Resources for drama & the performing arts
- AHDS Performing Arts (Arts and Humanities Data Service) - previously Performing Data Service.
- Aisle Say - the Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews & Opinion (American site).
- AVAE: Virtual Archive for Performing Arts
- (ARTEA) (UCLM: Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha): a Virtual Archive for Performing Arts to provide students, teachers and professional critic and documentary material on contemporary artists and their contexts of production and exhibition
- British Library Sound Archive collections. Drama and literature collections.
- BUBL LINK subject tree - includes links to theatre, television, dance, radio broadcasting, etc.
- CESAR - site dealing with all aspects of French theatre during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Digital Librarian Performing Arts page.
- Digital Theatre: works in partnership with Britain's leading theatre companies, including the Almeida Theatre, the English Touring Theatre, the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic, to capture live performance authentically onscreen. Its possible to view trailers and purchase access to some performances.
- ECLAP e-library for performing arts: brings together Europe's most relevant performing arts content from major institutions; covers material from theatre, dance, music, cinema and film, representing performances, lessons, master classes, teaching material, etc
- East London Theatre Archive (ELTA): database of East London theatre ephemera provided by the V&A Theatre Collections, East London theatres and UEL archives. Collection ranges from 1827 to the present day, including playbills and programmes to press cuttings and photographs.
- The Flying Inkpot Theatre Reviews - archive dating back until 1999; Singapore based site.
- Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms (at Theatrecrafts.com).
- Grove Music Online - includes: the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Dictionary of Opera and the Dictionary of Jazz.
- International Theatre Resources from Artslynx - useful site with links covering all aspects of theatre.
- Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
- Internet Theatre Database
- Leeds Playbills: search 5000 playbills online; created from the Local and Family History Library's playbill collections, the site provides insight into theatre life in Leeds between 1781 and the 1990s
- London Theatre Guide
- Official London Theatre Guide (run by the Society of London Theatre).
- Performing Arts Online - US based site.
- Playbill online.
- Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre collection - one of the largest collections of theatre and performance related material in the UK.
- Society for Theatre Research
- Spotlight - casting directory.
- The Stage online - the newspaper for the performing arts industry.
- Talkin' Broadway - information on American theatre with links to other sites.
- Templeman Library Special Collections: Theatre Collections
- Theatre History Sites - a list compiled by P. Jerald Bangham.
- Theatre History on the Web
- TheatreNet.com.
- Theatre Reviews Limited - reviews from New York, New Jersey, and around the United States.
- TV Comedy Database (British TV)
- UK Theatre Web
- Victoria & Albert Museum: Theatre and Performance: includes access to a wide variety of information and research resources.
- Voice of the Shuttle - including links to resources on literature, music, dance, etc.
- What's on Stage (Britain's National Performing Arts Information Service)