Below are a selected few reference books about Theatre. Be sure to browse the reference shelves in the MT's for Musical Theatre and PN2000 to PN 3307 for Theatre to find more materials.
Broadway plays and musicals : descriptions and essential facts of more than 14,000 shows through 2007
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance by 
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd Ed. by Search 8,000 academic journals in all disciplines plus the New York Times and podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and others.
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Find articles on all aspects of music. Oxford Music Online includes Grove Online plus Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. See also Oxford Reference for relate works. Note: 3 simultaneous users
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