Plays and Monologues: Government Publications

How a Nation Engages with Art: Highlights from the 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts
A report from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Library of Congress Performing Arts Databases and Catalogs
Find archival information (some also digitized) about the performing arts in the United States.  Some examples of online theater collections:

• Federal Theatre Project, 1935 to 1939
  Digitized scripts, posters, costume designs, and other photographs from the New Deal theater project in the 1930s, provided by the Library of Congress.
• Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
  Online copies of unpublished plays by the American playwright.

We’ve come back for a little look around : a play - GOVPUBS. I29.2:L87
A play written and performed by the National Park Service for the United States Bicentennial, featuring Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and other historical figures.

National Endowment for the Arts
"an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation"