Lafayette College Library

Collection of dictionaries and other reference works on music, theater, and dance from Oxford University Press.

Skillman's guide to print and electronic resources for reviews of performances of plays.

Searchable bibliography with annotated entries for books, articles, reviews, and other materials related to Shakespeare.

Web version of The Adelphi Theatre Calendar, ed. Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross (Greenwood Press, 1990- ). Provides cast lists and other performance information for plays, musicals, ballets, and other entertainments. Choose "History" to view commentaries, daily calendars, and summaries of each season. There are also indexes for management personnel, authors, titles, and performers. Note: This calendar is the first title in the series The London Stage, 1800- 1900.

Resource on French theater of the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes information on performances, reviews from the time period, images from playbills, title pages, etc., and some key reference works.

Catalog of over 3,000 plays published by Dramatists Play Service. Includes a plot summary for each play and a keyword search feature that can be used for locating plays dealing with certain issues or topics.

An index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals searchable by author, title, and source. (Note that the call numbers in this index are not necessarily the call numbers used in the Lafayette Library's collection and that not all of these sources are in the Lafayette Library.)

Official archival database for Broadway theatre information from the League of American Theatres and Producers. Provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre to present. Includes playwright, opening night cast, theater, performance statistics.

Directory of festivals, venues, and professional theatre and performing arts groups in Ireland. Includes the Irish Playography Project, which is a comprehensive database of modern Irish plays with production details. Scripts are sometimes available.

Searchable archive of literary texts and complementary reference resources.

New York Public Library's catalog "lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media. It includes materials in many languages and serves as an index to an international range of dance periodicals." Also of note is their collection of Dance Resources on the Internet.

Searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials on theater, dance and popular performance drawn from the extensive New York Public Library for the Performing Arts collection. Includes newspaper clippings, vocal scores, photographs, publicity posters, and lobby cards. Also includes excerpts from moving pictures and sound clips.

Provides discographic information on commercially-released show music recordings from the late 19th century to the present.

Intended for people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different native and non-native English speakers, this site offers a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Sound clips and phonetic transcriptions are typically available. Useful for actors who need to learn an accent.

Index and full text of the Times Literary Supplement (London), an important source of reviews of books, plays, and films.

Links to resources in more than 50 countries, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages. Includes schools or other training institutions, theatrical book stores, conferences, an electronic text archives, plays online, a syllabus bank, and more.