*Theatre Subject Guide: Useful Online Resources

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.

American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini.

A fully searchable database of all the theatre productions in London and a number of other theatres across the UK, complete with actors, directors, producers and more. Covers productions beginning in 2003.

A great resource for finding information on what's on and off Broadway.

An online website containing digital scripts of many major motion pictures. All scripts are free to download.

IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

A fully searchable database of all the theatre productions in London and a number of other theatres across the UK, complete with actors, directors, producers and more. Covers productions beginning in 2003.

Doolee.com the 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.