Theatre Subject Guide

Guides | Specialized Sites | Musical Theatre | Shakespeare | Electronic Journals | Organizations | Bookstores l Movie Reviews

Guides

• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
• Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online
• Costume Site
  Online costuming for historical, science fiction and fantasy costumes.
• History of Costume, 1861-1880   
• Lighting Resource
• McCoy's Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies (Stetson University
• Theater Sites (Carnegie Mellon University)
  Directory of Arts and Cultural Websites.  
• WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama
• The World of Mime Theatre
• World Wide Arts Resources - Performing Arts Index
• Yahoo: Performing Arts

  Specialized Sites

• Abingdon's Historic Barter Theatre
• ALEX: Catalog of Electronic Texts (University of California, Berkeley)
  Browsable by author, title and file name. Most texts are in the public domain.
• Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
  40,000 humanities texts.
• InterPlay  - searchable play index.
• Metropolitan Opera
• New York City BalletTicket Master
  Tickets available via Internet for performances in the U. S.
  

  Musical Theatre

• Cole Wide Web: Cole Porter Shrine
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
• Larry Taylor - Billy Matthews Musical Theater Archive
• Musical Cast Album Database
  Searchable information on 3,298 recordings of Broadway and other musicals.
• Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
• Shubert Theater Organization N.Y.
• Theatricopia: an Abundance of Links and More for Musical Theatre Fans (Saint Mary's)

  Shakespeare Theatre

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Proper Elizabethan Accents (Renfaire)
  Pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, songs, etc.
• Rebuilding of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre:
• Shakespeare Resources on the Internet 
• Shakespeare Web
  Interactive site to increase the popular understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare.
  

  Electronic Journals

• Aisle Say--Internet Magazine With Stage Reviews and Opinions
• Curtain Up
• Didaskalia: A Journal of Ancient Theater
• Playbill On-line
• Stage Directions
• TDR: The Drama Review
• Theater Magazine: a Magazine Published by the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre
• Theatre and Drama Journals

          Organizations

• Drama League

          Bookstores

• Backstage Book Shop
  Online bookstore focused on design and technical theater.
• Baker's Plays
  Leading source for theater needs, scripts, etc.
• Internet Theatre Bookshop

          Movie Reviews

• Film and History Journal
• Internet Movie Database
• Metacritic.com
• Movie Review Query Engine
  reviews of 21,000+ films
• Search Roger Ebert Movie Reviews
• Washington Post Movies