100 X Brecht (Recommended by Colin Connolly.)
Page about project to celebrate 100th anniversary of Brecht’s birth in a wide variety of ways.
a s17 page site devoted to peter handke’s plays (Recommended by michael roloff.)
handkedrama.scriptmania.com is an offshoot trom the mainsite handke.scriptmania.com; it will provide all necessary resources once completely assembled
Access to theatre areas (Recommended by Heinz Pusitz.)
Theatre areas are intentionally considered wordwide with a clear concept of the collected links.
All Theatre Arts (Recommended by Marilyn Cameron.)
A new and wonderful resource for Drama Workers and those involved in Community Theatre Arts covering drama,dance and movement, in fact, All Theatre Arts!
Library of Congress: Vaudeville and popular entertainments, 1870-1920. Houdini, playbills, sound recordings, English and Yiddish playscripts. Among the materials available online, page images of 257 English playscripts, most of them unpublished, and 146 playbills. A resource of rare value
Ruth Nestvold’s carefully crafted tribute to the ‘shady and amorous’ playwright whose remains are now enshrined in Westminster Abbey
Aristotle on Greek Tragedy (Recommended by Larry A. Brown.)
of interest to those studying Greek tragedy
As You Like It at Theatre at UBC (Recommended by Linda Fenton Malloy.)
Linda Fenton Malloy has created a new production tool for the Department of Theatre at the University of B.C. The As You Like It website contains a wealth of information about the history of the play. Visually stunning.
A compendium of Asian and Asian-American links maintained by the University of San Fransisco
Atelier International de Mime Corporel, Paris
Laban - Decroux project : Notation of corporal Mime directed by PA-PhD. Jorge Gayon with mime-expert Greta Maes.
ATHE theorySite (Recommended by David Saltz.)
This site offers abstracts and full-text papers pertaining to any aspect of theater or performance theory, focusing on papers delivered at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Invisible Theatre, etc.
Brecht Performances and resources
British Women Playwrights around 1800
Detailed bibliographies, full-text online plays, discussions, scholarship. Excellent resource
Buiding a bridge in Derry (Recommended by Joanne Jones.)
Outlines the work of The Derry Repertory Theatre, Derry, N.Ireland. This group have strived to create a theatre for all the people in Derry.
Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection, Rome, Italy (Recommended by Maria Teresa Iovinelli.)
online catalogues, several digital projects under development
Calendar Online- A Guide to Orlando Theater, Museums and the Arts (Recommended by Anda Geisler.)
Your Orlando city guide to find Orlando Theater, Museums. Classical Music and the Arts.
ÇanTiyatrosu (Recommended by Kenan Halis Kizildag.)
We are a producor company for child theatre in Turkey. Our theatre group establish at 1984 and We were formed in April of 1984.
Catalogue of Stage Machinery 16th and 17th centuries
Part of Frank Mohler’s impressive theatre site at Appalachian State U
Cenalusófona (Recommended by António José Silva.)
Theatre from Portugal, Brasil, Angola, Moçambique, São Tomé, Cabo Verde e Guiné-Bissau
Chicano theater (Recommended by Kat Avila.)
An electronic information altar dedicated to Chicano and U.S. Latino theater.
CoffeeTime (Recommended by Svetlana Kartashyan.)
Catalog “Theatres of the world”.
Commedia dell’arte and Comedie-Italienne
Resource list plus the beginnings of a collection of authentic early texts
Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 en Puerto del Rosario (Recommended by oscar benito.)
Web about the representation of the Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 directed by Nacho Duato in Fuerteventura
Confederation Centre of the Arts (Recommended by Sarah Hastelow.)
Canada’s National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation, Home of The Charlottetown Festival, Anne of Green Gables-The Musical plays to sold out crowds each summer
Conti, Traité de la comédie (1667)
Original texts reflecting the attitudes of the early church fathers and various Councils to the theatre and actors. Full hypertext edition in French, edited by Mark Bannister. A fine resource.
Creative Writing - Drama (Recommended by Richard Toscan.)
229-page Web-text on the art/craft of playwriting. Gets 400,000 hits/year.
Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church (Recommended by Eun Jung Gonzalez.)
On-goning dance performance series in New York city
De-scribing Law: Performance in the Constitution of Legality
Discusses the historical centrality and contemporary resurgence of performance - “restored behavior” - in the creation and perpetuation of law and legal values
DramaShare Christian Drama Resources (Recommended by John Alexander.)
Jack Lynch’s great resource. See especially the links to ‘literature’ and ‘electronic texts’
Eisen’s Web (Recommended by Donald Eisen.)
A dramaturgical resource containing program notes, backgrounds, synopses, and other useful material for many productions.
Eisen’s Web Dramaturgy (Recommended by Donald Eisen.)
A dramaturgical resource featuring program notes, background material, synopses, timelines and extensive lists of links of interest relating to the titles of plays produced at IUP and elsewhere.
El Mágico Prodigioso en Puerto del Rosario (Recommended by oscar benito.)
Web about the representation of El Mágico Prodigioso, by Calderón, in Fuerteventura
A cornucopia from East Los Angeles, including writers workshop materials, an online theatre library, essays, pix (circa 1909) ...
Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing
How to write stories for page and stage, by Bill Johnson. Brimming with good ideas. Follow the link to ‘Index of essays’
Eugene O’Neill electronic archive
Includes full-text online plays, newsletters, discussions, audio archives etc
Simple introduction
Exploring the paradoxes: on comparing film and theatre
Essay on the differences between two dramatic genres
Florence Mills - The Little Blackbird
First black woman to be featured in her own show on Broadway, first black performer to top the bill at the Palace. Good supporting material on vaudeville, etc.
Floriméne at the court of Charles I
An animated interactive exploration and reconstruction of Inigo Jones’ great court masque
Frankenstein at UBC Theatre (Recommended by Linda Fenton Malloy.)
Linda Fenton Malloy has created a new production tool for the Department of Theatre at the University of B.C. The Frankenstein contains a wealth of information about the UBC production. Visually stunning.
Fuerteventura’s Auditorium (Recommended by oscar benito.)
Web with shows, news, pics, and links about the Auditorium of Fuerteventura, Canarias
German plays in Spanish translation
In Spanish and German
By Eberhard Scheiffele. Solid article on psychodrama and Moreno’s view of Goethe as a forerunner. First published in the Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry, 49(2),
Personal essay by Serge Ouaknine of UQAM
Grotowski: Igniting the flames
Detailed article on Polish director Jerzy Grotowski
Guide to developing a youth theatre (Recommended by Michael Burns.)
A new book on developing a youth theatre troupe for educators and human services workers. Workhops avaialble.
Part of Eisen’s Web, a set of dramaturgical resources, this offers a good array of background info on the musical Hair and its place in the 60s culture
Historical relations between theatre and film: The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Homepage Bettina Fless (Recommended by Bettina Fless.)
Hoy no puedo ir a trabajar porque estoy enamorado en Puerto del Rosario (Recommended by oscar benito.)
Web about the representation of Hoy no puedo ir a trabajar porque estoy enamorado, directed by Natalia Menéndez, in Fuerteventura
Id-Descartes - Identity of a Dramaturgy (Recommended by John J Schranz.)
Book-length meditation on Descartes, Hamlet and Stanislavski. Follow the book (publications) icon from the title frame
Images of Women in Three Early 18th Century Plays
By Megan Katovich
Important British theatre recored ‘live’ on Video (Recommended by Robert Marshall.
Digital, multi-camera ‘live’ video recordings of important stage productions available on VHS and eventually DVD. Great performances and plays available to audiences around the world.
The International Chekhov’s Fund (ICF) is in process of its foundation under recommendations of the Council of world culture history (Russian Academy of Sciences), and Chekhov’s commission (Russian Academy of Sciences).
International Shakespeare Globe Centre
Intoduction to York Corpus Christi Play (with simulation)
This website, by Dennis G. Jerz, is intended to provide a gentle introduction to the York plays. It includes a superb animated representation of the passage of the pageant wagons through the streets of York. Hint: set the speed to “FASTEST”, watch the plays roll by, and laugh the next time a stage manager complains ...
Historical introduction, fine illustrations (including 19thC page reproductions), music transcriptions and sound recordings
The shadow puppets of Kerala, India
Le Thèâtre de la foire á Paris
Barry Russell’s extensive hypertext site built around litle-known 17th and 18th century playscripts, many not available elsewhere, created by acrobats and puppeteers, from which developed much later popular entertainment. Includes bibiliographies, chronologies, biographical notes, theatre plans, original documentation (often from primary archival sources). First published 1995, and still expanding. [In French.]
London Theatre Tickets for musicals, comedies, concerts, etc (Recommended by Michael Smith
This is the first theatre related site that I have found that consists of good up to date reviews and information pertaining to many of the latest performances in London.
Brief notes on indigenous Malaysian theatre forms from the Asian Theatre Centre in Penang
Devoted to the work of the great French mime, Marcel Marceau
The entire theatre corpus (in French), with biog notes and bibliographies coming soon
Materials for the construction of Shakespeare’s morals (Recommended by Ben Schneider.)
Texts from Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, North, Montaigne, Elyot, Spenser, James I, Hall
Men, Women and Culture: An Interview with August Wilson
Official web site for the show.
Modernist Theatre Directors: Erwin Piscator (1893-1966)
Short biography of the German theatrical director and producer. In German, with photo
Moliere’s Tartuffe in Marathi : Awataar (Recommended by Praveen Bhole.)
Centre for Performing Arts, which is popularly known as Lalit Kala Kendra, recently performed the Marathi version of Molière’s Tartuffe : Awatãr. The Marathi text and directed by Praveen Bhole
Moreno and the Theater of Spontaneity
Brief article leading to fuller resources on the Austrian father of Psychodram
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Modern spelling versions of the medieval cycle of passion plays, with all appendices, from the REED project in Toronto
New England Entertainment Digest (Recommended by JulieAnn Charest.)
Just a note to let you know that your site has been linked to the New England Entertainment Digest, New England (& New York’s) premiere entertainment monthly.
On Editing Women Playwrights’ Works in an Electronic Environment
by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. Part of the site devoted to British Women Playwrights around 1800 (see above)
Online Review London (Recommended by Richard Frost.)
Online Review London is an internet review magazine for the performing arts in London. It mainly covers theatre, ballet and other forms of dance, and it will soon be extended to cover performance art, opera and concerts.
OPSIS - Spectacles du Grand Siècle (Recommended by Guy Spielmann.)
(Access controlled by password subject to registration.) Virtual Resource Center on the Performing Arts, 16th-18th century. Images, Glossary, Biographies, Bibliography, Chronology, Links, Original introduction to selected texts. (In French)
Out of print Broadway Posters and more...... (Recommended by Randy Fisher.)
We are the only site that sell out of print Broadway posters from 1960’s to 1980’s on the internet
Period and style for designers
Piscator’s Political Theatre (Recommended by Klaus Wannemacher.)
Variety of historical documents about the director
Play by all Blind Actors (Recommended by Swagat Thorat.)
It is about the unique play by all blind actors
Production Notebooks (Recommended by Mark Wellman.
Interesting experiment: day-to-day logs being kept by working actors and directors in production
Part of the tercentenary celebrations. In French
Radio Drama Teaching and Learning Site
Scripts, teaching advice based on solid experience. Maintained by Alan Beck at the University of Ke2nt in Canterbury, UK
Rare items from 19th Century Theatre Auction (Recommended by christopher moore.)
Online auction of theatre ephemera, mostly American
Re-orienting semiotics: performance, philosophy and theory
Records of Early English Drama
Solid, authoritative scholarly resource based in Toronto
Renaissance Engineers Exhibition
Resources for American theatre history
An informal list of hard-to-find resources maintained by Susan Kattwinkel with a little help from her friends in the ASTR. Enhanced by astute comments
Online version of this distinguished and well-established journal. The site also offers a range of services for 18thC theatre scholars
Ring Around the Collar: American Comedy and the Clergy (Recommended by Larry A. Brown.)
of interest to those studying American drama and cultur
Robert Wilson Website (Recommended by Geoffrey B. Wexler.)
Robert Wilson is an internationally recognized pioneer and innovator in modern theater. The website contains valuable information on current and past performances, as well as a complete bibliography.
photos
Royal National Theatre Archive (Recommended by Louise Ray.)
These pages give basic information regarding the holdings of the Royal National Theatre Archive and how to contact the Archive. There is also on-line information regarding past productions at the National.
Excellent survey and details of Shepard’s career. Bibliographies, interviews, etc
hool and theatre (Recommended by Júlia Nagy and Csaba Kedves.)
This is the homepage of Research Group for the Old Hungarian Dramas, which studies Hungarian 16-18th century schooldramas.
School and Theatre (Recommended by Nagy Júlia.)
CFPs of theatre and drama conferences, Studies about drama and theatre history, research groups
School theatre—Iskoladráma (Recommended by Kedves Csaba.)
Scottish Theatre Archive (Recommended by David Weston.)
The major repository for documentary material relating to the performing arts in Scotland.
Seeta-Swayamwara (Recommended by Praveen Bhole.)
the page is about the play, ‘Seeta-Swayamwara’, which is supposed to be the first recorded performance in the history of Marathi Theatre
Shakespeare By Individual Studies
Well documented
SKENOTHEKE: Images of the ancient stage
Sopanam (Recommended by Kavalam Panikkar.
This is about classical sanskrit theatre and folk plays and training in sanskrit theatre
STEM~Net’s Drama Home Page (Recommended by Michael Coady.)
a valuable curriculum resource for teachers and students of theatre and drama
Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology
teatrex : teatro in extremadura (Recommended by teatrex.)
teatro en extremadura salas compañías festivales de merida badajoz cáceres
Teatro latinoamericano - cuerpo y política (Recommended by Magaly Muguercia.)
Essays on Latin American theatre and on Performance Studies (Body and Politics)
tersgidenlerin adresi (Recommended by Oguz Arici.)
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Recommended by Amanda Wrigley.)
An inter-disciplinary research project working towards the establishment of the international history of ancient drama in performance
The Australian Performing Group (Pram Factory) Research Site (Recommended by William Head.)
This site contains information and research help on the APG. Included is a hypertext essay, a huge list of links related to the Apg and pointers for non-net research.
THE BROADWAY WIG COMPANY (Recommended by ROBERT-CHARLES VALLANCE.)
The Development of Stage Spectacle (Recommended by Frank Mohler.)
Fascinating animations, plus database of early stage machinery
The Electronic Theatre Archive
By Jane Moody. A thoughtful look at the future of theatre scholarship
The Fabulous Marks Brothers Theatrical Companies (Recommended by K. Kelly.)
Rare glimps into fifty year theatrical touring history of the Marks Brothers at the turn of the century!
The Last Yankee: An Interview with Arthur Miller
The New Deal Stage - Selections from the Federal Theatre Project Archives
This online presentation includes over 3,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period. The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The Nineteenth Century London Stage
The Official Barry Morse Page (Recommended by Anthony Wynn.)
Web page dedicated to Barry Morse, actor for over 70 years on stage, in film, TV, and radio
The On-Line Theatre Reviews Site that Covers the UK (Recommended by Rod Dungate.)
Perceptive and informed theatre and performance reviews across the UK. Fully searchable and all available free.
The Opera Archive (Recommended by Dr Stephen Muir.)
This site aims to publish rare but important operas free on the internet for scholars and performers.
The Shakespeare Theatre Past Production Articles, Photos, and Cast Lists (Recommended by SG.
A wealth of information about and color photos of classical plays and The Shakespeare Theatre’s innovative productions.
The Shepperd Website (Recommended by Piers Shepperd.)
290 Web Links to Technical Production Companies (sorted by category e.g. lighting, sound, security etc)
The Virtual Drama Studio (Recommended by Ian Hutchinson.)
A collection of resources and teaching ideas for all those working with 11-18 year olds in Drama and theatre.
The World of London Theater 1660-1800
Produced by students at the University of Florida
The World of Mime Theatre (Recommended by Lorin Eric Salm.)
The World of Mime Theatre is the longest standing, most comprehensive general information site on the Internet for the field of Mime Theatre. Includes information on mime in 25 countries on 6 continents.
Theater Arts Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
(Recommended by Helen Baer.)
The collection includes playscripts and prompt books, letters, photographs, playbills and programs, posters, and engravings; original costume and scenic designs; sheet music; and books about theater history, biography, and theory.
Théâtre à Paris XVIIIème siècle (Recommended by Laurent Turcot.)
It’s a work on the war in the years 1697 to 1716 between the Comédie-Française and the Theatre of the foire
Interview with Pierre-Yves Millot. In French
Theatre in Prisoner of War Camps (Recommended by Jonathan Goodliffe.)
Only known site on theatrical performances among allied prisoners in Germany during WWII. Many vivid illustrations. Also a tribute to the actors (some professional and some amateur) involved.
Theatre in Prisoner of War Camps (Recommended by Jonathan Goodliffe.)
Only known site on theatrical performances among allied prisoners in Germany during WWII. Many vivid illustrations. Also a tribute to the actors (some professional and some amateur) involved.
Virtual reconstructions
TheatreHistory.com (Recommended by Walt.)
LOTS of articles on theatre history!
This is a unique resource online. It is especially useful as a means of encouraging discussion on our theatre arts heritage. The site can also allow users to plan ahead for major theatre celebrations and anniversaries
Tiyatro Keyfi (Recommended by kemal Basar.)
Actual news, companies, performances of Turkish theatre, articles, photo gallery, downloadable scripts of famous Turkish playwrights
TOYS Theater - to see. to feel. to savor. (Recommended by Marina Fanshteyn.)
16-years old Internationally Renown Deaf Professional Theater won hearts of any audience regardless of age, language, culture and beliefs
Traditional Turkish Shadow Theatre KARAGOZ (Recommended by Emin Senyer.)
karagoz hacivat shadow theatre
Translations of French Romantic Playrights: Dumas pere (Recommended by Frank Morlock.)
This site contains translations of plays by Alexandre Dumas pere, not otherwise available in English
Karagoz (shadow puppets), story-telling, improvisation, puppetry and conjuring. The site is still under construction, but looks like it’ll become a useful resource when it’s matured
USA Plays for Kids (Recommended by Sandy Asher.)
Links to children’s playwrights’ Web pages and other useful resources, including the AATE Directory of Award-winning Plays
uta hagen’s acting class—the video (Recommended by karen ludwig.)
this is the first time a major acting teacher is recorded on video teaching master acting classes!!! uta hagen is brilliant; also interviews with jack lemmon, christine lahti and whoopi goldberg; all former students; a must for any theater
Views and reViews (Recommended by Mark Wellman.)
A new journal of commentary by working theatre and film professionals
Voyages in Drama with Ibsen (Recommended by Francis Pitt.)
Brian Johnston shares his insight into Ibsen’s dramatic artistry, exploring it’s immense range, complexity, beauty, and imaginative daring, with the goal of establishing an adequate interpretation of this great dramatist.
York Cycle of Mystery Plays (Recommended by Steve Wright.
Solid documentation of the York cycle produced in Toronto in 1998, with links to the full texts, many photos, etc
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - see Emmy Online for the annual Emmy Awards.
Actors' Equity Association - Site highlights include News, Casting Call, a database of job notices searchable by type of contract, type of job notice or location and a Resource Center with Related Web Sites.
Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900: A Calendar of Performances - Edited by Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross, with the assistance of Theodore Seward, Systems Analyst, the project provides a detailed account of every performance, actor, singer, dramatist and front-of-house personality connected with the Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London from 1806-1900.
Allison Delarue Collection - William Seymour Theatre Collection, Princeton University
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - New York
American Ballet Theatre - Provides Dancer Bios and an Online Ballet Dictionary which defines 170 terms from Dover Press's Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet and includes videos of the dancers performing the movements (requires Quick Time for Windows).
American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 - Collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress.
American Conservatory Theater - Located in San Francisco, the ACT is one of the nation's leading resident professional theaters and the recipient of a Tony Award for outstanding theater performance and training.
American Dance Festival - Durham, North Carolina. See also ADF at Duke Libraries and Dance on Film and Video
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American Repertory Theatre - Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is information on Company Actors and biographies of staff, playwrights, composers, set designers, costume designers, lighting designers, and sound designers. Also includes information on past productions.
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 - Multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. "Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language play scripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings, and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini."
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Really Useful Company. Official website dedicated to the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Aquila Theatre Company of London - Company in Residence at the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University.
Artifact: Best of the Web in the Arts and Creative Industries
Ashihara Collection - Description of the performing arts collection in the National Diet Library of Japan. (NDL Newsletter 116, October 2000.)
Backstage - "Performing arts gateway for the UK."
Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts - George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow
British Arts Festivals Association - Calendar, directory and map for over 100 arts festivals across the UK.
Canadian Actors' Equity Association
CBC Program Guide - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news on dance, theatre, film & television and music & opera from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. See also Arts Today, Artscape, Arts@Ottawa and CBC Arts Canada.
Chautauqua Institution - Located in Jamestown, New York, Chautaqua offers personal enrichment for all ages. "Over 2,000 events each season include: symphony, opera, chamber music, visual arts, dance, theater, popular entertainment, open-enrollment classes, programming for young people."
Cirque du Soleil - Montréal
Colorado Shakespeare Festival - Boulder
Comédie-Française - Paris. The Histoire sections provides biographies and photographs of actors.
Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online - Julie Zatterberg, Seattle, Washington
CurtainUp - Online theater magazine
CyberDance: Ballet on the Net - Rose Ann Willenbrink's collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet.
Dance Online - Contemporary dance and performing arts.
Dell'Arte - "Internationally acclaimed touring ensemble"
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today - Published by the University of Warwick and edited by Sallie Goetsch and C. W.Marshall.
Digital Performance Archive - Nottingham Trent University project "traces the rapid developments taking place which combine performance activity with new digital technologies - from live theatre and dance productions that incorporate digital projections, to performances that take place on the computer-screen via webcasts and interactive virtual environments." See also the Live Art Archives which "holds information about existing Live Art / Performance Art materials, records and publications primarily in England and the UK."
Drama Desk - Organization of journalists, critics, and writers who cover New York theatre, and give awards honoring Broadway, Off-Broadway, not-for-profit, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
Dramatists Play Service - Use the PlayFinder to search for plays.
eOneill.com: an electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts (ELAC) - There is a collection of Plays & Monologues.
Edinburgh International Festival - Summer festival offers over 200 shows including theater, dance, and music. (See also Edinburgh Festivals and Edinburgh and Lothian Tourist Board.)
English Server Drama Collection - "Collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre."
Festival D'Automne - Performing-arts festival in Paris
Fresh Air - National Public Radio show hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY of Philadelphia has searchable audio archives. There are a number of interviews with actors including Sarah Jessica Parker (7/19/02), John Cusack (3/28/00), W. H. Macy (1/28/00), Audra Macdonald (2/29/2000), Tony Kushner (12/9/03), Alec Baldwin (12/8/03) and Mike Nichols (3/22/02), Diane Keaton (2/27/04)
Ghostcatching: a virtual dance installation - Bill T. Jones and the new-media studio Riverbed have produced this nine-minute video commissioned by Cooper Union.
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - Librettos, plot summaries, clip art, song scores, audio files and newsletter articles. Maintained by Jim Farron & Alex Feldman.
Glimmerglass Opera - Cooperstown, N.Y.
Goodspeed Opera House - East Haddam, Connecticut
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays - John Hay Library, Brown University. The collection is cataloged in Josiah the Library's online catalog. The Library also has a exhibition on G.B. Shaw: The Quintessential GBS: Selections from the Sidney P. Albert - George Bernard Shaw Collection.
Ibsen Centre - Their Manuscripts Project put online over 19,600 pages of digital facsimiles of Ibsen's manuscripts, accessible from the Norwegian pages.
Infomine: Visual and Performing Arts - Scholarly Internet resource collections.
International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS) - With links to Members (by country), Research Sites and National Collections.
Internet Broadway Database (IDBD) - "Official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today." (League of American Theatres and Producers)
Inter-Play - Index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals and in a variety of language contains approximately 16,130 citations. Maintained by Robert Westover and Janet Wright, Humanities Librarians, Portland State University.
Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival - Oldest and most comprehensive dance festival in America located in Lee, Massachusetts.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Washington, D.C. With Calendar. Has information on Ballet and Theater. Kennedy Center Honors is an annual televised celebration recognizing the talents and lifetime achievements of deserving artists. Millennium Stage has a RealAudio Archive of past performances.
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival - February 11 - February 17, 2002, Washington D.C.
Keith Prowse Theatre, Sport & Concert Tours
The Kitchen - Soho (New York) arts center offers video, music, dance performance, film and literature.
Library of Congress Online Catalogs - Includes the Library of Congress Online Catalog, a database of approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library's collections. Try using the Left-Anchored Phrase Search which will perform a phrase search. The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog and SONIC (Sound Online Inventory & Catalog) are also useful.
Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - New York
Live Broadway - The League of American Theatres and Producers
London Theatre Guide - Darren Dalglish
Making of America - Digital library of primary sources in contains over 8,000 books and journal volumes with imprints between 1850 and 1877. Joint project of the University of Michigan and Cornell. Titles include A record of the Boston stage (1853) by William W. Clapp, jr.; Bibliotheca dramatica. Catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of the late William E. Burton, the distinguished comedian, comprising an immense assemblage of books relating to the stage (1860); The British drama: a collection of the most esteemed tragedies, comedies, comedietta, operas, and farces, in the English language; and Scenes from the life of an actor, compiled from the journals, letters, and memoranda of the late Yankee Hill (1853) by George Handel Hill. Terms to search for in the title or citation: acts, drama, farce, theatre, comedy, as performed at, as played at, A play, etc.
McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies - Maintained by Ken McCoy, a professor of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts at Stetson University, the site is a good starting point for locating important resources in theatre.
Michael Chekhov Studio - Non-profit theatre company offers seminars, intensive acting workshops, classes, showcases, play and video production and networking opportunities. See also Chekhov Theatre Ensemble (Brooklyn).
Milieux: the Costume Site - Lauren Podolak's collection of "online costuming sources for historical, science fiction & fantasy costumers."
Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design - "Sample of sketches from six of the Shakespearean productions were digitized from slides made of the images and fully indexed to create a database for scholars and others interested in theatre history." (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library.)
Music, Theater and Dance Resources on the Internet - Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room.
Musicals.Net - Searchable site provides songlists, lyrics, links, synopsis for over 80 popular musicals.
National Association of Ticket Brokers - With list of members.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase).
New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939 - Over 3,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period.
New England Folk Festival Association (NEFFA) - With links to contra sites statewide
New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music and Dance - University of New Hampshire
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York Magazine - Critics section has reviews by John Simon.
New Yorker Magazine - Provides full-text access to selected articles from the current issue, including book, movie, theatre and music reviews.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Has an extensive collection of links to Electronic Resources. The Billy Rose Theatre Collection has Finding Aids.
New York Theatre Wire - Theatre, dance, performance art, music, alternative and international theatre.
New York Times: Arts - Free registration.
New Yorker: Goings On About Town - Theatre - Theatre in NYC: openings, previews, opened recently and long runs. There's also a section for Dance.
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting - "International competition open to screenwriters who have not earned more than $5,000 writing for film or television." With Nicholl Fellows 1986 to Present.
19th Century London Stage: an Exploration - Project of PhD students in Theatre History and Dramatic Theory at the University of Washington School of Drama.
OBIES - Off-Broadway Theater Awards originated by Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice in 1956. With database of over 40 years of awards.
Official London Theatre Guide - Search by title of show, type of show. date, name of theatre or browse the list of all productions.
Ohio State University Dance Program -
On Broadway WWW Information Page - Joe Geigel
Online Classics - Classical music, ballet, musicals and theatre.
Opera Schedule Server - Tamás Máray, Hungary
Operabase Index - Database of 300 opera houses and festivals
OperaGlass - Richard S. Bogart
OperaWeb - Italian site
Period and Style for Designers - Architectural, decorative and furniture styles for costume and set designers; Tulane University.
Performing Arts Books - Database of over 35,000 books, maintained by NetStoreUSA.
Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) - Based at the University of Glasgow, PADS "collects and promotes the use of digital data resources to supportresearch and teaching in the performing arts."
Performing Arts: Internet Resources for Music, Theater, and Dance - Library of Congress
Performing Arts Links - Annotated collection of links compiled by Maria Teresa Lovinelli a librarian at the Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection, in Rome, Italy.
Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal - German choreographer. See also Stanford Presidential Lectures: Pina Bausch
Playwrights Union of Canada - With information on members.
Playwrights' Workshop Montreal - Their Carol Libman On-line Script Collection offers full-text of 30 scripts by Canadian playwrights.
Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) - With links to Member Companies.
Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts - Lyle Neff. (Part of Fifi's Homepage.)
Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival - Founded by Joseph Papp.
Puppetry Home Page - Rose Sage's collection of links to puppetry resources around the world.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
Riverbed - " We design and develop new media projects, primarily for the visual and performing arts...We have collaborated with Robert Wilson, Merce Cunningham, the Estate of Keith Haring, and Bill T. Jones."
Royal Court Theatre - London
Royal National Theatre - Royal National Theatre of Great Britain provides a list of the best One Hundred Plays of the Century.
Royal Opera House - London
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
La Scala - Milano
Scottish Theatre Archive - Held by the Special Collections Department of Glasgow University Library, the collection is searchable by the University's online catalog. Collection Holdings includes material on Sir Harry Lauder: 1870-1950.
Seeing Ear Theatre - Sci-Fi Channel offers featured readings. Hear H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror, Robert Heinlein's Destination Moon and Michael Straczynski's City of Dreams.
Shakespeare's Stratford on the Web - Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K.
Shaw Festival - Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Society of Dance History Scholars - With Site Index. The have compiled a comprehensive collection of Links to Online Resources.
Stagebill - Locate theatre, dance, opera, jazz and classical performances with their Performance Finder
Stratford Festival of Canada - Ontario, Canada theatre festival runs from May to November.
Theatre Central - Originally developed by Andrew Quixote Kraft, this large collection of theater links is now maintained by Playbill On-Line.
Théâtrales - "Une collection de textes et d'hypertextes en français sur le théâtre qui a été fondée le 1er mai 1995 par André G. Bourassa, professeur à l'Université de Québec à Montréal, et par Barry Russell, Visiting Fellow de l'Université Brookes d'Oxford."
theatre-link.com - Scott Naef
TheaterMania.com - Covers theater in New York and other cities (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Toronto). The site is searchable and offers news, reviews, interviews, video clips and information on awards.
Theatricopia: An abundance of links and more for Musical Theatre fans - Jill Hobgood, who is a reference librarian at Saint Mary's College, has compiled this well-organized collection of musical theatre Internet resources.
TicketWeb - "Full service ticket distribution company which became the first in the world to sell event tickets over the Internet in 1995 and is the industry leader in low cost Internet based box office solutions. Most importantly, we are the only company dedicated to lowering service fees through the use of state-of-the-art technology."
Tony Awards Online - With Nominees & Awards.
Turnabout Theatre Archive - Adult marionette comic drama, live music and comedy from 1941 to 1956. The Los Angeles Public Library online collection contains digitized photographs, documents, props, and costumes.