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Subjects: Africa and African-American Studies, Botany, Critical Media and Cultural Studies, English, History, Humanities, Literature, Music, Theater and Performing Arts

Gale Fine Arts and Music Collection
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
This large collection of video includes theatre and dance material. You can search for specific works, or browse by subject under "The Arts".
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
An index of journals and books on the subjects of folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. This is excellent for getting scholarly critiques of theatre, but it has no play reviews of specific performances.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books, and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Articles from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers, in many different subject areas.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text access to articles from leading journals in several fields in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

These collections can be useful for finding performance reviews as well as other news reports relevent to the performing arts.

Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text of the Times of London from 1785-1985.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) This link opens in a new window
The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Founded in 1851, the paper has won 127 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper.