Subject Guide: Drama
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United Kingdom
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General
A Brief Guide to Internet resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
A comprehensive theatre and drama site.
Voice of the Shuttle
Links to sites on drama, theatre and performance.
The WWW Virtual Library
Theatre and Drama - pointers to resources in more than 40 countries, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students.
Reviews
Theatre Review Archive
The NYTimes.com archive offers free access to most theater reviews published since 1996. Reviews of other selected shows dating back to 1905 are also available. It is possible to browse by show title, year and critic in the archive section (scroll down to lower right of page) or to find both reviews and other articles by entering the play or playwright in the search box at the top right of the page (also click the button that says theater).
Ancient
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
Links leading to a wealth of information aimed at those who seek a greater understanding of ancient drama and its modern production. Also full text of the journal Didaskalia which is dedicated to the study of Greek and Roman drama and its reception.
Modern Actors Staging Classics
Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage
Theatre Tours: Virtual Reality Tours of Historic Theatres
Medieval Drama
The Labyrinth
Resources for Medieval Studies
Medieval Drama Links
Over 200 links to medieval drama sites.
NetSerf: The internet connection for medieval resources
Canadian Drama
CanadianActor Online
A portal web site that lists, organizes and links to legitimate information and business resources that can help Canadian actors, and other entertainment industry professionals find career development opportunities.
Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre
Festivals and Companies - Canada
Festival de theatre des Ameriques
Great Canadian Theatre Company
Stratford Shakespearean Festival
France
La Revue du Spectacle
Current theatre scene in Paris.
Le théâtre contemporain sur le Net
Un site au service des écritures et de la création théâtrale contemporaine.
Latin America
Latin America Network Information Centre - Performing Arts
An extensive list of sites on Latin American culture and performance.
Spain
Association of Hispanic Classical Theater
This multipurpose resource includes a bulletin board for ongoing comedia discussions; an easy-to-access collection of primary texts a database with graphics; and a section called Fuentes, with a bibliography of primary textual material and comedia catalogs. The Center for Links connects the browser with more than 20 sites useful in comedia studies.
Cervantes Project
Academic articles, indices, images, a local search engine, and links to related sites.
United Kingdom
Music, Theatre and Popular Entertainment in Victorian Britain
Part of the Victorian Web, this site includes information on and links to such topics as popular entertainment, audiences and the development of leisure, melodrama, pantomime, dramatic adaptations of fiction, selected authors.
United States
American Theatre Web
Links to news, reviews on productions in more than 3000 American Theatres.
American variety Stage
This site includes 334 English- and Yiddish-language play scripts, more than 140 theater playbills and programs, several dozen motion pictures, ten sound recordings, and a substantial collection of photographs and ephemera on Harry Houdini--a collection that "illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920."
The New Deal Stage
Part of the American Memory website at the Library of Congress, this site contains primary source documents of theatrical productions sponsored under the WPA - Works Progress Administration during the 1930's.
Improvisational Theatre
The New Improv Page
A resource for the world of improvisational theatre.
Jobs
Canadian Actors Equity Association - Opportunities
See the edrive listings for job postings in acting, production, stage management, etc.
Cirque du Soleil - Join Cirque, Offstage - Onstage
CultureWorks (Cultural Human Resources Council)
Work in Culture Job Board (Cultural Careers Council Ontario)
Playwriting
section in development -- send your suggestions to infodesk@mta.caTheatre Production
Theatrecraft (Glossary of Theatre Terms)
A theatre glossary on the web.
The Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online
A selection of costume and costume-related links.
Elizabethan Costuming Page
Sections on history, design and construction techniques.
The History of Costume by Braun & Schneider
An on-line version of an illustrated book on costumes by Braun and Schneider, c.1861-1880.
Paris Music Hall Collection
Renderings of costume designs for the music halls of Paris from 1920-1938 held in the archives of the Hargrett Library, University of Georgia.
Technical Theatre
Computer Scenographics Studio
Techniques and examples for model making (electronic workshop that deals with three-dimensional model construction), light design (principles and advice on lighting computer-generated three-dimensional models), computer painting (techniques and procedures concerning computer-generated scenographic drawings or three-dimensional model images). Includes links via the Research Library to a huge array of internet images.
The Development of Scenic Spectacle
A site devoted to the study of renaissance and baroque theatre spectacle.
Lighting & Electronics
Safety guides, math formulas for lighting designers and electricians, links to news services and magazines, and a problem/solution page.
DRAMA 3051 Laramie Project
The following suggested readings list has been compiled with the assistance of the 2003 Drama 3051 (Acting and Directing) class as a research component for their production of The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project. The Laramie Project was staged at Mount Allison's Windsor Theatre, November 19-22, 2003.
Documentary Drama:
Arader, Meg. "Theater Reality Show: The Diverging Paths of Documentary Theater". The Reader, 2001.
"Documentary Theatre." Projet Port Parole
Project Port Parole is a bilingual theatre company based in Montreal, Quebec, dedicated to the creation and production of documentary plays.
Filewod, Alan. Collective encounters: Documentary Theatre in English Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. PN 2037 C75 1992.
Mason, Gregory. "Documentary Drama from the Revue to the Tribunal." Modern-Drama, Vol. 20, 1977: 263-77: PN 1861 M69.
"Realist Theatre." Art and Culture Network
Weiss, P. "The material and the Model: Notes toward a Definition of Documentary Theatre," Theatre Quarterly Vol. 1 no. 1 1971, pp. 41-43: PN 2001 .T433
Zilliacus, Clas. "Documentary Drama: Form and Content." Comparative Drama, Vol. 6, 1972: 223-53 (online version on ProQuest).
Laramie Wyoming:
Laramie Wyoming: my Backyard
Pictures of Laramie and surrounding district and a brief history.
Moises Kaufman Interview:
Moises Kaufman. "Into the West: an Exploration in Form" American Theatre. May/June 2000. Vol. 17, Iss. 5; p. 17-18. (Available through ProQuest.)
Matthew Shepard:
Matthew Shepard Online Resources
News Reports:
Laramie Project Archives
"This archive republishes 17 New York Times articles about the murder of Matthew Shepard, who was beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, as well as the trial of his two assailants and the nationwide debate about hate-crimes legislation that it provoked."
Ott, Brian and Eric Aoki. "The Politics of Negotiating Public Tragedy: Media Framing of the Matthew Shepard Murder." Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 3 (2002) 483-505. (Available through Project Muse.)
Production History - reviews, critiques:
Berkeley Repertory Theatre production, May 2001
The Boston Theatre Works Production, 2001 (pictures)
[Boston Theatre Works Production] Siegel, Ed. "Stage Review: The Laramie Project". Boston Globe, October 24, 2001, C3. (Available through Lexis Nexis.)
Brustein, Robert. "The Staged Documentary". The New Republic, June 19, 2002, p.29. [Review of the Tectonic Theatre Project production at the Union Square Theatre, New York.] (Available at AP 2 .N53 or online through Lexis Nexis.)
A CurtainUp Review - The Laramie Project. (Tectonic Theatre Project, Union Square Theatre, 2002) CurtainUp: The Internet Magazine of Reviews, Features, Annotated Listings.
The Laramie Project, Cochrane Theatre, London, reviewed by Shirley Dent for Culture Wars, the Reviews website of the Institute of Ideas.
Sciabarra, Chris M. "The 'Laramie Project': Fighting Gay Panic and the Culture of Hate." The Free Radical no. 42 (July-August 2000):23.
Shewey, Don. "Town In a Mirror: The Laramie Project revisits an American Tragedy." American Theatre, Vol. 17, no. 5, (May/June 2000): 14-19, 67-69. (Available through ProQuest.)
Thompson, Debbie, "Laramie Project (review)", Theatre Journal, Vol. 53 no. 4, December 2001, pp. 644-645. (Available through ProQuest.)