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Hundreds of good links to all aspects of acting, including: Training, Unions & Associations Theaters & Theater Groups Casting Publications Scriptwriting Shakespeare Film Studios Film Festivals Booklists. Ideosyncratic but useful advice on different aspects of acting can also be found on the site.
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Click the Training button and highlight your state to retrieve a list of links to local acting training programs.
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A directory of regional combined auditions, with contact information for each.
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Some listings available to subscribers only.
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Online edition includes selected articles, directories, register for email casting notices. ($10 subscription buys archived articles and the full monthly publication.)
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A publisher's catalog organized by subject, with a keyword search. Offers a good selection of musicals and plays for holidays, for children and youth, and on religious themes. Includes titleson acting, producing and directing, voice and dialects, as well as a directory of suppliers for production needs. An excellent resource for amateur theatre groups.
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A ballet and dance site of the United Kingdom.
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A useful directory for searches by country. Includes more than just ballet resources.
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In English and German.
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(Music Division, Library of Congress)
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Lewiston, Maine.
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The BBFC is the body responsible for the classification of films and videos for public distribution in the UK. Includes a history of the BBFC, an outline of the classification policy, details of recent decisions, comments on cases of particular public interest, information on submitting works for classification, and a database of works classified by the BBFC, including details of the final classification, the running time of the work, whether or not cuts were made before classification, the distributor of the work, and information on the director and principal cast members.
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The independent trade (labor) union for workers in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure and allied industries who are primarily based in the United Kingdom.
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As a foundation for communications policy and research, the site includes current communications news, the Open Studio (offering Internet access and training to artists and nonprofit arts organizations) and a Best Practices Toolkit to help non-profits use communications technologies more effectively.
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Resources to help nonprofit organizations use communications technologies more effectively. Subjects covered include project planning and implementation, evaluation, publicity, and technology funding for nonprofits. Highly recommended.
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Searchable data base offering videos for purchase and rental.
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The colorful home page of the one-ring circus originating in New York. Includes articles about the founding of the Company, the history of circus through the ages, how the animals are cared for, statistics on the dimensions of the circus tent and materials used to mount a show, and previews of touring shows.
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Comprehensive listing of recordings.
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"When fully implemented, the database will hold ca. 15,000 references to articles in magazines, monographs...and liner/booklet notes."
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This well written, progressive "academic/popular hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary", looks at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political. Bright Lights Film Journal is indexed in Film Literature Index, International Index to Film Periodicals, and Media Review Digest. No search function, but fully archived.
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Britian's awards for film, television, children's entertainment, and interactive media. Winners and nominees for past year only.
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Organization which exists to promote greater understanding and appreciation of, and access to, film and moving image culture in the UK. Features information on exhibitions, collections, production and education, and describes the Museum of the Moving Image and the National Film and Television Archive.
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Resources from the guild, which protects and promotes the skills of puppetry and model theatre in all its forms.
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Mounts online texts of plays not widely available in print, publishes working papers and responses on important issues, and provides research resources, including a detailed bibliography of works on Romantic drama & British women playwrights [last updated: 23 December 2001].
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Specializes in full-length, contemporary American plays also publishes some musicals and one-acts. Alphabetical lists of scripts and authors, and lists of titles categorized into musicals, full-length plays, one acts, long one acts, and 2-, 3-, and 4-character plays. Not searchable.
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This site training new theatrical producers includes a good glossary of terms, sample Broadway and off-Broadway budget workups, and a comparison of Broadway, off-Broadway and Alliance production expenses. (Some parts of the site are members-only).
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Includes Broadway news, up to the minute reviews (earlier reviews are in the archives), The Insider (a column by Ken Mandelbaum), multimedia clips, profiles of stars of the moment, sound clips from cast albums, ticketing, forums & chat rooms.
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Click the "links" button for a list of internet resources relating to each chapter of Franklin Hildy's 8th edition of Brockett's History of the Theatre and the "bibliography" button for chapter-by-chapter booklists.
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A professional performance ensemble with a year-round schedule of chamber music and orchestral concerts, as well as special programs for families and a full music and arts-in-education program for schools.
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(M.F.A. in Performing Arts Management)
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Advances business/arts alliances.
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Comprehensive listing of recordings including non-commercial ones.
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The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
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"Contains 145,000 song titles (mostly popular music) from 1,500 sheet music collections" (song books, magazines, etc.) & "indexes of the collections of the California Library System Reference Centers and some of the libraries in their systems."
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"Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the liturgical Office."
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CSA is an organization of professional Casting Directors from all fields. Provides industry related links to PERFORMING ARTS UNIONS AND GUILDS , ELECTRONIC CASTING LINKS and OTHER FILM, TELEVISION AND THEATRE LINKS
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Searchable Government resource for grantseekers. Listings of grants. Information on developing and writing grant proposals. Clear and concise.
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(Middle Tennessee State University). (Searchable databases for song books, sheet music and music trade catalogs held by the Center.)
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Information on the plays, people and performance spaces of French theatre between 1600 and 1800. Covers plays, operas, ballets and incidental theatrical entertainments of all kinds, whether performed, published, or merely described in contemporary documents. Includes images of characters, actors, sets, theatres, playwrights.
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(Mississippi State University) "A collection of some 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America."
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Digitized images of the Chopin Early Editions collection at the University of Chicago.
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Leading newspaper of the nonprofit world. Selected leading articles from current issue, index to previous issues going back 2 years. Some facts and figures of philanthropy topics available without subscription. Three different types of subscription packages make this site one of the most confusing on the Internet. However, if you persevere you can access excellent information for free.
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A database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive Library's clippings files. The files contain documents from a broad range of sources covering world cinema, past and present. Provides a full catalog search function and many of the documents have been scanned and are available for viewing.
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Huge media directory, links to television, film, video, magazines, organizations, actors, actresses. Wide ranging assortment of personal and commercial sites. Particularly useful if you know generally what you're looking for. Site is searchable, and resources are arranged alphabetically under a topical directory.
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This national historic landmark and museum located on the Ringling Bros original winter quarters is a repository of info about different aspects of the circus.
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Articles on circus history and lore links to the sites of circus companies and related associations.
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The Home Page of the innovative company, with a history of the company and information about its current activities.
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Provides performance calendars for more than 70 cities across the U.S. as well as for international cities in Australia, Canada, Korea, Scandanavia, and Japan.
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Subject guide, Brad Lang's page for Movie classics. Reviewed links to Genres in general, plus more particular classic forms such as "B" Movies/Cult Films, Film Noir, Foreign-Language Films, Horror/Sci-Fi Musicals Silent Film Westerns/Serials Plus history links directories for scripts, quotes, reviews, databases, etc. See the subject guide on the left side of the page.
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("Information on important classical composers and their works.")
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(Sorted by nationality and by date/year of birth/death. Includes composer timeline.)
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"A wide and ever growing selection of classical music programme notes. This site is compiled from years of classical writing covering a wide and diverse selection of contemporary music and standard repertoire."
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"Directory of Music Faculties
"Directory of International Music Organizations
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This state-of-the-art facility presents concerts, theatrical productions, lectures, films, and exhibits. It ishoused on the largest and newest urban campus in New York City.
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