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Theater Arts and Music : Guide to Online Research

Indexes and Databases
Search for magazine, journal and newspaper articles.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite Medaille Only
Provides full text and indexing/abstracts for academic journals in a variety of disciplines, including theater arts and related fields.

Gale Literary Databases Medaille Only
Includes three comprehensive, full-text literary databases - Contemporary Authors (biographical information), Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, , and Dictionary of Literary Biography (biographical, historical and critical information.). All three are searchable by author's name, title of work, nationality, subject or genre, and keyword. 

LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe Medaille Only
Search for newspaper articles and reviews.

MLA International Bibliography (through EBSCOhost) Medaille Only
Index of journal articles, books and dissertations.Subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, printing and publishing history, and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature.

MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine
Provides access to online full-text movie reviews to over 27,000 films.
New York Times Movie Reviews
Browse or search 15,000 movie reviews. Includes all movies from 1960 - present, plus all Academy Award "Best Pictures." Requires free registration.
ProQuest Medaille Only
Search for magazine, newspaper, peer reviewed journal articles and theater reviews.
Recommended Web Resources
Some of the "Best Theater Arts Sites on the Web." If you are looking for information on a specific subject -
these links can be a great time saver.
Web Directories

KMC: A brief guide to Internet Resources in Theater and Performance Studies
A selective guide to Theater Studies Web sites about actors and acting, stagecraft and technical theater, arts management, etc. Links are also provided to electronic texts and journals, listservs, newsgroups and other theater guides.

WWW Virtual Library - Theater and drama
Extensive meta-site for theater and drama links. "Electronic Text Archives and Plays Online" provides links to full text plays that are freely available online.

Web Sites

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Available through the National Library of Canada. Covers Canada's musical heritage and culture, the historic and current manifestations of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music; educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects.

Inter-Play
Online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals and in a variety of languages.
WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music
This page last updated 8/8/2006
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