Theatre

IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

A collection of links to helpful sources of theatre history information on the web. Sites are grouped by resource type and time period for simplified browsing.

A brief research guide to Internet resources in theatre and performance studies.

An online catalogue of shows produced Off-Broadway, similar to the IBDB. The database includes complete Off-Broadway seasons from the present back to 1958, along with many notable Off-Broadway productions from earlier decades, such as The Fantasticks, The Zoo Story, and The Threepenny Opera.

A guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress, providing information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits.

A database of play information that allows for detailed searching based on genre, cast size, length, and synopsis keyword.

Contains playbill information from current and past shows for Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, and London theaters, as well as recent theatre news, ticket ordering information, and a searchable awards database.

Provides access to Theatre Communications Group's annual in-depth field report on U.S. professional not-for-profit theatre, "Theatre Facts."

Non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring young people experience quality theatre arts.

Official website of The American Society for Theatre Research, a U.S.-based professional organization that fosters scholarship on worldwide theatre and performance, both historical and contemporary.

An organization whose goal is to serve as an intellectual and artistic center for producing new knowledge about theatre and performance-related disciplines, cultivating vital alliances with other scholarly and creative disciplines, linking with professional and community-based theatres, and promoting access and equity.

This organization provides an environment for design, production, and technology professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industry to connect, create, share, and communicate their craft.

Part of the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Online archive of audio clips from conversations with native speakers from the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. This is a great source for those interested in dialects and accents from the British Isles.

An online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents as heard around the world.

A collection of public domain monologues taken from classic plays, organized by type, gender, and age group.

A digital collection of selected images from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939. Part of the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

A collection of over 300 recorded interviews with actors, directors, choreographers, stage designers, and writers, made available through a collaboration between the British Library and De Montfort University.