Online Playscripts
- Asian American Drama Online
- Black Drama 2nd Edition
- Black Drama 3rd Edition
- Contemporary World Drama
- Drama Online
- Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage
- English Drama
- New Play Exchange
- North American Indian Drama
- North American Women’s Drama
- Twentieth-Century Drama
Finding Plays
Literary Criticism
Theatre & Drama Databases
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance (IBTD)
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database (formerly IIPA)
- MLA International Bibliography
- Design & Applied Arts Index
General Databases
Magazine & Newspaper Databases
More Theatre databases
Streaming Audio & Video Collections
Digital Image Collections
- Motley Collection of Theatre History and Costume Design
- Portraits of Actors Collection
- More listed in the Theatre Research Guide
Digital Primary Source Collections
Citation Guides
- MPAL’s guide to Citing Sources in the Performing Arts
- Citing Sources from Teaching, Learning, and Academic Support
- Citation Managers
- Chicago Manual of Style
- MLA Handbook
How-To Guides
- Create Playlists in Theatre in Video
- Find Journal Articles
- Find Playscripts, Monologues, and Dialogues
- Find Performance Reviews
Topic Guides
- Theatre Research
- Accents and Dialects for the Stage and Screen
- Costume Design
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Performing Arts
- Indigenous Theatre Resources
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Funding (grants, awards, scholarships, fellowships)
- Musical Theatre
- Stage Lighting