LibGuides: Performing Arts: Musical Theatre

Musical Theatre

Image by Marco Massimo from Pixabay

Databases

Guide to Music Theatre
Welcome to the wonderful world of musical theatre. This guide has been designed for those who enjoy musicals, especially for those who participate in productions of Broadway, West End and shows written with the amateur in mind.
Musical Heaven : a guide to music theatre past and present
Welcome to the brand new Musical Heaven.com – the online resource for musicals of past and present. Find you favourite show from the side navigation and post a comment about a production of it you have seen.
Add videos of your Amateur production and help build our information database of West End Broadway musicals with any facts or comments you might have.
Musicals101 : John Kenrick
Musicals101.com features separate histories for musical theatre, film, television and cabaret, with a bibliography and a collection of dates and figures called "The Musicals Index."
Playbill
Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of Playbill are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's program.
Music Theatre New Zealand
MTNZ are on a mission to connect communities all over New Zealand through the magic of musical theatre and want you to join us. MTNZ invites you to be a part of an organisation dedicated to quality, live theatre in New Zealand’s communities.
Operetta Research Center
The (Stichting) Operetta Research Center Amsterdam is an initiative and developed out of the work of musicologist Dr Kevin Clarke and a circle of international musical theater researchers devoted to the history of the genre.
Music Theatre International
At MTI, it’s about enabling as many theatres to perform as many shows as possible – to have the shared experience that is musical theatre.
National Database of Performance Pantomime (UK)
The National Database of Pantomime Performance lists every professional pantomime in the UK. Users are able to search using a number of fields including performer name, production title, company, venue and location. The database holds production, press and rehearsal images and in doing so helps archive, track and trace the evolution of the genre each season.
@simonsladen
Simon is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading experts on British Pantomime. He is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Chairman of the Society for Theatre Research and Pantomime Editor for the British Theatre Guide.
Performer Stuff
Performerstuff.com is the ultimate resource website for performers, providing content specifically tailored for actors, musicians, and dancers.
New Zealand Music Theatre Company
New Zealand Music Theatre Company is dedicated to producing Cabaret and Music Theatre projects that are facilitated and performed by local-born, professional artists.
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UK)
Established in 1924, the Gilbert & Sullivan Society aims to encourage appreciation of the works of the famous duo. We have a Specialised Society Library housed at The Barbican.

Online Streaming

Audio Visual

Digital Theatre Plus
Provides access to high quality films of leading British theatre productions as well as behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews.
eTV
Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register.
Kanopy
A streaming service that provides access to video content sourced from leading suppliers.
Alexander Street
Alexander Street are curated, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.

Social Media

Accounts

Spotify Instagram

Best of Broadway Musical Theatre Dunedin (NZ) London Theatre

Hits from Musicals Musical Theatre New Zealand

G reatest Collection of Musical Theatre NZ Music Theatre Company

Facebook Twitter

Taieri Musical (NZ) Musical Theatre News Musicals with Cheese

Westend Theatre Wicked the Musical

East Otago Musical Theatre Inc. Simon Sladen

TikTok YouTube

Kristen Chenoweth Playbill Video

Julius Thomas Musicals: The Hits of Broadway

Music Theater Phantom of the Opera

Related Subject Guides

Other Sources:

Music Subject Guide

T heatre Studies

Musical Theatre Search Terms

Wicked Musical

Music Databases

More Databases

Drama Online: National Theatre Collection (Bloomsbury)
This award-winning digital library has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers.
IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library
A digital library of public domain music scores. Free sheet music, scores from composers who share their work, Includes forums for discussion about musical works and analysis.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
A comprehensive guide to publications on traditional, popular, and classical music from all over the world. Publications are in multiple languages and cover from 1967 to the present.
The Opera Database
A database of operas and aria PDFs, as well as a list of operatic resources.
Internet Broadway Database
IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
British Theatre Guide
British theatre news, theatre reviews, podcast, features on UK theatre, interviews, theatre tickets for around the UK including West End shows.
Official London Theatre
Society Of London Theatre, or ‘SOLT’ as it’s known in the industry, is a not-for-profit making organisation representing theatres and producers and has been championing theatres since 1908 with a team dedicated to making theatre as welcoming as possible for everyone.

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.