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Performing & Visual Arts

Plays, acting, theatrical production, music, sheet music, dance, art, illustration and more

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Literary Reference Center Plus (EBSCO) - Includes plot summaries and principal characters, reviews, criticism and more for works of drama and biography information on playwrights from respected sources such as Masterplots and Critical Survey of Drama.
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Websites

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Performing Arts In General

Performing Arts Encyclopedia

Dance

ABT Online Ballet Dictionary
Balletcompanies.com
Ballroom Dance Resource
Voice of Dance

Music

Petrucci Music Library - a place to find free sheet music online

Theater

Kabuki for Everyone
Playbill
Theatrecafts.com
TheatreHistory.com
Tony Awards

Film

The Greatest Films
RogerEbert.com

Television and Radio

British Broadcasting Corporation
Emmy Awards

Library Materials

Circulating materials, most reference books and non-fiction video shelved together in the stacks. Print magazines and newspapers on display or ask at the Reference Desk. Audiobooks shelved seperately.

Books/DVD/CD

Acting and Monologues - 791-792 and 808.82
Architecture - 720's
Art & Artists - 750's
Art History - 709
Cinema/Movies/Film - 791.43
Dance - 792-793
Music - 780's
Photography - 770's
Plays, American - 812.5
Plays, International - 822-899
Shakespeare - 822.33

Magazines/Newspapers

Architectural Digest
Art In America
Entertainment Weekly
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Poetry
Popular Photography
Rolling Stone


See also: General Periodical Indexes online

 

Multi-Media

Great Courses college lectures, CD and DVD, including music, art and drama appreciation.

Plays in performance
Audio recordings shelved separately
Video recordings with non-fiction books

 

Also of Interest

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