IMPROV
& GAMES
The Improv
Home page - An unbelievable amount of info on Improv.
Living Playbook
- Games and Improv resource. Classroom ggames and more.
JE77's
Improv Pages - Resource.
Zot's Improv Page
- Resource and games.
COSTUMING
The
Elizabethan Costuming Page - Everything you ever wanted to know about
Elizabethan costumes. Fabulous patterns, history, and so much more.
Includes an online
custom corset pattern generator. A must see!
The Costume
Page - Everything about costuming including excellent historical reference.
The History
of Costume - reference material.
International Costumers Guild
- worldwide organization of costumme professionals and hobbyists.
Period and
Style for Designers - Extensive links.
DESIGN
AND TECHNICAL
High School
Tech Production - Mission: To assist High School Technical Theater
students in their desire to learn about, create, and execute theatrical
productions.To enable the exchange of information in a respectful manner.
To foster team work and peer networks that will last beyond high school.
Stage Make Up - Step by
step latex masks and more, great special effects.
BTS Training
Page - Technical references.
The International Theatre
Design Archive - 2000 designs by year 2000. Costume, lighting, scene
designs listed by title, playwright, designer, or producer.
Glossary
of Technical Theatre Terms - lots of terms for use in class.
Stage Managing- stage
managing resource, including "Stage Managing and Theatre Etiquette".
ACTING
Method Acting Procedures
- Exercises including relaxation, magic IF, sense memory...
Acting Workshop
On-Line - A place for beginning actors.
PLAYS
Magicparrot.com
- fantastic musical dramas which childreen aged 8-13 have greatly enjoyed
performing.
If you ever need to buy a "budget" production
to conserve funds, check out this site. The plays have been used
in schools and by clubs such as Stagecoach. Each script comes with
a CD.
StagePlays.com
- The Internet Theatre Bookshop at stageeplays.com offers virtually every
play currently published in the English language & includes specialist
Music, Dance, Cinema, TV & Radio sections.
Kids
4 Broadway - Unique theatre program offers up to 12 original one-act
plays written specifically for elementary and middle school students to
perform. All play packages include performing rights (no royalty
fees required), production notes and Operations & Procedures Guide
which offers set design information and direction technique.
Children's
Theatre Plays.com - Excellent scripts, stageplays, for
young audiences. Director, producers, teachers and drama coaches
will find award winning scripts on a variety of subjects: history, literature,
social issues.
Playwrights on the
web - Playwrights on the Web - an international database of playwrights
& their websites, offering production & publishing opportunities.
Samuel French - Plays,
plays, and more plays.
Dramatists Play Service Home
Pages - Script ideas.
Dramatics Publishing
Co. - Plays.
The Way Off Broadway
Theatre Workshop - Appropriate plays for children 7-17.
Moonstruck
Drama Bookstore - Scripts, musicals and resources.
TEACHERS
Theatrix
Web Centre - Here you will find links explaining some dramatic techniques
for teaching, and some useful
educational drama links. The purpose of this
page is to explain ways to successfully use theatre and creative drama
in your classroom. As an added bonus, Gordon's a doll and you'll
really enjoy his style.
The
Learning Page - The Learning Page provides downloadable ebooks, worksheets
and lesson plans
for teachers and parents of elementary level
schoolchildren. There are thousands of pages in theme-based and basic skills
categories.
Our
Page - This site is devoted to providing practical internet resources
for teachers. Tons of site information on various subjects and it's
easy to navigate.
The
Virtual Drama Studio - Resources for Teaching Drama and Theatre Studies.
A great place to find Content Oriented sites.
International Society for Technology
in Education - The International Society for Technology in Education
(ISTE) is a professional society of teachers helping teachers use technology
in the classroom.
Theatre
for Young Audiences Creative Drama - Homepage of Matt Buchanan, Playwright
and Drama Teacher. Lesson plans and so much more.
TeachWeb
- Internet resources for K-12 Educators..
Make Learning
Fun - Lesson plans for Drama and more.
Dramawest
- Australian site. Lessons, links,, ed policies, and more.
The School Show Page
- UK site. Resource for school andd youth theatre including play resources,
tech guides and links.
The Argonaut - An
awesome site for the arts and arts advocacy. Massive links.
A Dramatic Education
- Featuring lesson plans from this site as well as many others.
Denise's Web Pages
- Make school play analysis, design, etcc...work in the classroom.
The
Lesson Plan Exchange for Teachers of Theater - Lesson plans for Beginning,
Advanced, Technical Theater, Production, and Directing.
Educational Theatre Association
- Home page of the International Thespiaan Society.
High School
Theatre - The most complete listing of High School Theatre on the Web.
Storytelling,
Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children
& Young Adults Extensive links page.
The
Virtual Theater Project - Studies the creation of intelligent,
automated characters that can act either in well defined stories or in
improvisational environments.
Sites For Teachers
- sitesforteachers.com has a TON of linkks to teacher-related web sites.
The Performing
Zone - lesson plans and other goodies.
PUPPETRY
Stage Hand
Puppets - Patterns, resources, links.
The Puppetry Home Page
- Resources, information, links.
MISCELLANEOUS
GOOD STUFF
Arts Books
- Arts Books specialises in all the perfforming arts, from ballet and ballroom
to contemporary dance, opera, mime, drama and musical theatre.
Besides probably the largest variety of musical, dance and opera videos,
Arts Books also has a huge dance class music section covering class music
for ballet, jazz, tap modern and contemporary dance. In addition
Arts Books also cater for most aspects of theatre ranging from scripts
and monologues to back stage support and costume and set design. Based
in the U.K. but happily accepts international orders.
Steve the
MimeGuy - Excellent site put together by an actor/artist/mime/clown/teacher.
A little bit of everything for everyone including lesson plans.
Theatre
on a Shoestring - Extensive production photos, classroom ideas,
theatre games, stagecraft how-to's, the Theatre Bookstore, play spreadsheet,
publisher info, synopses, theatre links, a theatre discussion forum...
Medieval
Drama Links - Extensive links.
Shakespeare
Resources - Extensive links.
Screenwriters'
and Playwrights' Home Page - Resource for playwrights and anyone interested
in contemporary drama.
National Association of Youth
Theatres - Uk based site. Works through programmes of Advocacy, Training,
Participation and Information Services to promote the quality and diversity
of Youth Theatre throughout the UK.