Theatre
Library Subscription Services
Current PVCC students, faculty and staff have access through computers both on and off campus.
Literature Criticism Online, comprised of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Short Story Criticism, profiles selected authors and provides excerpts from critical analyses of their works.
Literature Resource Center has critical analysis, biographical information and bibliographies of authors and their works.
EBSCO (for mobile devices) provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
MLA International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines including language, literature, literary theory and criticism, folklore, linguistics and the dramatic arts.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books. A database relevant to Theatre is Arts and Humanities Search.
Project Muse is a database with full-text journals, including theatre journals.
English Verse Drama Database is a full-text database for the period 1300 to 1900 with access by author and searchable by a word or phrase.
Reference Works
Encyclopedia Britannica
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Local Web Sites of Interest
Department of Drama at the University of Virginia
Live Arts
Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
Other Internet Resources
Monologue Archive groups works by author and type (Comic Monologues for Males, Dramatic Monologues for Women).
AWOL's Thousands of Great Acting Links has links to many Web sites relating to acting, including training, theaters and theater groups and play and script writing.
Playbill has news, e-tickets and stories about theatre since 1884.
Southeast Theatre Conference provides services and educational programs for individuals and organizations engaged in theatre in the southeast United States.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. is the Web site for the best-known theatrical licensing agency. Has useful search capabilities and allows ordering and applying for licenses online.
