Theater
This page is intended to be a collection of useful links that support the curriculum for the University of St. Thomas/College of St. Catherines' Theater program. Given the changing nature of the Web, if you find outdated links or other sites that you think would be useful to your classmates, please send the information to Cindy Badilla-Melendez.
Databases & Indexes
Academic Search Premier
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.Art Full-text
This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications - now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Blackwell Reference Online
Blackwell Reference Online is a vast online library giving instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship across the humanities and social sciences.Credo Reference
Resource of reference materials providing access to about 100 online reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations from a variety of publishers. Covers both general reference and subject-specific reference titles for a variety of disciplines. Allows for cross-referencing across different books and provides a unique, graphics-based research Mapper for topic exploration.Expanded Academic ASAP
Bibliographic references, abstracts, or full text for articles from more than 960 scholarly and general interest publications. Covered subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences, and current events.Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full-text encyclopedias and dictionaries. Includes the International Dictionary of Films and Filmakers.History Of The American Cinema
This 10-volume series considers the film industry from its early roots in the 19th century through the 1980s. It examines the development of film and the film industry, analyzing both the genres, themes and technology that defined each decade and the political and economic background that gave rise to them.
International Directory of Films & Filmmakers
Features thorough coverage of legendary films, actors, actresses, directors, writers, and other production artists through detailed essays and commentary by experts. Entries include biographies, filmographies, comprehensive credits, production information, major awards, and bibliographies
JSTOR
The Arts & Sciences collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over 300 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
MLA
Gives researchers in literature, languages and linguistics access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the present alongside tens of thousands of author biographies, critical essays and journal articles in every literary genre.
New York Times (Historical)
The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2003.Web Sites
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Established in 1956, this organization provides a public voice for theatre scholars and promotes the cause of theatre as a field for serious scholarly study and research.
The Library of Congress Federal Theatre Project Collection
The Federal Theatre Project Collection contains documentation for stage productions mounted by the Federal Theatre Project in the period 1935-39.
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Useful database that allows you search by movie or TV title, by cast or crew name, by character name, or by quote.
The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge page
An exceptionally good collection of resources for the study and production of theater. Though aimed at K-12 Drama Instructors, many links are useful for academic study.
Live Broadway
Home page of the League of American Theatres and Producers. It is the national trade association for the commercial theatre industry.The League's members are theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters and general managers of Broadway and touring legitimate theatrical productions in New York and over 90 major cities across the United States and Canada.
McCoy's Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
This extensive guide has been compiled and is maintained Dr. Ken McCoy of Stetson University in Florida. It not only provides links to large general web collections, but has sections on specific topics like Actors and Acting, Stagecraft and Technical Theatre, Plays and Playwrights, Shakespeare, and Non-profit theatre and arts organizations. Dr. McCoy also includes discussion on the best known discussion lists, and other resources for modern research.
MEDIA: A Guide to Internet Resources
This guide, produced by the University of Delaware Library, has a wealth of resources for film studies. Resources include: academic film discussion, reviews, distributors for specialty media, web sites featuring alternative films, and film, video and broadcasting archives on the web.
Milieux Costume Site
An excellent site to view costumes from many time periods.
Operabase
Covers monthly performance data from over 300 international opera hourses as well as reviews, opera history, and links to other useful sites on opera. Operabase has an excellent search engine.
Twin Cities of Minnesota Performing Arts Directory
"The most complete directory you'll find online for theatres in our area."
World Wide Arts Resources - Performing Arts Page
Links to dance resources, opera resources, theater resources, theater schools, theater schedules, theater publications, and commercial & technical resources.
Yahoo - Arts:Performing Arts: Theater
Theatrical information under these headings: Acting, Awards, Books, Companies, Directing, Dramaturgy, Education, Events, History, Improv, Institutes, Journals, Magazines, Musicals, Newsletters, Organizations, Plays, Puppetry, Regional Listings, Shows, Stagecraft, Theater Companies, Vaudeville, Youth Theater, Usenet groups.
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