Macdonald-Kelce Library: Theatre and Musical Theatre: Best Bets

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Use Spartan Search to search the library's collection of plays, vocal scores, sound recordings, DVDs, and other literature related to theatre.

UTampa students who obtain a Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative card have access to additional Kanopy titles and Hoopla, which offers streaming movies, television series, and music.

If you cannot access specific films in Kanopy, please check Films On Demand and the library catalog.

Please note that streaming media content is not indexed in Spartan Search and users should search those interfaces directly to find and access audio-video files.

Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Streaming platform that offers access to theatrical works as well as criticism and other pedagogical resources. Includes interviews and original productions of classic and contemporary plays.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Offers a large collection of academic streaming videos covering most subject areas, including documentaries, TEDTalks, and classic films.
Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in the fields of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, ebooks, primary sources, and ebooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and business.
Music & Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal music artists, composers, and ensembles.
Includes the following collections:
Music Online: American Music
Music Online: Classical Music Library
Music Reference Collection
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
Music Online: Popular Music Library
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Music & Dance Online This link opens in a new window
Music and Dance Online currently includes over 11 million audio tracks, 2,500 hours of video, 1.3 million pages of scores, and 500,000+ pages of reference, archival primary sources, and periodicals, comprising the largest and most comprehensive online offering of in-copyright audio and video performances and scores available anywhere.
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
A continuously updated performing arts video library containing operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, and EuroArts, and more.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Access all Oxford's dictionaries, companions, and encyclopedias in one place.
Oxford Reference is a multi-disciplinary database that features a range of short entries, timelines, quotations, and lengthy in-depth reference articles on all topics. Browse by subject or enter a keyword in the search box.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journals and ebooks covering the humanities and social sciences broadly, and more specifically topical areas such as ...
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Books and journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. Offers Online Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching & Content Alerts, content for Courses & Research. Also contains The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose. The fully searchable, integrative edition includes all of Eliot's collected essays, reviews, lectures, commentaries from The Criterion, and letters to editors, including more than 700 uncollected and 150 unpublished pieces from 1905 to 1965 and much more.

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Call Numbers for Theatre Materials

The University of Tampa's Macdonald-Kelce Library has a wide selection of materials pertaining to many aspects of Theatre and Musical Theatre. Below are the relevant Library of Congress classification areas to explore. All items in the library (other than Government Documents) are assigned a Library of Congress call number and are arranged on the shelves accordingly.

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Theatre

PN1530                The monologue
PN1551       The dialogue
PN1560-1590       The performing arts. Show business
PN1585-1589           Centers for the performing arts
PN1600-3307       Drama
PN1635-1650           Relation to, and treatment of, special subjects
PN1660-1693           Technique of dramatic composition
PN1720-1861           History
PN1865-1988           Special types
PN1990-1992.92           Broadcasting
PN1991-1991.9              Radio broadcasts
PN1992-1992.92            Television broadcasts
PN1992.93-19 92.95      Nonbroadcast video recordings
PN1993-1999           Motion pictures
PN1997-1997.85               Plays, scenarios, etc.
PN2000-3307           Dramatic representation. The theater
PN2061-2071               Art of acting
PN2085-2091               The stage and accessories
PN2131-2193               By period
PN2131-2145                   Ancient
PN2152-2160                   Medieval
PN2171-2179                   Renaissance
PN2181-2193                   Modern
PN2219.3-3030           Special regions or countries
PN3035               The Jewish theater
PN3151-3171               Amateur theater
PN3175-3191               College and school theatricals
PN3203-3299               Tableaux, pageants, "Happenings," etc.

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