Theatre Research Resources

Online Playscripts

• Asian American Drama Online
• Black Drama
• Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage
• English Drama
• Twentieth-Century Drama

Finding Plays

• Play Index

Literary Criticism

• Literature Criticism Online
• Literature Resource Center

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

• JSTOR

Magazine & Newspaper Databases

• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
• Nexis Uni
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• UIUC Theatre Dissertations in IDEALS
• Networked Digital Library Theses and Dissertations

Digital Image Collections

• Artstor
• Motley Collection of Theatre History and Costume Design
• Portraits of Actors Collection
• More listed in the Theatre Research Guide

Streaming Video Collections

• BBC Shakespeare Plays Online
• Broadway HD
• Digital Theatre+
• Fashion Studies Online
• Kanopy Films
• Theatre in Video

Digital Primary Source Collections

• Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage
• Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Victorian Popular Culture