Finding Theatre Reviews

Research Databases

• Academic Search Complete
  Theater reviews are available here with a keyword search on play title, director or playwright, or with the subject search "theater reviews"
• Humanities International Complete
  "...provides citations and abstracts for books, book articles, dissertations, journal articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations "
• LexisNexis Academic
  Select the "Arts & Sports News" category for Step One, for Step Two choose Book, Movie, Music, and Play Reviews, then for Step Three type in your search terms, and don't forget to select an appropriate date range for Step Four
• MLA International Bibliography
  Try keyword searches for the play title, director or playwright, or "theat$ and review$"
• New York Times Historical
  Can search for reviews, but only receive the first paragraph. The New York Times is available in Jerome Library since 1851 and full text in LexisNexis Academic Universe since June 1, 1980.

Reference

• A Guide to Critical Reviews
  James M. Salem
  ref PN 2266.S25
  popref PN 2266.S25
• The New York Times Theater Reviews 1870 - present
  Ref PN 2266.N48
• Plays in Review, 1956-1980
  edited by Gareth and Barbara Lloyd Evans
  PR 737.P58 1985
  Ref PN 2266.N48

Periodicals

• New York Theatre Critics Reviews 1940-1994
  Main Periodicals
• National Theatre Critic's Reviews 1995-1996
  Main Periodicals
• Children's Theatre Review
  Main Periodicals
  v. 31.1, v. 31.3-4 (1982)
  v. 32-33 (1983-1984)
  v. 34-35 (1985-1986, incomplete)

Main Library 1st Floor

• No Turn Unstoned: The Worst Ever Theatrical Reviews
  compiled by Diane Rigg
  PN 1707.N58 1983
• On Stage: Selected Theater Reviews from the New York Times, 1920-1970
  Edited and introduced by Bernarn Beckerman and Howard Siegman
  PN 2277.N5 B4
• On Innovative Performances(s): Three Decades of Recollections on Alternative Theatre
  Richard Kostelanetz
  PN 2193.E86 K67 1994
• Canada on Stage (1977)
  PN 2300.C36
  Northwest Ohio Regional Book Depository
  1975-76, 1980-81
  PN 2300.C36

Music Library

• The Blackwell Guide to the Musical Theatre on Record
  Kurt Ganzi
  ML 156.9G36 1990

Northwest Ohio Regional Book Depository

• Theatre World Annual (London)
  792.09421 T374
• The Contemporary Theatre, 1923-1944-45
  James Agate
  792.0942 A26c
• Reference Guide to Reviews: A Checklist of Sources in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Fine Arts
  Jennifer Forbes
  O28.1 G17r2
• Critical Standards and Assumptions in New York Daily Newspapers/Theatre Reviews 1955-1956
  film 792.O97471 F86c
• Lies Like Truth: Theatre Reviews and Essays
  792.O9C64L
• Theatre Review
  792.9 T375
• NewsBank: Review of the Arts
  1979-1997
  Main Microforms

Web Sites

• Theatre Reviews Limited
  http://www.theatrereviews.com/
  Reviews of some of the shows currently running in Manhattan, New Jersey, and elsewhere in the United States. Also find listings of shows on tour.
  
• Theatre Reviews in the North West of England
  http://www.theatre-reviews.co.uk/
• Theatre and Opera Reviews
  http://research.haifa.ac.il/~theatre/reviews.html
  From the University of Haifa's Theatre Department - covers Theatre in Isarel and World Theatre
  
• Finding Theater Reviews in Magazines and Newspapers
  http://www.princeton.edu/~abwright/theater/reviews.html