TH205: Dramatic Literature 2: 1850 to 1950

The Federal Theatre Project Collection contains documentation for stage productions mounted by the Federal Theatre Project in the period 1935-39. These include a wide variety of materials: billboards, cast lists, correspondence, costume designs, music, photographs, playbills, playscripts and many more.

GloPAD is a multimedia, multilingual, Web-accessible database containing digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects (such as 3-D images) related to the performing arts around the world.

bsenStage is a database of all known performances of Ibsen's plays worldwide. It is a quantitative research tool that contains data on more than 20,000 productions of Ibsen's plays and provides an accessible online resource for researching the performances.

The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field.

The DPLA pulls together American cultural content from museums, archives, and libraries (check for terms of use and re-use). Includes photographs, maps, news footage, oral histories, manuscript documents, artwork, and more.

Resources from European archives, broadcasters, museums, universities, research institutes and private collectors.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) provides a comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. IBDB also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway.

The Internet Off-Broadway Database, also known as the IOBDB,provides a catalogue of all shows ever produced Off-Broadway.

Search the database for historical playbills and information on theatrical productions.

Access digital humanities projects in Performing Arts.

What started life as Theatre History on the Web, perhaps now more appropriately called Theatre Resources on the Web for it includes links to other theatre-related materials as well as historical material.