Theater--periodicals

drama--periodicals

theaters--periodicals

theater--periodicals--indexes

Lists some 685 theatrical periodicals published in 122 cities and 31 states. Includes annuals, directories, newspapers devoted primarily to theater. Notes locations in 137 libraries in the U.S., Canada, and the British Museum.

Theater news from New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and other venues is covered in this collection of periodicals. Some titles focus on a broader scale of performing arts, including vaudeville, magic, opera and folklore. A detailed listing of volumes included at the beginning of each reel. The titles included are: The Thespian Mirror, 1805-1806; The Dramatic Mirror, 1829; The Prompter's Whistle, 1850; Stage, 1866; Playbill, 1876-1877; Le Chat Noir, 1889; The Vaudeville, 1898-1906; The Cann-Leighton Official Theatrical Guide, 1896-1971; Stage, 1904-1905; The St. Louis Dramatic News, 1906-1909; The Drama, 1911-1930; Gus Hill's National Theatrical Directory, 1914-1915; The Theatrical Budget, 1823-1828; Figarao, 1850; The Prompter, 1866-1867; The New York Clipper Annual, 1874-1901; Oriole Tidings, 1803-1806; Dramatic Mirror Quarterly, Mahatma, 1895; The Looker-On, 1895-1897; The Burr McIntosh Monthly; Philadelphia Theatrical Guide, 1903-1904; Conjurer's Monthly Magazine, 1906-1908; The New York Star, 1908-1909; and The Theatrical Weekly Record, 1911-1913.

An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. Those selectively covered are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by Science Citation Indexand Social Sciences Citation Index, from which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are drawn. The database covers 1980 to the present, and the print volumes go back to 1975. Published in three parts:

* Citation Index (through which you can find what later articles have cited earlier books or articles)

* Source Index (an author index)

* Permuterm Subject Index (which offers keyword access to the titles of articles)

Lists British theatrical periodicals by date of debut. Gives location in some 160 libraries in the United States, Canada, and Britain. Indexed.

Also known as Annual Magazine Subject-Index. Indexes articles and illustrations in American and English periodicals and includes books, printed plays, government publications, and pamphlets. The Dramatic Index was published as Part II of Magazine Subject Index.

Indexes about 50 journals, listing authors, subjects, and titles in one alphabet. Format was revised with the 1957-1963, 1968 edition. Useful for years it covers but always several years late. 1965-1968

Humanities Full Text cites articles from more than 350 English-language periodicals from 1984 to the present, and provides the full text of over 95 of those periodicals beginning Jan 1995. It covers some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines across numerous fields, including art and photography, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. The Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective provides the ability to search the most important scholarly journals published in North America and Europe from 1907 to 1984 to identify both articles and book reviews.

Major index of theater materials published throughout the world from 1982 to the present.  Includes books, dissertations, periodicals, and ephemeral publications on all aspects of theater, performance and dance.

IIPA draws its current content from more than 130 international periodicals and also indexes articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. IIPA covers nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts, including film theater, and opera. Most IIPA records in the current file (1998 forward) contain an abstract.

The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present. The MLA Bibliography continues the Modern Language Association Annual Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the SML Card Catalog under "Modern Language Association."

PIO and PAO index and provide the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every item or title on the table of contents pages is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

Includes the full text of Theatre Journal and Theatre Topics.  Full text electronic journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Covers a wide variety of disciplines, but emphasis is on the humanities.