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Theatre - Selected Internet Resources



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Websites

Theatre

Find Plays Online

Inter-Play
An online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals.

Project Gutenberg
electronic texts

The New Deal Stage
Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939

The Mercury Theatre on the Air 
Audio files of the original radio plays

Noh Plays
Full text of thirteen traditional Noh plays

ISU Play Concordances
Concordances for ten plays

William Shakespeare in Quarto
"On this site you will find the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by William Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642."

Internet Shakespeare Editions
"[S]cholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance."

Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
"Included here are all of Marlowe's plays, his two known poetic works, Hero and Leander and The Passionate Shepheard to His Love, his translations of Ovid and Lucan, and the short miscellaneous works attributed to Marlowe, a dedicatory epistle to Mary, the Countess of Pembroke and the epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood."

playdatabase.com
"Find the script that fits."

Comedia Textlist
Full text of Spanish plays -- some in English, most in Spanish.

Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
"[P]resent[s] a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997."

Costume Resources
Costume Site
The Costume Page
Regency Fashion Page
History of Costume by Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880
London College of Fashion: College Archive -- VADS source of fashion from 1902-present

McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
American College Theatre Festival (Region IV) - Information about the festival's Southeast Region.
North Carolina Arts Council - Gateway to many other NC arts organizations.
North Carolina Theatre Conference - (under construction)
Southeastern College Art Conference - Supports art education by those in higher education within the visual arts.
Southeastern Theatre Conference - SETC has an annual conference usually around Spring Break... auditions, design competitions, workshops, etc.
Theatre Jobs - An employment finder and database of resumes.

US Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) - One of the world's largest design and technology organizations.
Obie Awards
Playbill on-line
Tony Awards Online

Voice of the Shuttle
Theatre Central (by Playbill Online)- A large compendium of theatre related links. Includes many links for educational institutions and theatre companies.
WWW Virtual Library Theatre and Drama

University of Indiana Department of Theatre and Drama
Yahoo
: Performing Arts
Theater
Applied and Interactive Theater Guide

The websites above are suggestions to aid in your research. They are not intended to be a specific endorsement of content, other than that the Randall Library believes it to be a useful research resource. They are not a comprehensive list of resources for this topic and should not be the reseracher's only resource. The Randall Library is not responsible for the validity or relevance of content on the websites above, nor does it purposefully mean to mislead the researcher towards a specific topic, philosophy, or concept.

Last Update: December 12, 2005