Secondary Sources and Reviews
Secondary Sources & Locating Reviews
For information on a particular show, consult secondary sources such as these.
- Biographies of the playwright or composer
- Texts of the play (critical introductions and notes often give an account of productions)
- Websites on the author, the composer, the director, or the work
- For Broadway production data, search the Internet Broadway Database; for Off-Broadway, the Lortel Archive; for Broadway and Off-Broadway, the Playbill Vault
- For musicals, consult Grove Music Online
Newspapers
- Newspapers - Historical (North America)
- Newspapers - Historical International
Video
- We have five major streaming services. FILMS ON DEMAND and ACADEMIC VIDEO are packed with all types of video content.
Reviews and Journal databases such as:
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Performing Arts Periodicals Database (IIPA)You can limit by 'photograph', but notice you will have to open PDF in order to find the images.
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with full textJournal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all
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JSTOR (Scholarly articles / reviews)Searchable full-text journals via JSTOR, from their first year until about 5 years ago.
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Project MUSESearchable, full text source for over 400 scholarly journals in humanities, arts, and social sciences. Allows for RSS feeds or email journal alerts.
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MLA International BibliographyBibliographic information (beginning in 1926) for critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, humanities, and folklore.
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Literature Criticism Online
Online full-text critical essays on literature of various places and times. This database is derived from a huge set of printed reference books: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Drama Criticism. -
Drama OnlineOnline resource for plays, critical analysis and performance. Featuring the pre-eminent drama lists from Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber, Drama Online offers a complete digital library of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and a half thousand years (Bloomsbury Publishing)
