Theater History

• BOTW UK Directory: Arts: Performing Arts: Theatre: History 

• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920  - Multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings that includes a collection that illustrates the diverse forms of popular entertainment such as vaudeville that thrived from 1870-1920.
• Arthur Lloyd  - Music hall site dedicated to performer and songwriter Arthur Lloyd and contains a brief biography, interviews, songs, and theater posters.
• Black Broadway: A Twentieth Century Black Music Review  - Virtual playhouse that celebrates the history and future of African-American musical theater and dance.
• Broadway – The Golden Age  - Stories of legendary theatrical stars and how they came to New York City and how they created a legendary century in American theater.
• Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama  - Serves as a virtual textbook and an accompaniment of a course devoted in Russian modernist theater taught in Northwestern University.
• Elizabethan Playhouses, Actors, and Audiences  - Provides an overview of Elizabethan theater.
• George M. Cohan in America’s Theater  - Aims to give tribute to and document the life of the American Theater’s first mega-star, George M. Cohan.
• HAT – History of Australian Theatre – online  - Contain articles, historical database, picture section, message board, and suggestions for further research.
• Shreveport’s Municipal Memorial Auditorium  - Information including Stage of Stars Museum, gift shop, events, tours, links, and contact details.
• St. John Terrell’s Lambertville Music Circus  - Features information about the establishment, as well as photos, press coverage, stories and tales, and forum.
• Theatre Ephemera  - Focuses on theater in the United States prior to 1900 and is a resource for teachers and students of theater history.
• This Month in Theatre History  - Presents day-by-day and month-by-month milestones of theater history. Serves as resource for theater educators, students, and scholars.