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The New York Times is one of the most important sources of reviews and news about the performing arts.

Less emphasis on ticket selling and other commercial activities, more emphasis on capsule reviews, particularly for more experimental performances. Covers live theater, dance, cabaret, film, and museum shows. Despite the title, good for performance in other areas of the U.S.

Since its founding in April 2004, OffOffOnline has reviewed more than 2,000 shows. It covers Off-off-Broadway theater in all five boroughs of New York City, and occasionally Off-Broadway and Broadway theater.

Notices of auditions and casting calls in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, and Las Vegas for actors, dancers, and kids, for live theater, movies, TV, commercials, along with advice, news, and reviews.

Almost exclusively devoted to selling tickets for current and upcoming Broadway productions.

Directory of Broadway theaters, with current and recent shows and information about the buildings (date built, architect, capacity, former names, address, etc.).

Presented by the Off-Broadway League for achievement in Off-Broadway productions.

Also look at NY Times Theater Listings for a quick overview of what's in production.

An alphabetical listing of current Broadway and Off-Braodway productions, with capsules of Times reviews and links to ticket purchasing information.

Presented by The Village Voice for achievement in Off Broadway productions.

Breaking news stories about casting, new productions, video clips, a "vault" of recent historical information, links to theater merchandise, links to discount tickets.

Up-to-date capsule reviews and news of theatre.

Top news stories, information on current shows and links to purchase tickets, data on top grossing current Broadway productions, upcoming openings and closings.

Tickets for shows in London.

Offers information on non-profit theaters in the U.S., including attendance data, ticket sales, subscription revenue, the overall financial health of non-profits (based on surveys of almost 1800 theaters), new plays in production at member theaters, and profiles of individual theaters (personnel, facilities, budget, contact information).

Complete directory of latest and all previous winners and nominees of the Tony Awards.

Covers productions in London and other large British cities.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art. The Folger is a world-renowned research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. Its conservation lab is a leading innovator in the preservation of rare materials. Its well-known public programs include plays, concerts, literary readings, family activities, and exhibitions, as well as numerous K-12 and college programs for students and teachers. Advanced scholars participate in a variety of Folger Institute seminars and colloquia.

The Internet Shakespeare Editions publishes high quality materials on Shakespeare's works, his plays in performance, and his life and times.

The MIT 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 by scholars and educators in the field.

The aim of the RSC is to keep modern audiences in touch with Shakespeare as our contemporary. That means that as well as the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, our repertoire includes classic plays by international dramatists and work by living writers. The physical RSC archives are held at the Shakespeare Centre Library & Archive, but there are a number of video clips of productions and interviews with actors and directors as well as production photographs under he "education" section of their website.

Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education. Together, the Globe Theatre Company, Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition and Globe Education seek to further the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance.

This site allows easy seaching for monolouges from Shakespeare's plays for men and women. Each entry includes the character's name, the first line of the speech, is marked as verse or prose and gives the location within the play where the monologue is found. Each entry also includes a link to the full text of the scene in which the monologue is found.

This page is a part of the Shakespeare Resource Center. It contains links to theatrical companies specializing in Shakespearean productions.

The Shakespeare Collections offer comprehensive research materials on the subjects of Shakespeare's life, work and times and the performance of his plays. The Local Collections consist of historical documents of international importance concerning Shakespeare and his family as well as many thousands of archival records, books, photographs and maps relating to Stratford-upon-Avon and the surrounding area. The Shakespeare collection contains the RSC's production archives which covers, as well as Shakespeare, the full range of productions from the newest work by David Edgar, through Chekhov and Restoration comedy to Shakespeare's contemporaries and even, occasionally, pre-Shakespearian drama. Records of an individual production might include any or all of the following: reviews, programmes, various types of photographic images in different formats, costume designs, manuscript music, prompt books, production records, posters and videocassettes. A database of the RSC production information, including dates and cast lists is available online. The Shakespeare collection also contains books and theatre journals. To support study of Shakespeare's life, work and times the Library's Special Collections of pre-1700 books covers a wide range of subjects in over 800 volumes which would have been available on the bookstalls of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, or in the libraries of the playwright's patrons and their immediate successors. The Shakespeare Centre Library & Archive welcomes enquiries from those who cannot visit in person.

Touchstone is a project funded by the British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme (BLCPP) to identify and map significant UK Shakespeare collections. The aim of Touchstone is to facilitate and encourage research in Shakespeare studies that will benefit both the academic and the wider community.

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

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

Free audition monologues for women, men, girls and boys.

The monologue database serves the singular purpose of organizing monologues on the web and allowing the internet community to engage and discuss them amongst each other.