Databases

Theater

Recommended Databases

  • An online collection of full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.

  • JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. (Current journals are not entered into the database for two to five years.)

  • Full text database of literary criticism, and bibliographies and biographies of major writers, with links to other web resources.

  • The most multi-disciplinary and general full-text periodicals database. Contains the full text of approx. 3,500 journals, with indexing going back to the mid 1970's on some titles. Updated daily.

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  • An online collection of over 3,300 fully searchable high quality ebooks in the humanities.

  • Composed of over 2.5 million images, Artstor provides faculty and students with a comprehensive image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context and examine influences beyond the confines of your discipline.

  • 19 HD productions of Broadway and Broadway caliber productions, from Shakespeare to contemporary playwrights.

  • First published in 1902, Cambridge Histories has over 300 volumes spanning fifteen subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.

  • Portal to digital content held at the nations' archives, libraries, museums and other cultural heritage organizations.

  • Over 900 full productions and education resources directly related to the theater.

  • Gale’s integrated research platform for their literary resources. It searches multiple literature databases at once with workflow tools to analyze information.

  • Resource to worldwide content on all aspects of the humanities in more than 1,450 full-text journals back to 1907.

  • More than 600 Metropolitan Opera performances.

  • Index to literary criticism and linguistic research in journals, books and dissertations worldwide from 1963 to present.

  • All of the music, dance, theater and film products from Alexander Street searchable on one platform.

  • Hundreds of hours of opera performance through staged productions, interviews and documentaries.

  • All aspects of theater production design; text and instructional video.

  • Video and audio documenting contemporary theatrical performances, including excerpts from and full-length productions, masterclasses, and interviews.

  • Videos of definitive performances covering 20th century theater history.

  • Database of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions 1960-present.