Theatre & Performance Studies Research Guide

Identifying Production Dates

Because the first step to finding out what was said, is to find out when it happened...

• Black Drama (Research Port Database)
  African-American plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

• Bordman, Gerald. The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. NY: Oxford University Press, 2004
  LOCATION: PA LIB REF
  CALL NUMBER: PN2220.B6 2004

• Cassell Companion to Theatre. London: Cassell, 1997. (rev ed of Brewer's Theatre, 1994 (MCK REF PN2035.B74 1994)
  LOCATION: PA LIB REF
  CALL NUMBER: PN2035.B74 1997

• International Dictionary of Theatre. Chicago: St. James Press, 1992-1996.
  LOCATION: PA LIB REF
  CALL NUMBER: PN2035.I49

• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. NY: MCGraw-Hill, 1984.
  LOCATIONS: PAL LIB REF, MCKREF STACKS
  CALL NUMBER: PN1625.M3 1984

• North American Theatre Online (Research Port Database)
  Information on United States and Canadian productions from Colonial times to the present.

See Also:

This part of the guide is sub-divided into two sections, by time-period: