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Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• American Society for Theatre Research
• National Endowment for the Arts

City Theaters Listings

• Broadway.com (New York and London theater information)
• Cleveland Free Times (Cleveland theater and dance listings and audition notices)
• Larry Stark's Theater Mirror (Boston theater listings)
• New York Theater Wire (drama, performance art, music, alternative theater)

College and University Theater

• CSU Theater Arts
• iNtuitons Experimental Theatre

Costume and Dress

• Angel of Fashion
• Costume Page
• Costume Site
• English Actors at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• History of Costume (over 1,000 graphics)

CSU Dramatic Arts Department

• About the CSU Dramatic Arts Collection
• Course Reserves
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions

Dramatists' Resources

• Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
• La Ronde: The Playwright's Ring
• The Playwrights Project
• The Playwriting Seminars (a professional manual)
• Pope Joan (theatrical workshop week)

Festivals & Awards

• Shaw Festival
• Stratford Festival of Canada
• Tony Awards Online

Full Text of Plays

• The Dramatic Exchange (texts of plays)
• English Prose Drama, 1280-1915
• EServer Drama Collection
• Theatrales (in French)

International

• Communication Centre of the European Theatre Convention
• Conference of Drama Schools (vocational drama training in the U.K.)
• Macnas (Ireland's leading community arts and theatre company)
• Theatrales
• Le Théâtre de la foire à Paris (in French)
• UK Theatre Web

Local Interest

• The Cleveland Play House
• The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1892 (by Lesley Ellen Jorbin, Humanities and Music Librarian at Cleveland State University Library)
• Cleveland Public Theater
• The Cleveland Theatre WebRing
• CSU Theater Arts
• Dobama Theatre
• Great Lakes Theater Festival
• Hanna Theater Curtain
• Ohio Arts Council Home Page
• Vaudeville in Ohio

Reference Resources

• The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (Oxford University Press)
• Inter-Play (An Online Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies & Periodicals)
• The Playfinder (Dramatists' Play Service)
• Who's Who in Opera (Oxford University Press)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
  • Arden Shakespeare: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies (ask at Reference Desk of Library)
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
  • MLA International Bibliography
    
• Additional Databases:
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • Humanities International Complete

Reviews

• Aisle Say: The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews & Opinion

Shakespeare

• Arden Shakespeare: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies (full text) (ask at Reference Desk of Library)
• The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1982 (by Lesley Ellen Jorbin, Humanities and Music Librarian at Cleveland State University Library)
• The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare (full text)
• Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Royal Shakespeare Company
• Shakespeare Authorship Page
• Shakespeare and the Globe
• Shakespeare in Quarto (British Library's 93 copies of the plays printed in quarto)
• Shakespeare's Stratford-Upon-the-Web
• Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance

Theater History

• American Society for Theatre Research
• César: calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l'ancien régime et sous la révolution
• DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
• Le Théâtre de la foire à Paris
• Theatricopia (music theater)

Theater Home Pages

• American Repertory Theatre
• Cleveland Play House
• Cleveland Public Theater