Performing Arts/Theater/Communication Resources on the Internet
For a selected bibliography of print materials, journals and databases available in the Gee Library click here: Theater/Communication Resources
The Theater/Communication/Performing Arts Resources are divided into these groups:
Academic Performing Resources
American Drama---(journal)
Australia's Cultural Network performing arts pathfinder On this website you can find information about Australia's performing arts -including our list of performing arts websites - and this cultural search engine which enables you to search the content of those sites.
AWOL's Hundreds of Great Acting Links
Education Universe Performing Art Resources
Information Resources for Dramatic Arts
International Theater Resources--from Artslynx
Performance art from Yahoo
Performing Art Resources
Performing Arts---This page is designed to be a useful starting point for locating Performing Arts resources on the Web. Some of the sites listed will be general in nature but provide links to a vast array of more specific Web sites
Performing Arts Centers, Companies, Organizations, Festivals and Events
Performing Arts Online Resources and Publications
Performing Arts Resources on the Web
Publications from Yahoo
Stage Combat from Yahoo
Theatre
Theater--from yahoo
Theatre and Drama
Theatre and Drama---section of the WWW Virtual Library now attracts over one million hits a year. Here you will find pointers to resources in more than 40 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages
Theatre/Drama Arts Internet Resources
Theater Resources
Theater Resources---from Rhodes University
University of Maryland Libraries Performing Arts Electronic Information Resources
Washington, D.C. Area Performing Arts Resources
AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR THEATRE ASSOCIATION
IATSE---labor union representing technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, film and television production.
Juilliard
Kennedy Center
New York Foundation for the Arts
Yahoo's Performing Arts Organizations
High School Tech Production---"To assist Technical Theater students in their desire to learn about, create, and execute theatrical productions"
ETEC---Entertainment Technology
Natya Shastra---is the oldest surviving text on stagecraft in the world.
PLASA Web---site aims to be the premier on-line information resource for those working within the entertainment and presentation technology industry.
Scene Design and Stage Lighting
Stagecraft from Yahoo
Stagespecs---Database of technical specifications of theatres across the U.S. and Canada, and a theatrical www search engine.
Theatre Glossary
Tech Theater Links
USITT---U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology
Baroque Costumes
Historic information & costume history from 1638-1715
Caroline Vincent's Goodwife pages for 17th Century Reenactors
Clothing and Appearance of the Pagan Anglo-Saxons
Clothing and Costume Links
Clothing In Guy Fawkes' Day
Costume Page
Costume Shops---from the Costumer's Manifesto site
Costume Society of America
Costumer's Manifesto---Links to many costuming sites
Costuming Links ---from Yahoo
Costuming Resources Online
The Cut of Women's Clothes 1700-1800
Historical Costume
Horror Make-Up and Special Effects
Make-up Special Effects
Patterns From the Past
Rationed Fashion---fashion from the 30's & 40's part of fashion web ring
Ravensgard Costuming and Textiles Page
Sewing Sites
Communication Student's Assoication
Great American Speeches---from PBS an excellant collection of speeches from many of the nation's "most influential and poignant speakers of the recorded age"
Internet Speech Resources
Public Speaking
Selected Speech Sites
Speech and Transcript Center
Speech Tips and Resources
Web English Teacher
Aisle Say---Reviews of productions from around the U.S.
Backstage.com---Big Website with electronic casting, subscription, membership, newsletter, articles and links
Curtain Call---(UK)
Curtain Up
Method Stanislavsky System for actors and directors
Playbill Online
What's on Stage---(britain)
American Dialect Links
Aaron Shepard's RT Page---Resources for reader's theater, including the acclaimed multicultural script series for young people, Reader's Theater Editions
ARAN PRESS
Carnegie Mellon University English Server---This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre.
Children's Theatre Plays--Scripts, stageplays, for young audiences, families. Directors, producers and teachers will find scripts for touring or mainstage with curriculum tie-ins
Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
Direct Plays---We're an online catalogue of plays and services designed to make staging a production as easy as possible.
The Drama Book Shop
Drama related research and publication sites
The Dramatic Exchange---is a Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays. We aim to provide a place where playwrights can make their plays available, and where producers and readers can look to find plays uploaded here by the playwrights.
Dramatists Play service
ICM Catalogue of Plays--- ICM is the UK's largest talent and literary agency, representing some of Britain's most exciting playwrights.
Inter-Play---provides easy access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Most of the plays cited are not
indexed in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index.
Playwrights Union of Canada--- A searchable catalog of Canadian plays.
SAMUEL FRENCH, INC---Play Publishers and Author's Representatives Founded in 1830 Samuel French pioneered the concept of providing published scripts to theatrical producing groups throughout the world
Shakespeare Web
Zartmo---One-act plays for adults and kids to do. Collections and single scripts. Royalty-free performances for students, teachers, grade schools, college, and theater classes.
The Dramaturgy Pages---Resources for/on theatre dramaturgy and the work of dramaturgs
Dramaturgy Resources
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
Eighteenth-Century Chronology
Theatre Ephemera--- collection of images primarily from the Nineteenth Century theatre in the United States.
This Month in Theatre History
Medieval drama links
RECEPTION OF THE TEXTS AND IMAGES OF ANCIENT GREECE IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY DRAMA AND POETRY IN ENGLISH
Shakespeare's Globe
TheatrePedia--- "The ELAC Internet Theatre Library. An online Library of theatre documents, history, craft and other theatre resources."
This page compiled by Marsha Keenan Last update January 2005
