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Features full-text literary criticism, biographies, work overviews, commentary, context, analysis, reviews, and bibliographies for writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Core literature database. Good source for critical articles on dramatic literature.

The Moscow State Yiddish Theater (MSYT) collection is an important and rich resource on the history of the GOSET (Gosudarstvennyi evreiskii teatr, Russian acronym of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater) and Soviet Yiddish culture in general.

Links on all aspects of costumes and costuming, from the classroom to the stage.

Free access to theatrical performances, audio plays, critical texts, playscripts, and more in support of digital theatre studies.

This collection includes over 700 plays from the most preeminent playwrights of the UK and Ireland, as well as recent voices. The collection includes award-winning and widely studied plays. It Is constantly being updated with new works from leading theatres.

Extensive information resource detailing the rich variety of Elizabethan-era clothing, includes imagery, research, and do it yourself costume-making guides.

The Federal Theatre Project Collection contains documentation for stage productions mounted by the Federal Theatre Project in the period 1935-39. These include a wide variety of materials: billboards, cast lists, correspondence, costume designs, ground plans, lighting cue sheets, lighting plots, music, photographs, playbills, playscripts and playscript "sides" (a "side" is an individual role or part), posters, production notebooks, programs, property lists, publicity reports and clippings, radio scripts, research reports, reviews, scenarios, set designs, study guides, and technical reports. There are approximately 5,000 playscripts and 2,500 titles ranging from vaudeville to classic theater. The finding aid for the collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu995001.

Records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

Open Source Shakespeare is a free website containing Shakespeare's complete works.

Playscripts, Inc. brings new plays and musicals to professional, school, community, and college theaters to perform, read and enjoy. These plays represent a great diversity of voices, styles, and stories and offer a fresh perspective on the human experience.

Professional performers of all kinds in England and Wales toured to provincial towns, monasteries and private residences before 1642. The Records of Early English Drama (REED) project is discovering fresh evidence about medieval and renaissance entertainment for publication in volumes for all English, Scottish and Welsh counties.

The REED Patrons and Performances website is designed to include a wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom.

Free access to a broad range of content from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, and the British Film Institute to support moving-image studies.

Finding aid to historic playbills and programs housed in Special and Area Studies Collection in Smathers Library.

The colorful excitement of over 100 years of filmed entertainment is showcased in the Belknap CINEMA collection. A varied assortment of heralds, handbills, programs pressbooks , press kits, posters and inserts documenting all aspects of filmmaking from the silent era to the present day - from epic adventures to independent art films - a vast assortment of informative and trivial information can be found within this collection.

Search for current or historic biographical info based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.

Multidisciplinary, full text database for more than 4,500 journals, including peer-reviewed titles, some back to 1975.

A general database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.

Full-page-images and article images for newspapers from their beginning including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution and The Christian science Monitor.

Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.