INFORMATION SHEET

NAME

Play Index

PRODUCER

H.W. Wilson

DESCRIPTION

Find citations to some 30,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present.

  • Search over 500 monologues for auditions or course assignments.
  • An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources.
  • Limit your results to plays with a specific number of male and/or female roles, or size of total cast.
  • Search for plays appropriate for preK-6, grades 7-12, and adult.
  • A descriptive annotation summarizes the plot and indicates any musical requirements: chorus, singing, dancing etc., and indicates number of sets, noting whether scenery requirements are interior or exterior.
  • Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
  • Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.

Links to Full Text Plays
Play Index on WilsonWeb includes links to the full text of plays available on the Web, plus other resources.

RESOURCE TYPE

Database with annotated citations.

COVERAGE

1949 - present

UPDATES

Regularly