Theatre

The Kennedy Center's free digital resource for teaching and learning in, through and about the arts.

HAT is a non profit website that aims to encourage the study of Australian Theatre History. It has a large database of people associated with Australian theatre history, articles about theatre history, short biographies from the newspapers, autographs , historic pictures of theatres and performers and links to other websites. It also has information about Houdini's Tour of Australia and a section on Australian Magic History.

A clearinghouse for information about improvisational theatre.

Helpful for finding information about Latin American theatre.

This site is an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet, and presents unique Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet

Collection ranges from 1827 to the present day, including playbills and programmes to press cuttings and photographs. It also has themed essays to contextualise the material and maps showing theatre locations.

Resumes, headshots, websites, auditions, and books.
~ Louis E. Catron

Broadway auditions, musicals, audition preparation.

This site is all about period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century. Access 4000 costume pictures through a database, read one of hundreds of articles, or download some authentic period patterns.

A directory of all things costume.

A resource for those who use theatre techniques
for other or more than arts or entertainment
purposes, and for those whose theatre styles
incorporate other than traditional presentation styles.

Annotated guide to theater- and performance-related Internet resources, including Web sites, newsgroups and e-mail lists.

This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre.

Backstage World is the web for people working in showbiz and like to look around for the latest equipment in sound & light industry,price lists or find out where to rent sound ,light,stage equipment. Tour / crew info and company list & crew,booking agents,sound&light technician pool, and so on....

This site is dedicated to providing technical and general information on lighting equipment, both old and new.

Special effects glossary.

Includes layout sheets, stage math, and safety instructions.

A public service to promote an online community devoted to the sharing of ideas and information regarding the lighting industry.

Technical information about stage rigging equipment.

The knot site on real knots in rope.

A listing of products that Strand has produced over the years and is for the use of folk who still use those products, and those who are interested in them.

A technical theatre information portal.

The one-stop online for professionals creating and working in musical theatre.

by John Kenrick
(Copyright 1997-2010)

~ Library of Congress, Performing Arts Reading Room

3555 recordings of Broadway (and other) musicals.

Fans, cast & crew.

~ National Portrait Gallery Exhibit, 1996-97

This site describes 5534 one-act plays using four or fewer actors. It makes available unpublished and published scripts by worldwide playwrights in multiple languages and various media.

Internet magazine of stage reviews and opinions.

Provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

~ Library of Congress, Performing Arts Reading Room

An electronic edition of the print journal, which provides listings and reviews of current and archived shows of its members in the venue--defined as "an Equity showcase or non-union production of equivalent resources, being done in any of the New York boroughs." Free listings are welcomed in the electronic version.