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Alexander Street Drama

Alexander Street Drama provides access to six separate databases of full-text plays and related ephemera, along with a reference tool, North American Theatre Online, providing in-depth metadata and references relating to this subject. Confusingly, however, North American Theatre Online is also the cross-search platform for the drama databases, causing this reviewer to wonder why the entire package is not called North American Theatre Online, or the reference tool is not called Alexander Street Drama. Whatever they call it, the database package is an ambitious attempt to, in their own words, “provide detailed reference information for every theatrical figure, every play, every theatre, every major production, and every production company, from Colonial times to the present, in both Canada and the United States.” The geographic coverage is actually broader than that, with representation in the database of significant people, plays, and theatres outside North America, due to their influence on this continent’s theatre history. The full-text play databases will certainly be useful to theatre scholars and performers, although the site’s right to provide access to the texts does not mean that they are freely available for performance, nor does it mean that Alexander Street Press is responsible for providing complete and accurate information about rights information, according to a disclaimer on their “Information about the North American Theatre Online” web page. In order of most to least available content, the fulltext play databases are: