Results tagged “Performing Arts” from Iwasaki Library Blog

That's right, you heard it here first: the same folks who brought you the nifty film review and television review guides have now done the same for theatre and performance reviews.

Use these comprehensive guides to identify the date of release, performance, or publication and then determine which indexes, databases, and full-text reference sources have coverage during the given year. Although it's easy to simply stop at the full-text databases, we encourage researchers to make use of both print and online indexes and sources. Not only is there variation in date range coverage, but each source - despite sometimes considerable overlap - indexes a given set of periodical titles (and even books in certain cases).

We hope that these graphic guides make the review-searching process easier. Enjoy, and let us know what you think!

Looking to learn about comic improvisatory theater in Iran? Or political theater in the United States? How about Shared Experience Theater or Five Lesbian Brothers? Or the meaning of deconstruction with respect to drama?

To find the answers to these and a plethora of other questions, turn to The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama! This two-volume work features over 1200 entries on concepts, companies, countries, genres, movements, plays and playwrights from 1860 to the present. The work differs from other reference books on theater in its focus on practice and performance as well as written drama.

Entries have further reading recommendations, so it is easy to find additional materials. And just before the index there is a useful listing of entries by topic or country, making questions like “Who are contemporary playwrights from Malaysia?” a breeze to answer.

And be sure to check out selected entries written by Magda Romanska, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts and Head of Theatre Studies! Look for Denise Boucher. Sarah Anne Curzon, Merrill Denison, Linda Griffiths, Lois Reynolds Kerr and Marjorie Pickthall.