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This guide assists you in locating plays (including in the Illinet Online Catalog), in finding information about playwrights, and critiques and reviews of plays and productions, as well as in locating biographical information about an author or historical character or geographical setting, and in discovering other relevant materials.
The main place! Source for theatre related texts as well as archives.
Major independent library located in Washington, D.C. Major Shakespeare resource.
Excellent link to many resources including journals, syllabus bank, theatre image collections, mailing lists and news groups.
A good place to help you search for songs because they have short sound files of many broadway recordings. Type the name of the show in the Amazon search box, click on the link to the original cast recording, then click on the sound bite of the song you'd like to hear. They don't play the the entire song, just about a 20 second section, but you should find it helpful in getting the basic idea of what a song sounds like.
Scripts
Textbooks
Scripts
Scripts
Muscial scripts and scores
New plays, short and long. Sample pages from scripts online. Good index to find plays.
Musical scripts and scores
Scripts
Online Magazines and Newspapers
"Complete Online Performing Arts Resource". Daily updates, feature stories, casting notices, etc. Good site to browse.
Information about Chicago and Milwaukee markets. Competitor to Stagebill.
Online version of Chicago's trade newspaper. Services, ads, theatre listings, etc.
Theatre headlines, show listings, etc. Join the free club that offers theatre discounts.
Theatre headlines, show listings, and regional resources.
Broadway specific show listings and news.
Professional Organizations
Actor's Equity Association
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS Index
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC
National Endowment of the Arts
Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Society of American Fight Directors
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
University and Resident Theatre Association
United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.
Tech/Design Resources
Information on regional activities of the society. Online form to join.
Music/Musical/Opera
The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film. Especially helpful if you are looking for musicals written during a particular time period; just click on the link.
The official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics. Get a list of every production of Hamlet on Broadway or a list of your favorite actor's credits. Find out what played at a particular theatre or what shows opened in a specified Broadway season.
The Lortel Archives provide a catalogue of shows produced Off-Broadway.
Provides a point-of-entry into a wide array of informational files about classical music -over 3400 files at Classical Net and over 2400 links to other classical music web sites.
Formerly the Musicals homepage. Synopses, links, songlists for musicals.
An opera information server on the World Wide Web. Information on operas, composers, libretti, discographies, etc.
Database of Broadway productions including details of every Broadway show including cast, creative staff, producers, and scanned copies of the original opening night Playbill.
Acting
The British Library Sound Archive has a large collection of recordings suitable for the study of accents and dialects. Most oral history collections held by the Archive contain recordings of dialect and accent interest, and searching the catalog by locality or place-name is one means of accessing such material.
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This website was created in 1997 as a repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. Its home is the Department of Theatre and Film at the University Of Kansas, in Lawrence, KS, USA; while associate editors form a global network. All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and you will find both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages. The recordings are downloadable and playable for both PC and Macintosh computers
A clearinghouse for information about "improvisational theatre." Lots of information on games, books, other links related to improvisational theatre and techniques.
Dance
Dance and Gymnastic apparel. Every item in the store is $10.00
Site covers various styles of dance with connections to specific companies, as well as dance books, schools, supplies, etc.
Shakespeare
Complete works available as well as other resources
Ready to download
Website for the festival, includes play dates and showtimes.
Miscellaneous
Chicago theater home pages.
Well maintained and annotated list of links over a HUGE range of subjects -- well organized.
All Theater. All the Time.
Decatur's Community Theatre
The Official Website of The American Theatre Wing's Tony Award