Research Guides: Theater & Performance Studies: Finding Articles

Databases Strong in Theater and Dance

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Art Databases includes Art Full Text and Art Retrospective, covering an array of publications about artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews and theory and criticism. From EBSCO.
Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
Digital Theatre+ provides unlimited access to over 1000+ full-length productions and educational resources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text archive of high-impact academic journals in many disciplines. The archive does NOT include recent issues -- included journals generally begin with the first issue and stop 3 to 5 years ago. You can browse journals by discipline or by title, and you can search articles by keyword. Oxy subscribes to eight JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I through VII and the Ecology and Botany collection.
New Play Exchange This link opens in a new window
The New Play Exchange ® is a streamlined script discovery and recommendation engine for the new play sector. NNPN is an alliance of non-profit theaters dedicated to the development, production, and continued life of new plays.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text of hundreds of journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from scholarly publishers, mostly university presses. Oxy subscribes to the Standard Collection.
ProQuest Databases This link opens in a new window
Oxy's set of ProQuest databases includes: ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Religious Periodicals, ProQuest Health and Medical Resources, and many more. Together they form a convenient general article database offering ample links to complete online articles.

Open Access Theater Arts Journals

These and many other open access journals may not be indexed in major article databases:

Applied Theater Research/IDEA Journal

Didaskalia the Journal of Ancient Drama

e-misférica

Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

Latin American Theatre Review

Platform

Scenario: Journal for Drama and Theatre in Foreign and Second Language Education

Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance

News for Theater Reviews

Nexis Uni News This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni News offers several database collections including international news, U.S. news, newswires, radio and television news transcripts, non-English language news, student newspapers, and more.
Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2015) This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of the New York Times (1851 - 2015 and growing). View results as page images.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. From ProQuest.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of the Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1995 and growing). View results as page images.

Accessing Material We Don't Own

Many of the books, journal articles and other resources you find can be accessed through Oxy. However, if not, you will need to request them through Interlibrary Loan. If you are logged into your Oxy account, most interlibrary loans can be made via a link associated with the article/book.