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• Alberta Playwrights' Network
• Aisle Say
  Stage reviews and opinion from across the USA. Updated weekly.
• American Association of Community Theatres (AACT)
• American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
  Founded in 1956 to promote serious scholarship in the theatre. Runs the mailing list, ASTR-L.
• American Theatre Works
  Includes details of Dorset Colony House, writers' colony, in Vermont
• ArtsNet's Theater Sites
• Association for Classical Hispanic Theatre
• Associazione Nazionale Critici di Teatro, Italy
• Australasian Drama Studies Association (ADSA)
• Australian Institute of Arts Management
• Backstage Callboard
• Back Stage Newspaper, USA
• Baker's Plays, Boston. Est. 1845.
• Bibliothèque National de France: Dép. des Arts du Spectacle
• Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library
• Buzz NYC Casting Bulletin Board
• Callboard
  US jobs, chat, who's who, etc.
• Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT)
• Centre des Auteurs Dramatiques (CEAD), Montreal
• Centre for Performance Resaearch (CPR), Wales
• Centre national du théâtre, France
• CICA Theatre Project Images
• Cinovation
  Distributors of Scriptware word-processing for writers.
• Culturefinder
  Weekly survey of performing arts.
• Currency Press, Australia
  Plays and theatre books in print.
• Dramatists, US play publishers
• Dress Circle Online, London's showbiz shop
• Educational Theatre Association
• ELAC online theatre resources, East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts
• Erté Museum of Fashion and Theatre Designs
• E-Script, Internet Scripting Workshop
• Entertainment Technology Online (ETEC)
  Includes guide to technical resources. Back issues of the magazine, Lighting Dimensions, available online in PDF format.
• Filistrucchi, Florence, Italy
  The oldest wig and make-up shop in the world.
• Guide du théâtre en Afrique
• Guide to Applied and Interactive Theater
• IATSE, Internet access for the Stagehands' Union
• Improv Page
  A clearinghouse for information about improvisational theatre.
• Institute of Outdoor Drama, North Carolina, USA
• International Amateur Theatre Association (IATA)
• International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
  
• International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA)
• Internet Stage and Screen Resources
• Juggling Information Service
• Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute(TRI), Ohio State University
  Collects, preserves, maintains, and makes accessible research materials pertaining to performing arts, with a primary emphasis upon live performance.
• League of Historic American Theatres
• Lesbian and feminist plays
• Lighting Links
• LZA - Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv für deutsch- und fremdsprachige Literatur
• MetaMOOphosis, Rick Sacks
  Interactive online theatre based on Kafka. Highly experimental.
• Musicalfreunde Deutschland
• MusicSearch
• National Association for Drama Therapy
• Native American Women's Playwrights Archive, Miami University
• Non-Profit Management, Neil Berkowitz
  Online resource for US public-service arts management
• New Dramatists, New York
• New School Acting (Jeremy Whelan), Philadelphia
• New York Theatre Exchange
  Online discussion forum for students and professionals
• North European Amateur Theatre Alliance (NEATA)
• Northwest Playwrights Guild
• Opera Schedule Server
• Organisation Internationale des Scénografes, Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre (OISTAT)
• Performance Animation Society, Los Angeles, USA
  Puppeteers, mimes, computer animators and others
• Peruvian Playwrights Home Page
• Playbill On-line, New York based ezine
• Playwrights Forum, DC, USA
• Playwrights on the web
• Playwrights Union of Canada (PUC)
  Includes searchable catalogue of Canadian plays, Who's Who, etc.
• Readers Theatre Editions, Aaron Shepard
• RIDEAU
  Diffuseurs de spectacle du Québec
• Samuel French, London. Also in North America
• Scenery design and CAD
• Screenwriters and Playwrights home page (Charles Deemer)
• Société Internationale des Bibliothèques et des Musées des Arts du Spectacle(SIBMAS)
  International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts.
• Society for Theatre Research (STR), London
• Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC)
• Studio Z, Chicago
  Arts organisation running "Playwrights in electronic residence" scheme
• Talentworks
  Online casting, USA
• Tasmanian Association for Drama in Education (Drama TAS)
• Ten-minute play contest,Irvine, CA
• Theatre Library Association, New York.
  Established in 1937 to promote the collection, preservation, and use of theatrical and performing arts materials. Membership includes librarians, scholars, curators, archivists, performers, writers, designers, historians, collectors, and students.
• The Costume Site
• The Script Shop
  Based in Los Angeles. Over 2500 film scripts and growing.
• Tower Lighting, USA
• Voltaire Foundation
• Worldwide Fringe Festival Listings

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Created 28 April 1996. Last update 23 February 1999