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Theater
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Actors' Equity Association 
 Official website for the union of American theatrical actors and stage managers. The site features a database of casting calls (searchable by region), material relating to the operation of the union and union membership, national and regional equity agreements, lists of association award-winners, and an illustrated timeline of the associations' activities from 1913 through 2003. Also includes material about the Broadway "ritual of the gypsy robe." http://www.actorsequity.org Topics: Labor, Performing Arts Last updated Jan 31, 2006 ACTS: Atlantic Canada Theatre Site
This "is an academically-refereed Internet site which publishes a wide range of primary research materials of interest to Canadian theatre scholars, and to social, cultural, and political historians of the Atlantic region." It includes a chronology, bibliography of Canadian theater reviews from 1900 through 1992, bibliography of theater history in Canada through 1984, images of playbills from the 19th century, and selected Canadian theater texts. Articles are only available to subscribers. http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, History By Place, Performing Arts Last updated May 19, 2005 American Ballet Theatre (ABT)
Includes a calendar of performances, profiles of dancers, information on ABT educational and training programs, and photos. See "Library" for a ballet dictionary and a repertory archive. http://www.abt.org/ Topics: Dance, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Jul 13, 2005 American Playwright Miller Dies
Feature about the February 2005 death of playwright Arthur Miller. Provides an obituary, photos, video clips from Miller's plays, a list of his works, quotes about Miller, and a tribute to Miller by playwright Harold Pinter. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4258065.stm Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Performing Arts, Writing Last updated Feb 16, 2005 American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
This site "illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920." Includes a biographical chronology of escape artist and magician Harry Houdini, theater playbills and programs, sound and video clips, and Yiddish and English-language playscripts. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject and author. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Judaism, Performing Arts Last updated Nov 12, 2007 The Arthur Miller Society Official Web Site
The Web site for this organization presents details about the life and works of playwright Arthur Miller (1915-2005). Features a chronology of his life, brief synopses of his works, and links to related articles and Web sites. Also includes a list of current productions of Miller's plays (such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible") in the United States. http://www.ibiblio.org/miller/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Performing Arts, Writing Last updated Feb 16, 2005 Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
This site features information about the life and works of early 17th century playwright and poet Ben Jonson. Includes a biography, bibliography, the full-text of poems and plays, critical essays, and links to additional information about Jonson. From Luminarium. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Performing Arts, Poetry, Writing Last updated Oct 5, 2004 Broadway: The American Musical
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "documentary series that chronicles the Broadway musical throughout the 20th century and explores the evolution of this uniquely American art form." Features essays on the history of the Broadway musical, a musical theater timeline, information about popular musicals, and profiles of performers, choreographers, directors, and other individuals. Includes trivia, lesson plans, and related resources. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/ Topics: Lesson Plans, Music, Musical Genres, Performing Arts, U.S. History By Place Last updated Feb 15, 2005 The Centre for Ibsen Studies
The site includes a brief biography, chronology, searchable international bibliography, and access to manuscripts and letters written by Ibsen himself. ("Digital facsimiles exist of approx. 19,600 pages. The material can be accessed [only] from the Norwegian pages.") Also includes information about the centre's conferences and related links. From the University of Oslo. http://www.hf.uio.no/ibsensenteret/index_eng.html Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Performing Arts Last updated Oct 2, 2004 The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition
Complete works of the Elizabethan playwright, including his plays "Tamburlaine the Great," "Doctor Faustus," and "The Jew of Malta"; his poetic works; his translations of Ovid and Lucan; his short miscellaneous works; and other works. Texts can be displayed side by side, with each edition's textual variants hyperlinked to other editions for comparison. Part of the Perseus Project Digital Library at Tufts University. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Performing Arts, Poetry, Writing Last updated Jan 16, 2007 Copenhagen
Companion site for the PBS/Community Television of Southern California (KCET) production of Michael Frayn's play, Copenhagen , which is concerned with a mysterious 1941 meeting of physicists Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. The Web site has background material on the two scientists and Bohr's wife, Margrethe; a glossary of scientific terms used in the play; a timeline of the relevant physics history; and links to additional resources. http://www.pbs.org/hollywoodpresents/copenhagen/ Topics: Performing Arts, Physics Last updated Oct 3, 2002 Criteria for the Evaluation of Dramatizations of the Passion
This pamphlet establishes the criteria for evaluating depictions of the passion of Christ, and stresses the appropriate presentation of passion plays. It quotes Pope John Paul II's statement that Catholic teaching should aim to present "Jews and Judaism, not only in an honest and objective manner ... but also with full awareness of the heritage common [to Jews and Christians]." Opens directly into a PDF file. From the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. http://www.usccb.org/seia/CRITERIA.PDF Topics: Christianity, Nonfiction by Genre, Performing Arts Last updated Apr 27, 2004 Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today
"An English-language publication about Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today. The name Didaskalia is taken from the inscriptions used to record the outcomes of drama and music festivals in Athens." Includes information about stagecraft, lists of performances and other events, and images of ruins and computer reconstructions of theaters. It is managed by an international editorial board. http://www.didaskalia.net Topics: Magazines, Musical Genres, Performing Arts Last updated Dec 29, 2005 Digger Archives: San Francisco Diggers (1966-68 ... and Beyond)
Devoted to the San Francisco-based "anarchist guerilla street theater group" from the 1960s, The Diggers. Contains a history, chronology, photos, publications, documents, articles, discussion forum, and more. http://www.diggers.org/ Topics: Activism, California: Arts and Humanities, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections, Society & Social Science Last updated Sep 9, 2006 Directory of Outdoor Drama in America
Browsable list of outdoor drama events in the United States, organized by location and by category (historical dramas, religious dramas, and Shakespeare festivals). From the Institute of Outdoor Drama, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/depts/outdoor/dir/ Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Jul 8, 2004 Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (DPS)
The DPS "represent[s] the American theatre by publishing and licensing the works of new and established playwrights." Features the DPS catalog of recently published and newly acquired plays ("The PlayFinder"), a list of award-winning plays, author bios, and industry links to various theater awards, costumes, sites, music rights, and more. Also includes a FAQ discussing licensing, copyright, and fair use. Searchable and browsable. http://www.dramatists.com/ Topics: Holidays & Observances, Notable People, Performing Arts, Writing Last updated Aug 18, 2007 Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
This companion to a 2000 book on ventriloquism "makes available the Dumbstruck Archive of texts and images relating to the history of ventriloquism." Includes the first chapter of the book, selected articles and text of presentations, and links to historical material on topics such as divination, scientists and ventriloquism, popular explanations (from the 18th and 19th centuries), performers, and talking machines. From a British author and professor. http://www.stevenconnor.com/dumbstruck/ Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Aug 6, 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
In 1947 "eight theatre groups turn up uninvited to the first Edinburgh [Scotland] International Festival. The inn is full so they check in at venues away from the big public stages. The first Fringe has been born." This festival takes place each summer and features theater, comedy, music, and dance performances. The site includes a history of the festival, a festival calendar, a photo gallery, maps, and Edinburgh tourist information. http://www.edfringe.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Musicians, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Recreation, Recreation, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 8, 2007 Edinburgh International Festival
Describes the festival that "brings to Edinburgh [Scotland] some of the best in international theatre, music, dance and opera and presents the arts in Scotland to the world. It is an annual event held over 3 weeks in late summer using all the major concert and theatre venues in the city." Includes history of the festival, documents from past festivals, and a searchable guide to festival events. http://www.eif.co.uk/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Musical Genres, Performing Arts, Recreation, Recreation, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated May 16, 2005 English Folk Play Research Home Page
This extensive resource focuses on English folk plays, also called Mummers' Plays, that are "short traditional verse sketches performed at Christmas, Easter and other annual festivals and taken round pubs and private houses." Find background, news, scheduled performances, research indexes and catalogs, scripts, reading lists, related links, and more. Searchable. From the Traditional Drama Research Group at the University of Sheffield, England. http://www.folkplay.info/ Topics: Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated Jan 29, 2004 eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
This resource contains online texts by and about the American dramatist; audio files of several prominent stage, radio, television, and film productions; critical essays and theater reviews; and a biography. Features images and transcripts of O'Neill's letters and notes, photographs, manuscripts, and ephemera. Searchable. http://www.eoneill.com/ Topics: Correspondence, Literary Movements and Periods, Literature & Books, Notable People, Performing Arts, Writing Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience documentary that "tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him." Includes an illustrated timeline, O'Neill play chronology, photo gallery, video clips of famous actors discussing O'Neill and performing, program transcript, and teacher's guide. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/oneill/ Topics: Notable People, Performing Arts Last updated Mar 27, 2006 French Theatre
Companion to an exhibit of rare books related to French theater. Features the text of the catalog with links to images from selected works by Molière, Racine, Voltaire, Sartre, and others. From Monash University (Australia) Rare Book Collection. http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/french/ Topics: Literature by Place, Performing Arts Last updated Jan 9, 2008 Harold Pinter.org
Official website of "playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist" Harold Pinter, who was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature. Features information about productions of his plays, selected poetry, information about his political activities, bibliographies of works by and about Pinter, images, and more. http://www.haroldpinter.org Topics: Authors by Region, Performing Arts Last updated Oct 20, 2005 Heading West, Touring West
This site is based on two New York Public Library exhibitions. The first "traces the evolution from an imagined to a defined and mapped American West. Through impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900, the website presents an overview of the mapping process, which continues today." The second "celebrates the [19th century] creators, promoters, and performers of professional theater, music, and dance who toured the American continent." http://www.nypl.org/west/ Topics: Geography, Maps, Performing Arts, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Mar 15, 2004 Inter-Play: an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals
This Web site displays citations for theatrical plays. The authors claim that most of 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 ." Currently, there are over 17,500 citations of plays ranging from ancient to modern. Foreign language as well as English plays are indexed. A user may search by playwright or by play. Edited by two humanities librarians from Portland State University. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/ Topics: Performing Arts, Writing Last updated Feb 11, 2004 The Internet Broadway Database
"The official archival database for Broadway theatre information...provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today." Search by show, people involved (actors, directors, set and costume designers, stage managers, producers, theater owners, etc.), theater, or character. http://www.ibdb.com/ Topics: Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts, U.S. History By Place Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Internet Shakespeare Editions
Find here "scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance." Includes materials dealing with the overall structure of the editions, refereed materials, a database of historical and current performance records, less formal texts useful to Shakespearean scholars, links to related sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance, and a discussion forum. Searchable. From a Canadian university. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/ Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Nov 4, 2007 Iowa State University Play Concordances
Browsable concordances of Shaw's "Candida," Hellman's "The Children's Hour" and "The Little Foxes," Miller's "Death of a Salesman," Ibsen's "A Doll's House," Strindberg's "The Father," Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," Norman's "'night, Mother," and Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun." Each concordance includes a complete alphabetical word list and full text of dialogue, but no information about staging or criticism. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~spires/concord.html Topics: Literature & Books, Performing Arts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Mar 17, 2005 Justin's Drama and Theatre Links
A large collection of links to all aspects of theater, including history, practitioners, genres and styles, playwrights, scripts, companies, stagecraft, costumes, education and curriculum resources, and much more. Searchable. Maintained by the head of the drama department at Avila College, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.theatrelinks.com/ Topics: Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts, Writing Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Kabuki for Everyone
Features a brief history of Kabuki; audio clips and descriptions of musical instruments; traditional Japanese theater links; and a demonstration of a makeup session, showing the transformation of a male actor into a woman. http://park.org/Japan/Kabuki/kabuki.html Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Mar 9, 2006 The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the Library of Congress: An Annotated Bibliography
This annotated bibliography of almost 1,300 Yiddish plays from the Library of Congress "sheds light on the vibrant popular culture of Jewish immigrants to the United States." Includes indexes to the Yiddish titles and English titles in Roman characters, and a brief overview of Yiddish theater in America. Bibliography compiled by Zachary Baker, curator of Judaica at Stanford University. Opens directly into a PDF file. http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/marwick/marwickbibliography.pdf Topics: Judaism, Performing Arts Last updated Jun 22, 2005 Medieval Drama Links
A briefly annotated collection of links to sites featuring texts, articles, and information on costume, music, set design, and more. http://collectorspost.com/Catalogue/medramalinks.htm Topics: Dragons, Dreams, & Daring Deeds, History, Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts Last updated Feb 14, 2005 Molly Picon
A biography of Yiddish theater and film star Molly Picon, who "helped keep Yiddish culture alive by bringing it out of the shtetl and into mainstream American culture." There are photographs of the actress, her performances, her family, and her husband, producer Jacob "Yonkel" Kalich. From the "Jewish Women's Archive." http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/picon/ Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Judaism, Notable People, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections Last updated Nov 6, 2007 The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
A browsable collection of images of items derived from the Federal Theater Project, established by Franklin Roosevelt as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Includes production notebooks, costume designs, playbills, posters, musical scores, and photographs from productions of Macbeth , The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus , and Power ; playscripts of other productions; and related Administrative Records . From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. lii.org Record of the Month, October 2001. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html Topics: Holidays & Observances, Literary Movements and Periods, Performing Arts, Presidents by Name Last updated Jun 25, 2002 Noh Plays
This site provides the text of thirteen traditional Noh (No) plays from the medieval period, in Japanese and English. Background information on the Noh style of Japanese theater (in Technical Terms ) and a glossary are also included. The plays are searchable. Displaying or inputting Japanese characters requires Japanese client software. A link is provided to a site explaining how to obtain this type of software. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/noh/ Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Dec 17, 2000 Official London Theatre Guide
Comprehensive guide to what's on where in the West End. Search by title of show, type of show, date, name of theater or browse the list of all productions. Provided by the Society of London Theatre. http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/ Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Aug 2, 2002 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Includes a calendar of plays presented during the current season, membership and volunteer information, theater history, a list of productions since 1935, reviews, outreach information for schools and "playgoers of all ages," resources for teachers, and more. http://www.osfashland.org/home.aspx Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Mar 17, 2005 Our Town
"Actor/director Paul Newman's first appearance on Broadway in 38 years is a highlight of the Westport Country Playhouse production of Thornton Wilder's classic 'Our Town' which played to sold-out audiences on Broadway." This 2003 PBS Masterpiece Theatre companion website features essays and interviews (including with Paul Newman), who's who in cast and credits, story synopsis, classroom guide, and links and bibliography. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/ourtown/ Topics: Performing Arts Last updated Sep 29, 2008 Passion Plays
"Passion plays are related to medieval mysteries and highlight the events of the Easter triduum, usually from the last supper to the resurrection." This site, through text and images, illustrates how Mary is depicted in passion plays. From the Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton in Ohio, "an international center of research and study on the role of Mary in Christian life." http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//resources/drama.html Topics: Christianity, Holidays and Observances Individually, Performing Arts Last updated Feb 1 | |||