Theatre: General Info

• Performing Arts Encyclopedia
• Internet Movie Database
• Internet Broadway Database
• Theatre History Online
• International Dialects of English Archive
• Broadway, The American Musical Resources
• Fantastic! The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musicals
• American Theatre Wing
• Playbill’s Homepage

This guide has been created specifically to assist you with your theatre classwork. Please look through the guide to find materials related to your classes and handouts.

If you need furthur assistance, e-mail me or use Web Chat on the library's homepage.

Search the online catalog to find the latest materials from movies to play anthologies.

Be sure to use search terms such as

• theater
• theatre
• theater history
• stage management
• stage lighting
• plays, etc.

Look at the Theatre Resources Tab for book suggestions and online resources.

Databases

PJC on campus

the main Academic database is ProQuest

Accessing Databases from Off Campus:

1. Go to Paris Junior College Homepage
2. Click on Quick Links
3. Select Library Services
4. Under Library Links click on Databases (off-campus login)
5. User name is your student ID number
6. Password is your birthday (mmddyyyy)

To access the academic databases from home, click here:

Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: a portrait of an American Revolutionary by J. Kent McGaughy

First Founding father: Richard Henry Lee and the call for Independence by Harlow Giles Unger