You may need to find newspaper and magazine articles that reference specific performances or productions. Searching newspapers in OneSearch requires you to go to the Newspaper search function. You can start here.
Search for newspaper articles across many of our newspaper databases using the OneSearch Newspaper Search.
You may also want to search Global Newsstream for contemporary newspaper coverage from hundreds of newspapers around the world.
We have many databases that include historical newspaper coverage. These databases might be useful to search to find coverage of past productions.
Search more than 1,000 historical newspapers published in the US across three centuries, from all 50 states, chronicling the evolution of American culture and society through eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries, and much more. There is an option to limit your search to early California newspapers only.
Full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times dating back to the first issue in 1851.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Includes full-page scans of newspapers.
Search for news, business, sports, historical events and cultural events from London, 1785-2009, in one of the most highly regarded resources for the 19th – 20th Century history.
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.