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Theatre: Popular Online Resources

This guide is designed to help students with research in Theatre.

Websites for Current Productions

Additional Websites

Shorter University Theatre Department

American Society for Theatre Research - The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) is a U.S.-based professional organization that fosters scholarship on worldwide theatre and performance, both historical and contemporary.

CurtainUp - An online theatre magazine for reviews, feature, and annotated listings.

Doolee - A free online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays which have been written, adapted or translated, into English since the production of Look Back in Anger in 1956. doollee.com contains information on 52,600 playwrights and 177,857 of their plays.

HowlRound - HowlRound is a place for artists to provide feedback, learning, expertise, frustration, and vision—in an effort to enliven the fields of theatre and performance to the aspiring and established artist alike. HowlRound consists of an online jounral, HowlRound TV, a new play map, commons producers documenting playwright residencies, in-person convenings, and the weekly Howl Twitter chat on #howlround.

Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)

Literary Digital Collections

Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Explore music, theatre, and dance at the Library of Congress.

TCG - Theatre Communications Group - The national organization for the American theatre to foster communication among professional, community, and university theatres.