Theater
Here are entered works on drama as acted on the stage. Works on facilities used to stage drama are entered under Theaters. Works on drama as a literary form are entered under Drama.
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Broader term:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Theater -- Anecdotes
- Theater -- Asia
- Theater -- Austria
- Theater -- Bibliography
- Theater -- Biography
- Theater -- California
- Theater -- Canada
- Theater -- Casting
- Theater -- China
- Theater -- Czech Republic
- Theater -- Dictionaries
- Theater -- Early works to 1800
- Theater -- England
- Theater -- English-speaking countries
- Theater -- Europe
- Theater -- Exhibitions
- Theater -- Fiction
- Theater -- France
- Theater -- Germany
- Theater -- Great Britain
- Theater -- Greece
- Theater -- History
- Theater -- Humor
- Theater -- India
- Theater -- Indonesia
- Theater -- Ireland
- Theater -- Italy
- Theater -- Jamaica
- Theater -- Japan
- Theater -- Mexico
- Theater -- Michigan
- Theater -- Missouri
- Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Theater -- New York (State)
- Theater -- New Zealand
- Theater -- Ontario
- Theater -- Periodicals
- Theater -- Poetry
- Theater -- Political aspects
- Theater -- Production and direction
- Theater -- Psychological aspects
- Theater -- Religious aspects
- Theater -- Research
- Theater -- Reviews
- Theater -- Rome
- Theater -- Russia
- Theater -- Scotland
- Theater -- Soviet Union
- Theater -- Switzerland
- Theater -- Turkey
- Theater -- United States
- Amateur theater
- Arena theater
- Authors and theater
- Black people in the theater
- Chautauquas
- Children's plays
- Community theater
- Computers in the theater
- Costume
- Experimental theater
- Feminism and theater
- Feminist theater
- Gay theater
- Gender identity in the theater
- Homosexuality and theater
- Homosexuality in the theater
- Masques
- Melodrama
- Minorities in the theater
- Moralities
- Motion pictures and theater
- Musical theater
- Mysteries and miracle-plays
- Passion-plays
- Promptbooks
- Puppet theater
- Race in the theater
- Sex in the theater
- Socialism and theater
- Theater -- New York (State) -- New York
- Theater and society
- Theater in art
- Theater in literature
- Traveling theater
- War and theater
- Women in the theater
- Dramatics
- Histrionics
- Professional theater
- Stage
- Theatre
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Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)- The Drama, by Henry Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Popular Theatre (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by George Jean Nathan
- The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1910), by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (Gutenberg text)
- A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Children's Educational Theatre (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901), by Alice Minnie Herts Heniger (page images at Google; US access only)
- How's Your Second Act? (New York: P. Goodman Co., 1918), by Arthur Hopkins, contrib. by George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Merry-Go-Round (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- Through the Fourth Wall (New York: Brentano's; London: Chapman and Hall, 1922), by W. A. Darlington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Over the Footlights (and other fancies; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Quizziology of the British Drama (London: Pub. at the Punch Office, 1846), by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
- Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #19; Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1975), ed. by J. I. Crump and William P. Malm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- A Complete History of the English Stage (5 volumes; London: Printed for the author, ca. 1800), by Charles Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court: A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes Mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. (Oxford: Printed for the Walpole and Malone Societies at the University Press, 1924), by Inigo Jones, ed. by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Back to Lilac Land: A Theatrical Novel (London: Greening and Co, 1902), by C. Ranger Gull (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Painted Scene, and Other Stories of the Theater (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1916), by Henry Kitchell Webster, illust. by Arthur William Brown and Herman Pfeifer (page images at Google; US access only)
- The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way" (1908), by Kenneth McGaffey (Gutenberg text)
- Broadway Interlude (New York: Payson and Clarke, 1929), by Achmed Abdullah and Faith Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Old Adam: A Story of Adventure (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1913), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
- The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
- Weltkrieg und Schaubühne (Deutsche Erneuerung bd. 1, in German; Munich: J. F. Lehmann, 1916), by Artur Dinter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)
- From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
- Das Theater von Priene, als Einzelanlage und in Seiner Bedeutung für das Hellenistische Bühnenwesen (in German; Munich et al.: F. Schmidt, 1921), by Armin von Gerkan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Griechischen Sakralaltertümer; und Das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer (in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1890), by Paul Stengel and Frank Oehmichen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
- Over the Footlights (and other fancies; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust)
- Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Kathryn Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
- Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1913), by Lady Gregory (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Revels in Jamaica, 1682-1838: Plays and Players of a Century, Tumblers and Conjurors, Musical Refugees and Solitary Showmen, Dinners, Balls and Cockfights, Darky Mummers and Other Memories of High Times and Merry Hearts (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1937), by Richardson Little Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin it is Shewed, That They Are as it Were Accessories and Dependants (or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome: Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe With Them (1581) (Gutenberg text)
- Plays and Puritans, and Other Historical Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg texts)
- Billboard (partial serial archives)
- Theatre Arts (partial serial archives)
- Variety (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)
- The Rubaiyat of an Actor, and Other Stage Rhymes (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1916), by Hugh E. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (Melbourne: Re.press, 2016), by Hélène Cixous, ed. by Lara Stevens (PDF with commenrary at re-press.org)
- Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Directing Beckett (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), ed. by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
- Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Stage Costuming (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Agnes Brooks Young (page images at HathiTrust)
More items available under narrower terms.