Best of the Web: Performing Arts

Guidelines and applications, basic facts, news and interviews, hundreds of full-text articles on all aspects of the arts and arts funding.

New Dramatists is the nations oldest nonprofit center for the development of talented playwrights. The work of its resident playwrights is cultivated through a free, seven-year program of play readings, workshops, educational and career support. Internships are also available.

Represents and serves New York City nonprofit cultural organizations involved in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Listings of alternate and free exhibit spaces, criteria for program funding, artist certification.

NYRAG is a nonprofit membership association of donors in the tristate area focusing on improving the practice of philanthropy. Provides programing aimed at educating the grantseeker and grantgiver alike. Site contains New York/New Jersey Area Common Application and Report Forms and the NYRAGTimes, a quarterly newsletter.

State funding agency that provides support for activities of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in New York State. Included are grant applications, employment opportunities, final reports, and list of NYSCA current list of current grantees.

Browse the directory by country.

Full text of 13 Noh dramas, as well as an intro, notes, and glossary of Noh terms.

Offers information as well as preservation services.

"New York City's free database of available rehearsal and performance spaces for instrumental and vocal musicians."

Offers news, features, reviews, show listings and summaries, ticket info and discounts, a good late-night theatre guide, and a "starfile" linking well-known actors with their current shows.

The International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians is the world-wide parent organisation for scenographers, theatre technicians and architects, and operates under the auspices of UNESCO.

(Chords and lyrics only)

(Harvard U. site)

Provides links to theatre company web pages organized by region.

Advocacy and awareness programs for increasing support for opera in North America. Facts and figures as well as publications to order online.

Database searchable for festivals, current newspaper articles and reviews, information on performers, artists, opera houses, and audio and video recordings.

The Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations and individuals. Searchable by year, title, producing organization, city and key word.

(The New York Public Library) Searchable database of archival material held by the Performing Arts Library, including "music sheet samples featuring popular music, show-tunes, jazz and dance music". Click "music" or "browse index" to limit search to sheet music.

This site provides listings of acting and threatrical support positions on and off Broadway and throughout the United States, London, Canada, and Brazil.

A directory of websites by playwrights, a forum for playwrights, a directory of plays, and a messageboard of opportunities for playwrights, sponsored by the Internet Theatre Bookshop.

"The most reliable and accurate source of worldwide concert tour schedules..., updated and verified every week."

Full text of selected articles. Archived to 1997.

Comprehensive collection of electronic texts.

"The purpose of this dictionary is to help American English-speaking persons pronounce the names of music composers, the titles of their compositions, and the names of artists who perform the music." Over 30,000 entries.

An international guide to archives, compiled by the Library of Congress.

Film and media related websites in Canada, from the Department of Film Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

Comprehensive multi-media collection describing the history and evolution of Latin Music in New York City. Includes audio/visual recordings, original manuscripts, photos, periodicals, oral histories, artifacts, instruments.

Searchable data base offering videos for purchase.

Chapters 5 through 8 in Volume 8 of this standard work provide an overview of the plays, playwrights and development of the Restoration Stage, with references to primary sources and bibliographies listing the works of Restoration dramatists.

Out of print dance books.

(RIPM Online database requires subscription.)

Scours the internet for reviews of films and games, from the amateur to the professional, and uses the aggregate data to determine if the review is positive or negative. Links to full-text reviews are provided. Reviews can be limited to the New York area, to respected critics, or to critics belonging to film critic societies.

Includes preservation and documentation resources and contacts, access to National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), and the UCLA National Dance/Media Project.

"Entertainment Reviews for Parents," . . . clinical analysis of films. Reviews the film with explanation of MPAA rating and suitability for various age groups