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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.
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Shared acting and/or musical auditions for Summer Theatre held in March in Boston, involving some 70 producers, talent agents, and training institutes in the New England area. Staff and tech interviews as well. Guidelines and applications for non-Equity performers are online.
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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.
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The New York Film/Video Council is the oldest continuously operating non-profit organization serving the non-theatrical and independent film and video community in New York City. Monthly programs include screenings, seminars and panel discussions on topics such as: production funding, new media technologies, distribution, exhibition, as well as a variety of issues facing film and video producers. Site includes calendars of events, and interesting and diversifies links to all aspects of film production. Of particular interest may be the international film
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The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival was founded in 1993. NYIIFVF has been recognized by the film and entertainment industry as one of the leading film events on the independent festival circuit. The festival hosts film, music and art events in the two entertainment capitals of the United States: New York and Los Angeles.
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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.
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A good partial listing of names, addresses and phone numbers of acting classes and schools in the New York area. Updated regularly.
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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.
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Nonprofit, professional membership organization for women working in the film and television industries.
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Browse the directory by country.
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Full text of 13 Noh dramas, as well as an intro, notes, and glossary of Noh terms.
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Includes Job Resource Center (membership fee required), directory of nonprofit organizations, job fairs, conferences, workshops, and conventions (free).
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Offers information as well as preservation services.
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"New York City's free database of available rehearsal and performance spaces for instrumental and vocal musicians."
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NYPL Electronic Resources, related to health and medicine, provide access to a wealth of health information from newsletters, magazines, reference books and professional journals. These databases require a library card for offsite access.
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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.
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The Village Voice OBIE Awards for Off-Broadway. OBIE database for winners 1955 to present.
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Frequently updated job postings, efficiently organized by category.
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Links to university and college dance programs in Ohio and to other dance education organizations.
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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.
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Alphabetical by composer.
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(Chords and lyrics only)
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Serves as an index to more than 18,000 public domain books on the web, searchable by author, title, and subject.
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(Harvard U. site)
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"Selected opera scores chosen from the Cook Music Library's holdings"(Indiana University site)
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Provides links to theatre company web pages organized by region.
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A refreshingly uncluttered site offering intelligent reviews of off-off Broadway shows. Past reviews are archived, and current "oobr" listings are provided. Also includes instructions on how to get a theatre production reviewed.
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Advocacy and awareness programs for increasing support for opera in North America. Facts and figures as well as publications to order online.
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"Currently listing 200 companies from 5 continents."
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Database searchable for festivals, current newspaper articles and reviews, information on performers, artists, opera houses, and audio and video recordings.
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(Orchestra homepages and concert schedules.)
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Performance Space 122 is a not-for-profit arts center serving the New York City dance and performance community. P.S. 122 is committed to supporting the development of work by individual artists who create live art with an authentic vision.
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History of Cannes Film Festival from the 1940's. Awards from 1946. Juries listed, posters from festivals, 500 names that made Cannes, inside stories. Excellent site.
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"A reference to help indentify public domain songs and public domain music."
•Song List "Alphabetical list of more than 3000 songs now in the public domain..."
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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.
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(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.
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This site provides listings of acting and threatrical support positions on and off Broadway and throughout the United States, London, Canada, and Brazil.
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Job postings by date.
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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.
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Publication directed toward the producer. Includes interviews, profiles, book reviews, articles regarding financial issues, technology, film history, and features. NOT searchable.
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"The most reliable and accurate source of worldwide concert tour schedules..., updated and verified every week."
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(U.C.L.A. Music Library) "The Digital Archive of Popular American Music is an initiative designed to provide access to digital versions of the [archive's] sheet music, and performances of the songs now in the public domain."
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Full text of selected articles. Archived to 1997.
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Comprehensive collection of electronic texts.
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Prokofiev as pianist. Includes rollography(piano rolls), discography of 78rpm HMV recordings.
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"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.
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Formerly University Microfilms International (UMI)
"Dissertation Services: Ordering Dissertations and Theses -
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An international guide to archives, compiled by the Library of Congress.
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Puppeteers of America, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1937, provides information, encourages performances, and builds a community of people who love puppet theatre
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Film and media related websites in Canada, from the Department of Film Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
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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.
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Searchable data base offering videos for purchase.
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Compiled by Joseph Casazza and Elizabeth Cain includes a transcription of the New York Public Library Dance Collection's "Il Papa Manuscript."
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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.
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From the Richard III Society, resources on films and plays about Richard III, including a hypertext version of Shakespeare's play.
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Out of print dance books.
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(RILM Abstracts Online database requires subscription.)
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(RIPM Online database requires subscription.)
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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.
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TNT's online movie and entertainment magazine. Reviews, feature articles, interviews, statistics and chat rooms.
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Provides a search, or alternatively, listings of plays by type and number of characters.
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Includes preservation and documentation resources and contacts, access to National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), and the UCLA National Dance/Media Project.
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"Entertainment Reviews for Parents," . . . clinical analysis of films. Reviews the film with explanation of MPAA rating and suitability for various age groups
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About screenwriting: features, columns, interviews and how-to's. links to full text screenplays. Archives are indexed by category, but not searchable.
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Includes books, music, sound recordings, serials, etc., from 1978 on.
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The Paris Music Hall Collection comprises over 6,000 original renderings of costume designs and 1,000 original renderings of curtain designs for the music halls of Paris from 1920-1938.
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