Theater Arts & Dance

Contains more than 1600 plays from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. It includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.

Includes over 3500 images on costume and fashion. Site individually maintained by Penny Ladnier.

By Robert M. Keller. Provides a unique database of images from the original and subsequent editions of �The English Dancing Master� by John Playford. The original edition, published in 1651, contained the figures and tunes for 105 English country dances; subsequent editions expanded to 6,217 dances.

Links to the department's home page, which has information about theatre arts and dance degrees, courses, faculty and more.

The American Association of Community Theatre provides networking, resources and support to suit the needs of all those involved in community theatre. Includes play sources and playwrights.

The professional association of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists. Most information is linked for members only but the business affairs area has sample contracts to peruse.

This is the national organization for the American theatre, founded in 1961 to foster communication amoung professional, community and university theatres. TCG is the nation's largest independent publisher of dramatic literature, with 10 Pulitzer Prizes for Best Play on their booklist. It also publishes the award-winning American Theatre magazine and ARTSEARCH®, the essential source for a career in the arts.

The Broadway League is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. Search under Research and Statistics to retrieve up-to-date statistics on Broadway shows, audience, gross sales, and touring shows. Included is a link to the Internet Broadway Database.

Provides a complete online performing arts resource. Site managed by VNU eMedia, Inc.

Begin your research here for dozens of links to Elizabethan costume research.

Includes a selection of links in theatre and performing arts which are non-commercial, comprehensive, research tools in this 2003 edition. Site maintained by Stetson University Associate Professor Ken McCoy.

Provides easy access to useful research sites throughout the world. Site individually maintained by Jack Wolcott.

Provides a unique and interactive resource to the web using Quicktime video to demonstrate ballet positions

Previously titled "English Server," links to a collection of Internet resources providing a "public distribution and publication medium for research, criticism, novels, hypertext, and miscellaneous writings from the arts and humanities" now maintained by the Iowa State University.

The official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

Includes basic information on most Broadway shows since 1975 and most Broadway musicals for the past 50 years. This site is individually maintained by Keith Scollick.

Includes an immense cyber encyclopedia of musical theatre, TV, and film. This site is individually maintained by John Kenrick.

Lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts. Basic information is provided about the institution and its holdings.

A website maintained by The College of William and Mary that provides web links to copyright related issues for theatre participants.

The Guild recommends that any production involving a dramatist incorporate a written agreement in which both theatres/producers and writers acknowledge certain key rights with each other.

The Samuel French catalog has a focus on emerging playwrights carefully balanced by additional acquisitions of the most prominent American and British playwrights such as Neil Simon, Tom Stoppard, Edward Albee, August Wilson and David Mamet to name but a few. Their catalog is searchable on the website. Also includes information on performance rights.

Information on licensing a show, photocopying, and performing a musical production. You can also search their catalog to locate a play by cast size, genre, theme, or performance group.

ne of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these shows to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. Includes a licensing guide, search databases to help locate a show by certain parameters, resource links, and news.