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AATE - American Alliance for Theater and Education

• The mission of American Alliance for Theatre and Education is to promote standards of excellence in theatre and theatre education. We achieve this mission by disseminating quality practices in theatre and theatre education, connecting artists, educators, researchers and scholars with each other, and by providing opportunities for our membership to learn, exchange, expand and diversify their work, the audience and their perspectives.

ABWAG to Learn Acting 

• 558 pages of acting subjects from the late drama coach, Don Richardson.  This site is a little idiosyncratic but if you persevere and explore the site fully you will discover some real gems. 

Acting Workshop OnLine (AWOL) 

• This is the place for beginning actors and actresses to learn about acting and the acting business.  For actors and actresses aspiring to become professional or for those who want to take their vocation to the highest artistic level possible. Each month or so, new "lessons" and relevant links will be posted for you to study, learn, practise, and get more info about acting.

Alexander Technique International 

• An excellent site that covers every aspect I can imagine about the Movement technique developed by a Tasmanian.  Along with the Feldenkrais approach to movement this technique is being used and taught in actor training institutions the world over. 

• Arts On The Move is an innovative and versatile company run by Alison Chaplin, a qualified teacher of drama, english and music, with experience of prirnary, secondary and special needs education.

• The goal of ArtsNet is to involve arts groups with online tools that can change the way they do business. Each group receives a free electronic mail account, one free page on the NEON Village web site, and conference areas on the Virtual Valley Community Network in which they can post information.

• Welcome to the Australian Drama Studies Centre. Here you will find information about the teaching, publishing, research, conferences, and professional organisations which the drama teaching staff at the University of Queensland are involved in.

• We are an organisation that provides a forum for the exchange of information on research and study in drama; encourages and promotes dramatic performances and the writing of plays; exchanges ideas on the nature of the discipline (drama studies) and the methods of teaching and organisation that are appropriate to it; protects the interests of drama studies by voicing those interests wherever such activity seems appropriate.

• NAAE is the recognised national peak organisation in the arts learning area in Australia. It provides a national voice for arts educators in all levels of education, promoting respect, recognition and status for the arts in education.

• The centre is based in Aberystwyth in Wales and has a wide range of resources available on-line.

• This gopher/World Wide Web server provides information on hazards in the visual arts, performing arts, children and school arts programs, museums, and general health and safety information and laws relevant to the arts. It is primarily intended for artists, performers and others working in the arts, and most of the files are written for people without a health and safety background. It is also a resource for health and safety professional who want information on art hazards.

• Welcome to the UK Children's Theatre Pages. For anyone involved in Professional, Educational Or Youth Theatre.

• Learn more about community arts and humanities programs for children and what the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities is doing to advance them.  Arts and Humanities Programs for Children and Youth At Risk.

• A very comprehensive new site that offers a wonderful array of resources including lessons, frameworks for approaching classroom drama and play suggestions.

• This is an essay about the use of Drama strategies in the classroom. Here or here

• The CF Guide to Musical Theater & Drama is our user-friendly who, what, where, and when guide. Whether you're a newcomer to theater or a showtunes enthusiast looking for the cast album of your favorite Broadway musical -- all the information you're looking for is packaged in this accessible, easy to use CF Guide. So thumb through our Musical Theater All-Stars, Drama All-Stars, Musical Theater CultureBriefs, Drama CultureBriefs and Dictionary sections to learn more about these art forms! 

Discovery Theatre

• Discovery Theater, a division of The Smithsonian Associates, presents live theater performances for children in its own theater, located in the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall. Performances are open to the public, while advanced reservations may be arranged for school groups, youth organizations, and families with children.

• Welcome to The Drama Teacher's  Resource Room, a place where you can kick back and find some ideas for your classroom or production.  At the Drama Teacher's Resource Room we are striving to make it easier for you to encourage creative and challenging  experiences for students in your drama classroom.

• The Educational Theatre Association is a nonproft theatre arts service organization, founded in 1929, whose mission is to promote and strengthen theatre arts programs in the educational system.

• Stage Kids The Edu-Tainment Company has been developing and producing original musicals for over a decade. Current and topical issues are researched, then incorporated into an educational and entertaining musical theatre production. Now we've developed a program designed to pass on our resources and our know-how to you by giving you the opportunity to produce a musical from the Stage Kids Repertoire in your school or community. 

• A pretty apt description of what this site offers.

• Key Terms for the Context and Performance of Greek Tragedy. by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University

• This site is currently under construction but it looks to be a promising site in the future. With lesson plans, skits, theatre games and etc.

• IDEAS is a school-based drama artist-in-residency program designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and their teachers. Based on a curriculum highlighting the topics outlined below, classroom teachers choose specific areas to explore within the classroom by way of drama games, role play, improvisation, and discussion.

• Peer Educational Theatre Groups in Presenting Sexuality, Rape, and Other Neglected Issues. This paper is meant to explore and explain what goes into peer education programs that involve theatre.

• This site began as the Sexual Assault Interactive Theatre Home Page on May 2, 1996. Aside from being a mouthful to say (and to type), this site evolved out of five previous years of experience within educational interactive theatre - in Tennessee, New York, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. It also grew out of the research I did at Syracuse University's Women's Studies program (which is available here), which in turn grew out of my conversion to Feminism.  The purpose of these pages is to be a resource for people involved, or planning to start an interactive theatre program, and also for people who are researching to topic. I have focused on sexual assault because it is an issue close to my heart, and find this medium a particularly effective way of attacking our societal ignorance.

• The International Playback Theatre Network is an association of Playback practitioners around the world. Since being launched in April 1990 the IPTN has grown steadily, with now more than 200 members spread over 15 countries. 

• A useful collection of information and activities about dealing with monologue poems - the information presented is completely transferable to other solo performance modes.

• Ken teaches at Middlesex University, within the School of Lifelong Learning and Education. His work is divided between two Schools as he also contributes to the work of the School of Art, Design and Performing Arts.

Le Centre Du Silence 

• An impressive range of resources offered by this prestigious School of Mime. Offers such materials as essays on the craft of Mime, use of Mask, and more.

Litooma: Indigenous, Intercultural and Ritual Performance 

• Litooma aspires to offer an alternative to the Western theatre model of performance. Litooma facilitates the development of place specific and community evolved, performance. Litooma is dedicated to the creation of and alternative performance paradigm that enables each group or culture to speak on its terms.

• The NAC presents multidisciplinary programming in both English and French and is home to the internationally acclaimed National Arts Centre Orchestra. The NAC is a point of celebration for Canadian achievements in the performing arts; it also gives Canadian audiences a chance to experience many of the world's most distinguished artists.

National Theatre Design Archive 

• "The National Theatre Design Archive" is a venture of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology whose mission is to actively promote the advancement of knowledge and skills in all aspects of design and production in the performing arts. This archive is intended to provide a valuable resource to the world by making use of the Wide World Web. "The National Theatre Design Archive" has been initiated with "Project 2000" which intends to work toward providing links to two thousand scenic, costume, and lighting designs archived on the Internet by the year 2000. This is the ambitious goal of "Project 2000".

• Teacher resource materials provided by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training. Check out the "Courses" section - some very good resources.

• Resources for approaching Readers' Theatre, includes some scripts.

• Rani Moorthy places Augusto Boal within the context of the Theatre-in-Education framework and considers how theatre can be part of a dynamic pedagogy. Rani Moorthy is a Lecturer in Drama and Performance, School of Arts, Nanyang Technological University.

• Part of the Rivendell Educational Archive. Resources include Greek Drama and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare Eclectic Science Fiction Interactive Theatre 

Interactive Drama Freeform Live Action Role Play & Educational Gaming Resources

• This page is basically a place for links to information about and scenarios for Interactive Drama, Freeform Role Plays, and Live Action Role Playing games. We'll also try to incorporate as much information as possible about educational use of role playing games and the like, particularly for language learning.

• A site dedicated to the work of improvisation based on the techniques developed by Viola Spolin.

• Welcome to STEM~Net's Theatre Arts Home Page. We are still under construction, but we have great plans for this page. We hope to make it a useful resource for both teachers and students and "jumping-off" point to interesting theatre and drama sites on the web. It will be a valuable resource for those who teach theatre arts as a curricular area, for those who teach the play as a genre within language arts, and for those who use drama as an instructional method.

• An eclectic collection of resources - provides a useful overview of theatrical style and approaches to Drama.  Some sections of the site are a challenge to locate.

The Space 

• A very useful collection of links for teachers of Drama and English, will also be useful to teachers in other areas. It is where DramaWest got this collection of links.  Alas all good things must come to an end - The Space was the first website created by the first DramaWest webmaster (Kim Flintoff) - the DramaWest site owes its existence to this early foray - still has a few odds and ends of interest.

• "Does the Broadway experience belong in the classroom? You bet!  In keeping with TDF's mission of building present and future audiences for the performing arts, TDF has two NEW outreach projects for high school students."

• THEATERWORDS offers some small solution to educators who need more quality roles for their women students. THESE PLAYS ARE FREE. THERE IS NO ROYALTY.

• This site contains a variety of articles that relate to theatre and education - some of the useful and enlightening articles are:

• The Shakespeare Experience: A look at one way the English Shakespeare Company is getting the Shakespeare message across to schools.
• English Through Music Theatre: How a group of German schoolkids improve their English by bringing American Music Theatre to England.
• Drama in Schools: a look at the state of Drama education in British schools, expressed with your Guide's own inimitable brand of pessimism!
• Support Your Local School Show: the value of school productions.

• A link to listings related to Drama Education in current news media.  May provide some rather dubious results as the search engine is a bit chaotic.

• Triune Arts, a non-profit, charitable institution established in 1981 has produced award-winning educational programs on a variety of subjects including alternative dispute/conflict resolution, restorative justice, cross-cultural communication, employment training for youth and international development

• This page is an experiment in using the web to facilitate the visualization of a lighting design for the stage. It uses the program Radiance to generate images of selected lighting angles. The space used is the Studio Theatre in the Annenberg Center. The light plot consists of 7 instruments: 2 front lights, 2 high side, 2 low side, and a backlight. All are focused on a human figure. Users can view a number of combinations of these 7 instruments as well as each instrument individually.

• From here you can access information and resources to support you as a drama teacher. Use the navigation bar on the left to find information on:
  • subject resources: containing links to web sites that have been approved as having useful curriculum content, as well as the Teacher Resource Exchange and other curriculum resources
  • the curriculum: providing direct links to the National Curriculum documents, schemes of work and frameworks for teaching for English, which contains the statutory requirements for drama
  • ICT support: here you will find information, advice, case studies and resources for using ICT in drama
  • tests and exams: this section provides links to the on-line examination syllabuses for drama
  • organisations: here you will find links to subject associations, national projects and other drama related bodies
  • discussion groups: take the opportunity to communicate, discuss and share ideas with other drama teachers.

Welcome to the School Show Page 

• An amazing array of resources for "putting on a show" at school, includes plays, technical guides, classroom resources and more.

• The hit British comedy improvisational TV show is currently broadcast on Channel Four in the UK and on ABC in the United States.  Apart from the official site, Mark Longmuir - obviously a dedicated fan - maintains an excellent collection of resources, including instructions for playing the games.  You may find this more valuable than the official site. Mark Longmuir's Guide to Who's Line Is It Anyway? 

• "The World of Mime Theatre is devoted to the promotion of Mime as a serious theatrical art.  Its goals are education, information exchange, entertainment, and providing the opportunity to connect people involved and interested in Mime Theatre around the world."

World Wide Web - Virtual Library - Theatre and Drama 

• A great range of resources and links. Well worth your time looking here for just about anything.

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