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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).

New Play Exchange (NPX)
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 Each issue includes at least two previously unpublished scripts (print edition only).

Search for Books and Librettos

Search the FLO Library Catalog to find books and media materials.

Encyclopedias

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

Suggested Titles

American Musical Theatre: a Chronicle [print and electronic resource] by Gerald Bordman
Call Number: eBook (read online)

ISBN: 019513074X

Publication Date: 2001-03-01

eBook access in Alexander Street Press"
Broadway Musicals: the 101 greatest shows of all time by Ken Bloom; Frank Vlastnik; Jerry Orbach (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML102.M88 B56 2004

ISBN: 1579123902

Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Broadway Musicals - Show by Show, 5th ed. by Stanley Green; Kay Green
Call Number: Reference [X] ML1711 .G735 1996

ISBN: 0793577500

Publication Date: 1990-01-01
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical by Thomas Hischak
Call Number: Ref ML102.M88 H593 2008

ISBN: 9780195335330

Publication Date: 2008-06-02
The Great White Way by Warren Hoffman
Call Number: eBook (read online)

ISBN: 9780813563367

Publication Date: 2014-02-18
Broadway by Michael Kantor; Laurence Maslon
Call Number: ML1711.8.N3 K34 2004

ISBN: 0821229052

Publication Date: 2004-10-13

Also see 3-disc DVD documentary of the same title, also by Michael Kantor. Includes the words "razzle-dazzle history."
The Musical: a look at the American musical theater by Richard Kislan (Composed by)
Call Number: ML1711 .K57 1995

ISBN: 9781557832177

Publication Date: 2000-05-01
The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity [print and electronic resource] by Raymond Knapp
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781400832682

Publication Date: 2010-06-21

Print copy at ML2054 .K6 2006. The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them.
Deconstructing Harold Hill : the insider's guide to musical theatre by Scott Miller
Call Number: MT955 .M593 2000

ISBN: 0325001669

Publication Date: 1999-11-29
From Assassins to West Side Story : the director's guide to musical theatre by Scott Miller
Call Number: MT955 .M595 1996

ISBN: 0435086995

Publication Date: 1996-05-20
Rebels with Applause: Broadway's groundbreaking musicals by Scott Miller
Call Number: ML2054 .M55 2001

ISBN: 0325003572

Publication Date: 2001-07-31
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, and Musicals (eBook available) by Scott Miller
Call Number: ML3918.M87 M55 2011

ISBN: 9781555537616

Publication Date: 2011-10-11
Musical Theatre : a history by John Kenrick
Call Number: ML2054 .K46 2008

ISBN: 0826430139

Publication Date: 2010-03-25

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