Portal to explore items related to theatre and performing arts at the Library of Congress

Includes authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.

Digital collection of over 3000 photographs documenting decades of theatre history in New York.

The V&A's collections relating to theatre history and British theatre, including articles and a portal to related digital collection items.

Thousands of digital items from American theater history, including photographs, posters, lobby cards, scripts, technical drawings, costume designs, and ephemera.

An extensive database of Broadway theaters and productions, including both historical and current productions.

Includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images).

The web site for the association of design, production, and technology professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industry in the USA.

A comprehensive, searchable glossary of English-language theatre terms.

Focuses on Stagehands and Apprentices of IATSE Local 470 in Northeast Wisconsin. Has good information for technicians and students of theatre as it provides clear definitions and procedures for everyday operation of theatre productions.

An online manual from the Frieze scene shop at the University of Michigan.

Technical information about stage rigging equipment; includes rigging formulas. Illustrated.

Website featuring collected light plots and other technical documents from many stage productions, as well as an interactive light plot for the 1979 Broadway production of Sweeney Todd.

Jack Wolcott 's site lists lighting resources for theatre and drama.

A collaboration by the Lighting Archive and the New York Public Library, this website features collected light plots and supporting documentation from many stage productions in both theater and dance.

An an excellent site for both amateur and professional costumers , with information on history, design and construction techniques. Links provided to other excellent sites.

This illustrated book of costume design was published by Braun & Scheider in c.1861-1880.

Portal to the digital collections of 32 major European museums and archives, including modern and period costume and fashion.

The Met makes more than 400,000 public domain items available digitally, including more than 40,000 costume-related items spanning four millennia. Search by era, geographic location of origin, or by keyword.

Hundreds of images of 19th-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The full-color fashion plates were culled from a variety of women's periodicals and other mass-circulating works published between 1789 and 1914. The images are primarily from France, Britain, America, and Spain, and depict scenes of nineteenth-century middle- and upper-class life. A number of plates also derive from trade journals for tailors, who used the images to create made-to-order garments for fashionable men.

Fashion-era contains 890 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social Histor

Search for reviews of commercial patterns by company, time periods, and types of garments.

Blog for "...helping others experience 19th century fashions through modern and period sewing techniques."

This article gives and overview and theoretical look at sound design for theatre.

This site is all about period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century. Access 4000 costume pictures through a database, read one of hundreds of articles, or download some authentic period patterns.

The Blanche Payne Regional Costume and Drawing Collection contains photographic prints, pattern drawings, watercolor paintings, and postcards that former UW faculty-member Blanche Payne collected or created on her research trips to the former Yugoslavia and various other countries during 1930 and 1936-1937.

Allows you to search for monologues from movies, plays, television and books by gender and a variety of themes

A complete list of Shakespeare's Monologues, organized by play, then categorized by comedy, history and tragedy.

An assortment of public domain monologues then taken from classic plays organized by gender and type.

From University of Wisconsin - Madison, this collection offers sound samples of regional American accents recorded in the field. From 1965–1970, Fieldworkers for the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) conducted interviews with nearly 3,000 “Informants” in 1,002 communities across America. They visited native residents in all fifty states and D.C., collecting local words, phrases, and pronunciations

Blog that contains audio samples from around Britain.

More than 1,000 scripted recordings of English language spoken by natives of nearly 100 countries around the world. Browse by region or by theme, or search all records for key terms.

From George Mason University, a collection of thousands of scripted recordings of English language spoken by native and non-native speakers. Browse by region or by language.

Dozens of scripted video recordings of English language spoken by natives of various regions around the world.
Browse by region, or search for a specific dialect.

Conducts research, educates vocologists, disseminates information about voice and speech, and provides referral services in order to help people around the world enjoy healthy and effective vocal communications.

Includes pronunciation, pronunciation drills, grammar, vocabulary, songs, forms of address, insults and references.

The Virginia Stage Company is a professional theatre company performing across Hampton Roads.

Children's Theatre of Hampton Roads is composed of adult actors focused on family-friendly performances.