Berlin 1848: public performances
Checklist created by Paul Ulrich of the Berlin Central Library.
Bibliographie des miracles et mystères français
Liste d’éditions critiques et d’études portant sur le théâtre religieux en langue française des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles. Par Graham A. Runnalls.
Calendrier des spectacles sous Louis XIV, 1659-1715
Chronological listing of theatre, opera, ballet and other performances. (Under development)
Superb development incorporating texts, bio, bibliography, images, related links. Edited by Edouardo Urbina. Available in English and Spanish
Documentation of contemporary performance processes (Recommended by Peter Hulton.)
Arts Archives is a catalogue of some 60 videos and CD-ROMS of international performance practitioners at work, teaching and explaining their practice.
Doollee’s database (Recommended by doollee.)
Quick checklist of post-1956 plays and playwrights
(Census Nederlands Toneel) Online searchable listing and bibliography of over 8,000 plays prior to 1803. Massive project by Ceneton at the University of Leiden. Includes translations. The homepage also available in English. Superb
French Medieval Drama Database Project
Dir. Jesse Hurlbut. Highly authoritative portal with links to excellent documentation, including mss.
German plays in English translation
In English and German. Fully searchable bibliography from the Goethe Institut, London
Great resource from the Goethe Institut in Lyon. In French and German. Includes full bibliography and biogs
handke theater information site (Recommended by michael roloff.)
Devoted to the works of Peter Handke
Le Corpus du Théâtre religieux français du Moyen Âge
Les textes sont groupés d’abord selon les genres traditionnels, qui coïncident en gros avec les siècles: (I) les Jeux Religieux des XIIe et XIIIe siècles; (II) les Miracles et autres drames religieux du XIVe siècle; (III) les Mystères des XVe et XVIe siècles. Par Graham A. Runnalls.
On trouvera ici, à l’Université de Toronto, toute une gamme d’information sur quelques deux mille pièces de théâtre, présentées, dans leur grande majorité, pour la première fois entre 1800 et 1850. Le corpus des pièces traitées est celui qui est déposé au Centre d’études du dix-neuvième siècle français Joseph Sablé.
Medieval European drama in translation
Bibliographies and some online links
Native American Women’s Playwrights Archive
Parisian theatre during the French Revolution
A comprehensive database of performances earchable by author, title and date, from the University of Chicago
Classical Greek resources. A model of what can be achieved with co-operation by a group of dedicatescholars. Based at Tufts University
SCENIS Stage of Central Europe and Newly Independent States Database of perfoming arts
(Recommended by Sodja Zupanc.)
The database contains performing arts web sites from: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania etc. (Excellent resource, and much-needed. -ed.
The Ball & Plant Bibliography of Canadian Theatre
Standard reference work with good search facility
Currently (July 20) advertising one month of FREE trial access. Login at www.worldshakesbib.com as user “shakelib”, password “trialbiblio”. For me (ed.) it worked with Netscape but not with IE5 -- maybe due to a limitation in Microsoft’s javascript implementation.