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
Broadway Play Publishing Inc..
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
ESTRENO Contemporary Spanish Plays
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)
Tams - Witmark Music Library, Inc.
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
TheatreBooks - Toronto, Canada-based shop and online store
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!
On-line Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania.
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