Theater
and general performing arts
- Actorama
Database of monologues and diologues from plays and films.
- All the Great Operas in 10 Minutes
A short comedic video summarizing the plots of famous operas.
- Broadway: the American Musical
Companion to the PBS show, with articles, timelines, pictures, biographies, and more.
- Digital Performance Archive
"A comprehensive study and recording of the development of ‘digital performance’ in the last decade of the Twentieth Century.".
- GloPAC - Global Performing Arts Consortium
"GloPAD is a multimedia, multilingual, Web-accessible database containing digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects (such as 3-D images) related to the performing arts from around the world."
- Internet Broadway Database
"The official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today."
- The Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
"Collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials. Special presentations on selected topics ..."
- Mercury Theatre on the Air
"The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air ... All of the surviving Mercury Theatre shows are available from this page."
- Musicals101.com: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film
Offerings include history of musicals, how musicals are made, photo galleries, indexes, chronologies, monthly calendar, reviews, essays, links, and more.
- Open Directory: Theater
Extensive list of links to all aspects of theater, including musicals, playwrights, stagecraft, and ticket vendors.
- Performing Arts Encyclopedia
"A guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress.... Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays..." and more.
- Playbill Online
On- and off-Broadway listings, London shows, reviews and interviews, seating charts, and a link to Theatre Central, "the largest compendium of theatre links on the Internet."
- The Playwriting Seminars
Playwriting and screenwriting resources and tips.
- Celtx
"Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share." Comes in Free and Pro editions.
- RawScripts.com
"RawScripts is online screenwriting software. Scripts are private, secure and accessible from any computer. Nothing to install. You can try out the application, or login with your Google or Yahoo account and get working on your screenplay."
- REED Presents: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music
The Centre for Research in Early English Drama | Records of Early English Drama (REED) at the University of Toronto has collected a set of annotated links in the area of theater history.
- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
For links about Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, see our Shakespeare page.
- Simply Scripts
"Links to hundreds of free, downloadable scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows."
- TheatreHistory.com
Theater history, copyright-free plays, skits, and monlogues, a bookstore, links, and other material.
- theatrecrafts.com
Links to many sites about technical aspects of the theatre, and hosts a glossary of theatre terms on its own site.
- Tony Awards
Official website for the Tony Awards, which honor Broadway's best each year.
- Vaudeville!
"History, Development, and Evolution of Vaudeville Stage from it's roots in variety theater and shows with Vaudeville movies, vaudeville MP3's, and vaudeville hypertexts."
- World of Mime Theatre
"The World of Mime Theatre is devoted to the promotion of Mime as a specialized theatrical art. Its goals are education, information exchange, entertainment, and providing the opportunity to connect people involved and interested in Mime Theatre around the world."
this page last updated December 21, 2011