Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites

Literatures in English: Drama

Theatre Library Association
Links to general theatre resource guides, electronic texts and journals, awards, and professional organizations.

American Society for Theatre Research
Up-to-date information on awards, prizes, grants, and conferences, as well as links to academic resources and theater production and instruction sites.

Theatre History Sites on the WWW
Organized by time period or country with links to Classical, Medieval, Elizabethan, American, etc. Web sites. Also includes an extensive list of general resources for organizations, libraries, and electronic archives.

McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
Well-organized starting place for resources on stagecraft and technical theatre, actors and acting, plays and playwrights, arts organizations, regional theater, and Shakespeare.

Interplay: An Online Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies, and Periodicals
From the Portland State University Library, Inter-Play provides full bibliographic citations for many plays not included in standard print indexes. Very basic search for author, play title, or source title.

Dramatists Play Service
Catalog of more than 3,000 plays searchable by author, title, keyword, cast size,or ISBN. Dramatists Play Service has been publishing acting editions of primarily American plays since 1936 with licensing information also available at this site.

Playbill
The latest news about plays in the U.S., Canada, and overseas with links to summaries, interviews, Broadway grosses, awards, and job postings. Includes an archive of featured older Playbills.

Doollee.com
Guide to modern playwrights and plays, as well as links to literary agents, theaters, and publishers. Extensive but not comprehensive list of theaters and companies in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.