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• The Vaudeville News (1920-1929) (partial serial archives)
• The Best Plays, and The Year Book of the Drama in America (partial serial archives)

• Broadway Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Theatre Magazine (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Business of the Theatre (New York: Actors' Equity Association, 1932), by Alfred L. Bernheim, ed. by Alfred Harding, contrib. by Sara Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mimic World, and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects (1871), by Olive Logan (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arena (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, c1940), by Hallie Flanagan (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the American Theatre (3 volumes; Philadelphia: Globe Printing House, 1888-1891), by George Oberkirsh Seilhamer
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (Before the Revolution): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (During the Revolution and After): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (New Foundations): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Romance of the American Theatre (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913), by Mary Caroline Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Katie N. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)

• Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Katie N. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Paula Marie Seniors (PDF at Ohio State)

• George Washington Play and Pageant Costume Book (c1931), by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bloom (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Ludlam Lives! Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), by Sean F. Edgecomb (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Charles Ludlam Lives! Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), by Sean F. Edgecomb (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Minstrelsy (San Francisco Theatre Research v15, monograph 25; 1939), ed. by Lawrence Estavan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2007), by Marijean Levering (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Managers in Distress: The St. Louis Stage, 1840-1844 (St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation, 1949), by William G. B. Carson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Four Girls at Chautauqua, by Isabella Macdonald Alden (Gutenberg text)

• Billboard (partial serial archives)
• Theatre Arts (partial serial archives)
• The Green Book (American theater magazine) (partial serial archives)
• New York Clipper (1853-1924) (partial serial archives)
• Theatre Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin de la Société des Historiens du Théâtre (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Comoedia (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin de la Société des Historiens du Théâtre (in French) (partial serial archives)

• The General Magazine and Impartial Review (London, 1787-1792) (full serial archives)

• Almanacco dei Teatri di Torino (In Italian) (partial serial archives)