Finding Plays

If you are searching for plays your local library is not generally a good place to start. Even tertiary institute libraries tend to have older works on their shelves. Searching the web is good but for specific searches you can try:

http://www.doollee.com/

They are attempting to amass a complete listing of every playwright and play, published or unpublished, in English since 1956. If you are a playwright (even unpublished) they would like to hear from you as well.

The Victorian Drama League has a large catalogue of playscripts conveniently searchable by type, length and the number of male and female roles:

http://www.theatrecraft.org.au/play_catalog/play_catalog.php