Performing Arts: Theatre Resources Index  

• Act One Radio Drama (KPFA) - Radio drama and readings from world literature, including performances from L.A. Theater Works.
• Acting Company, The - Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley. Promotes theater and literacy by bringing a touring repertory of classical productions, talented young actors and teaching artists into communities across America, particularly those where live performance and theater arts education is limited or non-existent. Performs each year in over 40 cities to audiences of 70,000 and reaching more than 25,000 students with its arts education programs. The Acting Company has given a generation of actors the opportunity to master their craft. Alumni members include Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, David Schramm, Jesse L. Martin, Keith David, Lorraine Toussaint, David Ogden Stiers, Mary Lou Rosato, Lisa Banes, Derek Smith, Frances Conroy, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeffrey Wright and Rainn Wilson.
• Actors Center of San Francisco - Film acting and theater training. Also see Reading List.
• Actors' Equity - Founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States.
• Actors Fund - A nonprofit, national human services organization that helps entertainment and performing arts professionals in theater, film, music, opera, television and dance through a broad spectrum of social, health, employment, and housing programs that address their essential and critical needs.
• Actors' Gang, The - Founded in 1981 by a group of renegade theatre artists, The Actors' Gang is one of Los Angeles' most enduring theatre ensembles. The company has won numerous awards and acclaim for its interpretations of Shakespeare, Bruchner, Brecht, Moliere, Aeschylus, Ibsen and Chekhov, while developing in workshop new plays that address the today's world through a prism of satire, popular culture, and raucous stagecraft.
• Actors Studio - A St. Louis based theatre company which offers an on-site method acting workshop founded in October, 1947, by Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis. Lee Strasberg began teaching there in 1949. By 1951 Strasberg was appointed Artistic Director of the Actors Studio, a position he retained until his death in 1982.
• Actors Studio (Pace University) - The officially sanctioned master's degree program of the Actors Studio, now joined with and located at Pace University. All of our students participate in the craft seminars, known to the world as Inside the Actors Studio, that have brought more than 200 of the world's greatest artists to our stage for intense, in-depth, face-to-face encounters that no other academic institution can offer its students.
• Albemarle of London - London West End theatre guide. Official ticket agency. Theatre and entertainment news.
• Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) - The Ambassador Theatre Group is the UK's largest theatre group, with 39 theatres. ATG’s impressive portfolio of West End theatres includes historic buildings such as the Apollo Victoria, Comedy, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York’s, Fortune, Lyceum, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse, Savoy, Trafalgar Studio 1 and Trafalgar Studio 2. ATG’s regional theatres include The Ambassadors Woking encompassing the New Victoria and Rhoda McGaw Theatres and the award-winning 6 screen cinema complex, Ambassador Cinemas; Aylesbury Waterside Theatre; New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham; Theatre Royal Brighton; Bristol Hippodrome; Churchill Theatre Bromley; Edinburgh Playhouse; Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone; King’s Theatre and Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Grimsby Auditorium; Liverpool Empire; Palace Theatre and Opera House, Manchester; Milton Keynes Theatre; New Theatre, Oxford; Richmond Theatre; Southport Theatre; Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; Sunderland Empire; Princess Theatre, Torquay; New Wimbledon Theatre and New Wimbledon Studio; Grand Opera House, York.
• Almeida Theatre - The official web site for the Almeida Theatre, Islington, London. Under the Artistic Directorship of Michael Attenborough. Book on-line for the latest theatre and opera.
• American Comedy Archives - Emerson College, Boston, MA. The collection includes manuscripts, photographs, video and film materials, and an oral history collection. It is the first collection of its kind at an academic institution devoted to exploring the nature of comedy as an American art form and reflects the College's view that examining the history, sociology, and culture of comedy represents an important and underrepresented field of study.
• American Theatre - Publication of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.
• Antonin Artaud - Poet, essayist, playwright, actor and director. Also see resources at UbuWeb Sound.
• Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide - A resource for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes: community issues, drama therapy, interactive improvisation, playback, psychodrama, sociodrama, and more:
  • Boal Techniques
  • Drama Therapy
  • Hacktivism
  • History of Theatre
  • Playback Theatre
  • Psychodrama
  • Radical Theatre
  • Sociodrama
  • Theatre in Education
  • Training and Development
  • WWW Resources and Links
• Arcola Theatre - Founded by Mehmet Ergen in September 2000, when he converted a textile factory on the borders of Stoke Newington/Dalston into one of London's largest and most adaptable fringe venues. Creates and presents theatre of a high quality with a social and political relevance.
• ARTSEARCH - Essential source for a career in the arts. Maintained by the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) in New York.
• Backstage.com - Performing arts resource: dance, acting, film, stage, television, casting, resumes.
• Barbican - London's multi-arts and conference venue provides year round performing arts programme.
• Bill Kenwright - A leading West End theatre producer and film producer.
• Black Reperatory Theater, St. Louis - Largest, professional African-American theatre company. Provides platforms for theatre, dance and other creative expressions from the African-American perspective that heighten the social and cultural awareness of its audiences.
• Blackfriars Theatre - Blackfriars Theatre was the name of a theatre in the Blackfriars district of the City of London during the Renaissance. The theatre began as a venue for child actors associated with the Queen's chapel choirs; in this function, the theatre hosted some of the most innovative drama of Elizabeth and James's reigns, from the euphuism of John Lyly to the stinging satire of Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston. The theatre eventually passed into the control of the King's Men, who used it as their winter playhouse until the theatres were closed in 1642. Also see The Blackfriars Playhouse, the world's only replica of Shakespeare's original.
• Brava! For Women in the Arts - One of the few theaters in the country that specializes in the creation of new work, and the only one whose primary purpose is to produce outstanding world premieres by women of color and lesbian playwrights.
• Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies - Maintained by Ken McCoy, Ph.D.
• Broadway Theatre - Commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
• Broadway Theatre Archive - A catalogue of Broadway plays and works of literature produced for television over the past five decades. Among them are the anthology series produced for the three major television networks and PBS, including "Great Performances," "American Playhouse" and "Theater in America."
• Broadway Worldwide (parent of Broadway Television Network) - The first-to-market leader in the high definition, surround sound production and worldwide distribution of Broadway musicals captured live-in-performance for digital cinema, DVD, video on demand (VOD), pay per view (PPV), pay TV, wired and wireless television. The essence of Broadway Worldwide’s production mission is to capture, as closely as possible, each show as it is regularly performed on Broadway. To that end, Broadway Worldwide is the leading practitioner of recording Broadway musicals, live-in-performance, on the Broadway stage during a show’s New York run, in front of paying audiences, thereby providing a Broadway experience on screen. Prior to recording, Broadway Worldwide’s team works with the Broadway artists who created the stage show to determine and implement the optimal approach to depict the material. Performances are recorded using ten to twelve hand-held, stationery and robotic cameras and as many as 70 microphones positioned throughout the theatre
• Bunraku and Kabuki Resources - A bibliography of on-line and off-line resources.
• Cameron Mackintosh - British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York Times. He is the producer of shows such as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Martin Guerre and Cats.
• Cheek by Jowl - Formed in 1981 by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The company has performed in 295 cities in over 40 countries, spanning five continents and has received numerous international awards. There is no dedicated Cheek by Jowl base. The company is managed by freelance arts consultants who work from their own offices in London.
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare - From MIT.
• Costumes, Makeup and Actors: The History of American Theatre - Links provided by Janice D. McDonald for theatre history dating from very modest colonial performances to the most modern technology used in current productions.
• Digital Librarian: Performing Arts - Directory of links maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York.
• doollee.com - Free online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays which have been written, or translated, into English since the production of Look Back in Anger in 1956. Search for information on Plays, Playwrights, Literary Agents, Theatres or Publishers.
  
• Drama Desk - Founded in 1949 to explore the key issues of the theatre community. Each year the organization produces a series of panel discussions to spotlights areas of concern and then to educate the public about these matters. Also, the presenter each year of the Drama Desk Awards, the only awards honoring Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway and not-for-profit theatre productions equally in multiple categories.
• Dramatic Publishing - Fine plays since 1885.
• Dramatists Play Service - Browse or search catalogue of over 2,000 plays.
• eOneill.com - An electronic Eugene O'Neill archive.
• English-Language Playscripts - From the thousands of playscripts submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office at Library of Congress during 1870-1920, and now housed in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, 257 have been selected. These unpublished manuscripts include vaudeville comedy sketches, monologues, musical revue, spectacles, and other genres.
• Entertainment Sourcebook - Published on a biannual basis, this is the reference book so essential that, according to set designer Robin Wagner, "Broadway couldn't function without it." Packed with more than 5000 company entries from across the country, The Entertainment Sourcebook is an insider's guide to finding any item imaginable, be it a Civil War sabre, an animal to rent, a Greek fisherman's hat, authentic Amish clothing, 19th-century chandeliers, or human skulls. Whether you need African imported goods, china, crystal and glassware, or plumbing supplies and fixtures, this book includes the resources to find them. In addition to hundreds of pages of products and services listings organized by category, this edition features a company index, a product index, and appendices that include Web resources, support services, professional organizations, and more.
• Fado Performance, Inc. - A Canadian artist-run centre for performance art.
• Federal Theatre Project (FTP) - A New Deal project to fund theatre and other live artistic performances in the United States during the Great Depression. It was one of five Federal One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The FTP's primary goal was employment of out-of-work artists, writers, and directors, with the secondary aim of entertaining poor families and creating relevant art. Also see:
  • American Memory - The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
  • Federal Theatre Project Materials Collection
  • GMU Special Collection & Archives: Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection - Online images from George Mason University Library.
  • Living New Deal Project, California
  • New Deal Stage: Selections form the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
  • Triple A Plowed Under - Full text plus recreation-for-radio production of this Federal Theater Project drama from American Studies at the University of Virginia. In addition to providing an experiential lesson plan for teaching 30s era culture, this site explores the Federal Theater Project's "Triple-a Plowed Under" through audio, text, and imagery. As a Living Newspaper, the play draws from newspaper clippings and sources which are documented on the site. By examining the historical context of the play, this site offers an academic yet entertaining avenue into Depression era culture.
• Federal Theatre Project Materials Collection - Contains nearly one thousand different 35mm slides taken from original posters, set designs, and costume designs. These images are of the original designs used on posters to advertise Federal Theatre Project plays in many different American cities from 1935 to 1939. Also included are playscripts for twenty-two productions. The images are indexed by title, author, subject, theater, place, date, and related names.
• Frank Theatre (Minneapolis, Minnesota) - A Twin Cities' based company, founded in 1989 by Artistic Director Wendy Knox.
• Garrick Club, The - Instituted for the general patronage of drama; for the purpose of combining the use of a Club, on economic principles, with the advantages of a literary society; for bringing together supporters of drama; and for the formation of a theatrical library, with works on costume. Also see Wikipedia article.
• Guide to the Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection, 1930s - The Federal Theatre Project was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided employment for large numbers of artists, writers, and performers during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The Federal Theatre began in 1935 and, until its end in 1939, flourished as the first and only federally sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States. Directed by Hallie Flanagan (1880-1969), it was a way for theatrical professionals to gain employment during the Depression. Jobs were provided for many people, including actors, playwrights, scene designers, scene builders, seamstresses, lighting experts, ushers, box-office men, and stagehands. The Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection contains over 200 copied playscripts and radioscripts, written and performed in the 1930s for the Federal Theatre Project. Also included is a collection of 62 copied Federal Theatre programs, handbills given to the audience at the beginning of a production. There is also a copy of The Flexible Stage, a book by Emmet Lavery about the history of the Federal Theatre Project. And there are the works of several noted authors in the collection, including Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles, Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Arent, and Langston Hughes. Playscripts are available as a series in the FTP digital collection.
• Harold Pinter.org - Gateway to resources relating to playwright Harold Pinter.
• HB Playwrights Foundation and Theatre - For many theatres, economic constraints have increasingly diminished the time available for the very important work of developing and rehearsing a play. However, the HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre is dedicated to preserving and extending the development process. The HB Playwrights Foundation and Theatre is able to maintain this commitment to artistic freedom by relying on minimal budgets; the generosity of artists who donate their labor; by charging no admission to our performances; and by requesting that its productions not be reviewed. If a work is ready, it then moves on to another venue and becomes accessible to a wider public.
• HB Studio (New York) - Professional theatre training for all ages since 1945 in acting, voice, musical theatre, movement, physical improv, fencing, writing, and Young People's Classes.
• Inside Broadway - A professional New York City based children's theatre company committed to producing Broadway's classic musicals in a contemporary light for young audiences.
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) - 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.
• Internet Theatre Bookshop - Offers virtually every play currently published in the English language, arranged primarily for those of you searching for plays for performance - browse Plays by Genre where most plays include a brief synopsis and basic casting requirements.
• Internet Theatre Database - The unofficial history of theatre as provided by you and your fellow theatre fans.
• I Love NY Theater - Comprehensive multilingual online source for Broadway theater tickets and information. Find New York theater tickets here.
• It Can't Happen Here - A semi-satirical American political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. Its plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a charismatic and power-hungry politician, is elected President of the United States on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and, more importantly, promising each citizen $5,000 a year (approximately $79,270, adjusted for inflation). Once in power, however, he becomes a dictator; he outlaws dissent, puts his political enemies in concentration camps, and creates a paramilitary force called the Minute Men who terrorize the citizens. In 1936, Lewis and John C. Moffitt wrote a stage version, also titled It Can't Happen Here, which is still produced. The stage version premiered on October 27, 1936 in several U.S. cities simultaneously, in productions sponsored by the Federal Theater Project.
• Joseph Urban Stage Design Models & Documents - Background about a project to preserve "materials relating to [Joseph] Urban's New York theater career from 1914-1933, specifically the documentation of his productions for the Ziegfeld Follies and other theater producers, and his productions for the Metropolitan Opera." Features detailed illustrated essays, finding aid with images, and images of models for stage sets such as an "adobe mission with bells" for "Whoopee" (1928) and garden scene for "Don Giovanni" (1929). From Columbia University Libraries.
• Jujamcyn Theaters - The company owns and operates five theaters in New York City: Al Hirschfeld Theatre, Walter Kerr Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, St. James Theatre, and the August Wilson Theatre. Rocco Landesman, Paul Libin, Jack Viertel and Jordan Roth are the company's president, producing director, creative director and vice president, respectively.
• Justin's Drama and Theatre Links - Annotated links from Justin Cash to some of the best theatre sites on the Internet. Additionally, provides access to drama teacher resources at Cash's blog The Drama Teacher.
• L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) - Founded in 1974, the mission of L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) is to enrich the cultural life of our national community through the use of innovative technologies to produce and preserve significant works of dramatic literature on audio, and to assure the widest public access to these great works. LATW currently operates four primary programs; The Play's The Thing, Alive & Aloud, Library Access, and the Arts & Children Project.
• Lee Strassberg - Definition of Acting - "Acting is generally agreed to be a matter of less mimicry, exhibitionism, or imitation than the ability to react to imaginary stimuli. Its essential elements remain the twin requisites enunciated in the 18th century by French actor Francois-Joseph Talma: 'Unusual sensitivity and extraordinary intelligence.' The intelligence he refers to comes not from book learning but from the ability to understand the workings of the human personality..."
• Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute - Dedicated to the ideals, values, and vision of Lee Strasberg's innovative work known throughout the world as the Method.
• Lensic - Santa Fe's performing arts center: theater, music, dance, poetry and film.
• Lincoln Center Theater (LCT) - New York, New York. Plays, musicals. LCT also distributes thousands of free tickets each year to culturally under-served populations throughout the five boroughs and regularly offers special performances for the hearing impaired. Other ongoing activities include the Playwrights Program, a new-play workshop and reading series; the Directors Lab, a developmental symposium for new and emerging artists; Open Stages, an arts-in-education program operated in cooperation with New York City public schools; Lincoln Center Theater Review, a literary journal available in the Theater's lobbies and distributed free-of-charge to schools and libraries, and the Platform Series of free conversations with LCT artists.
• Living Newspaper, The - A term for a theatrical form presenting factual information on current events to a popular audience. Historically, Living Newspapers have also urged social action (both implicitly and explicitly) and reacted against naturalistic and realistic theatrical conventions in favor of the more direct, experimental techniques of agitprop theatre, including the extensive use of multimedia. Also, see this excellent example.
• Living Theatre, The - Founded in 1947 as an imaginative alternative to the commercial theater by Judith Malina, the German-born student of Erwin Piscator, and Julian Beck, an abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, The Living Theatre has staged nearly a hundred productions performed in eight languages in 28 countries on five continents - a unique body of work that has influenced theater the world over.
• London Theatre Club - Access exclusive rates and premium tickets for all the shows in the West End.
• London Theatre Guide - London theatre news, theatre listings, reviews, seating plans, tickets, theatre tours, maps, half price ticket booth.
• Louis Sheaffer Eugene O'Niell Collection - The Sheaffer-O'Neill collection is an archive of the life and works of Eugene O'Neill formed by author Louis Sheaffer's work on his acclaimed two-volume biography, O'Neill, Son and Playwright and O'Neill, Son and Artist. The success of Sheaffer's biography derives in large part from the extensive research he carried out over some twenty years, and the detailed picture of O'Neill that emerged. The Collection is located in the Department of Special Collections of the Charles E. Shain Library at Connecticut College.
• McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies - A guide to resources rather than a listing of them, provided by Ken McCoy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, Stetson University, Florida.
• Methuen - Drama and theatre publishing.
• Minstrel Show - The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, usually performed by white people in blackface, but increasingly (especially after the American Civil War) by African American performers, who also wore blackface. Minstrel shows portrayed and lampooned African Americans in stereotypical and often disparaging ways: as ignorant, lazy, bufoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical. The minstrel show began with brief burlesques and comic entr'actes in the early 1830s and emerged as a full-fledged form in the next decade.
• Monologue Archive - An archive of stage monologues for actors: comic, dramatic, classical.
• Motion Picture TV and Theatre Directory - Directory of products and services in film, television and theatrical production.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - Annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
• National Theatre (Royal National Theatre, London) - At its home on London's South Bank, the National offers classics, spectacular musicals, new plays and entertainment. The National houses three theatres - the Olivier, the Lyttelton and the Cottesloe - all under one roof. Also see National Theatre Live.
• Nederlander - Owns and/or operates 35 theatres in the United States and England.
• New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-39 - This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here 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 (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images). The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• New School for Drama - A three-year intensive program dedicated to training professional artists in the fields of playwriting, directing, and acting.
• New York Production Alliance (NYPA) - An alliance of organizations and individuals committed to promoting film, television, video and new media production in New York City and New York State. Members include respected trade asociations and companies, including talent and craft unions and guilds, studios, production companies, post production facilities, nonprofit organizations, vendors and affiliated groups. Individuals affiliated with member organizations, production industry independents and freelancers are also members.
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating and non-circulating reference and research materials on music, dance, theatre, recorded sound, and other performing arts.
• New York Theatre Experience - Complete and accurate guide to the New York theatre scene.
• New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) - An off-Broadway theatre noted for its acclaimed and innovative productions. A workshop where artists create new work, hone their craft and collaboratively explore theatre.
• New York Times: Theatre - Theatre news and reviews. Sections include:
  • Current Broadway Shows
  • Current London Shows
  • Current Off Broadway Shows
  • Current Off Off Broadway Shows
• Nick Hearn Books - One of the UK's leading specialist performing arts publishers with over 400 plays, screenplays and theatre books in its catalogue.
• nytheatre.com - Descriptions, information, news and reviews on New York theatre.
• OBIES - Off-Broadway theater awards.
• OffBroadwayOnline.com - The official website of Off Broadway, presented by the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).
• Old Vic Theatre, The - One of the most famous theatres in the world. It was first opened during the Regency, in 1818, and is the only theatre in London from that time still in business.
• Paper Heart, The - A downtown Phoenix, Arizona, arts destination catering to visual art, music, dance, theater, spoken word/poetry, performance, video/film and comedy.
• Performing Arts Links - Worldwide repertory of Internet performing arts resources: theatre, dance, cinema, stagecraft.
• Photographs from the Plays of William Shakespeare - Collection includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies - Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada and others; New York stage productions; motion pictures; and televised productions including several highly praised series (The Shakespeare Plays, Hallmark Hall of Fame, etc.). Notable actors and artists include: Judith Anderson, Peggy Ashcroft, Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Katherine Cornell, Maurice Evans, John Gielgud, Leslie Howard, Rudolf Nureyev, Laurence Olivier, Leontyne Price, Paul Robeson, and Maggie Smith.
• Playbill - At Playbill On-Line you can get the latest theatre news, purchase tickets to Broadway and London shows, obtain discounts on theatre tickets as well as restaurants, search an extensive listing of casting calls and job listings, order the latest theatrical merchandise from Broadway Gift Shop and more.
• playdatabase.com - Largest database of plays and monologues on the internet that can be searched by title or author and by such parameters as cast size, length, synopsis, and more.
• Playhouse West - Information on Playhouse West plays, reservations, and directions to its two theaters, both located in North Hollywood, California.
• Plays and Players Theater (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - One of the oldest nonprofessional theaters in continuous use in the United States. It was designed and constructed in 1912 by famed Philadelphia architect, Amos W. Barnes. Murals were added in 1923 by renowned American artist Edith Emerson.
• Power: A Living Newspaper - One of the Federal Theatre Project's most popular productions, Power played on the double meaning of its title, dramatizing the story of the development of the electric utility industry as well as the struggle to control that technology. This New Deal Network feature includes an introductory essay, Electricity in the Limelight, the play script to Power, a Lesson Plan, and bibliographical and online Resources concerning the Federal Theatre Project.
• Preston Playhouse - Home of amateur theatre since 1949. Preston, Lancanshire, England.
• Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch - Serving outer East London and Essex. Under the Artistic Direction of Bob Carlton. Home to cut to the chase... resident company of actor-musicians who present a programme of eight main-house productions each year.
• Radical Theatre - A directory, including links to:
  • Absurd Stories - Absurd literature and plays by the Australian author Virtue Fern.
  • The Accidental Activist - Kathryn Blume, co-founder of the Lysistrata Project (the first worldwide theatrical event for peace), recounts the story of her astonishing inability to save the world. In a show that's part fact, part fantasy, part caffeine-induced madness, the performer imagines how she might make a difference on a planet that couldn't care less. The play is laced with impossibly optimistic socio-political observations and deft sketches of determined, defiant women from around the world.
  • Art is Permitted Everywhere - Campaign to reclaim public spaces for art making and urban expression. Covers events taking place mainly in New York City and San Francisco.
  • ATTACK! (Autonomni kulturni centar) - A non-profit, non-government, non-partisan, volunteer civil organization creating and spreading an alternative to the dominant culture, policy and economy. ATTACK provides space for anyone who wants to express themselves creatively and participate in the changes at the local level that lead to a free society in Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Bread and Puppet Theater - Founded in 1962 by German-born sculptor Peter Schumann in New York City's Lower East Side. Bread and Puppet performs on urgent social, political, and environmental issues. The company is based in Glover, Vermont.
  • Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School - An independent institution of the left, The Brecht Forum presents numerous lectures, panel discussions, workshops and cultural events of interest to the left and progressive community. Since 1990, the Brecht Forum has had a close working relationship with the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory. Within their Manhattan loft, they offer a year-round program of classes, public lectures and seminars, art exhibitions, performances, popular education workshops, and language classes.
  • Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Established in 1979, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian, not-for-profit professional theatre company dedicated to the promotion of gay, lesbian and queer theatrical expression. Over a given season their 12 Alexander Street home in the heart of Toronto's queer village springs to life with mainstage theatrical productions, outrageous special events, youth initiatives, play development programmes, and late night weekend cabarets.
  • Completely Naked - A London based artistic partnership created by Claire Ward-Thornton and Pau Ros in November 1999. Specialized in interactive installations, they explore live arts, visual, digital and time-based languages and our ideas are based on a curiosity for human behaviour from individual to collective responses. Their projects creates psychological conflicts to activate the partaker's reaction. Completely Naked is an initiative aiming to provoke the promiscuity between the arts and the audience.
  • Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) - CAE is a collective of five artists of various specializations, dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics, and critical theory. Works include books, tactical media, and biotech projects.
  • Dario Fo - Nobel prize-winning playwright and theatre anarchist, who along with his wife, the actor Franca Rame, has faced frequent censorship and harassment from politicians and police. He is perhaps best known for experimenting with a narrative technique that combines re-examination of history with excursions into popular lore, a technique he fully developed with his play "Mistero Buffo".
  • Descendants of Freedom - This play presents a triumphant documentary of how HIV positive queer youth of color resist oppression with risk and hope....set in the year 2083, the show imagines a future in which HIV/AIDS has been renamed ERIDS (Ethnic-Related Immune Deficieny Syndrome.
  • Diggers, The - The San Francisco Bay area provided a fertile ground for the growth of new movements in the 1960s: artistic, political, social, and cultural. The Diggers seemed to combine all these elements in their ideas, and presented a message that appealed to hippies and revolutionaries, to priests as well as poets.
  • El Teatro Campesino - In 1965, Luis Valdez left the San Francisco Mime Troupe to join Cesar Chavez in organizing farmworkers into El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers Theater) to raise funds for the farmworker strike. By 1970, he had established what would come to be known as teatro chicano: agitprop theater, incorporating the spiritual and presentational style of commedia dell'arte with the character types, folklore and popular culture of the Mexican theatre. The company is based in San Juan Bautista, California.
  • Electronic Disturbance Theatre and Electronic Civil Disobedience - A group of activists and artists engaged in developing the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience. Working at the intersections of radical politics, recombinant and performance art, and computer software design, the group has produced an device called Flood Net - web software used to flood and block an opponent's website.
  • File Room, The - Archive of censored artistic practice which began as a physical installation in Chicago in 1994 and is now available online. Since 2001, The File Room has been maintained by the National Coalition Against Censorship in the United States collaboration with the Media Channel/One World Project.
  • Fondazione Pontedera Teatro - Founded in 1974 as Centro per la Sperimentazione e la Ricerca Teatrale, aiming to provide a space of encounter for theatre cultures, group theatre, scholars, artists, and theatre makers. Since 1986 Pontedera has hosted the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.
  • FoolishPeople - Founded in 1991 as the name under which John Harrigan developed and created live art and associated art projects. In 1994 FoolishPeople mutated into a development and production collective, with the aim to achieve interactive and populist live art. Typical content, genre and mediums they translate to live art are comic ooks, anime, horror and science fiction.
  • Foundry Theatre, The - A New York-based community of artists with revolutionary ideas for the theatre, inviting audiences to visit unexplored landscapes of thought. In addition to productions and commissions to artists, The Foundry hosts ongoing roundtables, conferences, and town meetings, inviting members of other communities to forge unconventional answers to conventional questions.
  • Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. - On a mission from god to make the world safe for avant-garde art since 1976. What was once a major downtown New York alternative art space and performance presenter is now an online organization broadcasting live art and artists' ideas in the tradition of artists' books since the futurists.
  • Freedom of Information Act (FBI) material on Bertolt Brecht - 1940s U.S. internal security investigation of Bertolt Brecht, author and poet, due to his affiliation with Soviet officials and other known communists. Consists of 369 pages, made available to the general public under the Freedom of Information Act.
  • Goat Island - Chicago-based collaborative performance group founded in 1987 and incorporated in 1989 as a non-profit organization to produce collaborative performance works developed by its members for local, national, and international audiences. Members contribute to the conception, research, writing, choreography, documentation, and educational demands of the work, placing performances in non-theatrical sites when possible.
  • Gob Squad - A group of English and German artists who have been working collectively with performance, media and new technology since 1994. Produces performances, installations, films, and live events. The company has always sought to produce and present its work outside of arts institutions, often siting its projects in urban environments such as offices, houses, shops, hotels and railway stations, as well as producing work for radio and internet broadcast and pieces for galleries and theatres.
  • Guerilla Performance Locator - Long before Karen Finley smeared chocolate on her body, Annie Sprinkle showed us her cervix or Orlan began her reconstructive cosmetic surgery, comely Edwardian ladies pioneered a hybrid art form in which the personal was political. Leslie Hill and Helen Paris pay homage to suffragettes by recreating some of their performances. This website aims to map contemporary political performance and artistic activism worldwide.
  • Guerrilla Girls - The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of anonymous females who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and appear in public wearing gorilla masks, to focus on the issues rather than personalities. Using humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny, since 1985 they have produced over 100 posters, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large.
  • HOWL - Annual festival of East Village arts in New York City organized by the Federation of East Village Artists, founded in 2002. Honoring the historic role of the East Village as the cradle of counterculture.
  • Icarus Project (Malta) - The Icarus Project aims at constructing an 'evolving performance structure' by means of a series of performative events. The website documents the first phase of the Project, entitled "The Roots of Performing". It documents the selection and formation processes as well as the journey that led to the presentation of ICARUS 4. The website will document future phases of the project, led by Frank Camilleri, as they unfold.
  • In-Yer-Face Theatre - The kind of theatre which grabs the audience by the scruff of the neck and shakes it until it gets the message. In-yer-face theatre shocks audiences by the extremism of its language and images; unsettles them by its emotional frankness and disturbs them by its acute questioning of moral norms. Although the upsurge of in-yer-face theatre in Britain had many antecedents, especially in the alternative theatre of the 1960s, it only took off as a new and shocking sensibility in the 1990s.
  • International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E) - With a membership of over 109,000 members, the IATSE is the largest labor union in the entertainment and related industries and were formed more than a century ago. See Local Union Directory.
  • International Association of Performance Art Organizers (IAPAO) - A network that presents and supports performance art activities and research. Established in 2003 to promote and assist in the realization of events and activities, by continuing to increase the propagation of performance art history through the activities of today's artists and organizers. Offers access to related sources, resources and research centers.
  • International Brecht Society - Founded in 1970 on the model of Bertolt Brecht's own unrealized plans for a "Diderot Society". A non-profit, educational organization with a world-wide membership, the Society promotes the performance and understanding of Brecht's texts and addresses issues of politics and culture in contemporary life. The website is is maintained as a service to scholars, critics, students, and theater people round the world who are interested in the works and thought of Brecht.
  • Keep Left Theatre - Parodies, skits, union rallies and demonstrations are all in a day's work for Keep Left Theatre. The company specialises in Rapid Response in the streets of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Ko Theater Works - Founded in 1991 by Sabrina Hamilton, Janna Goodwin, Peter Lobdell, and Joan Evans, and was built on a foundation of combined professional experience which includes international festivals, regional and civic theaters, colleges and universities, on and off Broadway, and extensive touring. Organizers of the outstanding Annual Ko Festival of Performance at Amherst, Massachusetts, since 1991.
  • League of American Theatres and Producers - The League's 600-plus members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the commercial theatre industry. Each year, League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and more than 140 cities across the U.S. and Canada.
  • Living Theatre, The - Founded in 1947 by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, The Living Theatre has staged more than 80 productions performed in eight languages in 25 countries on four continents - a unique body of work that has influenced theatre the world over. The group has developed new participatory techniques that enable the audience to first rehearse with the company and then join them onstage as fellow performers.
  • Loeb Drama Center - Information for those producing shows at the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University.
  • Mettawee River Theater Company - Founded in 1975, to create original theater productions incorporating masks, giant figures, puppets and other visual elements with live music, movement and text, drawing on myths, legends and folklore of the world's many cultures. The company brings theater to people who may have little or no access to live professional theater; presenting outdoor performances in rural communities of upstate New York and New England, under the artistic direction of Ralph Lee.
  • Minnesota Fringe Festival - An annual ten-day festival of live stage performance, including theatre, dance and performance art, puppet, since 1994. Give or take, it happens during the first two weekends (and the sandwiched weekdays) of August each year. Minnesota's, by the way, is the largest Fringe in the United States.
  • Negro Ensemble Company - Founded in 1967 by actor/producer Robert Hooks, playwright Douglas Turner Ward and theater manager Gerald S. Krone. The company is designed to produce professional theatre in which Black artists, performers, writers, directors, actors, and craftspeople can oversee their own creative destiny.
  • New York International Fringe Festival - Established in 1996, FringeNYC uses a juried application process to insure the festival is a cross-section of the best emerging performance from around the world. The application process is highly competitive. An important part of FringeNYC's mission is to create a community that provides an opportunity for the untried and the untested, as well as a gathering place for lively discussion and interaction among artists and audience.
  • North American Cultural Laboratory (NaCl) - Founded in 1997 by Brad Krumholz and Tannis Kowalchuk, to create original new theatre that advances the craft and creative methodologies of the theatre artist while contributing to the development of contemporary experimental theatre in North America. The company operates out of its offices in Sullivan County and Brooklyn, NY.
  • Northern Arts Tactical Offensive - A banner organisation, bringing together artists working on a broad spectrum of cultural, social and political issues. The group is dedicated to the production of spontaneous, independent and conscious public art.
  • Optative Theatrical Laboratories (OTL) - Founded by Donovan King, the OTL is a politically motivated theatre company that seeks to blur the line between performer and spectator, theatre and reality. The OTL is intent on tearing down the hierarchical and patriarchal structures that marginalize yet define conventional theatre today.
  • Paul Zaloom - An award-winning solo political satirist, puppeteer (Bread and Puppet Theater alumnus), and performance artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles. Zaloom also tours Beakman Live!, featuring large scale science demonstrations with loads of audience participation and lots of the trademark goofy Beakman humor.
  • Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal - German choreographer Pina Bausch is both controversial and influential. Physically, Bausch's dances are highly visual and textural, as much as kinetic spectacles, and this adds to their visceral impact. This link is for the official website of her world renowned Dance Theatre in Wuppertal, Germany.
  • platformnortheast - An informal association of artists, individuals and organisations supportive of the development, presentation and critical evaluation of live art practice in the North East of England.
  • Punany Poets - Use intimate and erotic poetry-based theater to bring couples closer together and to create community dialogue about sex, relationships, AIDS & HIV especially as they affect Black, African Americans and heterosexual women.
  • Resist, Inc. - A Boston-based foundation that has supported left and progressive organizations and movements since 1967. The early work in support of draft resistance and in opposition to the Vietnam War sustains them as evolve and embrace broader and deeper concerns related to resisting "illegitimate authority." Resist is also a resource center, providing grassroots organizations with technical assistance and information about other funding sources.
  • Reverend Billy - Rev. Billy's Church of Stop Shopping is based in New York City and organizes regular congregation gatherings and other acts of activism relating to Starbucks, Disney, and others. All events feature Bill Talen as the Reverend joined by the Stop Shopping/Bombing Choir.
  • SALAAM Theatre - South Asian League of Artists in AMerica is a not-for-profit professional multidisciplinary theatre company celebrating South Asian American artistic excellence through creative risk-taking and experimentation that challenges all boundaries, connects all peoples and links all the arts in the spirit of progressive solidarity.
  • San Francisco Mime Troupe - Founding director R.G. Davis began with avant-garde performance events in lofts and basements in 1959. The troupe now continues to bring joy and energy to audiences, and annoy the powerful, particularly through their annual Youth Theater Project, which helps at-risk youth create and perform shows about their lives.
  • Six Figures Theatre Company - A not-for-profit New York theatre company that was founded in 1990 by six women who found that their experiences and sensibilities were underrepresented in the canon of commercial theatre, and committed themselves to developing plays and supporting voices that might not otherwise be heard.
  • Surveillance Camera Players - Formed in New York in 1996 to protest against the use of surveilance cameras in public places because they violate the consitutionally protected right for privacy. The group performs specially adapted plays directly in front of such cameras, and is also active in New Orleans, Tempe, Arizona, and handful of European cities.
  • Teatro Potlach - Established in 1976 at Fara Sabina (Rieti) in Italy by Pino Di Buduo and Daniela Regnoli. The company is focused mainly on applied theatre research and experimentation, doing street performance and working with children to establish a theatre culture beyond art and entertainment.
  • THAW - Theatres Against War - An international network of theater artists responding to the United States' ongoing "War on Terror", aggressive and unilateral foreign policies, and escalating attacks on civil liberties in the US and throughout the world.
• Really Useful Theatres - London theatre guide - the West End and more, including: The Apollo, The Lyric, The Gielgud, The Queen's, The Palace (all on Shaftesbury Avenue), The Duchess, The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, The Cambridge, The Garrick, The New London, Her Majesty's Theatre and The London Palladium.
• Riot Group, The - Contemporary ensemble UK theatre group.
• Royal Court - British national company dedicated to new work by innovative writers from the UK and around the world. Each year it presents an ambitious programme in its two venues at Sloane Square in London. In recent years the Royal Court has also staged productions in New York, Sydney, Brussels, Toronto and Dublin.
• Roundabout Theatre Company - Operates three New York theatres, the American Airlines Theatre, Studio 54, and the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/ Laura Pels Theatre.
• Royal Opera House - An opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
• Samuel French - Samuel French pioneered the concept of providing published scripts to theatrical producing groups throughout the world. Also, theatre and film bookshop.
• San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum (PALM) - Materials about the performing arts with special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the present.
• San Jose Repertory Theatre - The Rep annually presents six mainstage shows offering a variety of contemporary, classic and new work. Located at 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose, California 95113.
• Screen Actors Guild (SAG) - The nation's largest labor union representing working actors.
• Schubert Organization - America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Great White Way.
• Second City, The (Chicago) - Since 1959, The Second City has established itself as a Chicago landmark and a national treasure. The theatre that launched the careers of such comic greats as John Belushi, Mike Myers, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and more offers nightly comedy shows, as well as a variety of other programs and services.
• Shakespeare Resource Center (BardWeb) - Links for online Shakespeare research. Contents include:
  • Authorship Debate - Who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Edward de Vere? Francis Bacon? Christopher Marlowe? Information about and links to the opposing points of view.
  • Elizabethan England - Because you have to understand England and the times in which Shakespeare lived to appreciate fully the literature.
  • Globe Theatre, The - A brief history of Shakespeare's Globe from its construction in 1598 to the New Globe, completed in 1996 in Southwark.
  • Reading List - For further reading about Shakespeare, because most of the best research resources are still only available in print.
  • Shakespeare's Biography - A brief biography of William Shakespeare, from his baptism to the inscription on his tomb at Holy Trinity in Stratford.
  • Shakespeare's Language - Links and a Shakespeare Resource Center guide to the Bard's English—including a searchable glossary. Also includes a Speech Analysis: Selected Readings section exclusive to the SRC.
  • Shakespeare's Will - Shakespeare's last will and testament, complete with stricken-out passages.
  • Shakespeare's Works - A summary overview of the four periods of Shakespeare's works, including links to online editions of the plays and Shakespearean criticism.
  • SRC Features - An at-a-glance guide to all the original content compiled for the Shakespeare Resource Center.
• Siminovitch Prize in Theatre - Recognizing excellence in Canadian theatre.
• Simply Scripts - Older, classic and contemporary scripts on the net.
• Sites - A central resource for contacting and communicating with theatre professionals throughout the world with specific interests or background information. Provided by Playbill.
• Sonia Friedman - A prolific British West End and Broadway theatre producer.
• South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive (SALIDDA) - Features a wide variety of materials such as excerpts of fiction, poetry and plays, manuscripts and writers' notes, art works, photographs, leaflets, programmes of events, stage and costume drawings of theatre and dance performances, lyrics, CD and record covers, and music scores representing the substantial body of work produced by South Asian writers, artists, performers and musicians in England from 1947 to the present.
• Stage, The (UK) - News, reviews, auditions, and industry connections.
• Stella Adler Studio of Acting - World famous acting school named in honor of Stella Adler, the only known American to study directly with Russian Master Konstantine Stanislavsky, with whom she created an approach to acting based on developing the actor's imagination.
• Talkin' Broadway - Up to the minute news, interactive discussion, and information about Broadway, and the current theatre scene in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toronto, and other cities across the United States.
• Theatre Canada Online - Online directory for performing arts in Canada.
• Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) - The purpose of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory, founded in New York City in July 1990, is to provide a forum for the practice, performance and dissemination of the techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed. TOPLAB is a group of educators, cultural and political activists and artists whose work is based on extensive training and collaboration with Augusto Boal since its founding. TOPLAB conducts on-site training workshops on theater as an organizing tool for activists in neighborhood, labor, peace, human rights, youth and community-based organizations. We work with educators, human service and mental health workers, union organizers, and community activists who are interested in using interactive theater as a tool for analyzing and exploring solutions to problems of oppression and power that arise in the workplace, school, and community problems connected to AIDS, substance abuse, family violence, homelessness, unemployment, racism and sexism.
• Theatre Archive Project - This page outlines the three strands of the AHRC funded British Library Theatre Archive Project at the University of Sheffield. An overview of the research development work on the Library's theatre archive, the oral history strand and the scripts project.
• Theatre Communications Group (TCG) - The national organization for the American theatre. Artistic programs support theatres and theatre artists by awarding $4.4 million in grants in 2002-2003, and offer career development programs for artists. Management programs provide professional development opportunities for theatre leaders through workshops, conferences, forums (including teleconferences and online) and publications, as well as industry research on the finances and practices of the American non-profit theatre. Advocacy, conducted in conjunction with the museum director, dance, presenting and opera fields, includes guiding lobbying efforts and providing theatres with timely alerts about legislative developments. The country's leading independent press specializing in dramatic literature, TCG's publications include American Theatre magazine, the ArtSEARCH employment bulletin, plays, translations and theatre reference books.
• Theatre and Drama Resources - Duke University - The primary collection consists of play scripts. Drama history, theatrical history, history of stage production, biographies of actors, stage production, play criticism.
• Theatre Central - Directory of theatre professionals.
• Theatre Database - An archive of information on the theatre.
• Theatre Development Fund (TDF) - In addition to TDF's most visible program, its TKTS discount ticket booths in Times Square and Bowling Green Plaza, TDF administers a range of audience development and financial assistance programs that encourage production of new plays and musicals and enable more New Yorkers and visitors to enjoy the riches and variety of the city's theatre, dance and music. Annually, TDF programs fill more than 2.5 million theatre seats at discounted prices - seats that otherwise would go unsold.
• Theatre History - Compilation of resources, articles, links.
• Theatre History on the Web - A resource for theatre historians and students of the theatre's history.
• Theatre History Sites on the WWW - A directory.
• Theatre Museum of New York - Museum-at-large.
• Theatre Royal Plymouth - Plymouth, Devon, England. Mixed program of drama, musicals, ballet and opera in both the large theatre and the smaller studio. Produces major shows for national tours and the West End.
• TheatreHistory.com - Various articles on the histroy of worlf theatre and drama.
• Theatre Resource Index - Thousands of theater related resources.
• TheatreMania.com - Reviews, news, shows and tickets.
• Theatrical Index - An accurate, factual and up-to-date weekly publication that has been a vital resource to theatre professionals for over 40 years. Subscribers include producers, managers, hotels, members of the press, actors, directors, banks, and attorneys. It is a quick reference, insiders' guide to the who, what and where of the theatre.
• Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 1 (IATSE) - Local One is the stagehand union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E). It is the workers who construct, install, maintain, and operate the lighting and sound equipment, the scenery and special effects which delight audiences attending Broadway shows, concerts at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall, the spectacular productions at The Metropolitan Opera and throughout LIncoln Center, and the many entertaining broadcasts from CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, and PBS. WLocal 1 also works at numerous cable TV studios and makes possible the presentation of many mjor corporate industrials and special events. Also see Links page and Local One IATSE Welfare, Pension and Annuity Funds website.
• Thespian Festival - The Thespian Festival features more than fifty productions presented by schools from throughout North America and abroad. Plus: a full schedule of workshops presented by theatre professionals, individual performance events, a student playwriting program, opportunities to audition for college and university representatives and for thespian scholarships, and a chance to hang out with 2,000 or so other thespians.
• thisistheatre.com - London shows, London's theatres, half-price tickets.
• Tony Awards - Official site of prestigious theatre awards.
• Touring Broadway - Devoted to the touring Broadway productions that perform in over 240 theatres across North America. Search for information by show, state/province/city, or theatre.
• Tricycle Theatre (London) - The Tricycle Theatre has established a unique reputation for presenting plays that reflect the cultural diversity of its community; in particular plays by Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African writers, as well as for responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground-breaking ‘tribunal plays’, and political work
• Trunk Space, The - Experimental theater, performance, music, puppets, circus side show acts, fine art. Located in Phoenix, AZ.
• Upright Citizens Brigade (UBC) - The UBC (Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh) came to New York, from Chicago, in 1996. After staging their award winning sketch comedy show, and introducing the long form improvised structure of the "Harold" to New York audiences the UCB soon began their training program. The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre opened February 4, 1999 at 161 West 22nd Street, the former home of the New Harmony, a strip club reported to be seedier than seedy. The UCBT quickly became the place for great, cutting-edge, comedy. Casting directors, agents, and journalists all began to flock to the 74-seat theater in Chelsea to see the best comic talent in the city. On April 1, 2003, the New UCB Theater opened its doors. The 150-seat theater at 307 West 26th Street continues to offer the best and most innovative improv and sketch comedy in the city every day of the week.
• Voina - A Russian performance group known for their provocative and politically charged works of performance art. Also see Wikipedia article.
• Whatsonstage - British theatre news.
• Wooster Group - Wooster Group theatre pieces are constructed as assemblages of juxtaposed elements: radical staging of both modern and classic texts, found materials, films and videos, dance and movement, multi-track scoring, and an architectonic approach to theatre design. The Group has created and performed all of its theatre pieces at The Performing Garage in Soho, New York City.
• World Shakespeare Bibliography - Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1969 and mid-2002. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 92 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The more than 83,267 records in this version cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.
• World Wide Arts Resources: Theater - Information on all performance genres from Shakespeare to street arts.
• WWW Virtual Library of Theatre and Drama - Pointers to resources in more than 40 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages. Also see: Electronic text Archives and Plays Online.
• Young Actors' Theatre Camp (YATC) - A week-long overnight theatre training intensive held twice a year in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress - A selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist.

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