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Culture.gov.au ~ The Australian Government Culture portal. It's a site you can use to explore over 3,700 websites for culture and recreation, literature, a weekly news update on cultural events across Australia, a featured website and more - and that's only the homepage!

Stage Work ~ A site developed by the National Theatre (in London, UK) and Culture ONline, part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the UK. Interactive in nature you can follow rehearsals at the National Theatre, explore the interactive games and follow links to other UK performances and companies.

Young People and the Arts Australia ~ YPAA is the Australian professional association representing and promoting arts organisations and artists whose work primarily focuses on engaging children and young people in the arts. As the national peak body representing arts for, with and by young people, YPAA provides the crucial links between members, and with the arts sector, the wider community and government. This site provides a comprehensive listing of Australian youth theatre organisations.

Professional Lighting Resources ~ A site maintained by a US based lighting design consultancy, Bill Williams & Associates. Provides an excellent range of documents and links to stage lighting resources

Carthalia: Theatres on Postcards ~ Andreas Praefcke's postcard collection of theatres and concert halls worldwide. Contains an extensive range of historical and contemporary images of theatres.

Theatre Design 101 ~ A guide on the to the fundamentals of theatre design. Includes famous designers, stage formats and basic routes to becoming a designer.

Scenography - The Theatre Design Website ~ This site is run by 'The Online Society of Theatre Designers and Scenographers,' a non-profit organisation that offers theatre designers, scenographers, theatre arts professionals and higher education students free online portfolios to display work and communicate.

History of Australian Theatre ~ Here, you will find articles on Australian Theatre History. You can also consult its historical database of names associated with the theatre in Australia, or the picture section.

The Costume Gallery ~ An extensive range of fashion and costume examples.

NSW HSC Online: Drama ~ Hosted by Charles Sturt University, this site offers advice about NSW Higher School Certificate Drama Examinations covering the Group Performance, the Individual Project, Australian Drama and Theatre, and Studies in Drama and Theatre.

Devising Celebration ~ From improvisation to cultural performance, this site is focused on forms of drama that exist outside of theatrical spaces. It is designed to be a useful introduction to: the theatre of image; large scale dramatic construction techniques; processional theatre; outdoor performance; and mask, ritual and spectacle. It contains useful practical techniques as well as a theoretical exploration of the field. If you are interested in finding out more about celebratory performance, carnival, outdoor theatre or site-specific performance it is well worth a look.

Arts NSW Review of Theatre for Young People ~ The link takes you to the Report of Theatre for Young People in NSW. It is contained within the Arts NSW site, and was last sighted on August 7 2007.

Essay 1994 - Australian Women Theatre Directors © Donna Benjamin, 1994 ~ This dissertation was written by Donna Benjamin as the key requirement of an Honours Degree in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University in 1994.

The Fashion Museum, Bath, England ~ A design resource, using the catalogue search see real clothes from the 17th century forward. The Fashion Museum collection was started by Doris Langley Moore, a collector, costume designer and author. She gave her collection to the city of Bath in 1963, and the Museum of Costume was founded. The name changed to the Fashion Museum in 2007. The earliest pieces in the collection are embroidered shirts and gloves from about 1600. The most up-to-date pieces in the collection are summer dresses from 2007.

The Development of Scenic Spectacle ~ 16th, 17th and 18th century scenic elements , effects and machines revealed. Many are animated using quicktime.

The Ancient Theatre Archive ~ Maps sites of Ancient Greek and Roman theatres. Many locations provide ground plans of the original theatres, interactive panoramic "tours" of the sites as they look today in Turkey, Greece, Italy, France and Spain.

National Library of Australia ~ The Australian Performing Arts Collection. Some of which is available online.

the Theatron Project ~ The history of theatre, the earliest known form of virtual reality, is brought vividly to life in an online teaching and research tool. Theatron features interactive real time walkthroughs of highly accurate 3D models of present and past theatres.

The Wolanski Foundation ~ The Foundation facilitates management, presentation and appreciation of the performing arts. Its website is a portal and provides information on the performing arts in Australia.

Performing Arts Links ~ A portal site with global performing arts links covering acting, theatre history and theatre museums, plays and playwriting, set and costume design and general resources.

Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide ~ A resource for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes, and for those whose theatre styles incorporate other than traditional presentation styles. Provides resources on the techniques of Augusto Boal as well as radical theatre, drama therapy and theatre in education.

Vaudeville ~ Maintained by Rick Easton, this site provides information on the development of Vaudeville in the USA.

Mr William Shakespeare on the Internet ~ This site provides links to internet resources on Shakespeare.

Internet Shakespeare Editions ~ The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience. To do so, we create and publish works for the student, scholar, actor, and general reader in a form native to the medium of the Internet: scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance.

Castle Theatre in Cesky Krumlov ~ This site details the history the Baroque castle theatre found in the village of Cesky Krumlov in the south of the Czech Republic. Provides photographs and VR footage of the auditorium, stage and stage machinery.

Perspectiv: Association of Historic Theatres in Europe ~ This association exists to encourage and support the conservation and restoration of historic theatres. The site provides links to a wide range of historic European theatres.

English Actors at the turn of the Twentieth Century ~ This site provides scanned photographic images of English actors in turn of the century costume.

The History of Costume: Braun & Schneider ~ This site contains images from the "History of Costume" or "Zur Geschichte der Kostüme,"printed from 1861 to 1880 in Munich by the publishing firm of Braun and Schneider.

Cinema and Theatre Historical Society (CATHS) ~ The aims of CATHS are to: Foster interest in theatre and cinema heritage; preserve theatre and cinema buildings and artefacts; romote interest in theatre architecture; work with other community groups on related projects; ssist in the collection and preservation of film and movie equipment; organise social functions and special events to commemorate historic occasions.

The WWW Virtural Library for Theatre and Drama ~ Here you will find pointers to resources (including international online articles, journals, museums, organisations, theatre companies and images) in more than 50 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages. Tremendously authoritative guide to quality theatre and drama resources on the web.

The Australian Script Centre ~ The Australian Script Centre collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays. Those using our services include playwrights, theatre companies, independant directors, actors, students of drama and theatre, teachers and academics from all over the world.

Theatre Collections Online: Victoria and Albert Museum ~ The Theatre Museum exists to increase the enjoyment, understanding and study of the history, craft and practice of the performing arts in Britain. Its collections are the largest of their type in the world and include a very wide range of documents, artefacts and works of art which record the history of the performing arts in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present.

Ibsen.net ~ The official website for Ibsen Year 2006, available in English, Noewegian and German, details a calendar of events with ongoing, current information about Ibsen programmes taking place all over the world every day, and also has a discussion forum, quiz games containing hundreds of Ibsen-related questions, columns with clippings from other news agencies´ Ibsen-coverage and a database with the most outstanding and powerful Ibsen-quotes.

Associations and Publications

Australian Film Institute

RealTime Arts Magazine ~ RealTime is Australia's critical guide to international contemporary arts.

Lowdown Magazine ~ Lowdown is a national youth performing arts magazine.

ASSITEJ International ~ ASSITEJ is a World Theatre Network of Theatre for Children and Young People. ASSITEJ links thousands of theatres, organizations and individuals through national centres in more than 70 countries.

Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies ~ ADSA is an organisation for tertiary educators and researchers that aims to provide a forum for the exchange of information on research and study in drama.

Performance Studies International ~ PSi is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange between scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance.

International Federation for Theatre Research ~ The world's largest organization for theatre researchers, IFTR exists to promote collaboration and the exchange of information between individuals and organisations concerned with theatre research.

Drama NSW ~ The Educational Drama Association of NSW. Drama NSW, a member of the national association, Drama Australia, is a non-profit association that serves drama teachers and their students.

Drama Australia ~ The National Association for Drama in Australia. Drama Australia is a national peak organisation of state and territory drama education associations in Australia.

Arts Journal ~ This site is a digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal features links to stories culled from more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.

State of the Arts Magazine ~ State of the Arts website, established in 1994, is a resource covering theatre, music, dance, design, books, film, festivals and the visual arts, with a free email newsletter that is distributed to 8,500 people in Australia and overseas.

Currency Press ~ Currency is Australia's only specialist performing arts publisher and its oldest independent publisher still active. Our list includes plays and screenplays, professional handbooks, biographies, cultural histories, critical studies and reference works.

Samuel French Inc ~ This link takes you to Samuel french online. Founded in 1830 Samuel French pioneered the concept of providing published plays and musical plays to theatrical producing groups throughout the world. Samuel French seeks out the world's best plays and makes them available to the widest range of producing groups. Sources of Samuel French's plays range from Broadway and England's West End to publication of unsolicited scripts submitted by unpublished authors.

The Stage ~ An online UK theatre magazine

Backstage ~ An online US theatre magazine providing audition notices, casting call news, theatre reviews, and actor union updates.

Teacher Resources

Artsedge ~ This US site — the National Arts and Education Network — offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.

British Council ~ A portal to theatre and drama across the United Kingdom

Drama-Education.com ~ This site is designed to assist teachers, pre-service teachers and students in Drama and Theatre Arts. It will assist anyone who wants to use Drama as a teaching strategy and offers features lessons, papers, links and other materials for drama teachers and students.