Databases for theatre research including the CMU Libraries Catalog and other library catalogs; full-text play databases and books; streaming video, streaming music, music performance and scores online; plays, articles, dissertations, reviews, images, employment and performance archives.
Cameo: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries catalog to find books, articles, media, videos, recordings and more at CMU.
To find out if CMU has access to print or online journals do a Journal Search.
Pittcat: University of Pittsburgh Library holdings
The Catalog: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh holdings; excellent music and scores collection
Pittsburgh library catalogs of Duquesne University, Chatham University, Carlow University, Point Park University, and Robert Morris University.
WorldCat includes holdings for all of the above as well as other local, regional, national and international library holdings.
The New Play Exchange (NPX) is a script discovery database formed by the NNPN alliance of non-profit theaters “dedicated to the development, production, and continued life of new plays.”
"One-stop shop" of scholarly Shakespearean resources: includes texts, research, and performance.
Play Indexes
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
Provides data regarding the publishing, printing and marketing of English Renaissance playbooks from the beginning of printing through 1660. Created by Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser.
Indexes plays in published sources (1949-present) by subject, author, title, style, genre, cast type and more with plot summaries and musical, cast and scenery requirements. Includes one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays and classic drama. Links to selected full-text plays on the web.
Over two million high-quality images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. NOTE: Artstor is now in JSTOR
Performing arts employment and opportunities in the U.S. and Canada. Users for register for an individual account to search for jobs.
Our Music Research guide links all our resources for streaming music and online scores.
Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection
Primary and secondary full-text materials to support informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in 20th and 21st century dance through photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material.
The Primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project
Interviews with visionaries who created New York's Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theatre
after World War II. Almost one-hundred interviews are recorded as of March 5, 2017 with continual additions to come.
"The La MaMa Archives Digital Collections site is both a catalog and a digital archive, and it was designed to serve both researchers and general users. Site users can conduct targeted searches or browse at will, using the images and text available on this site as a guide. In the near future, we hope also to be able to offer curated digital exhibits."
AHDS Performing Arts (Arts and Humantities Data Service)
Decomissioned in 2017, the archives mission was to collect, document, preserve and promote the use of digital resources to support research and teaching across the broad field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance. Project content and data have been stored as a fully backed-up Virtual Machine and can be made available on request depending on agreements with the Principal Investigator for a period of at least 2 years from the cease date.
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To locate videos that the library owns, you need to:
The form below is pre-set for material type video/film. You can start with step 3 and enter the criteria you desire (title, subject, etc.) to find films and videos at our library.
Archival:
Art & Culture:
Watch high-quality films of full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.
Documentaries:
Features:
News (current & historic):
DATABASES FOR FINDING RESEARCH RELATED TO FILM:
Film Scripts
Film Psychology
Interdisciplinary Databases
Articles in important academic journals from all disciplines (latest few years not available); also eBooks from leading academic publishers, as well as some images.
Current humanities and social science journals from a variety of university presses.
RELEVANT RESEARCH GUIDES:
The following research guides may contain additional resources for researching films:
CITATION MANAGEMENT TOOLS:
Contains comprehensive indexing of the International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (IBTD), and includes 118 active full-text journals and magazines.
A unique source covering all aspects of world dress and fashion throughout history.
Articles in important academic journals from all disciplines (latest few years not available); also eBooks from leading academic publishers, as well as some images.
Current humanities and social science journals from a variety of university presses.
Citations to critical research of language, literature, and folklore for all periods beginning with the Middle Ages.
An interdisciplinary, international, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.
Use this link to configure Google Scholar to find full-text at the CMU Libraries. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
The following databases are recommended first for finding performing arts reviews. Ask about more possibilities for finding historic reviews!
Article Databases
Proquest
U.S. newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, dissertations and reports in all subjects
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
Selected full-text or PDF articles
International Index to the Performing Arts
Citations to articles and a few full-text
Literature Resource Center
includes criticism and reviews
Academic OneFile
Articles on all subjects
ArticleFirst
Scholarly citations in all disciplines
Full-text print reviews from 1870-1996 in Hunt Library
Find these print resources on the Arts Reference shelves located directly behind the Arts Reference Desk.
Critics' Theatre Reviews. New York, N.Y. : Critics Theatre Reviews.
FA-REF-4 PN2000 .N76 (1940-1942)
Full-text weekly reviews as they originally appeared in appeared the New York Sun, New York Post, New York Herald Tribune, New York Newspaper "PM," New York Times, New York Daily News, New York World-Telegram and New York Journal American.
New York Theatre Critics' Reviews. New York, N.Y. : Critics' Theatre Reviews, Inc.
FA-REF-4 PN2000 .N76, 1943-1996.
Continuing Critics' Theatre Reviews.
Full-text reviews from prominent New York publications and other sources.
The New York Times Theater Reviews. New York: New York Times.
FA-REF-4 PN2266 .N48, 1870-1982, 1985-1990, 1993-2000
Reviews: Open Access Web Resources
Aisle Say (TheatreNet Enterprises)
"An internet magazine of reviews and opinions." Updated bi-weekly.
CurtainUp
An internet magazine of theater reviews and features.
IBdB Internet Broadway Database
Broadway theatre archive
The New York Times - Current day
Full text, recent theater, film, video, TV, dance and music reviews. Currently free, but registration is required.
For back issues ofthe NY Times online Carnegie Mellon users can log into the Proquest databse.
Playbill OnLine-Current day
Includes reviews.
General OneFile
Articles on all subjects
LexisNexis Academic (now Nexis Uni)
International database: newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, reports, blogs, case law, government documents, broadcasts, and more.
Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 1,000 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies.
Gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more. It includes The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, etc.
Millions of pages of primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries, including a wealth of new content added every year. We provide access to 77 titles (aka collections) within this resource.
Access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. Search or browse digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials. Includes the “Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960–1969, Europe and Latin America” Collection Database Guide
Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002), The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2006).
1910-present. From the first issue in 1910 to the present year, Women's Wear Daily Archive preserves one of the industry's most influential reads, tracing day-to-day news, opinion, and socio-economic trends, from runway reports to beauty product reviews. WWD is a unique record of the twentieth century US and international fashion and beauty business. Key moments in the history of the industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers and advertisers are all covered in this publication of record.
