Theater  

New Titles

• Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1950-2000: A Critical Anthology 
  PN6112 .T43 2011  (Main Stacks, 4th floor)
  
  
• Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens
  PA3203 .R57 2011  (Main Stacks, 4th Floor)
  
  
• Staging the People:  Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project
  PN2270 .F43O83 2011 (Main Stacks, 4th floor)

Theater

Resources on the study of theater.

Library of Congress Call Number Ranges: 

Theater PN1600-3307

Musical Theater MT955-956

This collection includes sources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and directories to help find brief explanations and general information about terms and concepts in theater.

Reference Sources in Theater

• Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Musical Theater: Opera, Operetta, Musical Comedy ML102 .M875B58 2010 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama PN1861 .C65 2007 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Vaudeville Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America PN1968 .U5C85 2007
• Critical survey of drama.  PN1625 .C68 2003 (Reference, 2nd floor)  
• All things Shakespeare: an encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s world.  PR2892 .O56 2002 (Reference, 2nd floor)  
• Asia-American playwrights.  PS338.A74A9 2002 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Contemporary gay American poets and playwrights: an A-Z guide.  PS325 .C656 2003 (Reference, 2nd floor)

Online Reference Sources in Theater

• The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre
• Dramatists Sourcebook: Complete Opportunities for Playwrights, Translators, Composers, Lyricists, and Librettists
• Oxford encyclopedia of theatre and performance
• Guide to ancient Greek drama
• Oxford companion to American theatre
• Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy

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