LibGuides: Theatre Junior Seminar: Reviews and News

Historical

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Full text archive of 50 entertainment industry publications, from late 19th century to 2000. Includes Billboard, Variety, Back Stage, The Stage. Includes ability to search advertisements, correspondence, as well as traditional articles, as the magazines have been scanned cover to cover.

Advanced tip: to limit to publications cataloged containing theatre content, add jsu.Exact("Theater") to your search as in jsu.Exact("Theater") AND "social class"

Gale Primary Sources
Search across several different primary resource databases at once. Includes many news sources; 18th and 19th century archival resources

ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text of historical newspapers, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe. Also includes historical black newspapers including the Chicago Defender, the Los Angeles Sentinel, the New York Amsterdam News, and the Pittsburgh Courier. Coverage varies but generally starts in the 1800s. Issues include the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.

For reviews: go to Advanced Search, in the Document Type box, check the box for Review

British Periodicals I and II (1680s - 1930s) This link opens in a new window
"Searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals ... Collection II consists of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles, amounting to almost 3 million pages. Topics covered include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture"

For reviews: go to Advanced Search, in the Document Type box, check the box for Review

For specific locations: go to Advanced Search, in the Place of Publication choose checkbox for your location

Current

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database contains the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.

Gale OneFile News
This resource is a full-text searchable database that provides access to more than 3000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, magazines and newsletters as well as leading titles from around the world. Articles and stories can be searched by section, title, headline, author, publication location and persons of interest.

For reviews: go to Advanced Search, in the Document Type box, type in review and select the box(es) for the type of review you are interested in. This database provides more specific categories than other databases - such as 'theater review', 'circus review' and "radio program review"

New York Times

The Reed College Library offers all Reed students, faculty, and staff free online access to the New York Times. To activate your access, you need to create an account using your Reed email address. See activation instructions.