Subject Guide for Entertainment
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Local Arts and Entertainment
Chicagoland resource guide for the creative directory.
From the Highland Park Information Gateway, a listing of art, movies, music, theatre and literature groups.
Movies
Information on Oscar nominiees and winners, the history of the awards, voting, etc.
Comprehensive film and TV database featuring in-depth reveiws, biographies, episode listings, actor filmographies, and more.
Check local showtimes, watch interviews and trailers, and read reviews.
The Internet's largest database of movie reviews for over 80,000 titles, including current releases.
Browse or search 28,000 New York Times movie reviews.
Reviews, interviews, and essays from Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Radio
Television
Sponsored by the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Includes over 1000 original essays describing programs and people, historical moments, policy disputes, and special topics. Use the A-Z index.
Theatre
"A multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini."
Website of the League of Chicago Theaters that includes a schedule of Chicago theaters and information about HotTix discount tickets.
Weekly recommendations and reviews from the Chicago Reader's Theater critics.
A play licensing agency, at this site you can browse or search the catalog by cast size, title, author, keyword or ISBN, order scripts and apply for performance rights online, and find out where plays from the catalog are being performed.
A comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway dating from the 1700s to the present. This site includes all program information about each production as well as historical information about theaters and fun facts related to Broadway.
Index to plays in collections at the Morton Grove Public Library.
Press releases and information on plays in production throughout the country. Also includes feature stories on the theatre industry, as well as news and information about theatre awards.
Print Magazines
Ebooks
For additional E-Books check the Gale Virtual Reference Center or My Media Mall.
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