Theatre & Drama

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General Theater & Drama Directories

Playbill: Serving Theatre Since 1884 - An all-around resource for the American theatrical scene: news, features, awards, who's who and much more.
Performing Arts - Theater (Yahoo!) - Link to hundreds of theater-related sites.
World Wide Arts Resources: Theater (World Wide Arts Resources Corp.)
WWW Virtual Library Theatre & Drama (The WWW Virtual Library)

Aisle Say: The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews & Opinion
American Variety Stage (American Memory, Library of Congress) - A multimedia anthology of vaudeville, including playscripts, playbills, programs, motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs and memorabilia
Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today - An electronic resource and journal dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance.
Inter-Play - An online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals
Internet Broadway Database - Find loads of information on Broadway shows and people; search Broadway shows by title, people, organizations, theater or season.
The Costume Institute: Works of Art - Search by keyword to find images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute; the database includes images, titles of costumes, and dates.
Performing Arts - Performance Art (Yahoo!) - Link to non-traditional performance arts sites
Stagecraft (DMOZ) - A list of web sites for all aspects of stagecraft includes categories for books, costuming, lighting/props, set design, sound, special effects makeup, and stage management.
Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research (Wisconsin Historical Society) - Extensive collection of film, theatre and television material, including 300 manuscript collections, 15,000 motion pictures and television shows, 2,000,000 still photographs, and several thousand sound recordings.

Theater Journals (Yahoo!) - Link to Yahoo's list of theater journals.
Articles in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers (Andersen Library)
See Electronic Journals for Andersen Library journals subscribed to in electronic format.
See Journal Holdings in Electronic and Print for all Andersen Library journals (whether in print, electronic format or accessed via databases like EBSCOhost).

UW-W Library Citation Guides - These guides cover MLA, APA, Turabian, and citing Internet resources.
Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style (Modern Language Association) - Answers common questions about MLA Style, including how to cite Internet resources.

Last Revised: cje - 8/31/2010