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Available via the World Wide Web  AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service)/Performing Arts

Searchable collection of online digital resources in the performing arts, mostly from Britain. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  American Drama

Containing more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early 18th Century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists featured in this release include Clyde Fitch, Augustin Daly, David Belasco, James Herne and Joaquin Miller. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Available via the World Wide Web  Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Includes full-text works of Spanish-language literature, both classics and lesser known works. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  Design and Applied Arts Index

International index to design and craft journals. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Connect On-Site from the Library  Digital Gallery, NYPL

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Connect On-Site from the Library  Digital Library Collections, NYPL

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Connect On-Site from the Library  FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus

Formerly known as Film/TV Documentation Collections, FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Connect On-Site from the Library  International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text

Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 periodical titles and more than 50 books & monographs. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Available via the World Wide Web  International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions

The SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is provided, but also information about collections found within the institutions. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  International Index for the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA)

IIPA covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound,theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Contains over 172,013 records providing current and retrospective coverage, with citations dating back to 1864. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Available via the World Wide Web  Internet Broadway Database

A definitive source for the facts on Broadway musicals and plays from Aristophanes to Ziegfeld. more info

Available via the World Wide Web  Internet Resources in Theatre

Selected by librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and in the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  Music Opera Dance and Drama in Asia, the Pacific and North America

A directory or arts organizations in North America, Asia and the Pacific. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Available via the World Wide Web  NYPL Digital Gallery

Provides access to over 685,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. more info

Available via the World Wide Web  NYPL Digital Library Collections

Gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique collections in digitized form. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  Performing Arts Yearbook for Europe

Directory of Performing Arts organizations in Europe, including the fields of music, dance, theatre and puppetry. Searchable by name or location. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Connect On-Site from the Library  Shakespeare, Editions and Adaptations

Contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Available via the World Wide Web  Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database

This database documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States, tracing performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  World Shakespeare Bibliography

Provides annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts