Research Guides: Theater Arts: Performance Reviews

Article Databases with Performance Reviews

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.
American Periodicals
Special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and historically significant periodicals, covering 1740-1900.
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.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Articles, editorials, and reviews published in approximately 200 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals published in the U.S, dating back to the mid-1990s.

Searchable in both English and Spanish.
Los Angeles Times (1881-1997)
Digital reproduction of the Los Angeles Times, with full page and article images as well as searchable full text back to the first issue.
New York times (digital reproduction, 1851-2015)
Digital reproduction of the NY Times, with full page and article images as well as searchable full text back to the first issue.
Readers' Guide retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
General-interest, news, and opinion magazines published primarily in the United States. Dates of coverage are from 1890 - 1982.