THE QUEEN OF ALL THEATRE LINK SITES
Theatre-link.com - Your complete guide to all aspects of theatre on the net! You will find tons of theatre related site links.
IMPROV & GAMES
The Improv Home page - An unbelievable amount of info on Improv.
Living Playbook - Games and Improv resource. Classroom games and more.
JE77's Improv Pages - Resource.
Zot's Improv Page - Resource and games.
COSTUMING
The Costume Page - Everything about costuming including excellent historical reference.
The History of Costume - reference material.
International Costumers Guild - worldwide organization of costume professionals and hobbyists.
Period and Style for Designers - Extensive links.
DESIGN AND TECHNICAL
High School Tech Production - Mission: To assist High School Technical Theater students in their desire to learn about, create, and execute theatrical productions.To enable the exchange of information in a respectful manner. To foster team work and peer networks that will last beyond high school.
Stage Make Up - Step by step latex masks and more, great special effects.
BTS Training Page - Technical references.
The International Theatre Design Archive - 2000 designs by year 2000. Costume, lighting, scene designs listed by title, playwright, designer, or producer.
Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms - lots of terms for use in class.
Stage Managing- stage managing resource, including "Stage Managing and Theatre Etiquette".
ACTING
Method Acting Procedures - Exercises including relaxation, magic IF, sense memory...
Acting Workshop On-Line - A place for beginning actors.
PLAYS
Magicparrot.com - fantastic musical dramas which children aged 8-13 have greatly enjoyed performing.
If you ever need to buy a "budget" production to conserve funds, check out this site. The plays have been used in schools and by clubs such as Stagecoach. Each script comes with a CD.
StagePlays.com - The Internet Theatre Bookshop at stageplays.com offers virtually every play currently published in the English language & includes specialist Music, Dance, Cinema, TV & Radio sections.
Kids 4 Broadway - Unique theatre program offers up to 12 original one-act plays written specifically for elementary and middle school students to perform. All play packages include performing rights (no royalty fees required), production notes and Operations & Procedures Guide which offers set design information and direction technique.
Children's Theatre Plays.com - Excellent scripts, stageplays, for young audiences. Director, producers, teachers and drama coaches will find award winning scripts on a variety of subjects: history, literature, social issues.
Playwrights on the web - Playwrights on the Web - an international database of playwrights & their websites, offering production & publishing opportunities.
Samuel French - Plays, plays, and more plays.
Dramatists Play Service Home Pages - Script ideas.
Dramatics Publishing Co. - Plays.
The Way Off Broadway Theatre Workshop - Appropriate plays for children 7-17.
Moonstruck Drama Bookstore - Scripts, musicals and resources.
TEACHERS
Theatrix Web Centre - Here you will find links explaining some dramatic techniques for teaching, and some useful
educational drama links. The purpose of this page is to explain ways to successfully use theatre and creative drama in your classroom. As an added bonus, Gordon's a doll and you'll really enjoy his style.
The Learning Page - The Learning Page provides downloadable ebooks, worksheets and lesson plans
for teachers and parents of elementary level schoolchildren. There are thousands of pages in theme-based and basic skills categories.
Our Page - This site is devoted to providing practical internet resources for teachers. Tons of site information on various subjects and it's easy to navigate.
The Virtual Drama Studio - Resources for Teaching Drama and Theatre Studies. A great place to find Content Oriented sites.
International Society for Technology in Education - The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is a professional society of teachers helping teachers use technology in the classroom.
Theatre for Young Audiences Creative Drama - Homepage of Matt Buchanan, Playwright and Drama Teacher. Lesson plans and so much more.
TeachWeb - Internet resources for K-12 Educators.
Make Learning Fun - Lesson plans for Drama and more.
Dramawest - Australian site. Lessons, links, ed policies, and more.
The School Show Page - UK site. Resource for school and youth theatre including play resources, tech guides and links.
The Argonaut - An awesome site for the arts and arts advocacy. Massive links.
A Dramatic Education - Featuring lesson plans from this site as well as many others.
Denise's Web Pages - Make school play analysis, design, etc...work in the classroom.
The Lesson Plan Exchange for Teachers of Theater - Lesson plans for Beginning, Advanced, Technical Theater, Production, and Directing.
Educational Theatre Association - Home page of the International Thespian Society.
High School Theatre - The most complete listing of High School Theatre on the Web.
Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults Extensive links page.
The Virtual Theater Project - Studies the creation of intelligent, automated characters that can act either in well defined stories or in improvisational environments.
Sites For Teachers - sitesforteachers.com has a TON of links to teacher-related web sites.
The Performing Zone - lesson plans and other goodies.
PUPPETRY
Stage Hand Puppets - Patterns, resources, links.
The Puppetry Home Page - Resources, information, links.
MISCELLANEOUS GOOD STUFF
Arts Books - Arts Books specialises in all the performing arts, from ballet and ballroom to contemporary dance, opera, mime, drama and musical theatre. Besides probably the largest variety of musical, dance and opera videos, Arts Books also has a huge dance class music section covering class music for ballet, jazz, tap modern and contemporary dance. In addition Arts Books also cater for most aspects of theatre ranging from scripts and monologues to back stage support and costume and set design. Based in the U.K. but happily accepts international orders.
Steve the MimeGuy - Excellent site put together by an actor/artist/mime/clown/teacher. A little bit of everything for everyone including lesson plans.
Theatre on a Shoestring - Extensive production photos, classroom ideas, theatre games, stagecraft how-to's, the Theatre Bookstore, play spreadsheet, publisher info, synopses, theatre links, a theatre discussion forum...
Medieval Drama Links - Extensive links.
Shakespeare Resources - Extensive links.
Screenwriters' and Playwrights' Home Page - Resource for playwrights and anyone interested in contemporary drama.
National Association of Youth Theatres - Uk based site. Works through programmes of Advocacy, Training, Participation and Information Services to promote the quality and diversity of Youth Theatre throughout the UK.