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A Guide to Theatre

This is a guide to library resources on theater and drama arts.

Associations

American Society for Theatre Research
National Endowment for the Arts
NEA is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.
Drama UK

Costume and Dress

Angel of Fashion
Costume Page
Collection of costume-related links
English Actors at the Turn of the 20th Century
History of Costume
Ebook by Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880
Milieux Costume Site

Theatre Listings

Broadway.com
New York and London theater information
New York Theatre Wire
Drama, performance art, music, alternative theater
iNtuitons Experimental Theatre
American Repertory Theater

Festivals & Awards

Dramatists' Resources

Full Text of Plays

English & American Literature
Libraries Connect Ohio
EServer Drama Collection
Includes public domain plays as well as recent plays submitted to the site by playwrights.

Reference Sources & Web Directories

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
INTER-PLAY
An online index to plays in collections, anthologies & periodicals
Dictionary of Opera Characters
Oxford University Press
Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide
A Brief Guide to Theatre & Performing Arts Internet Resources
Stetson University
Literary Resources - Theatre and Drama
Rutgers University, Newark
Playbill
News, listings, features, industry, multimedia, reference, celebrities, shopping
Voice of the Shuttle: Drama, Theatre, & Performance Art Studies
UC Santa Barbara

Shakespeare Resources

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs
Lesley Ellen Jorbin
Cleveland Shakespeare Festival
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare Library
Research and teaching materials about Shakespeare from the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare Authorship Page
A site examining (refuting) some of the arguments against Shakespeare's authorship.
Shakespeare in Quarto
British Library
Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance

Theatre History

American Society for Theatre Research
CESAR (Electronic Collection of French Theatre Resources)
In French & English
Didaskalia
Online Journal for Ancient Performance

International Resources

Macnas
Ireland's leading community arts and theatre company
Theatrales
Collection of resources and full text links to plays (in French)
UK Theatre Web

Reviews

Aisle Say
The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews and Opinions