THEATRE APPRECIATION: WEBSITES

IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

Everything about current theatre.

Located in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, we are North America’s largest classical repertory theatre company. Each season, we present a dozen or more productions in four distinctive venues. We produce classics, contemporary dramas and musicals, with special emphasis on the plays of Shakespeare.

A world-renowned theatre, education centre, and cultural landmark, located on the bank of the River Thames in London, UK. We are always open online, providing Shakespeare for all through digital events and resources.

The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) is a U.S.-based professional organization that fosters scholarship on worldwide theatre and performance, both historical and contemporary. Members of the American Society for Theatre Research say the Society is a space to share scholarship and a home for networking within the profession. ASTR also sponsors or coordinates several awards, grants, fellowships, and prizes to support and recognize outstanding scholarship in theatre and performance studies.

ProPlay makes plays which have received professional productions available free-of-charge online, to encourage their further production.

We create theatre at its best, made in Stratford-upon-Avon and shared around the world. We perform Shakespeare’s plays, as well as works by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and plays by today’s writers. We want as many people as possible to be able to access theatre at its best, so we bring our work to the widest possible audience

The Shaw Festival celebrates the life and spirit of Bernard Shaw by creating theatre that is as entertaining and provocative as Shaw himself.

The University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh has acquired the archive of the late playwright and Pittsburgh native son August Wilson, best known for his unprecedented American Century Cycle —ten plays that convey the Black experience in each decade of the 20th century. All ten of the plays have had Broadway productions and two earned Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Founded in 1937, Theatre Library Association supports librarians and archivists affiliated with theatre, dance, performance studies, popular entertainment, motion picture and broadcasting collections. TLA promotes professional best practices in acquisition, organization, access and preservation of performing arts resources in libraries, archives, museums, private collections, and the digital environment.

Articles about theatres around the world. Includes a script archive, and Today in Theatre History.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner makes a strong case for theater's role in modern society. Youtube.

Patsy Rodenburg says the world needs actors more than ever. In this talk at Michael Howard Studios, she tells the story of a profound encounter that reveals the deeper role theater can play in people's lives. “Best of the Web” TED Talk.

A collection of pages packed with information about technical theatre, including an Archive section which is the home of the Backstage Heritage Collection.

A thorough, multi-faceted, many-linked site promoting theatre in our schools and beyond.

Clips from National Theatre Live’s ground-breaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas in the UK and internationally.