Theatre

Gateway Sites

• The EServer Drama Collection
• McCoy’s Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
• Playbill Online: Theatre Central
• WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama

Ancient and Medieval Theater

• Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
• Noh Plays
  Text of 13 Noh plays from medieval Japan, with background information on the Noh style of Japanese theater.

Locating Plays

• Dramatists Play Service,Inc.: Play Finder
  Good for identifying and purchasing specific plays published by DPS. Searchable by author, title, cast size, gender, length, and keyword.
• National Alliance for Musical Theatre
• Playbill On-Line
  Not a scholarly source.
• Samuel French
• Theatricopia
  Links to musical theatre sites.

Playwriting

Costume Resources

• www.costumes.org
  Information and images, as well as links to costume museums, makeup, costume construction.
• AdAccess
  Over 7,000 ads that appeared in US newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
• Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online
  Indexes over 2000 costume links.
• Costume Site
  Especially strong in ethnic costume links.
• Costume Gallery
  Provides 400+ links to designers, costume history.
• Regency Fashion Page
• History of Costume
  Plates reproducing 500 costumes from ancient times to the 19th century.
• Godey’s Lady’s Book
  Periodical from the 19th century which contains many pictures of costumes.
• Solemates: The Century in Shoes
  Shoes in each decade from the 1900s-1990s. View examples of footwear and read an essay for each decade.
• Web Resources in Costume (U of British Columbia)