.Theatre Arts Subject Guide: Books

A comprehensive guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. Includes information about playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and more. Covers classic works and commercially successful plays. Also includes entries on foreign figures that have influenced American dramatic development (from Shakespeare to Beckett and Pinter).

A directory listing opportunities to produce, publish or receive support for development of scripts. Also provides handy tips for aspiring dramatic writers.

Provides in-depth essays on major dramatic writers and their works, featuring biographical and critical information, lists of works authored, and bibliographical references to other relevant sources of information.

Provides biographical sketches of living British and American playwrights.

Provides critical commentaries on dramatic works of enduring popular appeal for students of theatre and literature. Volumes published since 2008 are available through Literature Criticism Online