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Josef Weinberger Plays
Piece Of Cake, A
Lucy Bennett
Josef Weinberger Plays
Oberon Plays
Dramatic Critic: Selected Reviews (1922-1939)
Charles Morgan Crompton
Oberon Plays
Methuen Drama
Longing
William Boyd
Methuen Drama
Faber Plays
Victorian In The Wall, The
Will Adamsdale
Faber & Faber
Fairplay Press
Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun
John McGrath
Fairplay Press
Samuel French Plays
Saving It For Albie
Richard Harris
Samuel French London
NHB Books
Speaking the Speech
Giles Block
Nick Hern Books
Samuel French NY
Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie
Alan Alda
Samuel French NY
Currency Press
Out Of Place
Voices Project 2013
Currency Press
Talonbooks
Tombs of the Vanishing Indians
Marie H Clements
Talonbooks
AusStage - a wonderful resource for Australian Theatre
Established in 1966
Colin Smythe Ltd
is a major publisher of Irish writing and plays.
The largest specialist
Drama Lending Library
in the World.
members worldwide welcome
Theatre Record
Established in 1981
Theatre Record
has probably the most influential readership in the UK.
stageplays

Stageplays.com - the largest collection of Plays & Musicals in the World
Birmingham School of Acting
BA (Hons) Acting - vocational training preparing for entry into the profession
Association of Performing Arts Collections is the Subject Specialist Network of performing arts collections in the UK and Ireland.
Baker's Plays
Stage Fright (aka "Laugh? I thought I'd DIE!")
Todd McGinnis
Baker's Plays
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Aurora Metro, London
Jungle Book, The
Neil Duffield
Aurora Metro Books








Apart from very popular and world touring productions, many performing arts events are largely forgotten about in a matter of months. Traces may remain in various collections, but few collecting agencies, such as libraries, catalogue each flyer or program individually. Hence, unless one knows that an event took place at a certain time in a certain place, tracking down such an event as part of a research project is often a matter of chance. Where research needs to be carried out on high profile and well-documented productions only, this is not a problem. However, both the historian and the analyst will attest that the cultural, political, or sociological context in which a performing arts event takes place is also of major importance, as are the other events that took place in close proximity, either in place or time. A good overview of such productions provides us with a 'social document' that can greatly enhance cultural studies in ways that extend far beyond the narrow confines of theatre history. For instance, data such as this can be used to monitor the health of communities, particularly when used in association with data obtained from other social science disciplines. When one researches a particular playwright one might want to know about all the productions of plays by that author; if one wants to investigate what choices a particular audience had over a period of history and compare this to, say, an ethnic breakdown of the population, one would need to know broadly all the events that took place during that time. If one wanted to do a statistical analysis on the shift in popularity of a genre over one or more generations, it is important to have knowledge of most of the relevant major and minor performance events that took place. In this context, issues of aesthetic quality and the professionalism of a production - which will of course have an impact on such studies - are not the determining factors when deciding to include or exclude events, since all events are the raw material for such research.