Research Guides: Theater Arts: Articles

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Use these databases to find articles in scholarly journals, theater industry publications, magazines, and newspapers.

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.
America: History & Life
Bibliographic database containing citations to articles on the history, culture and current affairs of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.
Core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.

**Tutorial available: View an Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive tutorial

JSTOR
Digital library containing back issues of academic journals, it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues of journals. It provides full text searches of almost 2,000 journals.
MLA International Bibliography
Over 2 million citations includes scholarly journal articles, monographs, dissertations, essay collections. Scope cover critical scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, folklore.

**Tutorial available: View a MLA International Bibliography tutorial

Web of science core collection
Provides access to scholarly journals in Theater Arts, as well as a host of other disciplines in the sciences and social sciences.

Databases for online newspaper articles

Newspapers provide current as well as historical information about theater, including news about productions; profiles of actors, directors, and designers; reviews; and theater listings.

Chronicling America
Full text of historic newspapers 1836-1922 from all over the United States. Sponsored by the Library of Congress.

Historic Oregon Newspapers
Historic Oregon Newspapers provides digitized versions of selected Oregon newspapers published between 1846 and 2017. Approximately 200 newspapers are included in this collection. Dates of coverage vary from newspaper to newspaper.