Library: Theater at Webster University Library: Play Scripts

Sources for purchasing playscripts

Please contact a librarian using the contact information in the left column to suggest script purchases for the library.

Dramatist Play Service
Acting editions of plays by both established writers and new playwrights of exceptional promise.
Concord Theatricals
Acting editions of many plays plus performance licensing.
Playscripts, Inc.
publishes an eclectic assortment of plays perfect for colleges and universities of all sizes. You will find a variety of short and full-length plays, musicals and monologue collections.
Drama Book Shop

Finding scripts in databases

Play Index (EBSCO)
An index to more than 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present. No full text scripts, but a good resource for finding them in other places.

Script collection

This collection of playscripts in located on level 4 in the library. Boxes labeled with the call number PN1653 SCRIPT organize playscripts alphabetically by author.

Remember that plays can also be published in book form as a single work or in collections/anthologies and shelved elsewhere in the library. Be sure to search the library catalog for your play.