Theatre

• American Theatre Wing -- "American Theatre Wing has been an integral and influential part of the theatrical community for the better part of seven decades. Adapting its activities for each successive theatrical generation, ATW focuses today on programs and activities which help students, audiences and members of the theatrical community itself to learn more about what makes theatre tick from the people who make it so vital."
• American Variety Stage- -bibliographies, playbills, play-scripts, sound recordings and more...
• Ancient Theatre -- resources.
• Audio Interviews with Selected Actors
• Audio Interviews with Selected Playwrights
• AWOL:Sites about Acting and the Acting Business
• Broadway Worldwide
• BUBL Link: Catalogue of selected Internet resources for Stage Presentations--includes production reviews and scholarly sites on drama.
• Costume Gallery -- includes a textile reference manual, vintage photographs, history of hairstyles, patterns, online classes, and more.
• Costuming Resources--another good site, with emphasis on research, instructions and techniques, with links to suppliers. Sporadically updated, but still useful for a while yet.
• Drama Collection -- contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre.
• the ELAC Internet Theatre Library--including a hypertext glossary of theatrical terms, a guide to theatrical employment, searchable info on plays, actors, directing, and stagecraft. It has monologues too!
• Elizabethan Commonplaces--for writers and actors.
• Elizabethan Costuming Page
• Glossary of Theatre Terms
• Golden Age Of British Theatre, 1880-1920
• How to write a Play Review
• Internet Broadway Database -- search for people, performance, theatre, or character name.
• Inter-Play--from Portland State University, this wonderful service indexes plays in anthologies and collections. Searchable by author or title or both.
• Intute: Theatre and Drama --
• Irish Playography -- a comprehensive catalog of new Irish plays produced since the formation of the National Theatre. It will be presented in three stages: 1975-present (now available); 1950-1974 and 1904-1949 (launch dates to be confirmed). Searchable and browsable.
• Kabuki Pathfinder -- definition and resources (best for looking in your own library)
• McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies--web resources by broad topic (acting, stagecraft, plays, etc.), as well as a guide to finding primary sources. Links are annotated.
• Medieval Drama Links -- over 200 links with images.
• Movie Monologues by Colin  -  good brief scenes transcribed from movies. Neat!
• Musicals 101--history, 'how to', reviews, photos, and reference concerning this art form.
• National Theatre of the Deaf -- click HERE for a brief excerpt on Drama from Linguistics of American Sign Language.
• On Broadway-- Broadway and off-Broadway schedules, Tony winners, lyrics from musicals, links to other theater sites.
• Pinter -- official web site for this Nobel Prize winner
• Playwrights 101 -- a "how to"
• Shakespeare-- searchable index of collected works
• Shakespeare Photographs -- high resolution digital photos from 400+ professional Shakespeare production. Great for costume details and visualizing the scene. Searchable by title, keyword and genre.
• Speech Accent Archive -- "uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. Excellent for Actors!
• Textiles and Apparel: Cornell Costume and Textile Collection -- includes more than 9,000 items of apparel dating from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as a substantial collection of ethnographic textiles and costume. The collection is used for teaching and research.
• Thespian Theatre Webring - for actors and techies
• Theatron: Theatre History in Europe--great models of important theatres in history.