Resources and Useful Links for Theatre Teachers
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Resources on the Web

Theatre Links

Wendy’s Links:

My Theatre Education site
http://www.theatreteacher.homestead.com

Miller South Junior Thespian Page
http://www.theatreteacher.homestead.com


General Theatre Links

Arts Links – outstanding theatre link collection here
http://www.artslynx.org/

Justin’s Theatre Links
http://www.theatrelinks.com/

Theatre Links
http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/theatre

Performing Arts Links
http://www.theatrelibrary.org/links/

Acting

Acting and performance links:
http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/acting.htm

Acting Online – includes numerous links
http://www.redbirdstudio.com/AWOL/acting1.html

Acting Resource Center
http://www.caryn.com/acting/

The tongue twister data base
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html

Directing

The rise of the director
http://www.danillitphil.com/base.html

Directing Resources
http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/directing.htm



Improvisation

Learn Improv web site
http://www.learnimprov.com/

Fuzzy’s Games List
http://www.lowrent.net/super/improv/games.html

Improv Web Site list
http://www.fuzzyco.com/improv/games.html

Improv Games
http://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/~broehl/improv/games.html

International Theatre Sports Institute
http://www.theatresports.org/

Keith Johnstone Page
http://www.keithjohnstone.com/

(Viola) Spolin Center (Improvisation)
http://www.spolin.com/

The Improv Page
http://www.improvcomedy.org/

The New Improv Page
http://www.fuzzyco.com/improv/


Mask & Mime:

Mime and pantomime links
http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/physical.htm

Leonard Pitt Page
http://leonardpitt.com/bio.html

Dell’Arte School and Company
http://www.dellarte.com/

All things mime:
http://www.mimes.com/

Shakespeare:

Shakespeare Web
http://www.shakespeare.com/

Shakespeare, Works of
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html


Plays and Playwrights:

Anchorage Press – plays for children
http://www.applays.com/

The Dramatic Exchange – a script exchange site
http://www.dramex.org/

Musicline Publications – British youth musicals and Pantomimes
http://www.musicline-ltd.com/

Playscripts, Inc.
http://www.playscripts.com/


Theatre History:

Theatre History – monologues, scenes and plays in the public domain
http://www.theatrehistory.com/

American Museum of Vaudeville
http://vaudeville.org/

Theatre History Sites on the WWW
http://www.win.net/~kudzu/history.html

The New York Library for the Performing Arts
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html

Technical Theatre:

Vincent Lighting
http://www.vincentlighting.com/

The Costume Page -- Costuming Resources Online
http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo2.html

Technical Theatre resources
http://www.theatrecrafts.com/

Links and Resources
http://technicaltheater.com/

High School Technical Theatre info
http://www.hstech.org/

Theatres and Theatre Workers:

Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop descriptions
http://www.wwcd.org/action/Boal.html

Bill Irwin Home Page
http://indra.com/~eliz/birwin.html

George Coates Performance Works
http://www.georgecoates.org/index.html

Loose Moose Theatre Company
http://www.loosemoose.com/

Network of Ensemble Theatres
http://www.ensembletheaters.net/

New World Performance Laboratory
http://www.nwplab.org/

San Francisco Mime Troupe
http://www.sfmt.org/

Woman’s Will – an all-female Shakespeare Company
http://www.womanswill.org/

Theatre Education:

The American Alliance for Theatre and Education
http://www.aate.com/

Creative Drama and Theatre Education (lots of classroom resources)
http://www.creativedrama.com/

The Educational Theatre Association & International Thespian Society
http://www.edta.org/

National Standards for Theatre Education
http://www.byu.edu/tma/arts-ed/

Ohio Educational Theatre Association
http://ohioedta.org/

Theatre/Drama Lesson Plans
http://www.geocities.com/Shalyndria13/

Grant-seeking info

Foundation Center -- National
http://fdncenter.org/


Miscellaneous Favorite Sites:

Firesign Theatre
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/

The Kinks
http://129.21.21.9/kinks/kinks.html


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