LibGuides: Theatre & Dance: Plays & Playbills

Indexes to Plays

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century.
English and American Stage Productions
An annotated checklist of prompt books, 1800-1900, from the Nisbet-Snyder drama collection, Northern Illinois University Libraries.
Guide to Play Selection
By the National Council of Teachers of English.
The Drama Scholars Index to Plays and Filmscripts
A guide to plays and film scripts in selected anthologies, series, and periodicals.

Full-Text Plays

SearchWISE
For major plays, search for titles. If you get no results, try searching for the play title as a keyword, or search by playwright or author.

Playbills

Playbill Vault
An online database of Broadway theater production information from 1930 to the present, created and operated by Playbill. Provides Playbill cover images, Broadway casts, who’s who biographies, awards, production credits, actor head shots, and box office data.
Internet Broadway Database
Provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theater until today. Details include pertinent people involved, as well as production facts and statistics. Also offers historical information about theaters.
Lortel Archives (Off-Broadway Internet Database)
Includes information about off-Broadway productions going back to 1958.