Theatre Arts Subject Guide  Tags: fine_arts  

Play publisher of musicals, drama, theatre for young audiences, comedies, duet-scenes, monologues, one-acts, and other theatre resources.

Publisher of thousands of plays in "acting editions," including full-length,, short, musicals, collections, and not-yet-published. To search their offerings, you can use the PlayFinder found on their homepage.

Indexes plays by author and title, and identifies books and periodicals in which the play is located. You will then need to obtain the items either from the library's collection or interlibrary loan.

A resource comprising two databases, PoemFinder and StoryFinder. Use them to locate where individual poems or stories are collected in published works. Includes the full text of thousands of poems and stories, as well.

MTI is another large purveyor of materials for musical theatre productions.

In Lilly's Reference Collection: Ref PN 1655 .W4

A much more thorough index than Inter-Play (above). Includes cast size and break-down into male/female. Volumes cover years from 1949 to 1997.

Playscripts publishes over 1000 new plays and its Web site may be searched according to different criteria and provides lengthy script samples for free.

Publisher of thousands of plays in "acting edition" [same scope as Dramatists Play Service above]. A search engine is included on their homepage.

Tams licenses and offers scripts, musical scores, orchestrations, prompt books, and conductor scores for musical theatre productions.