Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People
LKTYP is the largest non-profit theatre company for young people. This contains a lot of relevant information, as well as a link to their website.
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Children's Theatre: Creative Drama
A playwright's website that explores various aspects of children's theatre. Includes definitions, lesson plans, books and plenty of ideas.
TheatreHistory.com
Theatre History: American Musical Theatre: An Introduction
A commercial website that provides a solid history of American musical theatre. Includes summaries of many musicals through history. Focus is on shows before 1960.
Northern Virginia Community College
Northern Virginia Community College: Introduction to Theatre: Syllabus
Course syllabus for "Introduction to Theatre," a college level online course. Document contains required texts, objectives, lessons, and more.
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Early Modern Literary Studies/globe Theatre
This site deals with the Globe Theatre. It discusses information regarding the opening day of the theatre in 1599.
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Drew Hayden Taylor
Drew Hayden Taylor is an aboriginal Canadian playwright who has also taught and directed in native theatre companies. This is a good synopsis of his career.
Northern Virginia Community College
Introduction to Theatre: The Elizabethan Stage
This site mainly discusses the Elizabethan Theatres. It gives statistics about the various theatres of that time period, and provides interesting information about them. Some information on William Shakespeare is also provided.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "After the Theatre" by Anton Chekhov
"After the Theatre" is a short story by the Russian author Anton Chekhov. The story is about the behavior of a teenage girl upon returning from the theater.
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Listen to many of the original Mercury Theatre of the Air broadcasts, with Orsen Welles, John Houseman, Agnes Moorehead and others. Also on the site you can find broadcasts of many of the programs from Campbell Playhouse, which is what...
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American Theatre Organ Society
This site has a lot of information, including articles about theatre organs, their history, how they work, where they can be found, and artists.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Readers' Theatre for Kapiti Plain
This readers' theatre of Verna Aardema's Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain crosses the curriculum to incorporate language arts, social studies, and science objectives. Students will become familiar with the text of the story and then...
PBS
Pbs: Masterpiece Theatre: Kingsley Amis
This Public Broadcasting Service(PBS) biography of Kingsley Amis also offers a synopsis of the film version of the work used in Masterpiece Theatre. Short, but offers a good overview of the author's life.
Northern Virginia Community College
Nova: Introduction to Theatre: Romanticism
This page presents outline notes on Romanticism in the theatre. It lists and describes the main characteristics of Romanticism, lists some of the main actors of the Romantic period, and includes some general information about the...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Readers' Theatre
Explore the world of Readers' Theatre with this online resource. This site features guides and scripts.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: 20th Century Theatre
Find close readings, critical interpretations, and personal responses to the works of key 20th-century playwrights and practitioners, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney, and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching History With 100 Objects a Greek Theatre Mask
[Free Registration/Login Required] These resources include terracotta models of an ancient Greek comic mask and two tragic masks from the British Museum as well as ideas for teaching using them. It also includes several links to more...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Indoor Theatres [Pdf]
An article containing pictures, information, and additional resources about indoor theatres, why they were built, who acted in them, and how they brought about change during William Shakespeare's time.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Globe Theatre
A seven-part learning module with links to a websites, images, and texts about the original Globe Theatre.
Britain Express
Britain Express: Tudor: Elizabethan Theatre
This is a general information site on the history of Elizabethan theatre, and points out that Shakespeare and Marlowe were two of the playwrights of the time.
Northern Virginia Community College
Introduction to Theatre Plot
This site contains, in outline form, Aristotle's "six parts of a tragedy." The Plot is discussed in length on this site. The author goes into the exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution of the plot.
TheatreHistory.com
Theatre History: The Medieval Drama
This informative article contains a wealth of information on the development of drama, and its Greek and Latin origins.
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American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards Website
The official site for the Tony Awards provides a wealth of information. Included on the site is a list of nominees and award winners, photo galleries, up-to-date news, acceptance speeches, a look back at past Tony Awards, how the Tonys...
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American Association of Community Theatre
Website of a national group that advocates community theater, with tips, links, jobs, play sources and membership info and benefits.
PBS
Pbs: Masterpiece Theatre: The Merchant of Venice
Online companion to a televised production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, with information and analysis about the play and about the approach to the text taken by production's director and actors.
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