Web Sites: Recommended: Theater

There are well over 2,000 unique links listed on these pages for the benefit of those who study and/or make costumes: costumers, students, historical re-enactors, science fiction fans, professionals, amateurs, dancers, theatrical costumers, trick-or-treaters, writers, researchers, and all those interested in fashion, textile art, and costume history.

contains nearly one thousand different 35mm slides taken from original posters. These images are of the original designs used on posters to advertise FTP plays in many different American cities from 1935 to 1939. The online collection contains electronic versions of each of these images indexed by title, author, subject, theater, place, date, and related names.

A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress.

A unique interactive resource designed to bring dance to the Web and make it accessible to everyone.

Dance/USA sustains and advances professional dance by addressing the needs, concerns, and interests of artists, administrators, and organizations.

The Dance Notation Bureau’s (DNB) mission is to advance the art of dance through the use of a system of notation called Labanotation.

CID is the official umbrella organization for all forms of dance in all countries of the world.

We aim to strengthen the visibility and increase the reach of dance as embodied practice, creative endeavor and intellectual discipline.

A multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 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. Groups of theater posters and additional sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future.

A site devoted to the study of renaissance and baroque theatrical spectacle.

The official database for Broadway theater information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theater until today

This free database bills itself as the “unofficial history” of the theater

(Includes links to sites about medieval drama including plays, design, and costumes, and many other topics. Includes a glossary.

Library of Congress

This site provides content that is acceptable for use in the UK's National Curriculum and all aspects of theater, from the play text to dramaturgy, from theatrical architecture to final performance. One of its special features is an informative video tour of the National Theatre, which looks at the theater's architecture and at the role of the technicians and administrators in running actual productions. Another wonderful feature is an "interactive" interview with Sir Ian McKellen, in which the actor discusses his thoughts on Shakespeare's Richard III, a play he has performed many times. What makes this feature exciting is that the user gets to pick the questions and has the opportunity to read the words of Shakespeare's text before McKellen discusses his interpretations as an actor.

Technical theater glossary (University of Exeter - U.K.)

Information for theater and drama

Sources for theater reviews around the United States

contains nearly one thousand different 35mm slides taken from original posters. These images are of the original designs used on posters to advertise FTP plays in many different American cities from 1935 to 1939. The online collection contains electronic versions of each of these images indexed by title, author, subject, theater, place, date, and related names.

Includes examples of Broadway musical set designs by SLG Design such as Cats, Dracula, and Beauty and the Beast, some going back to the seventies.