Best of the Web
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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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Another source for e-texts which include plays, accessible by author, title and subject.
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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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"An opera information server" providing "detailed information, including libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, [and] discographies."
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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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An informative paper from the Library of Congress Information Bulletin. Linked to the American Memory Exhibition, which includes MPEG, Quicktime and Real Player versions of film for the viewer to download and view.
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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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Performing, Technical, Design, Administrative, and Academic employment. Cumbersome to navigate. You must register with the Playbill Club for no-cost access.
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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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This Toronto-based scholarly group tracks down the texts and traditions out of which the drama of Shakespeare grew. Includes a discussion group, texts of early English plays, and a link to the site for the journal Early Theatre, which has abstracts of its published articles. "All the World's a Stage: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music" < http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html > provides a helpful analysis of medieval drama resources on the web and off.
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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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While this personal site has no apparent link to any organization, library, or archives, its small collection of bibliographies, articles, images, and internet resources about this topic are worth perusing.
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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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For over 50 years the Richmond Choral Society has been presenting classical choral music on Staten Island.
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The Richmond County Orchestra(RCO)is a semi-professional orchestra founded in 1999 by Mr. Alan Aurelia, who is also is currently severing as music director/conductor.
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(RILM Abstracts Online database requires subscription.)
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(RIPM Online database requires subscription.)
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Riverside Opera Company, under the direction of Alan Aurelia, performs at various locations on Staten Island.
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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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Provides access to extensive holdings in dance, opera, theatre, music, and design via the online catalog, and also contains sections on its collections, exhibitions, events, and educational initiatives.
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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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About.com's site Articles, interviews, links to other resources - annotated and reviewed. Good resource for screenwriting hints and Templates. Links to full text Scripts on the Web.
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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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A set decorator selects furniture, drapery, lighting fixtures, art and other objects to "dress the set" of a motion picture, television program, music video or commercial.
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Searches the contents of major fake books.
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A site championing Shakespeare as the author of the plays.
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Links to scholarly articles and essays "Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare."
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Highly detailed full-text resource to the speeches and plays of the Bard.
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A site championing Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the author of the works.