Library Research Guides: THEATRE: Find Reviews

Find Articles

Full-Text Reviews

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
1975 - present
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
1985 - present
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Use this database to find articles and reviews in selected scholarly journals written prior to about the last 5 years.

New York Theater Critic's Reviews 1944-1996 (print)
Clapp Reference f PN1601 .N4
Reprints of reviews from New York reviewers.

Reviews in Newspapers

Citations & Abstracts of Reviews

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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
1963 - present
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Find articles and reviews published in US & Canadian popular magazines, including The New Yorker or The Saturday Evening Post, from 1890-1982
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) This link opens in a new window
1665-1995

Finding Theatrical Reviews

Theatrical reviews can be published in newspapers, popular magazines (like The New Yorker), trade magazines (like Variety), or sometimes in scholarly journals (like Theatre Journal or Modern Drama).

For reviews published in scholarly journals, try the databases listed under Find Articles on this page.

Key Websites

Aisle Say: the Internet magazine of stage reviews and opinion
Reviews of U.S. theater productions.
Variety.com Film Reviews

Find Reviews in Books

tip: in the library catalog, do a subject search for your author, then click on "[author] -- criticism & interpretation"
if it's not in our catalog, search WorldCat and request a copy

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