Research Guides: Theatre Resources: Play Collection and General Collection

Point Park University Library has extensive resources for Theatre students including the Play Collection, Scores, Libretti, Anthologies, & Monologues

Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
Call Number: Shelved Alphabetically by Title
ISBN: 0573605742
This screwball comedy concerns two people who are seeking meaningful relationships but who are hampered by the efforts of their respective therapists. The story shows the patients sorting it out and learning to live beyond beyond therapy

The Library has over 3,000 plays in our collection and we are always buying more. Single plays are on the shelves in alphabetical order by title. Play collections are shelved like books in the General Collection. You can check plays out for a week at a time and can have as many as you want

True West by Sam Shepard
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0573617287
True West (1980) is concerned with the tension between individuals, especially fathers and sons and brothers, and their struggle to define and assert their identities.
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0452275288
Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other-with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees

Fences by August Wilson
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0452264014
Troy Maxson, a proud black man, has survived the 1950's and is facing a new spirit of liberation in the 1960's with anger and fear.
Glengarry Glenn Ross: a play by David Mamet
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0573640424
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0486272788
In this quintessential Shakespearean drama, Hamlet's halting pursuit of revenge for his father's death unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that climax in tragedy.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0822202905
The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment.
Sweeney Todd by Brian Burton
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0573114056
The classic tale of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Call Number: Shelved alphabetically by title
ISBN: 0802130348
A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times.

African American Theater: A Cultural Companion by Glenda Dickerson
Call Number: PN2270.A35 D53 2008
ISBN: 9780745634425
Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater.

The Library offers numerous Theater resources in our General Collection to supplement the stand alone Play Section.

The necessity of theater : the art of watching and being watched by Paul Woodruff
Call Number: PN2039 .W66 2008
ISBN: 9780195332001
What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself.
This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now by David Bevington
Call Number: PR3091 .B485 2007
ISBN: 9780226044781
An eminent Shakespeare scholar and editor, Bevington (emer., Univ. of Chicago) offers a concise, lucid, and unique overview of the history of Shakespeare in various modes of performance, from stage to film and television.