All the world's a stage

The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, which thrived from 1870-1920.

The Kennedy Center’s “free digital resource for teaching and learning in, through, and about the arts.”

“the largest theatre database on the net, covering the world of Broadway and beyond including theatre in more than 150 cities, 325,000+ performers, 75,000+ productions”

“This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress.”

“Home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of scholars, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers.”

IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics.

The Lortel Archives, also known as the Internet Off-Broadway Database, provides a catalogue of shows produced Off-Broadway.

“The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive archives devoted to the theatrical arts. Encompassing dramatic performance in all its diversity, the division is an indispensable resource for artists, writers, researchers, scholars, students, and the general public.”

The official database for theatre programs published by Playbill Inc. which provides fully searchable primary resource material for theatre research

“A comprehensive database of architectural and historic records of theatres across the UK managed and updated by The Theatres Trust.”

Records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.

Improv Encyclopedia is the largest collection or resources for improvization theater on the web. Here you will find tons of stuff related to improvization theatre, also known as 'improv' or 'impro'.

An international scholarly project that is establishing for the first time the context from which the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew. For over forty years, REED has worked to locate, transcribe, and edit historical documents containing evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642, when the London public theatres were closed because of civil unrest. Along with twenty-seven collections of records in print, REED is building a dynamic collection of freely available digital resources for research and education.

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

Thousands Of Categorised Theatre Resources

13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.) was formed in 2003 by 13 midcareer playwrights
concerned about what the trend of endless readings and new play development programs was
doing to the texture and ambition of new American plays. Together we took matters into our
hands, producing one play by each member playwright. We presented our final production in
the summer of 2012 and then immediately imploded. This website archives our story.

American Theatre Wing invests in brave work, supports creative growth, and celebrates excellence to bring inclusive stories to our national culture through theatre.

The Broadway League is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. Our 700-plus members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the commercial theatre industry. Each year, League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and more than 200 cities across the U.S. and Canada.

La MaMa Archives is dedicated to supporting the work of La MaMa ETC and to promoting inquiry into the history of off-off-Broadway theater. La MaMa Archives collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits records of permanent historical value relating to La MaMa ETC, and endeavors to make its collections accessible and meaningful to the broadest possible audience.

The Theatre Archive Project is a collaboration between the British Library and De Montfort University. The project aims to reinvestigate British theatre history 1945-1968, from the perspectives of both the theatregoer and the practitioner.