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American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html

Selected materials from the popular stage and allied arts housed at the Library of Congress. Includes photographs and memorabilia of Houdini, English playscripts, Yiddish playscripts, a selection of playbills and program books, motion pictures, and sound recordings.

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Arthur Lloyd

http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/

Biographical information on Arthur Lloyd, major 19th century UK music hall performer and song writer, with details on related Halls and Theatres.

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Black Broadway: A Twentieth Century Black Musical Review

http://www.theatredance.com/mainstage.html

A virtual playhouse designed to celebrate the history and future of African-American musical theatre and dance.

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Broadway: The Golden Age

http://www.broadwaythemovie.com/

Dedicated to Rick McKay's film about the rise of Broadway theatre as told by performers, writers and composers.

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Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama

http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Drama/

An overview of the directors, designers, artists and playwrights in Russia who shaped modern drama during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Includes hundreds of images, multimedia, and commentary.

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George M. Cohan

http://www.members.tripod.com/davecol8/

The life of George M. Cohan and his most significant plays are reviewed, along with a complete stageography, filmography and on-going discography.

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HAT- History of Australian Theatre

http://www.hat-archive.com/

Contains articles on Australian theatre history and a 3000 entry historical database of people associated with it.

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Modern Theatre in Context: A Chronology of Modern Drama

http://www.moderndrama.com/crc/chrono/

A chronology of modern British, Irish, American and Canadian drama, including images, contextual history and events, biographies, and other supplementary information.

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PeoplePlay UK

http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/

1500 digitised images from the Theatre Museum's collections as well as structured learning packs offering guided tours through the collection and timeline histories.

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Playbills from Edinburgh's Theatre Royal

http://sites.scran.ac.uk/playbills/

A database of 240 playbills, which were used to advertise performances and events at the start of the 19th century, from the collection of the National Library of Scotland.

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Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium Stage of Stars Museum

http://www.stageofstars.com/

Shreveport's Historic Municipal Memorial Auditorium. Home of the Louisiana Hayride and the Stage of Stars Museum.

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Stage Beauty

http://www.dgillan.screaming.net/stage/th-home.html

Galleries of female stars from the golden age of English Theatre. Listing of the London theatres, and scripts of popular plays from that era.

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Theatre Ephemera

http://www.neiu.edu/~rghiggin/ephem/Ephemera.html

Rodney Higginbotham's collection of images primarily from the nineteenth century theatre in the United States, including people, productions and theatres.

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Theatre Talks and Walking Tours

http://kempsjig.tripod.com/theatretalks/

Theatre historian Cezar Del Valle offers a series of informative slide talks and walking tours.

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