Theatre

• Shakespeare  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare; full text, well-organized.
• Playbill.com  Broadway musical news & info.
• Masks.org  A digital library/internet website serving the global community; dedicated to preserving cultural heritages through archiving images of masks and masquerade; works worldwide with museums, libraries, educational institutions, communities, and individual artists.
• Shakespeare Online  Complete plays (& other works).  Contains essays, synopsis, many resources to help you in the study of Shakespeare and his works. Good for teachers, students, or general Shakespeare enthusiast.
• Backstage.com  The complete online performing resource.
• Goodspeed.org  The Musical Theatre Magazine Online.
• Stage Direction  Practical Theatre Issues dealt with in online magazine.
• BUBL Link: Catalogue of selected Internet resources for Stage Presentations  Includes production reviews and scholarly sites on drama.
• Actors of the Early American Theatre  Great pictures.
• Centre for Research in Early Theatre Recommended Links for Theatre History  Great links, fully described.
• Costuming Resources  Emphasis on research, instructions and techniques, with links to suppliers.
• Elizabethan Costuming Page
• English-Server Drama Collection  Collections of texts of ancient and modern plays, as well as criticism and links to other theatre resources.
• Fashion and Costume Resources  Evaluative essay on internet resources, courtesy of College and Research Libraries
• History of Costume  Complete text of the 19th century classic work by Braun, complete with color plates.
• Inter-Play  From Portland State University, this wonderful service indexes plays in anthologies and collections. Searchable by author or title or both.
• International Theatre Design Archive  Scene design, costume design, lighting design, all searchable by title of play, designer, playwright or producer.
• McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies  Web resources by broad topic (acting, stagecraft, plays, etc.), as well as a guide to finding primary sources. Links are annotated.
• Milieux: the Costume Site  If you need to know what Viking footwear looks like, or how to make a kilt or chain mail, or a history of underwear through the ages. Links to these and every other kind of costume and fabric web site are available here.
• On Broadway  Broadway and off-Broadway schedules, Tony winners, lyrics from musicals, links to other theater sites.
• Period and Style for Designers  Isn't it a fact that the hardest reference questions are asked by the theater people who need to know picky details about architecture and furniture for a particular time and place? This site is a useful starting point.
• Screenwriters/Playwrights Page
• Sites about Acting and the Acting Business
• Theatre Central
• TheatrePedia: the ELAC Internet Theatre Library  Including a hypertext glossary of theatrical terms, a guide to theatrical employment, searchable info on plays, actors, directing, and stagecraft.
• Theatron: Theatre History in Europe  Great models of important theatres in history.
• Vaudeville Memories  Bibliographies, linked oral histories, links for performers, eras, specific theaters.

• Yahoo Index to Theater

                                                Speech

• Concordances of Great Books  Ideal for anybody who's ever wanted to know all the ways a certain author has used, for instance, the words "love" or "liberty". Texts go from Plato through the Starr Report, by way of Tennyson, Hume, Federalist Papers, etc.
• Debate Info.Com  Case material here for both kinds of debate and extemp, along with useful links.
• Douglass' Archives of American Public Address  Excellent guide to speeches and rhetoric sites online.
• Gifts of Speech  Collection of women's speeches, from around the world.
• Historical Speech Collection  Offers speeches in WAV, RA, AVI  and MPEG formats.
• Great American Speeches  80 years worth of great speeches are captured here, as well as some interesting exercises for students of speech and American History. The Critics Corner features Richard Nixon's Checkers' Speech, as well as background information and links within the speech to explain the context of specific words or terms used in the speech.
• History and Politics Outloud  This is "a collection of invaluable audio materials some available for the first time on this website capturing significant political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century".
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
• Nonverbal Communication Research Page  Prof. Marvin Hecht supplies news about the field, bibliography, and links to relevant sites.
• Vincent Voice Library of Recorded Speeches  Requires a sound card in your computer.
• Virtual Presentation Assistant  Step by step guidance through the process of planning, researching and delivering a speech.