Best of the Web: Performing Arts

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.

Select "Electronic Journal" from the pull-down menu and click Search.

Information as well as numerous services available to people living with HIV/AIDS. Site is also available in Spanish.

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.

Learning center for philanthropy issues, database with information on more than 650,000 nonprofits, collection of articles and web links for nonprofit subjects.

Digital images of 19th & early 20th century American sheet music at Duke University.

Plates of the book by the same name, originally published between 1861 and 1880.

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.

(Music Division, Library of Congress)

Photographs online at the New York Public Library (Click on numbered items close browser window to return to this page.)

"This is an index of known opera libretto pages, arranged by composer and name of the opera..."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gateway to thousands of scenic, costume and lighting designs documented on the web, indexed by title, playwright, designer or producer.

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.

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.

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.

Play translations, images, glossary, costumes, and interactive models provide a textured picture of theatre in Japan. Some sections require registration.

"Links to thousands of U.S. and European jazz artists as well as concerts, shows, venues, festivals, and online CD shopping."--Google

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.

Includes Joyce Soho.

A large collection of links to worldwide theatre resources from Australia, with well-chosen and well-organized categories. Frequently updated.