Subject guides: Theatre and Performance Studies: Web Links

Directories and archives

Theatre Links
Thousands of categorised theatre resources including History, Styles, Practitioners, Stagecraft, Industry, Education and Scripts.
Didaskalia
A web-site and journal dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman theatre in performance, and to the legacy of ancient theatre.
Bangarra Knowledge Ground Archive
Knowledge Ground is home to the millennia of stories and connections that give life to Bangarra’s work. Here we reflect on the artistic visions, languages, communities and Country that inform our productions.
RealTime Archive
Australian and international exploratory performance and media arts archive.
Australia Dancing via Trove
Australia's archive of dance. Now found only as individual records via Trove. See search instructions via link.
ReelDance Archive
The ReelDance Archive contains significant examples of local and international dance on screen work and tracks the development of dance on screen as an art form over the last two decades in Australia and Internationally through the work of more than 200 renowned and emerging artists.
In terms of performance
A keywords anthology designed to provoke discovery across artistic disciplines.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
An online video collection of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival artists from 1937 to today.
McCoy's Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
Ken McCoy, Associate Professor Communication Studies and Theatre Arts at Stetson University, has compiled this directory. Archive only.

Australian Plays
Australian Plays hosts the world’s largest online showcase of the best Australian playwriting, featuring the combined catalogues of Australia's leading theatrical publishers.
Playwriting Australia
Playwriting Australia is the national organisation working with playwrights and theatre artists from all backgrounds and at all levels of their careers.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing the work of new and established playwrights. Offering an extensive list of titles, including a preponderance of the most significant American plays of the past half century.

The Daily Review
Daily Review is Australia’s go to source for engaging
arts and entertainment news, reviews and commentary.
Witness Performance
Witness is a forum for independent critique and debate about the Australian performing arts, which wants to rethink criticism, and places contemporary performance into its social, aesthetic and historical contexts.
The Audrey Journal
Sydney Arts Journal including reviews and long form features/ criticism.
Michelle Potter on Dancing
Michelle Potter is an independent dance writer, historian and curator with a doctorate in Art History and Dance History from the Australian National University.
ABC Arts
News and reviews from the ABC
Playbill Vault
News, features, performance listings for Broadway, Off-Broadway, London and Regional theatre. Includes the searchable Playbill Vault.

Australia Council for the Arts: resources
Online resources includes webinars, roundtables frameworks and programs from the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.
Performing Arts Connections
Australia is the national peak body representing and supporting performing arts presenters and creators in Australia by providing leadership, building capacity and facilitating relationships that strengthen the connection between the art and the audience.
Ausdance
Educating, inspiring and supporting the dance community in reaching its potential as a dynamic force within local, national and international communities.
Currency House
Currency House is a not-for-profit association dedicated to stimulating, enriching and advancing the quality and enjoyment of the Australian performing arts.
Office for the Arts
Federal Government Arts Office
Drama Australia (The National Association for Drama Education)
Represents drama teachers, academics, applied theatre workers and theatre in education practitioners at national arts and curriculum forums and in national and international peak associations.
International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA)
A worldwide organisation, its members are culturally diverse drama, theatre and education practitioners, artists, pedagogues and teachers.
National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE)
Advocates in both institutional and community settings, develops policy, promotes quality teaching and learning in the arts.