number: Springer ebookPublication Date: 2019
Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy by Call Number: Springer ebookPublication Date: 2017
Playing the Other: Dramatizing Personal Narratives in Playback Theatre by Call Number: ProQuest ebookPublication Date: 2007
Producing Early Modern London : A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598–1616 by Call Number: ProQuest ebookPublication Date: 2018
Resetting the Stage: Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy by Call Number: Open Access at JSTORPublication Date: 2012
Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens by Call Number: ProQuest ebookPublication Date: 2011
Theatre and Performance Design:A Reader in Scenography by Call Number: ProQuest ebrary ebookPublication Date: 2012
Theatre for Peacebuilding: The Role of Arts in Conflict Transformation in South Asia by Call Number: Springer ebookPublication Date: 2018
When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939 by Call Number: Springer ebookPublication Date: 2018
eBooks from Oxford Reference
Oxford Companion to American Theatre, The by Call Number: Oxford Reference OnlinePublication Date: 2012
Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance, The by Call Number: Oxford Reference OnlinePublication Date: 2010
Journals
Find journal and magazine titles in E-Journals & Periodicals. Try this, search for DRAMA or search for THEATER. Browse the list of journals and magazines in the results list. For Cressman Library subscription access, follow the full text links or search within publication. To search for many articles in many journals, search the databases listed in the box above instead.
See Theatre Journal, for example:
Cressman Library subscriptions, include:
- American Theatre(Published by Theatre Communications Group -TCG)
Literature Resource Center: 1992-present
Print: 2005-present - Bulletin of the Comediantes(Publisher Website: http://www.comediantes.org/)
Project Muse: 1949-present
Literature Resource Center: 2008-present - Drama Review, The (TDR)(Published by MIT Press)
EBSCO Humanities Full Text: 1988-2011
Literature Resource Center: 1994-2001
Project Muse: 1999-present - Dramatist, The(Published by the Dramatists Guild of America)
EBSCO Humanities Full Text: 2008-present - Early Theatre: A Journal Associated with the Records of Early Drama(Published by McMaster University Library Press)
Literature Resource Center: 1998-present
http://www.earlytheatre.org/: 1998-current issues are open acess after 1 yr - Latin American Theatre Review(Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas)
Project Muse: 2005-present - Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England(Published by Associated University Presses)
Literature Resource Center: 2005-present - Modern Drama(Published by University of Toronto Press)
Literature Resource Center: 1997-2002
Project Muse: 1958-present - NEA ARTS(Published by National Endowment for the Arts)
EBSCO Open Access Arts Collection: 2004-present - Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film(Published by SAGE Publishing)
Literature Resource Center: 2007-2013
SAGE Journals: 2002-present - Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts(Publishedy by Univeristy of London)
Open Access: 2006-present - PlaybillEBSCO Open Access: 1995-present
"Search the largest Broadway database online." Search the Playbill Vault. - Shakespeare Newsletter(Published by Iona College)
Literature Resource Center: 2001-present - Studies in Musical Theatre(Intellect Publishing - UK)
EBSCO Humanities Full Text: 2007-present - Theater(Published by Duke University Press)
Duke Universuty Press: 1968-present - Theatre/Practice: The Online Journal of the Practice/Production Symposium of the Mid America Theatre Conference(Published by University of Alabama Press)
EBSCO Open Access: 2012-present - Theatre Arts Journal Studies in Scenography and Performance(Published by Tel Aviv University)
EBSCO Open Access: 2009-present - Theatre Design & Technology (TD & T)(Published by US Institute for Theatre Technology)
Print: 1980-1981, 1985-present
EBSCO Open Access: 1990-present - Theatre History Studies(Published by The University of Alabama Press)
EBSCO Humanities Full Text: 1998-present
Literature Resource Center: 2001-present
Project Muse: 2007-present - Theatre Journal(Published by John Hopkins University Press)
microform: 1979-2000
Project Muse: 1996-present