Theatre: Explore by Subject

Applied Arts

Plays and Monologue Books

Many resources are collections of monologues/plays/dialogues in one book.

Dialogues  [Scenes]
Monologues  [May also have scenes.]
One-act plays
One-person shows (Performing arts)
Playscripts
Ten-minute plays

Actor Training

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Acting
Acting—Auditions
Acting—Study and teaching
Acting—Vocational guidance
Actors with disabilities
Improvisation (Acting)
Method acting
Movement (Acting)
People with disabilities and the performing arts
Sex in the theater
Stage combat

Costume/Makeup

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Costume design
Costume designers
Costume—History
Film makeup
Theatrical makeup

Music Theatre

Acting in musical theater
Librettos (musicals only)
Musical theater—Instruction and study
Musicals (vocal scores)
Musicals, Musical theater, and Music-halls (books and DVDs)

To discover more, see our guide to Music Theatre

Production

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Set designers
Stage lighting
Stage management
Stage props
Theater management
Theater—Production and direction
Theaters—Stage setting and scenery
Theatrical producers and directors

Voice Acting

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Television announcing
Voice culture
Voice-overs
(does not include radio, singing, voice care, vocal production, etc.)

Writing

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Drama—Technique
Playwriting
Dramaturges
Dramaturgy
Theater critics

Research

Actors

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...or exclude motion pictures
...or limit to stage, theat*, drama*, monolog*, etc. *

Actors
Actors and Actresses
Actors, Black [tends to be monologues]
Actors—United States—Interviews
Actresses
Actresses, Black [tends to be monologues]
Hispanic American actors [monologues, scenes, actors]
Jewish actors

Theatre History/Biography

Terms have been applied inconsistently over time, so try more than one heading. Also search for specific playwrights/people separately. They may not be included in the categories below.

General

Commedia dell’arte
Drama—21st century  [or  15^th    16^th     17^th    18^th    19^th    20^th]
Drama—History and criticism
Dramatists
Historical drama
Political plays
Theater—History
Theater—Reviews
Theater and society
Theater audiences
 

American Theater

American drama
Dramatists, American  [or 19^th   20^th    21^st centuries]
Theater—United States
Theater—United States—History
Theater—United States—History—20^th century [or substitute other centuries]
 

International Theater

Chinese drama
Dramatists, English  [or 16^th    17^th   18^th   19^th  20^th    21^st ]
English drama
Japanese drama
Theater—Great Britain—History
Theater—Japan
Theater—[substitute other places]
 

Diverse Identities

See also our guide to Diversity in Theatre

African American dramatists
American drama—Asian American authors
American drama—African American authors
American drama—Hispanic American authors
American drama—Indian authors  * see note
American drama—Jewish authors
Drama—Women authors—History and criticism 
Feminism and theater
Feminist theater
Gay dramatists [or search other terms, e.g., theat* or drama plus gay, homosex*, lesbians, etc.]
Gay theater
Homosexuality in the theater
Indian theater * see note
Jewish theater
Women dramatists
Women in the theater

* Note: Library of Congress is still using Indian and American Indian to mean indigenous people of the US and Canada; for Indian people from Southeast Asia, they use East Indians or East Indian Americans.