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Amateur Theatre
- FEATS home page
  The Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies, a showcase of English language amateur theatre in Europe. It takes place annually over the four days of Whitsun at a different European city each year. In 1998, the Festival will take place in Antwerp, at The Arenberg Theatre, from 29 May - 1 June
Cabaret
Children's Theatre
- Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrum
  In the year 1999, the Children’s and Youth Theatre Centre in the Federal Republic of Germany is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its foundation. Since 1989, the Centre has supported and furthered the development of theatre for children and young people in Germany
- Teatro per ragazzi in Internet
  an introduction to the history of theatre for students and young people
Circus
- CIRCUSTUFF Juggling and Circus On-Line
- CIRCUSTUFF Links
Gay/Lesbian Theatre
- GorillaBlue
  Web Home for Gay/Lesbian Comedy, Queer Performance
- Welcome to the QueerStage list
Improvisational Theatre
- Improv Page
  A clearinghouse for information about improvisational theatre
- The UK Impro Mailing List
- Improv Class On-line
  a Cyber tutorial in improv technique by Dennis Kern: "This is my attempt to aquaint improvisers or would-be improvisers with a system of rules and exercises I have developed over the last 20 years of directing, performing, and teaching improv"
- Improv Links Page
- Zot's Improv Page
  Containing Improv Groups, an impressive worldwide collection of links to improv groups
Kabuki, Noh, Kyogen
- Facts-JPN Kabuki
- Kabuki for Everyone
  A comprehensive page on Kabuki and related forms
- Kyogen
- Noh Project
- Noh Mask Exhibition
- Noh Masks
Mime
- American Academy of Mime
  director Cary Trivanovich
- The World of Mime Theatre
  devoted to the promotion of Mime as a serious theatrical art.
  Its goals are education, information exchange, entertainment, and providing the opportunity to connect people involved and interested in Mime Theatre around the world
- Le Centre Du Silence
  Samuel Avital's BodySpeak training program
Opera & Musical Theatre
- BMG Classics World
- A Brief History of Singing
- DBAR's list of Holland-related musical theatre links
  This page contains a list of links to resources that are in some way or another related to musicals performed in The Netherlands. Both original Dutch productions and Dutch versions of foreign shows are listed
- Frank's Musicals Homepage
  Story outlines and plenty of photos from Dutch productions (The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Miss Saigon etc.)
- Geopera
- International Index to Music Periodicals
  more than 350 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Available on an annual subscription
- Libretto List
- Music Theatre International
- The Musicals Home Page
- Musical Stages Online
- Nick & Cyrene's Classical Music Links
- Opera America
- Opera Home Page
  Recorded opera basic dictionary
- Opera-l_home_page
- OperaGlass
- Opera News Online
- The Opera Schedule Server
  This service provides information about the programs of opera companies around the world.
- Opera Synopses
- OperaWeb Home Page
- The Singing Voice
- Spotlight on Broadway and Musical Theatre -- A Performer's Resource
- Theatricopia
  "An abundance of links and more for Musical Theatre fans"
- Mailing Lists
  - C-OPERA - contemporary music-theatre & opera: Discussion List
    subscribe
  - OPERA-L -- Opera Discussion List
    To join OPERA-L, contact: Alberto Gomide
    post a message
- Singers
  - NGCPC's Individual Performers
  - Singers and other Opera Professionals
  - Soprano Central
  - Welcome to Tenorland
- Theatres
  - Metropolitan Opera
  - Royal Opera House
  - Teatro alla Scala
Performance
- The 4562 Contemporary Performance Theory Home Page
- The Centre for Performance research www.aber.ac.uk
- Centre of Theatre Practice
  A "digital site for performance research" at Murdoch University (Australia). Documentation, information, and contacts to Kaos Theatre events, HyperScrap, a performance bibliography clearinghouse, and research databases, and other links.
- The pErfOrmAncE aRt Front
  pErfOrmAncE aRt covers a wide spectrum of performance, both public and private, multi-cultural and multi-lingual. It includes "artists whose work challenges traditional notions of theater, politics and/or presentation". Updates on local/national/international performances; individual artists; calls for work and all other relevant topics.
Puppetry and Shadow Play
- Bali-puppets
- Balinese Wayang Kulit Shadow Play
- Bunraku
- China Shadow Play Institute - History
- Home Page Marionnettes
- Institut International de la Marionnette
- Karagoz
  Turkish shadow theatre: stock characters and best known scenarios
- Puppenspiel-Online
- The Puppetry Home Page
  A very comprehensive page of links to puppetry resources, including technique, construction, puppeteers, tour schedules, and related issues.
- PUPTCRIT -- Puppet Theatre Discussion Group
  subscribe
  post a message
Street Theatre
- AFAA- Association Française d'Action Artistique
- Capitol International Street Entertainment
  Cardiff Summer Festival
- Lieux publics
  Le Centre National de Création des Arts de la Rue
- Stockton International Riverside Festival 1997
  U.K.'s most spectacular festival of street theatre
- Le Fourneau, Lieu de Fabrique de Théatre de Rue à Brest
Students' Theatre
- The International Thespian Society
  offers students exposure to the larger world of theatre
Vaudeville
- American Variety Stage Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
  a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings.
- History of Vaudeville in Ohio
  A freely accessible database, cataloguing shows and performers at the Chicago Opera House in Chicago Junction (now Willard), Ohio from August 1903 to December 1911
Virtual theatre
- CyberTheatre project
  This project is an exploratory study which will look at the possibilities of the new technology in the field of theatre. The project will use digital technology to create performance in virtual space, working with a group of student performers to explore the artistic potential of Cyberspace. Alan Hancock Communications Education Edith Cowan University Mt Lawley WA
- TheVirtual Theater Project
  The Virtual Theatre project aims to provide a multimedia environment in which users can interact with intelligent, automated actors, either in well-defined stories or in improvisational environments.
- i.e.VR Home Page
  the Institute for the Exploration of Virtual Realities, within the University Theatre and the Department of Theatre & Film at the University of Kansas. Its goal is to explore the uses of virtual reality and related technologies. While the primary application currently under study is theatre production and performance, the possibility of exploring VR applications in other fields is also being actively pursued.
Women's Theatre
- International Centre for Women Playwrights
  The International Centre for Women Playwrights is dedicated to the support of women playwrights around the world.
- Playworks
  Australia. Playworks is a dynamic national network supporting women writing for theatre and performance. Dramaturgs, directors, choreographers, multimedia artists and performance makers are engaged in a continuous and vigorous dialogue with writers.
- Teatro delle donne. Centro Nazionale di Drammaturgia delle Donne
  Italy. Since 1991, this Centre is dedicated to contemporary women playwrights. The Archives include at present about 500 play texts.
- Women's Projects and Productions
  USA. A premier New York Off-Broadway theatre dedicated to putting women playwrights center stage since 1978. The Women's Project provides a home for women playwrights and offers a world of entertaining and provocative stories written by women, and enjoyed by anyone willing to experience exciting new theatre.
- Women's Theatre Collection
  University of Bristol, UK. Established in 1990 to provide a centre for playscripts by women of performed but not necessarily published plays. Such writings are often lost as companies move onto new projects or cease to operate, and the Theatre Collection offers a site to save them as well as make them available to visiting scholars. The 400+ typescripts are supplemented by a reference library of published texts and supporting critical, historical and biographical books which together form an invaluable resource. (Video Production)

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