Books
A Guide to Theatre in America. Lawrence S. Epstein, ed. (1985). Call no.: R 792.097 Gui.
American Costume, 1915-1970. Shirley O'Donnel. (1982). Call no.: REF 792.026 Odo.
Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. Don B. Wilmeth and Tice L. Miller, eds. (1993). Call no.: REF 792.0973 Cambridge.
Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Martin Banham. (1997). Call no.: REF 792.03 Cambridge.
Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage. William C. Young. (1975). Call no: Ref 792.092 Young.
Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Gerald Bordman (1984). Call no.: REF 792.0973.
Stage Makeup. Richad Corson. (1975). Call no.: R 792.027 Corson.
Theatre Profiles: The Illustrated Reference Guide to America's Nonprofit Professional Theatres. Laura Ross, ed.(1984). Call no.: REF 792 The.
Twentieth Century Theatre: Premiers, Personalities and Events in the Theatre. Glen Loney. (1983). Call no.:
REF 792.09 Lon.
Theatre Backstage from A to Z. Warren C. Lounsbury and Norman Boulanger. (1967). Call no.: R 792.025 Lou.
Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays. Bernard Sobel. (1940). Call no.: REF 792.03 So.
Who's Who in The Theatre. John Parker (1972). REF 792.092 Who's.
Directories
Directory of Blacks in the Performing Arts. Edward Mapp. (1978). Call no.: R 792.0295 MAPP.
Directory of Theatre Training Programs, II. Jill Charles, ed. (1989). Call no.: R 792.071 Cha.
Dictionaries
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Phyllis Hartnoll and Peter Found, eds. (1992).
Call no.: REF 792.03 Concise.
Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Selected Harlem Theatre. (1983). Allen Woll. Call no.: REF 792 Wol.
Encyclopedias
The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre (1900-1975). Edwin J. Bronner. (1996). Call no.: REF 792.0973.
The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Anthony Slide. (1994). Call no.: REF 792.70973 Slide.
Websites
Genre: Vaudeville
Vaudeville: A Dazzling Display http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/easton/vaudeville/vaudevillemain.html
This site chronicles the history of vaudeville and includes film clips of silent shorts, a selection of audio songs, sketches and recitations as well as a list of sources and links.
The Keith/Albee Collection: The Vaudeville Industry, 1894-1935.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/msc/tomsc400/msc356/msc356.html
Scholar Explores Vaudeville Circuits & Regional Architecture
http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/09/02/scholar-explores-vaudeville-circuits-and-regional-architecture/.
Genre: Comedy
"If You Just Change I Won't Have to Kill You: Comedy as a Force of Social Change."
"This is Generally Followed by a Blackout": Power, Resistance and Carnivalesque in Television Sketch Comedy." M.A. thesis.
Women and Comedy
Performing Marginality: Comedy, Identity and Cultural Critique
http://www.asu.edu/courses/fms490bh/total-readings/L-4-Performing%20Marginality.pdf
"Brought to You by Fem-Rage: Stand-up Comedy and the Politics of Gender"
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~auslander/publications/femrage.pdf
Genre: Chicano Theatre
Luis Valdez
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/valdez.html
Four Contemporary Mexican and Chicano Plays - An Analysis
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/5/83.05.06.x.html#d
Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit: A New Direction for Chicano Theatre?
https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/latr/article/viewFile/414/389
Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Post-War to the Present
https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/latr/article/viewFile/937/912
Genre: Opera
Verisimilitude in Early Venetian Opera
http://www.library.yale.edu/~rcastong/projects/monteverdi.htm
Before and After: Ottavio Rinuccini's Mascherate and Their Relationship to the Operatic Libretto.
http://sscm-jscm.press.illinois.edu/v9/no1/chiarelli.html
List of Major Opera Composers
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/ajb/tmve/viki100k/docs/List_of_major_opera_composers.html
Propagating a National Genre: German Writers on German Opera 1798-1830
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Burke%20Kevin%2020R.pdf?ucin1277145931
Making America Operatic: Six Composers' Attempts at an American Opera, 1910-1918.
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/24066/Ziegel_Aaron.pdf
Opera Comique
Carmen: The Librettists
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/NYCO/carmen/librettists.html
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