Research Guides: Theatre Resources: Theatre Databases and Journals

The Find It service allows users to search everything at the Point Park University Library. Books, scholarly journals, market research, newspapers, magazines and much more are included in this. Items are searchable by keyword, title, and author.

There are extensive Theater resources for your use in The Library Databases. Check them out today!

Academic Search Ultimate
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Full text and/or abstracts for scholarly publications covering most academic areas. Massive collection of peer reviewed journals and an extensive image collection.
Dance: Academic Video Online
Features videos of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational dance, etc.
eBook Collection (EBSCO)
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Provides full text access to electronic books covering a variety of subjects. This resource also allows the user to automatically cite, print, and take notes electronically.
International Encyclopedia of Dance
Covers theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
Twentieth Century North American Drama: Second Edition
Provides full text access to various plays.
Theatre: Academic Video Online
Provides online streaming videos of more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries related to theatre productions.

The Library's extensive journal collection, which includes many online and print holdings, includes many Theater journals and trade publications!

Journal Titles+
Use Journal Titles+ to search for a particular journal, magazine or newspaper in Point Park University's collection. You can also browse the journals by subject if you want to know which journals are likely to contain articles on your subject.