Internet Resources by Subject: Theater & Dance

"... provides an organization and public voice for theatre scholars and promotes the cause of theatre as a field for serious scholarly study and research." Includes information on Ph.D. programs, awards, prizes and grants, and links to additional internet resources.

A collection of photographs of famous ballerinas. In addition to the photos it includes brief facts about the dancers and additional links to other materials when available.

Access theater reviews from the NYT. Free registration is required for access to certain items.

A multimedia anthology that illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini.

"... provides an organization and public voice for theatre scholars and promotes the cause of theatre as a field for serious scholarly study and research." Includes information on Ph.D. programs, awards, prizes and grants, and links to additional internet resources.

The Tony Awards honor achievements on the stage. On the website users can locate past winners, find a history of the award, read acceptance speeches, play games, etc.

Provides information on grants from this agency. It includes statistics.

A collection of photographs of famous ballerinas. In addition to the photos it includes brief facts about the dancers and additional links to other materials when available.

Covers 170 terms from Dover publication's Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet.

"Didaskalia is an English-language publication about Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today. The name Didaskalia is taken from the inscriptions used to record the outcomes of drama and music festivals in Athens. The need for records of productions is greater today than it was in Athens, because there is more Greek and Roman drama performed in more parts of the world than there ever was in antiquity." Full-text access is provided for most of the articles. Some issues include book and theater reviews. The journal can be searched or browsed. In addition a Study Area is available providing an overview of ancient theater, a dictionary, and links to other sites. Online discussion groups are available in the Agora area.

"... 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." The database includes links to the show website when available. These sites sometimes provide links to reviews.

"A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another."

"This online presentation includes items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, playbills, programs, and playscripts, including productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and Power, a topical drama of the period. Selected administrative documents from the project are also available."

"The National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) is a repository that facilitates research on arts and culture by acquiring data, particularly those funded by federal agencies and other organizations, and sharing those data with researchers, policymakers, people in the arts and culture field, and the general public. "

Access theater reviews from the NYT. Free registration is required for access to certain items.

Provided by the Library of Congress, users can "search and browse descriptions of more than 235 music, theater and dance resources by subject, title, or name. " Browsing features are also provided.

Find a variety of playbills for Broadway shows, includes links to articles, photos and other materials.

The Pulitzer Prize is actually 21 different awards that cover journalism, fiction writing, history, biography, and non-ficition writing, poetry, drama, and music. The site provides background on the prizes, access to the full-text of some of the winners' works (including photographic award winning pictures), a timeline of the awards and more.

Provides a compendium of knowledge for insight into money, fashion, food, religion, relationships and many other topics relevant to this time period. Recommended for use by Writers, Actors, and Re-enactors.
Information about the author and site designer is available on the site.

Contains "audio content about British theatre, and features journalists from across the UK press and practitioners from across the theatre industry." Transcripts of the audio programs are also available.

The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage collection include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaus. The films represented date from copyrights of 1897 to 1920
Part of the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress.