Actors--United States (or England, or so on)

Theater--biography

Theatrical producers and directors

Performing arts--England--London--Biography

Dramatists

Garrick, David

This collection at the University of Washington consists of 610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s. Many of these actors and actresses were little known outside of the major theater centers of New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston.

American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life. The online edition is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online also features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references and links to select web sites.

This microfiche set indexes a large number of biographical reference sources. The guide to Bio-Base abbreviations, next to the Fiche reader, is annotated with Yale Library locations and call numbers.

The most extensive biographical resource for Restoration and 18th-century theater..

Detailed biographies of 3,500 persons active in American theater since 1900. Individual's complete credits in theater, films, and television and radio are listed as well as publications and phonograph recordings. In addition to the biographical who's who, provides: alphabetical listing of productions presented in New York City from 1900 through mid-1964; complete playbills of New York productions as well as leading experimental and repertory theater groups since 1959; production record of plays by American playwrights which have premiered abroad since 1946; histories of American theater groups, including production records, and of New York theater buildings; record of major theater awards; bibliography citing biographical and autobiographical works dealing with important theater people, living and dead; discography of cast recordings. The Necrology lists 9,000 people who have contributed to development of theater and film in America from earliest days through August 1964.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

Excellent source for contemporary theater people. Cumulative index to biographical information in books and magazines. The print volumes cover 1946- present, and the online version goes back to 1984.

The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Most entries are in full text.

First edition was in 1912. Provides much information in addition to biographies: indexes playbills 1966-1970; lists long-run performances in London from mid-nineteenth century; summarizes British theater festivals; gives information about London theaters, major British companies and theater councils. Earlier volumes are in the stacks, with the same call number.

Reference guide to 300 living playwrights of the English language. Includes a biography, bibliography, location of manuscript collections, list of critical studies, and essay by a critic. Supplement list screen writers, radio writers, television writers, musical librettists, theaters of mixed means, theater collections.

North American Theatre Online is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to more than 25,000 plays, nearly 28,000 people, 3,000 theatres, 12,500 productions and 1,500 production companies. The file also includes some 5,000 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the premier source for biographical information on persons connected with the British Isles from all periods of history. The Oxford DNB contains 50,000 biographies and 10,000 images of men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.

Compiled from Who's who in the theatre, volumes 1-15 (1912-1972).

The World Biographical Index is a good first step for locating very basic information about people from North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, through the beginning of the 20th century. It is essentially an index to over 3000 biographical reference works. It contains over one million entries. You may search for people whose name you know, or you may search, for example, for women performing artists from the seventeenth century. Yale's Microfiche sets are housed in the SML Main Reference Room.