Watch this spot for new publications from the Theatre department.  

41zBs-F86CL.jpgIjames, James. Fat Ham. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Access the Ebook Here

 

41zBs-F86CL.jpgRowen, Bess. The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Access the Ebook Here

 

Carrying-All-Before-Her-200x300.jpgPhillips, Chelsea. Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2022. Access  the Ebook Here

 

Note to Theatre Graduate Students

Due to the nature of theatre research it is unlikely that you will find everything you need through the library alone. There are many important resources listed here and this guide is a good starting point, but you will likely need to expand to broader internet searches.

Tips and Tricks

There is NO one single place to find a listing of production histories, UNLESS you’re working on a Greek or Roman play in which case you should check The Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD). But for everything else it’s going to take detective work, start by checking North American Theatre Online, Wikipedia, and general googling to start building a list of productions that you may want to look into.

When in doubt pick up the phone or send an email.  Sometimes while doing production research you may need to reach out to specific theatres, archives, or libraries to get information about a production. When contacting such outside institutions be professional, introduce yourself, explain you’re a graduate student and why you’re seeking the information you’re asking for. Also make sure to give these institutions plenty of time to respond, do not call or email the week before a project is due expecting to get a quick response.

Google can be your friend, but be careful. Things can easily get mislabeled and if you’re searching for images of a specific production you need to be very careful that images claiming to be from a specific production are in fact from that production. 

Google books can be a good place to chase citations for reviews. You probably won’t find the review itself, but if you have some information to go off of such as name of the show, location, date, etc. you may be able to find references to reviews in newspapers which you can then chase down in one of our newspaper databases.

Finally

If you'd like to meet with me for research help, you should first try to find a time during my office hours that will work for you by clicking the dark blue "Book Now" button in the right hand column of this page. However, I realize that graduate students in particular are often juggling their academic schedule along with work, production schedules, family, and any number of other things. So if you are unable to make any of my office hours work, contact me directly via email and we will work something out either at a time outside of my office hours, over the phone, or via email.

 

~Sarah Wingo