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Theater
 
Actor's Theatre of Louisville
One of the country's leading nonprofit regional theatres, from this site you can get information about current and upcoming productions and theatre news.
American Association of Community Theatre
This nonprofit corporation serves both individuals and organizations by providing expertise, assistance, and support for community theatres. This website includes information about books and music, plays on video, events and festivals, and play sources. Membership information and an application are also available.
American Society for Theatre Research
ASTR was established in 1956 to provide an organization and public voice for theatre scholars and to promote theatre as a field for serious scholarly study and research. This site provides a variety of resources from around the world.
American Theatre
This site provides access to American theatre sites that are not usually found via internet search engines.
Children's Theatre Resource Webpage
A site devoted to the support and advancement of quality children's theater, it is intended for adults doing theater for children. Includes many useful links, including a state-state directory of children's theaters.
Dramaturgy Pages
This site is an extensive guide to how the Internet can be used for dramaturgy. It includes an extensive index of resources for historians, databases of play scripts (including public domain texts), links to other sites about dramaturgy and general theater resources.
International Theatre Design Archive
This site is from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, which promotes all aspects of design and production in the performing arts. This site is an attempt to provide an electronic archive to scenic, costume and lighting designs. Indexed by title, playwright, designer and producer.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
This library houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. The Research Collections include dance, music, the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.
Theatre Central
Presented by Playbill Online, this site is billed as "the largest compendium of theatre links on the Internet". Included is a search engine for names and contact information of individuals in the business.
Theater Resources
This is an alphabetical, fully annotated listing of Internet resources on theater.
Theatre Ephemera
"The focus of this site is primarily on theatre of the United States prior to 1900."
Theatre Library Association
This is the website of the non-profit, educational organization established in 1937 to promote the collection, preservation, and use of theatrical and performing arts materials.
Theatrepedia
This is an internet Theatre library from East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts (ELAC). It includes subject links and an index to subject headings.
WWW Virtual Library: Theater and Drama
This site provides links to a broad range of resources across the world: professional, academic and recreational. The scope is multi-cultural and multi-lingual. It includes a section on theatre images and a search engine.
Yahoo!: Performing Arts
This is a comprehensive and thoroughly indexed search engine for retrieval of WWW Performing Arts and Theatre Resources.
Dance
Dance Links
This is an extensive list of web links to dance resources, indexed by category.
Dance Resources
This is an alphabetical, fully annotated listing of Internet resources on dance by the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.
Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
This collection is the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance in all its manifestations- ballet, ethnic, modern, social, and folk.
Yahoo! Dance Links
This is a comprehensive and thoroughly indexed search engine for retrieval of performing arts and dance web resources.
Electronic Journals
Aisle Say: The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews and Opinion
This frequently updated listing of full-text, theater reviews, includes a listing of previous reviews of current or recent attractions indexed by region.
Didaskalia
An electronic source for the latest developments in Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today.
Playbill Online
This is a fulltext electronic version of the print journal of the same name. It includes U.S. and international theatre news, industry news (including casting and jobs and a college database), multimedia resources and reference support.
Stage Directions
The online version of the print magazine of the same name, this site provides hands-on help in virtually every area of community, regional and academic theater. Also included is a subject index of articles.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 09-Oct-2007 11:07:10 EDT