Theatre
Assistant Professor Liz Gruchala-Gilbert is the liaison librarian for Theatre
Office: #129 Main floor of the library
Phone: 206-281-2790
Email: lgg@spu.edu
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Core Resources
- Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
- Research Library Complete - covers a broad range of topics, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present.(SPU Only)
- Theatre in Video - contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.(SPU Only)
Additional Resources
- JSTOR - offers digitized versions of core scholarly journals in many disciplines.(SPU Only)
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Associations/Unions Companies Theatre Education (K-12) News Research
The Dramatists Guild of America: Professional association for playwrights, composers, and lyricists
Actors' Equity: Labor union for actors and stage managers
International Amateur Theatre Association: "Promoting understanding and education through theatre"
American Association of Community Theatre
IATSE: The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada
Theatre Communications Group: Information and resources for non-profit theatre groups. Includes access to the online version of the journal, American Theatre.
Seattle Performs: Theatre companies, producers, and presenters.
Yahoo! Directory List of Theatre Companies
Shakespeare Theatre Companies and Festivals: List from the Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet site
Theatre Puget Sound Audition Listings
Professional Educators Standards Board Program Support: Theater Arts - Grades P-12
Options for Implementing Arts Standards Through Theatre - Washington State - All Grade Levels
Educational Theatre Association
IDEA: International Drama/Theatre Education Association
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance: Electronic access to this important reference source. Off campus access limited to current SPU faculty, staff, and students.
Online Digital Gallery: Photographs, production shots, posters, and more from the New York Public Library's Billy Rose Theatre Collection.
Furness Image Collection: Over two thousand images of Shakespeare and English drama productions, mostly from the 19th century.
CESAR: History, portraits, playbills, scenes and much more for French theatre during the 17th and 18th centuries
Elizabethan Costume Page: Focuses on clothing in the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Edited by members of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research
UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre: peer-reviewd, open-source, online publication
TRE 1810: Playscript Analysis