Theatre

GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.

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.

The digital arts collection of the Library of Congress. **As of 1/20/2025, some information may have been removed or changed.**

MIT shares the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks with a shelf specifically for one-act plays.

A database of hundreds of downloadable scripts, plays, musical scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows.

Theatre History hosts several full-length plays, one-act plays, 10 minute plays, and monologues.

The International Dialects of English Archive was created in 1997 as the internet’s first archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world. With roughly 1,300 samples from 120 countries and territories, and more than 170 hours of recordings, IDEA is now the largest archive of its kind.

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

The biggest technical theatre glossary on the Web.

Find video, audio and documents offering insight into how theatre is made at the National Theatre in London.

New Dramatists is one of the country’s leading playwright centers and a nationally recognized new play laboratory.

One of the nation's most generous and well-respected theater organizations, the Playwrights' Center focuses on both supporting playwrights and promoting new plays to production at theaters across the country.

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals.

Founded in 1937, Theatre Library Association supports librarians and archivists affiliated with theatre, dance, performance studies, popular entertainment, motion picture and broadcasting collections.

The Lone Brick Theatre Company is Widener’s resident theatre company dedicated to producing nontraditional theatre through innovative scripts, staging, directing, and performance. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join in this up-and-coming theatre group.

A performance ensemble for audiences of all ages, The FreshBaked Theatre Company is dedicated to exploring "as honestly and responsibly as possible the dilemmas and celebrations that life throws at young people in this incredibly complicated world."

The Free Library of Philadelphia digitally gives the spotlight to the stars of the silver screen as they feature lobby cards, posters, and promotional materials from their Theatre Collection.

The Theatre Arts collection at Penn supports a thriving community of scholars as well as active practitioners.

Theatre Philadelphia unites, celebrates, and promotes the Philadelphia region's diverse and growing theatre community.