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Web Resources for Theatre & Performing Arts

• Gateways and General Resources
• Societies and Professional Organisations
• Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
• Theatre Companies, Practitioners and Venues
• Dance Companies, Practitioners and Venues
• Online Journals

Gateways and General Resources

The British Shakespeare Association A new society dedicated to Shakespeare, founded in August 2003. Contact Improvisation CurtainUp - US Theatre information. CyberDance - Classical ballet and modern dance resources on the internet. Dance and Technology Zone Dance Links Comprehensive and international links to dance companies and organisations. Digital Performance Archive - "Charting cybertrends in performance." ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts Live Art Archive London dance.com - Provides dance information for London London Theatre Guide Playbill.com News, features, listings covering American and International theatre. Reviews Gate "The theatre reviews site that covers the UK." Theatre Museum (a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum) UK Theatre Web The Voice of the Shuttle - Contents links to Dance resources. What's on Stage The WWW Virtual Library - Theatre and Drama Links to "resources in more than 50 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages." Links include: Theatre images, Playtexts online, Theatre studies articles & resources and Theatre Companies worldwide.

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Societies and Professional Organisations

AHDS Performing Arts Based at the University of Glasgow. "Collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use of digital resources to support research and teaching across the broad field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance." Independent Theatre Council Represents a wide range of performing arts organisations, venues and individuals in the fields of drama, dance, opera, music theatre, puppetry, mixed media, mime, physical theatre and circus. SCUDD (Standing Conference of University Drama Departments) "Represents the interests of Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts in the Higher Education sector in the UK." Provides links to a range of resources. Sibmas International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts Society of British Theatre Designers

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Theatrecrafts.com Theatre glossary on the web

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Theatre Companies, Practitioners and Venues

The Almeida Theatre Arts Depot Barbican Centre The Bloomsbury Chester Gateway Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre Chicken Shed Theatre Donmar Warehouse Forced Entertainment Hackney Empire Hampstead Theatre Magdalena Project The National Theatre Old Vic Theatre Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park Really Useful Theatres The Reduced Shakespeare Company Royal Court Theatre RSC - Royal Shakespeare Company Shakespeare's Globe Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

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Dance Companies, Practitioners and Venues

DV8 Physical Theatre Earthfall English National Ballet Feets Per Minute Independent Ballet Wales Merce Cunningham Dance Northern Ballet Theatre Pina Bausch Royal Opera House: The Royal Ballet Sadler's Wells The Place

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Online Journals

Article 19 - Contemporary Dance Online Playbill Online Sound Journal

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Library Services

Theatre & Performing Arts Library Guide

Catalogue

Subject Guides

  Page last updated : : 26 May 2009