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The website TheatreHistory.com features information about a wide range of theatrical traditions in Europe, North America and Asia. The site offers an index of topics relating to the theatre history of different cultures. There are resources on Irish theatre, British theatre, Russian theatre, Spanish theatre and many more. There is a good cross-section of information about contemporary theatre, as well as pages devoted to ancient Greek and Roman and medieval theatre. There is also general information about the origins and development of the theatre. Under each topic, users can access information on playwrights and dramatic practice. Topics include biographies of key figures in the history of drama, synopses of plays and contextual studies about relationships between drama and society.

Joseph Donohue is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught dramatic literature since 1971. A theatre historian with special interests in the British and Irish theatre from the late eighteenth century to the present and in the nineteenth-century British music hall, he is the author of Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age (Princeton, 1970) and Theatre in the Age of Kean (1975), and editor (with Ruth Berggren) of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James's Theatre, London, 1895 (Colin Smythe, 1995), which won the 1997 MLA prize for an outstanding scholarly edition and the 1997 Hewitt prize for an outstanding work of theatre history

The home of unique films of leading British theatre productions for schools, colleges and universities.We make the best of British theatre accessible to every learner. We use the latest technologies to inspire and engage viewers of all ages and abilities with a front-row seat experience. Our exclusive behind-the-scenes documentaries and written teaching and learning resources aid deeper understanding of productions and texts.Use our service to enrich students' cultural experience and support learning in English, Drama and Theatre Studies.

Video interviews with 50 Jewish women who made an impact on life in the UK. There were a range of interviewees including theatre related interviews Janet Suzman, Pamela Howard, Abigail Morris, Miriam Karlin, Maureen Lipman, Susannah Kraft, Julia Pascal. Topics included identity, feminism, relationship with mother, relationship to Great Britain, exile, holocaust, ambition.The interviews were carried out by Pascal Theatre Company in association with the London Jewish Cultural Centre

the Biggest Technical Theatre Glossary on the Web

This website was dedicated to British Gothic drama and its various manifestations between 1768 - the year of composition of the first Gothic tragedy, Horace Walpole's The Mysterious Mother- and the later, pre-Victorian, culture of the 1820s and 30s. The materials made available here range from critical bibliographies to links to internet resources and teaching and study aids, and are offered as a starting-point for all those readers who wish to explore Gothic drama and theatre in order to rediscover a cultural phenomenon which, although now relatively unfamiliar to contemporary readers, was as notorious, shocking and frightening as the better-known Gothic romance. This website is no longer updated.

This Web site hosts the draft text of the new version of the second part of 'The London stage, 1660-1800'. The original work was an authoritative multi-volume guide to the plays and theatre history of the Restoration and eighteenth century in London, first published in the 1960s and 70s. The section of the new edition made available here covers the period between 1700 and 1729

This site provides extensive resources for students, teachers, scholars, and all others interested in researching the Georgian Theatre milieu, both in London and the British American colonies.

This section of a website by Scott R. Robinson MFA, Professor of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University, examines costume and fashion through history as an aid to constructing theatrical costumes. The site covers periods from the ancient and Classical world, through medieval times and through to modern western styles ending in the Edwardian era

The website of the British organisation, Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS), provides information about their aims, conferences, seminars, and members. The organization is a group of women colleagues working within all areas of Luso-Hispanism, such as feminist theory, history, cultural memory, literature, linguistics, cultural and textual theory, audio and film studies, performance studies, anthropology, geography, queer theory and theatre studies

a site dedicated to African American women who have gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words. It is a testament to their courage and perseverance. Hopefully, this site will encourage other sister storytellers to make their words heard.

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