Playscripts
The library QuickSearch includes links to the individual plays in most of these collections, so if you are looking for a specific play, search there first. See the Plays and Monologues tab on the left for some strategies to browse playscripts in the UNLV Libraries book stacks.
1975-
A&HCI provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals.
Update frequency: Updated weekly
Use this tool to identify how often a particular author has been cited in the work of peers or to identify the most influential scholarship on a topic.
Newspaper databases are a great resource for finding reviews of specific performances. Consider including the following: work title; playwright or performer; critic's name. Also, use quotation marks to keep titles and names together.
1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
1785-2019
The Times (London) newspaper.
Print collections of theatre criticism
1749-1900
Printed menus, advertisements, cards, playbills, poems and other printed items never intended to last.
Part of America's Historical Imprints combined search portal
Combined search of all Gale archival collections, including newspapers and 18th and 19th century collections.
Allows simultaneous searching of British Library Newspapers (1780-1950), London Times (1785-1985), ECCO (1700-1800), NCCO (1800-1900), Sabin Americana (1500-1926) and other Gale primary source collections.
Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.