100 X Brecht
(Recommended by Colin Connolly.)
Page about project to celebrate 100th anniversary
of Brecht's birth in a wide variety of ways.
a s17 page site devoted to peter handke's plays
(Recommended by michael roloff.)
handkedrama.scriptmania.com is an offshoot trom the mainsite handke.scriptmania.com; it will provide all necessary resources once completely assembled
Access to theatre areas
(Recommended by Heinz Pusitz.)
Theatre areas are intentionally considered wordwide with a clear concept of the collected links..
All Theatre Arts
(Recommended by Marilyn Cameron.)
A new and wonderful resource for Drama Workers and those involved in Community Theatre Arts covering drama,dance and movement, in fact, All Theatre Arts!
American Variety Stage
Library of Congress: Vaudeville and popular
entertainments, 1870-1920. Houdini, playbills,
sound recordings, English and Yiddish
playscripts. Among the materials available
online, page images of 257 English playscripts,
most of them unpublished, and 146 playbills. A
resource of rare value
Aphra Behn Page
Ruth Nestvold's carefully crafted tribute to
the 'shady and amorous' playwright whose remains
are now enshrined in Westminster Abbey
Aristotle on Greek Tragedy
(Recommended by Larry A. Brown.)
of interest to those studying Greek tragedy
Asian theatre resources
A compendium of Asian and Asian-American links
maintained by the University of San Fransisco
Brecht 100th Anniversary Page
Brecht Performances and resources
British Women Playwrights around 1800
Detailed bibliographies, full-text online plays, discussions, scholarship. Excellent resource.
Buiding a bridge in Derry
(Recommended by Joanne Jones.)
Outlines the work of The Derry Repertory Theatre, Derry, N.Ireland. This group have strived to create a theatre for all the people in Derry.
Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection, Rome, Italy
(Recommended by Maria Teresa Iovinelli.)
online catalogues, several digital projects under development
Calendar Online- A Guide to Orlando Theater, Museums and the Arts
(Recommended by Anda Geisler.)
Your Orlando city guide to find Orlando Theater, Museums. Classical Music and the Arts.
�anTiyatrosu
(Recommended by Kenan Halis Kizildag.)
We are a producor company for child theatre in Turkey. Our theatre group establish at 1984 and We were formed in April of 1984.
Cenalus�fona
(Recommended by Ant�nio Jos� Silva.)
Theatre from Portugal, Brasil, Angola,
Mo�ambique, S�o Tom�, Cabo Verde e Guin�-Bissau
CoffeeTime
(Recommended by Svetlana Kartashyan.)
Catalog "Theatres of the world".
Confederation Centre of the Arts
(Recommended by Sarah Hastelow.)
Canada's National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation, Home of The Charlottetown Festival, Anne of Green Gables-The Musical plays to sold out crowds each summer
Conti, Trait� de la com�die (1667)
Original texts reflecting the attitudes of the early church fathers and various Councils to the theatre and actors. Full hypertext edition in French, edited by Mark Bannister. A fine resource.
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
(Recommended by Eun Jung Gonzalez.)
On-goning dance performance series in New York city
De-scribing Law: Performance in the Constitution of Legality
Discusses the historical centrality and
contemporary resurgence of performance -
"restored behavior" - in the creation and
perpetuation of law and legal values
DramaShare Christian Drama Resources
(Recommended by John Alexander.)
Eighteenth Century resources
Jack Lynch's great resource. See especially the
links to 'literature' and 'electronic texts'
Eugene O'Neill electronic archive
Includes full-text online plays, newsletters, discussions, audio archives etc
Euripides links
Simple introduction
European medieval drama
Exploring the paradoxes: on comparing film and theatre
Essay on the differences between two dramatic genres
Florence Mills - The Little Blackbird
First black woman to be featured in her own show
on Broadway, first black performer to top the
bill at the Palace. Good supporting material on
vaudeville, etc.
German Drama gateway
German plays in Spanish translation
In Spanish and German
Goethe and Moreno
By Eberhard Scheiffele. Solid article on psychodrama and Moreno's view of Goethe as a forerunner. First published in the Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry, 49(2),
Goethe bytes
Grotowski
Personal essay by Serge Ouaknine of UQAM
Grotowski: Igniting the flames
Detailed article on Polish director Jerzy Grotowski
Guide to developing a youth theatre
(Recommended by Michael Burns.)
A new book on developing a youth theatre troupe for educators and human services workers. Workhops avaialble.
Guide to Theatre in Africa
Historical relations between theatre and film: The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ibsen Studies Centre
Important British theatre recored 'live' on Video
(Recommended by Robert Marshall.)
Digital, multi-camera 'live' video recordings of important stage productions available on VHS and eventually DVD. Great performances and plays available to audiences around the world.
International Chekhov Fund
The International Chekhov's Fund (ICF) is in process of its foundation under recommendations of the Council of world culture history (Russian Academy of Sciences), and Chekhov's commission (Russian Academy of Sciences).
Karagoz - Alpay Ekler's site
Historical introduction, fine illustrations (including 19thC page reproductions), music transcriptions and sound recordings
Kathanjali
The shadow puppets of Kerala, India
Le Th��tre de la foire � Paris
Barry Russell's extensive hypertext site built
around litle-known 17th and 18th century
playscripts, many not available elsewhere,
created by acrobats and puppeteers, from which
developed much later popular entertainment.
Includes bibiliographies, chronologies,
biographical notes, theatre plans, original
documentation (often from primary archival
sources). First published 1995, and still
expanding. [In French.]
Lettre sur Grotowski
London Theatre Tickets for musicals, comedies, concerts, etc
(Recommended by Michael Smith.)
This is the first theatre related site that I have found that consists of good up to date reviews and information pertaining to many of the latest performances in London.
Malaysian theatre notes
Brief notes on indigenous Malaysian theatre forms
from the Asian Theatre Centre in Penang
Marcel Marceau Foundation
Devoted to the work of the great French mime,
Marcel Marceau
Materials for the construction of Shakespeare's morals
(Recommended by Ben Schneider.)
Texts from Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, North,
Montaigne, Elyot, Spenser, James I, Hall
MetaMOOphosis
Moby Dick! The Musical
Official web site for the show.
Modernist Theatre Directors: Erwin Piscator (1893-1966)
Short biography of the German theatrical director and producer. In German, with photo
Moliere's Tartuffe in Marathi : Awataar
(Recommended by Praveen Bhole.)
Centre for Performing Arts, which is popularly
known as Lalit Kala Kendra, recently performed
the Marathi version of Moli�re's Tartuffe :
Awat�r. The Marathi text and directed by Praveen
Bhole
Moreno and the Theater of Spontaneity
Brief article leading to fuller resources on the Austrian father of Psychodrama
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
N-Town plays
Modern spelling versions of the medieval cycle of
passion plays, with all appendices, from the REED
project in Toronto
New England Entertainment Digest
(Recommended by JulieAnn Charest.)
Just a note to let you know that your site has been linked to the New England Entertainment Digest, New England (& New York's) premiere entertainment monthly.
On Editing Women Playwrights' Works in an Electronic Environment
by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. Part of the site devoted to British Women Playwrights around 1800 (see above)
Online Review London
(Recommended by Richard Frost.)
Online Review London is an internet review magazine for the performing arts in London. It mainly covers theatre, ballet and other forms of dance, and it will soon be extended to cover performance art, opera and concerts.
OPSIS - Spectacles du Grand Si�cle
(Recommended by Guy Spielmann.)
(Access controlled by password subject to
registration.) Virtual Resource Center on the
Performing Arts, 16th-18th century. Images,
Glossary, Biographies, Bibliography, Chronology,
Links, Original introduction to selected texts.
(In French)
Oudeis
Out of print Broadway Posters and more......
(Recommended by Randy Fisher.)
We are the only site that sell out of print Broadway posters from 1960's to 1980's on the internet
Period and style for designers
Peter Barnes
Piscator's Political Theatre
(Recommended by Klaus Wannemacher.)
Variety of historical documents about the director
Production Notebooks
(Recommended by Mark Wellman.)
Interesting experiment: day-to-day logs being
kept by working actors and directors in production
Racine et Port-Royal
Part of the tercentenary celebrations. In French
Radio Drama Teaching and Learning Site
Scripts, teaching advice based on solid experience. Maintained by Alan Beck at the University of Ke2nt in Canterbury, UK
Ray Walston interviewed
Re-orienting semiotics: performance, philosophy and theory
Records of Early English Drama
Solid, authoritative scholarly resource based in
Toronto
Revue Marivaux
Online version of this distinguished and well-established journal. The site also offers a range of services for 18thC theatre scholars
Ricketts' Circus
Ring Around the Collar: American Comedy and the Clergy
(Recommended by Larry A. Brown.)
of interest to those studying American drama and culture
Rivendell's Greek Drama Page
Royal National Theatre Archive
(Recommended by Louise Ray.)
These pages give basic information regarding the holdings of the Royal National Theatre Archive and how to contact the Archive. There is also on-line information regarding past productions at the National.
Sam Shepard
Excellent survey and details of Shepard's career.
Bibliographies, interviews, etc.
School and theatre
(Recommended by J�lia Nagy and Csaba Kedves.)
This is the homepage of Research Group for the Old Hungarian Dramas, which studies Hungarian 16-18th century schooldramas.
School theatre -- Iskoladr�ma
(Recommended by Kedves Csaba.)
Shelley Winters interviewed
Sopanam
(Recommended by Kavalam Panikkar.)
This is about classical sanskrit theatre and folk plays and training in sanskrit theatre
STEM~Net's Drama Home Page
(Recommended by Michael Coady.)
a valuable curriculum resource for teachers and students of theatre and drama
teatrex : teatro in extremadura
(Recommended by teatrex.)
teatro en extremadura salas compa��as festivales de merida badajoz c�ceres
Teatro latinoamericano - cuerpo y pol�tica
(Recommended by Magaly Muguercia.)
Essays on Latin American theatre and on
Performance Studies (Body and Politics)
tersgidenlerin adresi
(Recommended by Oguz Arici.)
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
(Recommended by Amanda Wrigley.)
An inter-disciplinary research project working towards the establishment of the international history of ancient drama in performance
THE BROADWAY WIG COMPANY
(Recommended by ROBERT-CHARLES VALLANCE.)
The Development of Stage Spectacle
(Recommended by Frank Mohler.)
Fascinating animations, plus database of early
stage machinery
The Electronic Theatre Archive
By Jane Moody. A thoughtful look at the future of theatre scholarship
The New Deal Stage - Selections from the Federal Theatre Project Archives
This online presentation includes over 3,000
images of items selected from the Federal Theatre
Project Collection at the Library of Congress.
Featured here are stage and costume designs,
still photographs, posters, and scripts for
productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History
of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for
Power, a topical drama of the period. The Federal
Theatre Project was one of five arts-related
projects established during the first term of
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The On-Line Theatre Reviews Site that Covers the UK
(Recommended by Rod Dungate.)
Perceptive and informed theatre and performance reviews across the UK. Fully searchable and all available free.
The Public-Domain Shakespeare
The Shepperd Website
(Recommended by Piers Shepperd.)
290 Web Links to Technical Production Companies (sorted by category e.g. lighting, sound, security etc)
The Stephen Sondheim Stage
Th��tre de P.-Y. Millot
Interview with Pierre-Yves Millot. In French
Theatre history cybercourse
Only known site on theatrical performances among allied prisoners in Germany during WWII. Many vivid illustrations. Also a tribute to the actors (some professional and some amateur) involved.
Theatre research in Canada
TheatreHistory.com
(Recommended by Walt.)
LOTS of articles on theatre history!
This Month in Theatre History
(Recommended by Richard Finkelstein.)
This is a unique resource online. It is especially useful as a means of encouraging discussion on our theatre arts heritage. The site can also allow users to plan ahead for major theatre celebrations and anniversaries.
Tiyatro Keyfi
(Recommended by kemal Basar.)
Actual news, companies, performances of Turkish theatre, articles, photo gallery, downloadable scripts of famous Turkish playwrights
TOYS Theater - to see. to feel. to savor.
(Recommended by Marina Fanshteyn.)
16-years old Internationally Renown Deaf Professional Theater won hearts of any audience regardless of age, language, culture and beliefs
Traditional Turkish Shadow Theatre KARAGOZ
(Recommended by Emin Senyer.)
karagoz hacivat shadow theatre
Turkey's dramatic tradition
Karagoz (shadow puppets), story-telling,
improvisation, puppetry and conjuring. The site
is still under construction, but looks like it'll
become a useful resource when it's matured
USA Plays for Kids
(Recommended by Sandy Asher.)
Links to children's playwrights' Web pages and other useful resources, including the AATE Directory of Award-winning Plays.
uta hagen's acting class -- the video
(Recommended by karen ludwig.)
this is the first time a major acting teacher is recorded on video teaching master acting classes!!! uta hagen is brilliant; also interviews with jack lemmon, christine lahti and whoopi goldberg; all former students; a must for any theater
Views and reViews
(Recommended by Mark Wellman.)
A new journal of commentary by working theatre
and film professionals
Voyages in Drama with Ibsen
(Recommended by Francis Pitt.)
Brian Johnston shares his insight into Ibsen's dramatic artistry, exploring
it's immense range, complexity, beauty, and imaginative daring, with the goal
of establishing an adequate interpretation of this great dramatist.