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Key Resources for Theatre
- North American Theatre Online - Reference Works"a major initiative to provide detailed reference information for every theatrical figure, every play, every theatre, every major production, and every production company, from Colonial times to the present, in both Canada and the United States."
Full Text Plays
- Asian American Drama
- Black Drama - 1850 to Present
- Latino Drama
- Twentieth Century North American Drama
- North American Women's Drama
Reference Works - histories of actors, playwrights, companies, stages, plays
- Theatre in Video (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowcontains definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.
- Theatre Books & Videos: Online Versions & Excerptsprovides links to some encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, texts, video documentaries, and other resources for which the UCF Libraries provide online access.
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (1984+) This link opens in a new windowInternational Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. This database was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 1.1 million journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theater and performance in 126 countries. International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text contains more than 560 full-text titles, including more than 195 full-text journals, and more than 360 full-text books & monographs.
New Titles Added to the UCF Library
PN2000-3307 Dramatic representation. The theatre
(NOTE: keyword search for "theatre" occasionally retrieves non-theatrical titles)
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A Selection of New Titles
- The Routledge Companion to DramaturgyCall Number: PN2053 .R78 2015 (online only)"The contributions survey the field through eight main lenses:
- world dramaturgy and global perspective
- dramaturgy as function, verb and skill
- dramaturgical leadership and season planning
- production dramaturgy in translation
- adaptation and new play development
- interdisciplinary dramaturgy
- play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy
- social media and audience outreach." 
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material PerformanceCall Number: PN1972 .R68 2014 (online only)"offers a wide ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently reevaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its twenty-eight essays aim to advance the study of the puppet not only as a theatrical object, but also as a vibrant artistic and scholarly discipline.This Companion is organized into three sections: theoretical approaches to puppetry and material performance, performing objects in history and tradition, and analyses of puppets, robots, and objects in live and mediated performance."
