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Production Histories

Production Histories tell you which theatres have performed a particular play. Generally, if the resource is about the play, it will include information about the first production. If the resource is about the theatre, it will include a listing of its productions. Do not expect to find a resource which lists every production of a particular play.

Production Histories

Print Resources
Time Period	Resource & Information	Library & Call Number
Cl, M & Co	American theatre Identifies theatres in the US & their production history from 1930-1969	PN2266. B64 1996 drref
Cl & M	American theatre companies Identifies theatres in the US and their production history	PN2237. A43 1986 drref v.1 1749-1887 v.2 1888-1930
M & Co	American theatre companies Identifies theatres in the US and the plays they performed from 1931-1986	PN2237. A43 1989 v.3 1931-1986
M & Co	Dictionary of Literary Biography Series: Has criticism, biographical information, production history, photographs of productions, & bibliography of sources	PN41. D484 1978 drref
	Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers	v.38
	Afro-American writers before the Harlem Renaissance	v.50
	Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940	v.51
	British dramatists since World War II	v.13 p.1-2
	Elizabethan dramatists	v.62
	Jacobean and Caroline dramatists	v.58
	Modern British dramatists, 1900-1945	v.10 pt.1-2
	Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatists : first series	v.80
	Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatists. Second series	v.84
	Twentieth-century American dramatists	v.7 pt.1-2
M & Co	Dictionary of Literary Biography Series:Tennessee Williams Has criticism, production history, biographical information, photographs of productions, & bibliography of sources	PS129 .D48 1982 v.4 drref
M & Co	The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage 1920-1930	PN2277N5 L36 1985 vol. 1-2 drref
M & Co	The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage 1930-1940 Series still being updated	PN2277N5 L364 1989 vol. 1-2 drref
Cl	The London stage, 1660-1800; a calendar of playsentertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment. Compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period. Excellent source for production histories in London	PN2592 .L6 pt.1-5 drref
Cl	Index to The London stage, 1660-1800 Compliments the above books: excellent source for production histories in London	PN2592.L63 S3 drref
M & Co	The London stage: a calendar of plays and players Provides production histories by decade from 1890-1959; volumes cover from 1890-1899 to 1950-1959 Series is still being updated	PN2596.L6 W37 1976 drref
Cl, M & Co	McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama Includes criticism, photographs of productions, information on first production & list of plays written, original title, English translation of title, date wrote and first production date	PN1625 M3 1984 v.1-5 drref
Co	Nonprofit repertory theatre in North America, 1958-1975 : a bibliography and indexes to the Playbill collection of the Theatre Communications Group	PN2093 .K3 drref
Cl, M & Co	On Stage: Selected Theater Reviews from The New York Times 1920-1970	PN2277 N5 B4 drref
Cl, M & Co	Selected Theatre Criticism Series still being updated	PN2277 N5 S44 1985 drref vol. 1 1900-1919 vol. 2 1920-1930 vol. 3 1931-1950
Co	Theatre playbills Library has 1947-1976 Indexed in Kaminsky's Nonprofit repertory theatre in North America, see Micro PN2093.K3	MicNews Microfiche M-3544
Co	Theatre profiles Provides information on professional theatre companies in the US Published every two years since 1973	PN2266 .T48 drres & drstx
Co	Theatre World Includes Broadway and regional theatres Series is ongoing	792.058 T343 1944/45- drref

Legend for table

Cl: Classical plays written 5th Century BC to 1850s
M: Modern plays written from the 1870s to World War II
Co: Contemporary plays written since World War II

Shakespearean Productions in the UK

Touchstone is a project funded by the British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme (BLCPP) to identify and map significant UK Shakespeare collections. The Shakespeare Institute Library, in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Birmingham Central Library maintaine a database The Traffic of the Stage records information on Shakespeare productions 1996-2002 inclusive and provides information about upcoming productions. Scope includes

professional and amateur productions;
'straight' versions, ballets, operas, puppet versions, adaptations for children, apocrypha;
plays which include Shakespeare as a character; and
plays which use Shakespearean themes.
Plays with the slightest connection with Shakespeare warrant inclusion.

You can search for performance titles, adaptations of a particular play, theatre companies, theatre venues, and information on Director, Author/Adaptor, and Composer. It's easiest to search for the title of the play.

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