Research Guides: Theater Studies: Welcome

Welcome to the Theater Research Guide!

This guide is your starting point for research in theater studies.

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Oxford College students Axel Nava and Erin Oquindo in the play Water By the Spoonful by American playright and composer Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Theater professor Pam Joyce.
Photograph source: http://oxford.emory.edu/news/2017/10/fall-play-2017.html.

Best Bets

If you're short on time, these resources are your best bets for this topic!

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Includes the most recently published output of many major scholarly journals. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, cultural studies, education, political science, and more.
International Bibliography of Theater and Dance with Full Text (IBTD) This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographic materials on theater and dance, including articles, essays and book chapters. Resources are mined from internationally selected publications in drama, dance, media, mime, mixed entertainment, and more.
IBTD is a research tool for university theater and language departments, theater organizations, primary schools, social scientists and professionals within the field.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access a wide variety of journal articles in the humanities and other disciplines.
Note: You may not be able to access the most current 2–7 years of certain journals—but many of these recent publications are found in Project MUSE.