Theatre

• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870 - 1920

  The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 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.
• Internet Public Library Stagecraft & Technical Theater Resources

  This pathfinder is for people who are interested in the backstage aspects of theatre, whether it be building sets, designing scenery, lighting a show, doing make-up, building costumes, or affecting the mood of a scene through music. This guide is divided into online sources (websites, mailing lists, newsgroups) and print sources.
  
  
• Internet Shakespeare Editions

  On this website, you will find one of the web's widest varieties of Shakespeare-related resources, including fully annotated texts of his plays and poems, exciting multimedia materials and records of his plays in performance, and thousands of searchable pages devoted to the history, arts, politics, society, and stage of Shakespeare's world, as well as biographical details of his life.
• NTC : The National Theater for Children
• Performing Arts in America 1875 - 1923

  Performing Arts in America 1875-1923 presents a searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the Performing Arts Library collections. Included are clippings from newspapers; composite photographs, called "keysheets" that contain large numbers of reduced-size promotional shots; music sheet samples featuring popular music, show-tunes, jazz and dance music; photographs of theater, dance, and popular performance; and publicity posters.
• Theater History on the Web

  This site has been maintained since 1996 to provide easy access to useful research sites throughout the world. Theatre practitioners as well as scholars will find these listings to be of value.
• World Wide Arts Resources

  Theater Arts provides information on all performance genres from Shakespeare to street arts. This section is for theatre actors and audiences with listings of both schools of acting and performances.
• The WWW Virtual Library for Theater

  Here you will find pointers to resources in more than 50 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages. The site is multi-cultural and multi-lingual.