Emerson College Library: Music and Musical Theatre: Musical Theatre

New Plays

American Theatre
Each issue features reports on plays in print, performances, and theater season schedules in the US and abroad. Includes full-length play scripts for "major new plays" five times per year (print edition only). Includes interviews with featured playwright(s).

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New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, claims to be the world’s largest digital full text library of scripts by living writers. Designed and built with the needs of the new play sector in mind, NPX serves writers, producers, directors, artistic directors, literary managers, dramaturgs, publishers, agents, actors, professors, students, and theater fans. Search by genre, including experimental, musical, opera, radio drama, horror, and many others. Performance rights to these plays are not included, but information on obtaining those rights is made available.

TheatreForum
Documents and discusses the work of innovative theatre artists in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas with a focus on new performance works that reflect contemporary sensibilities and articulate new concepts and forms. Each issue includes at least two previously unpublished scripts (print edition only).

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Cambridge encyclopedia of stage actors and acting [electronic resource] by edited by Simon Williams
Call Number: eReference
ISBN: 9781786843319
Publication Date: 2015
Critical Survey of Drama [electronic resource] by editor, Carl Rollyson
Call Number: eReference
ISBN: 9781682176399
Publication Date: 2018
Offers detailed coverage of contemporary playwrights who have recently come to be regarded as established figures in the theater--Jez Butterworth, Martin McDonough, Patrick Marber, Marshall Napier, Mark Ravenhill and N.F. Simpson--to name a few. Each dramatist essay provides such ready-reference material as birth and death dates, and a list of the author's major dramatic works.
Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre by Kurt Gñzl; Kurt Gñzl
Call Number: Reference ML102.M88 G3 2001
ISBN: 0028649702
Publication Date: 2001-05-17
Oxford companion to theatre and performance [electronic resource] by edited by Dennis Kennedy
Call Number: eReference
ISBN: 9780191727917
Publication Date: 2010
Oxford Dictionary of Dance by Debra Craine; Judith Mackrell
Call Number: Reference GV1585 .C78 2010
ISBN: 9780199563449
Publication Date: 2010-09-10
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance by Dennis Kennedy (Editor)
Call Number: [X] PN2035 .O94 2003
ISBN: 0198601743
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Comprehensive, authoritative. Bibliographies for major entries, "further reading" list, timeline, and thematic table of contents