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Music
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - see Emmy Online for the annual Emmy Awards.
- Actors' Equity Association - Site highlights include News, Casting Call, a database of job notices searchable by type of contract, type of job notice or location and a Resource Center with Related Web Sites.
- Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900: A Calendar of Performances - Edited by Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross, with the assistance of Theodore Seward, Systems Analyst, the project provides a detailed account of every performance, actor, singer, dramatist and front-of-house personality connected with the Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London from 1806-1900.
- Allison Delarue Collection - William Seymour Theatre Collection, Princeton University
- American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 - Collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress.
- American Conservatory Theater - Located in San Francisco, the ACT is one of the nation's leading resident professional theaters and the recipient of a Tony Award for outstanding theater performance and training.
- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
- American Repertory Theatre - Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is information on Company Actors and biographies of staff, playwrights, composers, set designers, costume designers, lighting designers, and sound designers. Also includes information on past productions.
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 - Multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. "Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language play scripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings, and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini."
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Really Useful Company. Official website dedicated to the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
- Artifact: Best of the Web in the Arts and Creative Industries
- Arts Council England -
- Ashihara Collection - Description of the performing arts collection in the National Diet Library of Japan. (NDL Newsletter 116, October 2000.)
- Associated Press: On Broadway Podcasts - On one, "Jane Waldman speaks with Martha Plimpton and Michael Cerveris, two of the stars in Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline', now playing at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater."
- BBC Radio Four
- David Mamet - Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture, 18 November 2008. (28:16)
- Backstage - "Performing arts gateway for the UK."
- Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts - George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- La Bibliotheque Musee de l'Opera - Bibliothèque nationale de France. Full-text of Nouveau recüeil de dance de bal et celle de ballet (1713). From Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- Blogs:
- Terry Teachout - Wall Street Journal drama critic.
- Bloomingdale's Screen Test - Directed by Jennifer Venditti, July 2009.
- Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow
- British Arts Festivals Association - Calendar, directory and map for over 100 arts festivals across the UK.
- Broadway League - "National trade association for the Broadway industry. Our members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in New York and more than 250 other North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the theatre industry."
- Canadian Actors' Equity Association
- CBC Program Guide - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Dance
- Theatre
- Film and Television
- Music and Opera
- Arts Today
- Artscape
- Arts@Ottawa
- CBC Arts Canada
- Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles
- Centre national des Arts
- Chautauqua Institution - Located in Jamestown, New York, Chautaqua offers personal enrichment for all ages. "Over 2,000 events each season include: symphony, opera, chamber music, visual arts, dance, theater, popular entertainment, open-enrollment classes, programming for young people."
- Cirque du Soleil - Montréal
- College Light Opera Company - Falmouth, Massachusetts (508-548-0668). CLOC "seeks to provide fine Broadway stock musicals to summer audiences on Cape Cod, while at the same time giving young talent a chance to begin a career in music theatre. The group consists of 32 talented singers, a fine 17 piece orchestra, and 12 dedicated technicians. The Company is selected annually from applicants in colleges and universities all across the country."
- Comédie-Française - Paris. The Histoire sections provides biographies and photographs of actors.
- Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online - Julie Zatterberg, Seattle, Washington
- Costumer's Manifesto - Tara Maginnis, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Cuban theater Archive - Archivo Teatral Cubano - Cuban Heritage, University of Miami Libraries
- Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) - "Interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. A collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, CPANDA is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts."
- CurtainUp - Online theater magazine.
- CyberDance: Ballet on the Net - Rose Ann Willenbrink's collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet.
Dance Companies
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - New York
- American Ballet Theatre - Provides biographies of ABT Dancers. The Library offers a Ballet Dictionary with videos of the dancers performing the movements (requires Quick Time for Windows) and a Repertory Archive a "comprehensive list of the Company's repertoire..."
- Ballet Hispanico - New York
- Ballet russes - In French
- Bill T. Jones - Arnie Zane Dance Company
- Bodyvox
- Compagnie DCA - Philippe Decouflé
- English National Ballet
- Johannes Wieland
- Joffrey Ballet - Chicago
- Mark Morris Dance Group
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- Momix - Moses Pendleton
- Nederlands Dans Theater
- New York City Ballet
- Pacific Northwest Ballet
- Paul Taylor Dance Company
- Troika Ranch Dance Theater
- Twyla Tharp
- American Dance Festival - Durham, North Carolina. See also ADF at Duke Libraries and Dance on Film and Video
- Bates Dance Festival - Lewiston, Maine
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival - Oldest and most comprehensive dance festival in America located in Lee, Massachusetts.
- Ravinia Festival - Highland Park, Illinois
- Vail International Dance Festival
- Working Dance Festival
- English biennial festival "presents seasons of international dance, commissions new work and engages local people directly in creating and performing dance. It works with associate artists, international artists in residence and guest artists."
- DanceUSA
- Dance Heritage Coalition
- Dance Online - Contemporary dance and performing arts.
- Dancing by the book: A catalogue of books, 1531-1804, in the collection of Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin
- Dell'Arte - "Internationally acclaimed touring ensemble"
- Development of Scenic Spectacle - Described by its creator, Frank Mohler - a professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance
at Appalachian State University - as "a site devoted to the study of Renaissance and Baroque theatrical spectacle."
- Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today - Published by the University of Warwick and edited by Sallie Goetsch and C. W.Marshall.
- Digital Performance Archive - Nottingham Trent University project "traces the rapid developments taking place which combine performance activity with new digital technologies - from live theatre and dance productions that incorporate digital projections, to performances that take place on the computer-screen via webcasts and interactive virtual environments." See also the Live Art Archives which "holds information about existing Live Art / Performance Art materials, records and publications primarily in England and the UK."
- Directors Guild of America
- Drama Book Shop - 250 W. 40th St., New York, NY, 10018-1511. 2011 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
- Drama Desk - Organization of journalists, critics, and writers who cover New York theatre, and give awards honoring Broadway, Off-Broadway, not-for-profit, and Off-Off-Broadway productions. Drama Desk Awards
- Dramatists Play Service - Use the PlayFinder to search for plays.
- eOneill.com: an electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
- East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts (ELAC) - There is a collection of Plays & Monologues.
- Edinburgh International Festival - Summer festival offers over 200 shows including theater, dance, and music. (See also Edinburgh Festivals and Edinburgh and Lothian Tourist Board.)
- Empire Period Drama - 65 French plays from the Napoleonic Empire period (1800-1815) (University of Warwick Library).
- English Server Drama Collection - "Collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre."
- Festival D'Automne - Performing-arts festival in Paris
- Fresh Air - National Public Radio show hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY of Philadelphia has searchable audio archives. There are a number of interviews with actors including Sarah Jessica Parker (7/19/02), John Cusack (3/28/00), W. H. Macy (1/28/00), Audra Macdonald (2/29/2000), Tony Kushner (12/9/03), Alec Baldwin (12/8/03) and Mike Nichols (3/22/02), Diane Keaton (2/27/04)
- Gate Theatre - Dublin. See RTE Radio Ireland interview by Eamon Dunphy with Michael Colgan , Director of the Gate Theatre (13 October 2007).
- Ghostcatching: a virtual dance installation - Bill T. Jones and the new-media studio Riverbed have produced this nine-minute video commissioned by Cooper Union.
- Golden Globes
- Goodspeed Opera House - East Haddam, Connecticut
- Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays - John Hay Library, Brown University. The collection is cataloged in
Josiah the Library's online catalog. The Library also has a exhibition on G.B. Shaw:
The Quintessential GBS: Selections from the Sidney P. Albert - George Bernard Shaw Collection.
- Harvard Theatre Collection
- Ibsen Centre - Their Manuscripts Project put online over 19,600 pages of digital facsimiles of Ibsen's manuscripts, accessible from the Norwegian pages.
- Infomine: Visual and Performing Arts - Scholarly Internet resource collections.
- International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS) - With links to
Members (by country),
Research Sites and
National Collections.
- Internet Broadway Database (IDBD) - "Official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today." (League of American Theatres and Producers)
- Inter-Play - Index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals and in a variety of language contains approximately 16,130 citations. Maintained by Robert Westover and Janet Wright, Humanities Librarians, Portland State University.
- Irish Theatre Online - Created by the Irish Theatre Institute and described as "a comprehensive guide to professional drama, dance and opera in Ireland, North and South." Their Irish Playography Project is "a comprehensive database of new Irish plays produced professionally since 1904."
- Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
- Jellyeye Drum Theater
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Washington, D.C. With
Calendar. Has information on
Ballet and
Theater.
Kennedy Center Honors is an annual televised celebration recognizing the talents and lifetime achievements of deserving
artists.
Millennium Stage has an
Archive of past performances.
- Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival - February 11 - February 17, 2002, Washington D.C.
- Keith Prowse Theatre, Sport & Concert Tours
- Kirov Ballet Academy
- The Kitchen - Soho (New York) arts center offers video, music, dance performance, film and literature.
- Library of Congress Online Catalogs - Includes the Library of Congress Online Catalog, a database of approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library's collections. Try using the Left-Anchored Phrase Search which will perform a phrase search. The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog and SONIC (Sound Online Inventory & Catalog) are also useful.
- Léon Bakst (1867-1924) - Set and costume designer for the Ballet Russe. See L’art decoratif de Le´on Bakst; essai critique par Arse`ne Alexandre; notes sur les ballets par Jean Cocteau, Paris, M. de Brunoff, 1913.
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room
- Library of Congress Presents Music, Theater and Dance - Performing Arts Digital Library, formerly known as I Hear America
- Life Photo Archive - Hosted by Google. Some examples of searches:
- Ellen Terry
- George Balanchine
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - New York.
- Live Broadway - The League of American Theatres and Producers
- London Theatre Guide - Darren Dalglish
- Lucille Lortel Foundation - "Non-profit foundation established to continue the largess of its founder, Lucille Lortel, in the field of Off-Broadway."
- Lucille Lortel Awards
- Lortel Archives (Internet Off-Broadway Database) - Catalogue of shows produced Off-Broadway.
- MacArthur Fellows Program - Choreography & Dance: Jeraldyne Blunden, Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, Liz Lerman, Susan Marshall, Arthur Mitchell, Mark Morris, Eiko and Koma Otake, Elizabeth Streb, Paul Taylork Twyla Tharp; Theater and Performing Arts: Luis Alfaro, Lee Breuer, Martha Clarke, Richard Foreman, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Jerzy Grotowski, Bill Irwin, John Jesurun, Elizabeth LeCompte, Meredith Monk, Michael Moschen, Han Ong, Suzan-Lori Parks, Willie Reale, Bruce Schwartz, Peter Sellars, Anna Deavere Smith, Ellen Stewart, Julie Taymor, Naomi Wallace, Mary Zimmerman.
- Making of America - Digital library of primary sources in contains over 8,000 books and journal volumes with imprints between 1850 and 1877. Joint project of the University of Michigan and Cornell. Titles include A record of the Boston stage (1853) by William W. Clapp, jr.; Bibliotheca dramatica. Catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of the late William E. Burton, the distinguished comedian, comprising an immense assemblage of books relating to the stage (1860); The British drama: a collection of the most esteemed tragedies, comedies, comedietta, operas, and farces, in the English language; and Scenes from the life of an actor, compiled from the journals, letters, and memoranda of the late Yankee Hill (1853) by George Handel Hill. Terms to search for in the title or citation: acts, drama, farce, theatre, comedy, as performed at, as played at, A play, etc.
- McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies - Maintained by Ken McCoy, a professor of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts at Stetson University, the site is a good starting point for locating important resources in theatre.
- Michael Chekhov Studio - Non-profit theatre company offers seminars, intensive acting workshops, classes, showcases, play and video production and networking opportunities. See also Chekhov Theatre Ensemble (Brooklyn).
- Milieux: the Costume Site - Lauren Podolak's collection of "online costuming sources for historical, science fiction & fantasy costumers."
- Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design - "Sample of sketches from six of the Shakespearean productions were digitized from slides made of the images and fully indexed to create a database for scholars and others interested in theatre history." (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library.)
- Music, Theater and Dance Resources on the Internet - Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room.
- Musicals.Net - Searchable site provides songlists, lyrics, links, synopsis for over 80 popular musicals.
- National Association of Ticket Brokers - With list of members.
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase).
- New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939 - Over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured 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.
- New England Folk Festival Association (NEFFA) - With links to contra sites statewide
- New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music and Dance - University of New Hampshire
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- New York International Fringe Festival
- New York Magazine - Critics section has reviews by John Simon.
- New Yorker Magazine - Provides full-text access to selected articles from the current issue, including book, movie, theatre and music reviews.
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Has an extensive collection of links to Electronic Resources. The Billy Rose Theatre Collection has Finding Aids. Provides access to Dance Collection Catalog
- New York Theatre Wire - Theatre, dance, performance art, music, alternative and international theatre.
- New York Theatre Workshop - 79 East Fourth Street, located between 2nd Avenue and Bowery (Third Avenue).
- New York Times: Arts - Free registration. The Year Broadway Was Worth the Ovation by Ben Brantley, December 24, 2006.
- New Yorker: Goings On About Town - Theatre - Theatre in NYC: openings, previews, opened recently and long runs. There's also a section for Dance.
- nytheatre.com
- Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting - "International competition open to screenwriters who have not earned more than $5,000 writing for film or television." With Nicholl Fellows 1986 to Present.
- 19th Century Actors Photographs - University of Washington Libraries
- 19th Century London Stage: an Exploration - Project of PhD students in Theatre History and Dramatic Theory at the University of Washington School of Drama.
- Norman Bel Geddes, 1893-1958, Theater and Industrial Design Papers, 1873-1964 (bulk 1914-1958) - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas.
- OBIES - Off-Broadway Theater Awards originated by Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice in 1956. With database of over 40 years of awards.
- Official London Theatre Guide - Search by title of show, type of show. date, name of theatre or browse the list of all productions.
- Ohio State University Dance Program -
- On Broadway WWW Information Page - Joe Geigel
- Online Classics - Classical music, ballet, musicals and theatre.
- Opera
- Aria Database - Searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type. Includes translations, texts and midi files. (Maintained by Robert Glaubitz.)
- English National Opera
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - Librettos, plot summaries, clip art, song scores, audio files and newsletter articles. Maintained by Jim Farron & Alex Feldman.
- Glimmerglass Opera - Cooperstown, N.Y.
- Glyndebourne Opera - Lewes, East Sussex, UK
- J. Warren Perry Collection of Photographs - University of Buffalo collection has more than 1800 photographs "The focus of the collection is opera, with images of singers, productions, conductors, and concert halls. There are also photographs of ensembles and instrumentalists. Many of the photographs bear inscriptions from the artists to Dr. Perry. The documentation is international in scope and is a striking visual record of many of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century."
- Light Opera Works
- Metropolitan Opera - New York
- Metropolitan Opera Guild
- New York City Opera
- Opera America
- Opera Magazine
- Opéra national de Paris
- Opera Schedule Server - Tamás Máray, Hungary
- Operabase Index - Database of 300 opera houses and festivals
- OperaGlass - Richard S. Bogart
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts - Lyle Neff. (Part of Fifi's Homepage.)
- Royal Opera House - London
- La Scala - Milano
- Variations - "Experimental prototypes of the ways in which musical scores and recording liner notes might be used in conjunction with sound recordings available online." A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the site provides Online Musical Scores for Opera Literature.
- Paris Review Interviews - The Paris Review is known for its extensive interviews with writers, poets and playwrights. Starting in 1953 and still continuing, the interviews are lengthy, revealing and entertaining. Be sure to read the descriptions of interview settings which are full of interesting details on clothing, furnishings, and manners. These Art of Theater interviews, listed alphabetically below, are provided free online by the Paris Review. There are many more but you have to purchase the issue. There is an Interview Archive, organized by decade and alphabetically by name, and an advanced search.
- Edward Albee - The Art of Theater No. 4, Issue 39, Fall 1966. Interviewed by William Flanagan.
- Lillian Hellman - The Art of Theater No. 1, Issue 33, Winter-Spring 1965. Interviewed by Anne Hollander and John Marquand.
- Eugene Ionesco - The Art of Theater No. 6, Issue 93, Fall 1984. Interviewed by Shusha Guppy.
- Arthur Miller - The Art of Theater No. 2, Part 2, Issue 152, Fall 1999. Interviewed by Christopher Bigby, Olga Carlisle and Rose Styron.
- Harold Pinter - The Art of Theater No. 3, Issue 39, Fall 1966. Interviewed by Larry Bensky.
- Tom Stoppard - The Art of Theater No. 7, Issue 109, Winter 1988. Interviewed by Shusha Guppy.
- Wendy Wasserstein - The Art of Theater No. 13, Issue 142, Spring 1997. Interviewed by Laurie Winer.
- August Wilson - The Art of Theater No. 14, Issue 153, Winter 1999. Interviewed by Bonnie Lyons and George Plimpton.
- Period and Style for Designers - Architectural, decorative and furniture styles for costume and set designers; Tulane University.
- Performing Arts Books - Database of over 35,000 books, maintained by NetStoreUSA.
- Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) - Based at the University of Glasgow, PADS "collects and promotes the use of digital data resources to support research and teaching in the performing arts."
- Performing Arts Encyclopedia: A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress - "Guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance." Searchable by field or format, limit your search to online collections and browse by name, title and subject. Includes special presentations:
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923
- Amazing Grace
- Katherine Dunham Collection
- Great Conversations in Music: A Series of Films Hosted by Eugene Istomin
- Library of Congress Concerts
- Roger Reynolds Collection
- Patriotic Melodies
- Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 - New York Public Library's "searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the Performing Arts Library collections."
- Performing Arts: Internet Resources for Music, Theater, and Dance - Library of Congress
- Performing Arts Links - Annotated collection of links compiled by Maria Teresa Lovinelli a librarian at the Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection, in Rome, Italy.
- Philadelphia Inquirer: The Arts - There are Theatre Podcasts by Howie Shapiro.
- Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal - German choreographer. See also Stanford Presidential Lectures: Pina Bausch
- Playbill Online
- Playwrights Union of Canada - With information on members.
- Playwrights' Workshop Montreal - Their Carol Libman On-line Script Collection offers full-text of 30 scripts by Canadian playwrights.
- Princeton University Public Lecture Series - Archived lectures include:
The Playworld and the Empire: The Twenty-first Century and the American Playwright, October 25, 2005 lecture by Paula Vogel (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright).
- Princeton University: Web Media - Archived lectures include:
The Paul Taylor Dance Company: "A Conversation with Paul Taylor, with Maura Keefe, dance historian,
April 29, 2005; and April 4, 2002 - Tony Kushner, Playwright: "An Evening with Tony Kushner", April 4, 2002. (J. Edward Farnum Lectures.)
- Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) - With links to Member Companies.
- Proper Elizabethan Accents
- Public Theater - New York
- Puppetry Home Page - Rose Sage's collection of links to puppetry resources around the world.
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
- Royal Court Theatre - London
- Royal National Theatre - Royal National Theatre of Great Britain provides a list of the best One Hundred Plays of the Century.
- San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
- Scenic Images
- Scottish Theatre Archive - Held by the Special Collections Department of Glasgow University Library, the collection is searchable by the University's online catalog. Collection Holdings includes material on Sir Harry Lauder: 1870-1950.
- Screen Actors Guild
- Seeing Ear Theatre - Sci-Fi Channel offers featured readings. Hear H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror, Robert Heinlein's Destination Moon and Michael Straczynski's City of Dreams.
- Shakespeare
- Alabama Shakespeare Festival - Montgomery
- Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Colorado Shakespeare Festival - Boulder
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Jeremy Hylton, MIT
- Folger Shakespeare Library - Washington, DC. Provides access to Hamnet, the library's online catalog.
- Furness Shakespeare Library - Collection of primary and secondary sources, including both texts and images, that illuminate the theater, literature, and history of Shakespeare, Shakespearean texts, theatrical production, and criticism made available by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Browsable and searchable, the project provides digital facsimiles of many of Shakespeare's plays.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - Terry A. Gray
- Oxford Shakespeare - 1914 Oxford edition, edited by W. J. Craig of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare with the text of 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse. Fully searchable. From Bartleby.com.
- Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival - Founded by Joseph Papp.
- Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799 - Richard Bear, University of Oregon. Includes 37 plays of Shakespeare.
- Royal Shakespeare Company - Stratford-upon-Avon
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Shakespeare Mystery - Argument over the authorship of Shakespeare is the subject of this PBS Frontline broadcast. Site offers seven full-text articles.
- Shakespeare Oxford Society - Seeks to "document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford as the universally recognised author of the works of William Shakespeare."
- Shakespeare Resources - Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
- Shakespeare's Stratford on the Web - Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K.
- Stratford Festival of Canada - Ontario, Canada theatre festival runs from May to November.
- Shaw Festival - Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
- Siminovitch Prize in Theatre - "Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre honours a professional director, playwright or designer who advances Canadian theatre through a body of work achieved in recent years, while influencing and inspiring younger theatre artists."
- Society of Dance History Scholars - With Site Index. The have compiled a comprehensive collection of Links to Online Resources.
- Stagebill - Locate theatre, dance, opera, jazz and classical performances with their Performance Finder
- STAN - Acting Company in Antwerp
- Talkin' Broadway
- Telecharge - "Official ticket source for most of New York City's theatres."
- Terry Teachout - Blog of Wall Street Journal drama critic
- The Stage - Creators of Stage 100: 100 most influential people in theatre
- Theatre Central - Originally developed by Andrew Quixote Kraft, this large collection of theater links is now maintained by Playbill On-Line.
- Theatre Museum - UK. People Play has 1500 images from the museum's collection
- Théâtrales - "Collection de textes et d'hypertextes en français sur le théâtre qui a été fondée le 1er mai 1995 par André G. Bourassa, professeur à l'Université de Québec à Montréal, et par Barry Russell, Visiting Fellow de l'Université Brookes d'Oxford."
- theatre-link.com - Scott Naef
- TheaterMania.com - Covers theater in New York and other cities (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Toronto). The site is searchable and offers news, reviews, interviews, video clips and information on awards.
- Theatricopia: An abundance of links and more for Musical Theatre fans - Jill Hobgood, who is a reference librarian at Saint Mary's College, has compiled this well-organized collection of musical theatre Internet resources.
- Ticketmaster Online
- TicketWeb - "Full service ticket distribution company which became the first in the world to sell event tickets over the Internet in 1995 and is the industry leader in low cost Internet based box office solutions. Most importantly, we are the only company dedicated to lowering service fees through the use of state-of-the-art technology."
- Tony Awards - American Theatre Wing. With Nominees & Awards.
- Triptych A Digital Initiative of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries - "Draws from four repositories — Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections; the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which focuses on social reform and issues of peace; and the Haverford College Library Special Collections, which shares with the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College the stewardship of the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends." You can search within Theater Photography from the Theresa Helburn Collection , an image database with "descriptions and low-resolution copies of over 1100 production and publicity photographs relating to the Theatre Guild. Each photograph has been indexed by photographer and by subject, and, where applicable, by play title and playwright." Use the Advanced Search option and limit you search to the Theresa Helburn Collection . A search within the collection for portraits, for example, retrieves over 300 items.
- Turnabout Theatre Archive - Adult marionette comic drama, live music and comedy from 1941 to 1956. The Los Angeles Public Library online collection contains digitized photographs, documents, props, and costumes.
- UK Theatre Web
- University of California, Berkeley Media Resources Center - Provides an annotated list for Dance on Video as well as other useful performing arts resources.
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections - See the 19th Century Actors Photographs "610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s."
- Village Voice
- Village Voice: Theater
- Village Voice: Dance
- Obies Theater Awards
- Voice of Dance - Dance reviews and interviews.
- Voices From the Smithsonian Associates - "Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors." With Online Programs Topical Index. Speakers include Kenneth Branagh, Carol Burnett, Sarah Caldwell, Robert Duvall, Les Paul, Neil Simon and Betty White.
- Williams Watson Theatre Collection - Dartmouth College Library. There is a searchable Theatre Clippings Collection (Thespis) and a searchable Theatre Program Collection (Playbills)
- Williamstown Theatre Festival - Williamstown, Massachusetts.
- Wolf Trap - Vienna, Virginia
- WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama - Barry Russell's collection of "pointers to resources in more than 40 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages." Electronic text archives and plays online is a collection links to plays that are available in full text versions online for free.
- Yahoo: Performing Arts: Centers
- YouTube