Useful Links and Sources

Last modified: 14 February, 1996

When searching for theatre information on the net remember that you may wish to search for both theatre and theater, possibly even theatr.

• General UK Information
• Other drama and theatre related pages and indicies (worldwide)
• Related Information
• Newsgroups
• Scripts
• Major Shows
• Shakespeare
• That's Entertainment ... CD-ROM, film, TV and Radio, books, magazine, newspapers, sport, art. Lots of links and information sources
• Gaffer Links technical links (software, lighting, etc.) for the performing arts

General UK Information

• What's New in the UK - the excellent EMAP listing …..
• Yell, the UK (on-line) Yellow Pages ….
• Clearinghouse guide to guides ...
• The UKdirectory, a large list of UK web sites
• UK map of servers (largely academic but also containing `tourist' pages for many towns and areas of the UK). Another UK Map
• The index for InternetWeb another general UK website index
• The Yahoo United Kingdom index, an excellent place for starting to look for anything about the UK.
• The UK Page, a good selection of UK websites
• BritNet
• CityNet United Kingdom guide (part of a world guide)
• UK Index, a website index.
• London Mall, general tourist information etc.
• Hotel guide and the Diners Grapevine

Other Drama Lists

• The Scottish Web Site for the Study of Cinema, Television, Theatre and Video
• The Guide to Theatre Resources on the Internet
• The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
• The Yahoo Art:Drama index.
• Theatre Central, another great list, with amateur as well as professional pointers
• Jogle's Favorite Theatre Related Resources
• Scott's Theatre Links, possibly the most complete list of theatre links (mostly North American) on the Internet
• Northwest Playwrights Guild, Washington and Oregon
• USA
  • Metrobeat for information on the New York scene
• Canada
  • CultureNet
  • Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT)
  • HQE's guide to Theatre Related Resources on the Net - one of the most complete listing available
• Italien theatre, hotel and other information
• Frankfurt theatre, opera and ballet

Other Related Information

• Live Art Archive. The Live Art Archive holds information about existing Live Art materials, records and publications primarily in England and the UK. The audit of Live Art materials was funded by the Arts Council of England in 1994 and has been developed in collaboration with The Nottingham Trent University.
• Virtual Reality Theatre!
• AISLE SAY The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews and Opinion (New York area)
• The UK Media Internet Directory

Newsgroups

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) listing, an excellent source of information ... from rec.arts.theatre.*
  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
• rec.arts.theatre.plays Discussion about plays, new and old
• rec.arts.theatre.misc
• rec.arts.theatre.musicals
• rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft Discussion about staging topics, see also alt.stagecraft
• rec.music.opera
• alt.arts.ballet
• rec.arts.dance
• alt.sewing Often has questions about costume making and design.

Scripts

• The Dramatic Exchange
• A collection of lyrics for Musicals.
• The Playwriting Seminars Web
• A new one act comedy by Connor Herridge, "I Don't Have Any Imagination Left"
• The Goldsmiths Playlist, an extensive database of contemporary plays and musicals in the English language currently being compiled from world-wide sources by the Drama Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Shakespeare

• The Shakespeare Globe Theatre being built in London
• On Shakespeares 430th birthday there was a performance of PcBeth by the HamNet Players on IRC. This is part of Internet Theatre.
• The Complete Works
• Entrance to the Shakespeare Web
• Shakespeare Illustrated
• Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre at Renaissance Texts Research Centre
• The Shakespeare stack project, the bard on Macintosh HyperCard stacks.

See also CD-ROM under Thats Entertainment...

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