Search Library OneSearch for known titles (i.e., Annie Get Your Gun) or authors (i.e., Berlin, Irving). You can then limit the results to scores, sound recordings, video recordings (both physical and online!), or books.
When you search by Subject, you will often see a display of subheadings or related terms. Here are some common theater-related subject terms:
When you search by Subject, you will often see a display of subheadings or related terms. Here are some common theater-related subject terms:
- Drama
- American Drama
- One-act plays
- Monologues
- Acting
- Auditions
- Playwrighting
- Musicals
Interlibrary Loan
You may request materials we don't have and we'll borrow them from another library for you.
Newspapers
These sources are good for reviews, current events articles, and interviews.
Images
Academic research resources, also useful for finding reviews and interviews. IBTD also contains scripts! To browse what it has, do a subject search for "Scripts"
These sources are good for reviews, current events articles, and interviews.
Images
Academic research resources, also useful for finding reviews and interviews. IBTD also contains scripts! To browse what it has, do a subject search for "Scripts"
Theatre in Video - Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Met Opera on Demand
This collection includes video and/or audio streaming access to over 500 productions from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, including recent high-definition videos from the Met’s Live in HD series, telecasts from the 1970s-2000s, and radio broadcasts dating back to 1936.
Theatre Arts Databases at Kresge Library

This collection includes video and/or audio streaming access to over 500 productions from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, including recent high-definition videos from the Met’s Live in HD series, telecasts from the 1970s-2000s, and radio broadcasts dating back to 1936.
Theatre Arts Databases at Kresge Library

Katie Greer
Associate Professor
greer@oakland.edu
248.370.2480