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Finding Plays with a Specific Type of Character

Use these free sites to find names of plays with the number or type of characters you need. Search the play titles in the library catalog to find the plays at University Libraries.

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Very useful for identifying and locating plays available through Dramatists. Good information on new plays.
Doollee
For just female characters, select the number of male parts (starting with 0), then select the number of female parts to generate a list of plays.

Twentieth Century North American Drama This link opens in a new window
Collection contains plays, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays

MUSICAL THEATER SONGS

Musical Theater Songs This link opens in a new window
Draws from 150 years of musical theater repertoire ranging from well-known standards to rare finds. This resource also links to various sites to make it simple to locate the sheet music and recordings.

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Databases that cover all aspects of Theatre

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexed journal articles, books, and dissertations on theatre and performance.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. Includes the core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Issues have been scanned in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of articles, covers, ads and reviews.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text and images of over 1000 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in a variety of disciplines. Has best coverage in older volumes of journals.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text of scholarly journals covering the humanities and social sciences.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Fulltext of millions of articles published in humanities and social sciences periodicals.