“DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from
the French”
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
General:
Stage Directions Magazine List of Conferences
Ten Dramaturgy Schools - a nice listing from TCG
Specialized Dramaturgy Pages and Organizations:
American Theatre Critics Association
Dramaturgy Pages of Jon Blackstock
Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Source Book
International Association of Theatre Critics
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
Play & Credit Lists
Find-a-Play - A Great search engine that allows you to quickly find the publisher of any particular play you might be searching for. A top site!
The Internet Broadway Database - Patterned after the wildly successful Internet Movie Database, this site offers an extensive database of Broadway credits, shows, and dates
Internet Off-Broadway Database
The Internet Off-Broadway Archive and Database - The Lortel Archives. Another great resource
Musical Showlist - Hundreds of musicals profiled
Doollee: “a database of Playwrights and Plays produced / published in English since 1956. ... Doollee aims to list every play written and produced in English since John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. “
Plays and Musicals - Searchable database of plays and musicals covering many publishers.
Online Texts of Plays
Theatre & Play Related Artwork
Footlights Gallery - Includes an extensive collection of theatre poster images. Well organized
Triton Gallery - Another great poster site
Theatres on Postcards - An incredible visual database of theatre building images around the wordl
Timelines and Chronologies
Timelines and Chronologies, General or Theatre Related
Tera Media Year by Year - Covers 1200 - 2000
20th Century Theatre Timeline - from the PBS program, Changing Stages
Timelines Related to Specific
Topics
Advertising Age Timeline - Includes lots of newspaper publishing info
Art movements in the 20th Century
Cigarettes: Marlboro Timelines
Computers and Interactive Media Timeline
Computing History Timeline - PDF Format
Food Timeline - Extensive and useful
Horror Timeline: pre 20th Century
Law - Constitutional Law Timeline
Media and Cultural History - Chronomedia British-based
Mental Health History Timeline - British-based
Television Chronology (US) - Mostly deals with the development of the technology and industry
Television History, the first 75 years - Astonishing! Extensive collection of materials from timelines to pictures of thousands of models of TV sets.
Television Year by Year - Change the year in the page address to get to more. Lists popular TV shows of the year.
Toilet, Public - Actually an extensive resource covering sanitation and health practices through a variety of time periods.
Timelines of Eras & Dynasties
Decade by Decade from the year 1000 on
Another Great Master Site!
1890s
1920s - Extensive set of resources. Great site!
1920s-30s - not a timeline per-se but a great narration
1920s-30s Slang Dictionary (PDF) Wonderful!
1930s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1940s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe Incredible site, lots of illustrations
1950s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1960s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1970s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1980s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
America - Colonial American Timeline
Tudor Chronology - Nice if you can put up with the music!
Victorian Timeline - Short and sweet
King Arthur Timeline - Nice
Timelines of Places & Ethnic Heritage
Yugoslavia From World War I to the 2000 election
Timelines of Political Movements & Events
Slavery and Religion in America: A Timeline
Suffragist Movement in America
Timelines of Wars and Conflicts
Comprehensive Military and War Timeline
Holocaust Timeline - Destruction of European Jewry Explanatory Timeline
World War Two in Europe Timeline
Timelines of Religion and Religious Holidays
Timelines of Architecture
Dictionaries and other Such Tools
One Look Dictionaries - Well over 100 Dictionary Links
HyperDictionary - Really great at finding useful information
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Literary Terms - A collection of dictionaries
Playground Slang - Fun resource!
Pronunciation Dictionary from Info Please
Websters 3rd International Dictionary - - Includes date of first usage
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Dictionaries of Symbolism
Animals
Animal Symbolism in Celtic Mythology
Color Symbolism - Pigments Through the Ages
Flowers and Trees - EXTENSIVE - navigate from the menu at the bottom of the page.
Reviews & Print Criticism Resources
NY Post Reviews - Includes current reviews and some from previous years
NY Times Theatre Reviews - Pretty extensive selection from the present and the past.
Iowa State University online concordances - 10 plays are listed
Copyright Research
ACE - ASCAP Database - Wonderful!
US Catalog of Copyright Entries and Renewals - Very useful for the years that have been entered!
The Public Domain Report, an amazing service
Public Domain Dates - Chart of when works become available
History of “Isms” and Art Movement
Picture & Moving Picture Sources:
Theatre Ephemera - Outstanding collection of theatre photographs from the 19th century. People and theatres are depicted. Well organized collection.
A-1 Video Documentary Collection - This outfit, at a very reasonable price (!) offers scores of collections of newsreels, TV documentaries etc. A great research source
A-1 Video Vaudeville Collection - Hundreds of acts available on a series of seven videotapes
Other
Useful Resources:
k.i.s.s. (Keep It Simple Stupid) of the panopticon - Offers many
resources devoted to “cultural theory”
MediaRights.org - Site includes a wonderful searchable database of documentary films
Find A Grave - Browse by Claim To Fame Actors
The director is simply the audience. . . .
His job is to preside over accidents. Orson Welles
General Resources & Master Sites
Yahoo Links on Individual Directors - Includes links to a plethora of rank
and file stage directors, and well-known film directors. For links to major
theatre directors, refer to the listing later in this page.
Cineparlance - OK! For people really looking for FILM director information, this is the place to go. The site includes interviews with scores of film directors.
Organizations
Directors Guild of America (film)
Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers
The Non-Traditional Casting Project (NTCP)
Directing Techniques and Resources
Bebra Bruch’s decription of the duties and process of directors/directing
Oregon State University Manual for Students Directing Lab Productions - A great resource for university programs looking to produce such operations manuals of their own
Resources on Specific Directors
Berkoff, Steven
Boal, Augusto
Short Discussion of Boal’s Work
Brook, Peter
Encarta Encyclopedia Article on Peter Brook
Peter Brook, Film/video credits
Encyclopedia.com article on Brook, Peter
Peter Brook and Traditional Thought by Basarab Nicolescu
Threads of Time by Peter Brook
Interview from Canada - Peter Brook remembers his youth
Notes From a Lecture by Peter Brook - Very nice transcription
Bulgakov
Craig, Gordon
Jerzy Grotowski
Lengthy scholarly biography of Grotowski
Grotowski Resources on the Web - Includes lots of additional link
Hall, Sir Peter
Kazan
Article on Kazan’s 1999 Academy Award
Lepage, Robert
From The Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre
Logan, Joshua
Joshua Logan Collection at the Library of Congress. Includes a nice chronology
Meyerhold
Meyerhold Timeline - Extensive!
Trevor Nunn
Article from The New Statesman
Anatoli Smeliansky
Notes on a lecture by Anatoli Smeliansky
Spolin, Viola
Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky - PDF file
Moscow Art Theatre Home Page - In Russian
Theatre Arts Magazine article on the MAT from 1917 - Great reading!
Moscow Art Theatre Official Site - In Russian
Suzuki
Frank Theatre - Australian company working in the Suzuki Idiom
Theatre Listservs & Discussion Forums
Actor Discussion Group
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Arts Management Group
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Stagecraft and other lists relating to technical
theatre.
At this webpage you can subscribe to the Stagecraft list while learning about a
host of other lists relating to theatre design and technology. Great resource,
check it out! Thank you Noah Price.
London Theatre Listings
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Dramaturgy Resources for the Theatre
“DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from
the French”
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Cross References:
Other Theatre categories of special importance to the dramaturg (some specific
page listings follow)
Acting & Performance Resources
Book Sources from stores to script libraries & agents. Full texts online too!
Design, Visual Research sources
Journals, Magazines, & Publications
General:
Stage Directions Magazine List of Conferences
Ten Dramaturgy Schools - a nice listing from TCG
Specialized Dramaturgy Pages and Organizations:
American Theatre Critics Association
Dramaturgy Pages of Jon Blackstock
Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Source Book
International Association of Theatre Critics
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
Play & Credit Lists
Find-a-Play - A Great search engine that allows you to quickly find the publisher of any particular play you might be searching for. A top site!
The Internet Broadway Database - Patterned after the wildly successful Internet Movie Database, this site offers an extensive database of Broadway credits, shows, and dates
Internet Off-Broadway Database
The Internet Off-Broadway Archive and Database - The Lortel Archives. Another great resource
Musical Showlist - Hundreds of musicals profiled
Doollee: “a database of Playwrights and Plays produced / published in English since 1956. ... Doollee aims to list every play written and produced in English since John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. “
Plays and Musicals - Searchable database of plays and musicals covering many publishers.
Theatre & Play Related Artwork
ootlights Gallery - Includes an extensive collection of theatre poster images. Well organized.
Triton Gallery - Another great poster site
Theatres on Postcards - An incredible visual database of theatre building images around the world
Timelines and Chronologies
Timelines and Chronologies, General or Theatre Related
Tera Media Year by Year - Covers 1200 - 2000
History of Props and First Usage of Materials
Theatre Season Planner - Major milestones for the next few years
20th Century Theatre Timeline - from the PBS program, Changing Stages
Timelines Related to Specific
Topics
Advertising Age Timeline - Includes lots of newspaper publishing info
Art movements in the 20th Century
Cigarettes: Marlboro Timelines
Computers and Interactive Media Timeline
Computing History Timeline - PDF Format
Food Timeline - Extensive and useful
Horror Timeline: pre 20th Century
Law - Constitutional Law Timeline
Media and Cultural History - Chronomedia British-based
Mental Health History Timeline - British-based
Television Chronology (US) - Mostly deals with the development of the technology and industry
Television History, the first 75 years - Astonishing! Extensive collection of materials from timelines to pictures of thousands of models of TV sets.
Television Year by Year - Change the year in the page address to get to more. Lists popular TV shows of the year.
Toilet, Public - Actually an extensive resource covering sanitation and health practices through a variety of time periods.
Timelines of Eras & Dynasties
Master Site - Decade by Decade from the year 1000 on
1920s - Extensive set of resources. Great site!
1920s-30s - not a timeline per-se but a great narration
1920s-30s Slang Dictionary (PDF) Wonderful!
1930s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1940s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe Incredible site, lots of illustrations
1950s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Caf
1960s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1970s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1980s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
America - Colonial American Timeline
Tudor Chronology - Nice if you can put up with the music!
Victorian Timeline - Short and sweet
King Arthur Timeline - Nice
Timelines of Places &
Ethnic Heritage
Antarctic Timeline
Yugoslavia From World War I to the 2000 election
Timelines of Political Movements & Events
Slavery and Religion in America: A Timeline
Suffragist Movement in America
Timelines of Wars and Conflicts
Comprehensive Military and War Timeline
Holocaust Timeline - Destruction of European Jewry Explanatory Timeline
World War Two in Europe Timeline
Timelines of Religion and Religious Holidays
Timelines of Architecture
Dictionaries and other Such Tools
One Look Dictionaries - Well over 100 Dictionary Links
HyperDictionary - Really great at finding useful information
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Literary Terms - A collection of dictionaries
Playground Slang - Fun resource!
Pronunciation Dictionary from Info Please
Websters 3rd International Dictionary - - Includes date of first usage
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Dictionaries of Symbolism
Animal Symbolism in Celtic Mythology
Color Symbolism - Pigments Through the Ages
Flowers and Trees - EXTENSIVE - navigate from the menu at the bottom of the page.
Reviews & Print Criticism Resources
NY Post Reviews - Includes current reviews and some from previous years
NY Times Theatre Reviews- Pretty extensive selection from the present and the past.
Iowa State University online concordances - 10 plays are listed
Copyright Research
ACE - ASCAP Database - Wonderful!
US Catalog of Copyright Entries and Renewals - Very useful for the years that have been entered!
The Public Domain Report, an amazing service
Public Domain Dates - Chart of when works become available
History of “Isms” and
Art Movements
Dada Manifesto
Picture & Moving Picture Sources
Theatre Ephemera - Outstanding collection of theatre photographs from the 19th century. People and theatres are depicted. Well organized collection.
A-1 Video Documentary Collection - This outfit, at a very reasonable price (!) offers scores of collections of newsreels, TV documentaries etc. A great research source
A-1 Video Vaudeville Collection - Hundreds of acts available on a series of seven videotapes
Other
Useful Resources:
k.i.s.s. (Keep It Simple Stupid) of the panopticon - Offers many
resources devoted to “cultural theory”
MediaRights.org - Site includes a wonderful searchable database of documentary films
Find A Grave - Browse by Claim To Fame Actors
Dramaturgical Resources
These notes, from a lecture by Mr. Albee at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, on February 16, 1997 are rather extensive, but always interesting.
These notes are from a lecture given on 11/21/1996, in Colorado, on the topic
of: “Post Communist Russia In The Mirror of Theatre.”
Program Order and Checklist
Have you ever left something out of a program by accident? Then this is the resource for you!
An Index Page of websites dealing with George Bernard Shaw
This Month in Theatre History
“DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from
the French”
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Acting & Performance Resources
Book Sources from stores to script libraries & agents. Full texts online too!
Design, Visual Research sources
Journals, Magazines, & Publications
General:
Stage Directions Magazine List of Conferences
Ten Dramaturgy Schools - a nice listing from TCG
Specialized Dramaturgy Pages and Organizations:
American Theatre Critics Association
Dramaturgy Pages of Jon Blackstock
Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Source Book
International Association of Theatre Critics
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
Play & Credit Lists
Find-a-Play - A Great search engine that allows you to quickly find the publisher of any particular play you might be searching for. A top site!
The Internet Broadway Database- Patterned after the wildly successful Internet Movie Database, this site offers an extensive database of Broadway credits, shows, and dates
Internet Off-Broadway Database
The Internet Off-Broadway Archive and Database - The Lortel Archives. Another great resource
Musical Showlist - Hundreds of musicals profiled
Doollee: “a database of Playwrights and Plays produced / published in English since 1956. ... Doollee aims to list every play written and produced in English since John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.
Plays and Musicals - Searchable database of plays and musicals covering many publishers
Theatre & Play Related Artwork
Footlights Gallery - Includes an extensive collection of theatre poster images. Well organized.
Triton Gallery - Another great poster site
Theatres on Postcards - An incredible visual database of theatre building images around the world
Timelines and Chronologies
Timelines and Chronologies, General or Theatre Related
Tera Media Year by Year - Covers 1200 - 2000
20th Century Theatre Timeline - from the PBS program, Changing Stages
Timelines Related to Specific
Topics
Advertising Age Timeline - Includes lots of newspaper publishing info
Art movements in the 20th Century
Cigarettes: Marlboro Timelines
Computers and Interactive Media Timeline
Computing History Timeline - PDF Format
Food Timeline - Extensive and useful
Horror Timeline: pre 20th Century -
Law - Constitutional Law Timeline
Media and Cultural History - Chronomedia ritish-based
Mental Health History Timeline - ritish-based
Television Chronology (US) - Mostly deals with the development of the technology and industry
Television History, the first 75 years - Astonishing! Extensive collection of materials from timelines to pictures of thousands of models of TV sets
Television Year by Year - Change the year in the page address to get to more. Lists popular TV shows of the year.
Toilet, Public - Actually an extensive resource covering sanitation and health practices through a variety of time periods.
Timelines of Eras & Dynasties
Master Sites
Master Site - Decade by Decade from the year 1000 on
1920s - Extensive set of resources. Great site!
1920s-30s - not a timeline per-se but a great narration
1920s-30s Slang Dictionary (PDF) Wonderful!
1930s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1940s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe Incredible site, lots of illustrations
1950s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1960s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1970s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
1980s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe
America - Colonial American Timeline
Tudor Chronology - Nice if you can put up with the music!
Victorian Timeline - Short and sweet
King Arthur Timeline - Nice
Timelines of Places &
Ethnic Heritage
Antarctic Timeline
Yugoslavia From World War I to the 2000 election
Timelines of Political Movements & Events
Slavery and Religion in America: A Timeline
Suffragist Movement in America
Women’s Rights Timeline
Timelines of Wars and
Conflicts
Comprehensive Military and War Timeline -
Holocaust Timeline - Destruction of European Jewry Explanatory Timeline
World War Two in Europe Timeline
Timelines of Religion and Religious Holidays
Timelines of Architecture
Dictionaries
and other Such Tools
One Look Dictionaries - Well over 100 Dictionary Links
HyperDictionary -Really great at finding useful information
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Literary Terms - A collection of dictionaries
Playground Slang - un resource!
Pronunciation Dictionary from Info Please
Websters 3rd International Dictionary - Includes date of first usage
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Dictionaries of Symbolism
Animals
Animal Symbolism in Celtic Mythology
Color Symbolism - Pigments Through the Ages
Flowers and Trees - EXTENSIVE - navigate from the menu at the bottom of the page.
Reviews & Print Criticism Resources
NY Post Reviews - Includes current reviews and some from previous years
NY Times Theatre Reviews - Pretty extensive selection from the present and the past.
Iowa State University online concordances - 10 plays are listed
Copyright Research
ACE - ASCAP Database - Wonderful!
US Catalog of Copyright Entries and Renewals - Very useful for the years that have been entered!
The Public Domain Report, an amazing service
Public Domain Dates - Chart of when works become available
History of “Isms” and
Art Movements
Dada Manifesto
Picture & Moving Picture Sources:
Theatre Ephemera - Outstanding collection of theatre photographs from the 19th century. People and theatres are depicted. Well organized collection.
A-1 Video Documentary Collection - This outfit, at a very reasonable price (!) offers scores of collections of newsreels, TV documentaries etc. A great research source
A-1 Video Vaudeville Collection - Hundreds of acts available on a series of seven videotapes
Other
Useful Resources:
k.i.s.s. (Keep It Simple Stupid) of the panopticon - Offers many
resources devoted to “cultural theory”
MediaRights.org - Site includes a wonderful searchable database of documentary films
Find A Grave - Browse by Claim To Fame Actors
Designers
The Ballet Russe Scenery Collection
WONDERFUL website courtesy of Butler University. Examples of designs by such folks as Bakst, Matise, Berman, and so many more.
International Theatre Design Archive
Theatre Bookstores, Distributors, and Video Sources
Bookstores, Presses, and Suppliers
Allworth Press - Publishes a large selection of books on the arts including the theatre arts.
Amazon Books - Not a Theatre bookstore but they have many scripts and theatre books in their database
Amergin Press - Publisher of materials for youth theatre. Site also includes additional theatre education links
Amber Lane Press - “We are a small, UK-based independent publisher of plays, and books on the theatre. We publish many well known authors including Stephen Berkoff, Martin Sherman, Sean Mathias, Ronald Harwood and Julian Mitchell.”
Bibliofind - 8 million rare & out of print books listed
Childrens Theatre Plays Inc. (single playwright publisher)
Classics on Stage (another single playwright publisher of children’s theatre works)
Churchmusicals.com - specializes in musicals for church groups
Find-a-Play - A Great search engine that allows you to quickly find the publisher of any particular play you might be searching for. A top site!
Great Books Online - Offers many free text versions of plays - extensive collection
KMR Scripts - Specializing in scripts for young audiences
Internet Theatre Bookshop - Based in Britain.
Lazy Bee Scripts - British based service offers many unusual scripts in a variety of areas. All or most may be previewed online.
Library of Congress, English Language Scripts from before 1920 - Full Texts available online. Searchable!
Playscripts.com is a theatrical publishing company dedicated to the promotion, distribution, and licensing of new dramatic works over the internet.
Rogers and Hammerstein Theatre Library (Link may be broken)
Theatreshire Books. Based in Yorkshire England, this store specializes particularly in areas of technical theatre and architecture.
The Theatre Channel - the first cable television network devoted to broadcasting theatre performances from national and international theatres.
Theatre Communications Group Books - Lots of great plays and titles published by TCG
Theatrefolk - This play publisher is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A number of titles are offered. The collection is mostly for school and young audiences
Full Play Text Sources online:
Bibliomania Play Texts - Many plays and even study guides are presented here
Film Script-o-rama - Hundreds of film scripts on this site!
Video Distributors
Broadway Theatre Archives - Extensive catalogue of titles
Corinth Video - Nice Selection
Play/Playwright Databases
Doollee: “a database of Playwrights and Plays produced / published in English since 1956. ... Doollee aims to list every play written and produced in English since John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. “
Audio Files of Plays and Performances
Mercury Theatre On the Air - Radio broadcasts actually but an amazing history resource on the early work of Orson Welles. The site includes many many actual broadcasts
Theatre Season Planner
Growing your audience has a lot to do with finding the right things to
celebrate! This resource is here to help! We’ve provided loads of things to
celebrate.
2005
January 4, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of Sterling Holloway
January 5, 2005
25th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Pinter play, Betrayal
January 10, 2005
50th Anniversary of the world premiere
in Dallas, of the Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee play,
Inherit the Wind
January 26, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of Maria Augusta von Trapp
January 27, 2005
50th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of the Albert Hague musical, Plain & Fancy
February 15, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of Harold Arlen
February 23, 2005
50th Anniversary of the death of playwright, Paul Claudel
February 24, 2005
50th Anniversary of the premiere on Broadway of Cole Porter’s , Silk Stockings
March 2, 2005
50th Anniversary of the NY premiere of the William Inge play, Bus Stop
March 7, 2005
50th Anniversary of the first full-length color TV broadcast of a Broadway Play, Peter Pan, with Mary Martin. (at the time, US homes sported only 15,000 color TV sets) (The show was not set on videotape until 1960, 5 years later)
March 9, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of designer, Félix Labisse
March 24, 2005
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams’ play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
March 26, 2005
100th Anniversary of the death of Maurice Barrymore (Herbert Blythe), founder of the Barymore acting clan
March 30, 2005
25th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play, Children of a Lesser God
May 5, 2005
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the musical, Damn Yankees
May 9, 2005
200th Anniversary of the death of German playwright, Friedrich Von Schiller
May 12, 2005
100th Anniversary of the death of middle Shubert Brother, Sam
May 17, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright, John Patrick
May 21, 2005
100th Anniversary of the world premiere in London of Shaw’s play, Man and Superman
May 24, 2005
150th Anniversary of the birth of British playwright, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
June 21, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre
July 5, 2005
250th Anniversary of the birth of actress Sarah Siddons
July 10, 2005
25th Anniversary of the world premiere of Sam Shepard’s True West at The Magic Theatre in San Francisco
July 14, 2005
75th Anniversary of the first broadcast of a play on British Television, Luigi Pirandello’s The Man With a Flower in His Mouth
July 25, 2005
150th Anniversary of the birth of musical performer, Tony Hart (partner of Harrigan)
August 3, 2005
50th Anniversary of the passing of Carmen Miranda
August 18, 2005
75th Anniversary of the world premiere of Coward’s play, Private Lives
August 25, 2005
25th Anniversary of the premiere on Broadway of the musical, 42nd Street
August 30, 2005
50th Anniversary of the death of scenery,costume designer, Woodman Thompson
August 31, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of Sanford Meisner
September 7, 2005
350th Anniversary of the death of French playwright, Francois L’hermite
September 18, 2005
100th Anniversary of the birth of choreographer, Agnes DeMille
September 20, 2005
50th Anniversary of the New York run of The Threepenny Opera
September 24, 2005
75th Anniversary of the London premiere of Noel Coward’s Private Lives
September 30, 2005
50th Anniversary of the death of Michael Chekhov
October 5, 2005, 2005
50th anniversary of the New York premiere of the Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett adaptation of The Teahouse of the August Moon
October 13, 2005, 2005
100th anniversary of the death of Sir Henry Irving
October 14, 2005, 2005
150th anniversary of the birth of British musical comedy producer, George Edwards
October 17, 2005
100th anniversary of the birth of Jean Arthur
October 20, 2005
50th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Ira Levin’s No Time for Sergeants
October 27, 2005
100th anniversary of the first public performance of Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession
November 6, 2005
100th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Barrie’s Peter Pan
November 20, 2005
100th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Charles Klein’s The Lion & the Mouse
November 22, 2005
40th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion musical, Man of La Mancha
November 28, 2005
100th anniversary of the world premiere in London of Shaw’s play, Major Barbara
December 6, 2005
200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of modern magic, Jean-Eugene Robert Houdin
December 7
25th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play, Amadeus
December 31, 2005
100th anniversary of the birth of Jule Styne