Offering complete articles with just a few keystrokes, the Performing Arts Periodicals Database is a powerful information resource on the Web.

Combining the power of access, this database delivers complete information from popular and scholarly performing arts journals.

Performing Arts Periodicals Database indexes around 400 scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers covering theater, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling, and more. It draws from both current files and selected backfiles to 1864 and 134 publications are included in full text.

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