- American
Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920 ~ This site "illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular
entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920."
From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
- Broadway:
the American Musical ~ Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "documentary
series that chronicles the Broadway musical throughout the 20th century
and explores the evolution of this uniquely American art form."
- The
Internet Broadway Database ~ "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."
- Internet
Shakespeare Editions ~ "Scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays."
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- The
Library of Congress presents Music, Theatre, and Dance ~ "This Web site invites visitors to experience the diversity of
American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed
collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs,
maps, and other materials."
- Musical
Stages ~ "A weekly, hour-long program devoted to musical theater, written
and hosted by Stephen Peithman & produced by Mark Jones, broadcast
on Capital Public Radio since 1984. Stephen Peithman "presents
a musical theater recording, composer, lyricist or performer, or pursues
a theme through several musicals." Show archives and transcripts
available.
- The
Performing Arts in America: 1875-1923 ~ A database of 16,000 objects (printed material, audio, and video)
from "the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer
Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes." Searchable; and browsable
by name, title, subject, and format (books, clippings, photographs,
manuscripts, moving images, music, posters and lobby cards, programs,
recorded sounds). Includes sections on dance, music, and theatrical
productions. From the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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- Playbill ~ U.S. and London theater listings, feature articles on the industry,
Who's Who, job listings, links, seating charts, awards database, and
more.
- The
New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939 ~ A browsable collection of images of items derived from the Federal
Theater Project, established by Franklin Roosevelt as part of the Works
Progress Administration (WPA). From the American Memory Project of the
Library of Congress.
- Theatre
History on the Web ~ An extensive index of theatre-related
web resources maintained by Jack Wolcott, retired professor, University
of Washington, School of Drama.
- The
Tony Awards ~ The official Web site of the Tony Awards offers theater news for New
York. Every show on Broadway has its own page which includes a synopsis,
schedule, cast list and photos.
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N. Mellendorf, Librarian.
Last update:4/07/08
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