Research Guides: Educational Theatre: Finding Journals and Articles

Important Journals

ARTSPRAXIS responds to the call for a rich dialogue between all those committed to the arts in educational and community contexts. The journal includes contributions from arts educators, therapists, arts agencies, arts administrators, funding bodies, arts scholars, and community artists from diverse settings. The journal emphasizes critical analysis of the arts in society.

Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (RiDE) is a refereed journal aimed at those with an interest in applying performance practices to cultural engagement, education and social change. The Journal provides an international forum for innovative research into drama and theatre conducted in community, education, developmental and therapeutic contexts. RiDE publishes original research that is urgent, timely or significant for the field and offers analysis and critique of the discipline.

A to Z list of NYU Libraries Databases

NYU Libraries Databases
Search the full list of databases offered by NYU Libraries or lists of databases by subject area or content type.

Important Databases

JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents.
Project Muse
Provides full-text access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

This database indexes about 1,700 arts and humanities journals. Dates of coverage: 1975 to present.
Adjust settings to expand your searching to include the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Science Citation Index, the Book Citation Index, and others.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Performing Arts Periodicals Database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 210 international journals in the performing arts dating from 1864 to the near present.
International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text
The International Index to Performing Arts Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and monographs in theatre and the performing arts and covers 1984 to present.
Theatre in Context Collection
O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage, the Oxford University Press Companion series, and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series are just a few of the many in-copyright sources included in the Theatre in Context Collection. Placed alongside thousands of playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera, users will be able to paint a more comprehensive picture of the life and evolution of dramatic works.
Intellect Discover
The Intellect Discover platform provides access to electronic journals and books published by Intellect. Intellect is an independent academic publisher focused on teaching and research in the arts, media and creative industries. Major subject areas of focus include: visual arts, performing arts, film and media studies, dance, music, and popular culture.
Education Source with ERIC
Education Source with ERIC provides access to research on all levels of education from early childhood to adult education. The content includes peer reviewed journal articles, ebooks, book reviews, dissertations, conference papers and policy reports on all topics in the realm of education.

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
choose Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection. Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Subjects covered are Adult and Continuing Education, Educational Administration and Policy, Elementary, Primary, High School and Secondary Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing, Multicultural Education and Diversity, Professional Development, Teaching and Instruction, Teaching Methods.