Best of the Web
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A network of stock footage resources.
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Listing of Grantmaker Websites, funding trends, guides to funding and proposal writing, and so much more. Includes highlights of the 1998 study on arts funding, and the Literature of the Nonprofit Sector. One of the most useful sites on the web. Also an online librarian to answer reference questions. Highly recommended.
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Select "Electronic Journal" from the pull-down menu and click Search.
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Index to 1000+ website that contain free sheet music.
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Index/search engine for free sheet music on the web.
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International Dictionary of Ballet and International Dictionary of Modern Dance are published under Gale's St. James Press imprint.
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Information as well as numerous services available to people living with HIV/AIDS. Site is also available in Spanish.
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Comprehensive listing of published recordings with link to non-commercial/unpublished recordings.
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An international organization using innovative digital technologies to create easily accessible, multimedia, and multilingual information resources for the study and preservation of the performing arts.
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From the UK: A downloadable dictionary of terms also subdivided into Lighting, Sound and Stage Management categories. British terminology, rather than American is used, but much is the same.
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association entertainment awards. Database of nominees and winners since 1944. Also included is list a past winners of the Cecil B.DeMille award. Easy to use.
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Antiquarian and rare books specializing in theater and dance.
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Includes listings of brass bands, chamber ensembles, concert bands & wind ensembles, and orchestras.
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A personal site, but very well researched and apparently thorough. Listed in chronological order each entry includes a cast list, song list, and synopsis as well as notes from reviews and encyclopedic works
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Learning center for philanthropy issues, database with information on more than 650,000 nonprofits, collection of articles and web links for nonprofit subjects.
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Digital images of 19th & early 20th century American sheet music at Duke University.
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Plates of the book by the same name, originally published between 1861 and 1880.
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University of California San Francisco project.
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Critical articles and reviews about the contemporary theater scene. Writers include Gordon Carver, Robert Brustein, Caridad Svich, Stanley Kauffmann, Tony Kushner and more. Published by the Hunter College Theatre Department and edited by Jonathan Kalb.
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(Information on hymn tunes, hymnals, and hymn composers.) SEE ALSO link to The Cyber Hymnal (under Song Texts and Opera Librettos)
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(Music Division, Library of Congress)
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Searchable directory of 10,000 non-profit organizations in 150 countries. Find information on events, resources, services, volunteering, and employment.
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Photographs online at the New York Public Library (Click on numbered items close browser window to return to this page.)
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"This is an index of known opera libretto pages, arranged by composer and name of the opera..."
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A detailed information database on improvisational comedy troupes across North America. An easy way of finding comedy troupes and when & where they perform.
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IFP was founded in 1979 on a belief that a truly vital American cinema must include the personal, idiosyncratic, and sometimes controversial voices of filmmakers working outside of the established studio system.
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"The only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions." (IPM is only available online and requires a subscription.)
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An online index to plays in collections, anthologies & periodicals, devised at the Portland State Univ. Library. The database includes works from the late 19th Century through 1999.
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A chronology of Brecht's life, a history of the Berliner Ensemble, a list of Brecht's works in English, a bibliography, a forum for Brecht researchers to aid one another.
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ICWP support women playwrights around the world by bringing international attention to their achievementsencouraging production of their plays translation, publication, and international distributions of their works providing means for communication and contact among women dramatists, and other means.
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The site includes an online catalog of the holdings of the International Dada Archive (located at the University of Iowa Libraries), information on the Dada movement and individual Dada writers and artists, and bibliographies.
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Gateway to thousands of scenic, costume and lighting designs documented on the web, indexed by title, playwright, designer or producer.
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The INC is a project of The Evergreen State Society of Seattle, Washington. It offers information for and about nonprofit organizations in the United States. Very useful FAQ's arranged by subject. Also see the library for documents of use to those who are learning about nonprofit organizations.
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Published by volunteers who mine the Net for research nuggets (hence the name). Current and past issues of their newsletter, multiple web resources for company directories and news, guides to understanding financials, search engine for foundation searching. Also includes links to SEC/Edgar: a database on company activities, financial data and executive compensation.
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Searchable gateway to online texts, many of which include dramatic works.
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(Lewis Music Library at M.I.T.) "Popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art."
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National reference archive for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland. Contains extensive holdings of non-commercial and commercial sound recordings, videos, DVDs, books, serials, sheet music, ballad sheets, photographs.
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The International Theatre Institute (ITI), an international non-governmental organization (NGO), was founded in Prague in 1948 by UNESCO and the international theatre community. The website features the World Theatre Directory, with contact information for ITI Centers and theatres in approximately 90 countries, and often, a brief history of recent theatre in each country.
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Includes listing of known broadcasts and concert tapings not published commercially.
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Play translations, images, glossary, costumes, and interactive models provide a textured picture of theatre in Japan. Some sections require registration.
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"The Ultimate Jazz Concert Calendar Guide for the U.S. and Canada"
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"Links to thousands of U.S. and European jazz artists as well as concerts, shows, venues, festivals, and online CD shopping."--Google
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Full text of Grotowski's statement of ten principles for theater.
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Kent State's excellent biography and papers on Joseph Chaikin. Descriptions of the papers box by box, with historical notes as needed.
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Structured as a finding aid, this "digital" archive contains over 2,000 photographs, pictures, and memorabilia, housed in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. It is part of the California Heritage Digital Image Finding Aids.
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A peer-reviewed online journal examining the spirituality of world cultures in all disciplines of the theatre, performance studies in sacred rituals of all cultures, and other topics concerning the relationship between religion and theatre.
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A list of links to international scholarly publications. However, most theatre journals on the web are not full text, but only offer tables ofcontents and indexes of past issues.
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Includes Joyce Soho.
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Everything a juggler needs to know.
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A large collection of links to worldwide theatre resources from Australia, with well-chosen and well-organized categories. Frequently updated.
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A Laban notation editor for Macintosh.