Present Web Links

The following links access Web sites of interest to people involved in drama/theatre. Most of these sites relate to the creation, production, and distribution of small-cast one-act scripts in all media; they include:

  • playwriting resources,
  • production resources,
  • publishers of print scripts,
  • publishers of electronic scripts,
  • playwrights with personal Websites, and
  • other interesting links.

Playwriting Resources

  • Absolute Write and Writer Online, one-stop web home for professional playwrights
  • Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, support and service for the Los Angeles playwriting community
  • Biblio.com Booksearch and Marketplace, millions of used, rare, and out-of-print books and textbooks from a global network of independent booksellers
  • The Blank Theatre Company, produces the work of between 8 and 12 teenage playwrights each year
  • Chicago Dramatists, Chicago's playwrights' theatre, solely devoted to development of new plays and nurturing of playwrights
  • The Dramatists' Guild, lists playwrights and invites as members residents of New York City and the surrounding tri-state area (Long Island, Northern New Jersey, Westchester and Fairfield counties); offers national memberships to those outside the area who can spend time in NYC to take advantage of its programs
  • The Dramatists' Guild of America, regarded by many as the most important organization for any American playwright
  • E-script, the meeting place on the web for scriptwriters of all kinds, features online courses and workshops
  • Final Draft playwriting resources, Jon Dorf's columns on the craft and business of playwriting.
  • Insight for Playwrights, subscription monthly marketing newsletter with the latest submission information for theatres, contests, fellowships, residencies, and other development programs for dramatic writers
  • The International Centre for Women Playwrights, supports women playwrights by encouraging production, translation, publication, and international distribution of their plays
  • The Internet Theatre Bookshop, an international catalogue of plays and theatre related books, particularly plays for performance and plays out-of-print
  • Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, weekly playwriting workshops sessions for 11-25 year olds and for people over 50
  • Manhattan Playwrights Group, 211 West 71st Street, Suite 6A, New York, New York 10023, U.S.A., telephone 212 721-2979, fax 212 721-3669, e-mail mscott13@aol.com. Playwrights may submit a play for review by Mimi Scott; send as a word document to her email listed above or mail it to the above address. MPG has an annual one-act festival.
  • Native American Women Playwrights Archive (Miami University Libraries) and the Department of Theatre, Miami University
  • New Dramatists, BBS open to anyone who wants to exchange ideas, problems, discoveries, frustrations, and/or inspirations on the art, craft and livelihood of playwriting
  • Northwest Playwrights Guild, serving playwrights in the northwest region of the United States and Canada
  • NY Play Development, a free play development lab run by playwrights.
  • New York Foundation for the Arts: Directory of Services, enables creation and sharing of scripts
  • Playwrights Actors Lab Studio offers paid instruction about the craft of playwriting on a professional level.
  • Philadelphia Dramatists Center, a service organization for Philadelphia's playwrights (and other dramatic writers) offering script development opportunities and other support
  • Playwright's Place, tips on playwriting by David W. Christner and access to his scripts
  • Playwrights on the Web, an international contact list of playwrights and their websites
  • Playwrights' Resources, sundry resources for playwrights
  • Playwrights' Workshop Montreal, professional theatre centre dedicated to developing contemporary work and new writers for the Canadian stage
  • Playwriting 101, instruction on playwriting from formatting to submission.
  • Rachel King—Writers' Mentor, advice with plots and publishing from a published novelist
  • REED presents WWW links for mediaeval and early modern play texts.
  • Virtual Reference Shelf, selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress
  • Screenwriters& Playwrights Home Page, self-described
  • Screenwriting Information Resources, research and reference materials on screenwriting.
  • Scriptdude Software, formatting software for screen, television, stage, or audio visual, ScriptThing (Windows) $260, and Scriptware (Windows) $260 + s/h
  • Scriptware, formatting software for screen, television, stage, or audio visual, given The Writer's Guild of America's 4-star rating in every category, Windows $299.95 + s/h
  • Thespis-Verlag, ein Theaterverlag, der sich an Theater, Autoren, Regisseure und Produzenten, sowie an Dramaturgen gleichermaßen wendet [a theatrical publishing company which involves theater, authors, directors and producers, as well as to script editors]. This Verlag is always looking for English-language plays to translate into German.
  • Young Playwrights 101, really for all ages, advice and instruction on playwriting

Production Resources

  • ACTER, a center for education, theatre, and research, with a traveling troupe
  • BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition,1999
  • Brick Playhouse, a non-profit theatre based in Philadelphia that develops plays and playwrights
  • Bricolage, agencies seeking writers/submissions
  • Camden Artists and New Playwrights, a London co-operative since October, 1997, with the addition of an actors group
  • Candrama Home Page, multiple links
  • Centre of Theatre Practice, performance research
  • City Theatre, month-long event celebrates 2-to-12-minute original plays
  • CNET Theatre and Drama Sites, Canadian theatre and drama sites
  • Copyright Clearance Center Online, latest information on establishing and keeping rights
  • Directory of Theater Professionals on the Net
  • The Drama League/Directors Project, programs for playwrights are distinguished by an extraordinarily high level of professional participation
  • The Genesius Theatre Guild is a non-profit NYC-based theatre company dedicated to the creation and development of new plays and musicals, http://www.genesiusguild.org or email info@genesiusguild.org.
  • Eclectic Press, unpublished authors offer Internet samples of scripts and possibly sell works for around $10.00
  • Find A Play! search the catalogues of every major publisher in North America, http://www.findaplay.com/
  • The Hollywood Legends, a catalogue of one-person (full length) plays
  • Imperial Theatre, Atlantic Canada's busiest and self-proclaimed most beautiful venue for live performance
  • The Internet Directory of Literary Agents, agents
  • Internet Theatre, cyberspace experiments
  • The Internet Writer's Guideline Listing, searchable list of submissions guidelines for Web magazines
  • Intuiton Theatre Page, education-based theatre
  • Joe Geigel's favorite Theatre Related Resources
  • Kids 4 Broadway, scripts for ages 7-17
  • The Lark Theatre Company, new script submission guidelines
  • Lucilla Dramatic Society, Liverpool, established 1920, possibly one of the oldest amateur dramatic societies in the United Kingdom
  • Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary's one-act play theatre since 1975
  • Newsletter of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research, production contacts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, a complete listing of all Endowment grants
  • Opera Schedule Server, producers of operas around the world
  • Playwrights Actors Lab Studio Links, an extensive list of links for research, reference, networking
  • Philadelphia Dramatists Center, a member-driven organization dedicated to improving the craft, opportunities and living conditions of dramatic writers
  • PlayWright's Theatre, the sole theatre in the American Southwest developing and producing only new scripts, including one-acts, Director of Theatre, Sheboygan Theatre Company.
  • Serious Cow Productions, visually-interesting, physical theatre based on cerebrally-challenging, original Canadian works
  • Small-Cast One-Act Guide online, a shameless self-reference
  • Stage Directions Magazine, publication for the non-equity theater market; play reviews andrecommendations
  • Studio Z Home Page, producers of live and cyberspace performances
  • Teatro Gayumba, producers of Spanish-language plays, operating in Dominican Republic and New York City
  • Theatre Central's Agents List, list of agents with playwrights they represent
  • Theatre Passe Muraille, "Canada's national theatre" produces new Canadian plays
  • Theater Solution, productions by teleconferencing at Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre
  • The Vault, resources for performance researcher/performance-maker
  • The Virtual Drama Society, explores the future of immersive dramatic storytelling -- everything from Chat Theater to fully immersive, "holodeck"-like VR experiences
  • VR On-Stage Home Page, explorations of virtual reality for theatre productions and performance
  • Welcome to the BBC, producer of radio and television scripts
  • West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest, annual contest which awards first, second, and third place winners $100, $75, and $50 respectively, and stages performances in the annual West Coast Ten-Minute Play Festival.
  • Writers' Resources on the Web, links to screen/playwriting workshops, marketing, and networking

Publishers of Print Scripts

  • Anchorage Press Plays, plays for young audiences in the United States; dramatic versions of folk tales and fables, world classics, and stories of search and growth
  • Aran Press, publishing plays since '83, currently, with about 325 plays listed and over 100 playwrights
  • Baker's Plays, one-act scripts/rights from major publisher
  • Broadway Play Publishing Inc., publishes oone-act, full-length, contemporary American plays, published individually and in anthologies
  • Brooklyn Publishers, publishes many short, small-cast competition pieces (monologues, duets) as well as plays of all lengths and cast sizes, http://www.brookpub.com
  • http://www. Brown, Son and Ferguson, the leading play publishers in Scotland, with over 200 one-act and 100 full-length plays always in print
  • Currency Press, Pty. Ltd., Australia's leading independent publisher of the performing arts
  • Dramatists Play Service, one-act scripts/rights from major publisher
  • Eldridge Plays and Musicals, the online catalog of Eldridge Publishing Company, in Venice, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Encore Performance Publishing, play and theatre book publishers and performance rights licensing
  • Heuer Publishing Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52406, U.S.A.
  • I. E. Clark, many scripts for secondary school production, including one-acts, full-length plays, musicals, and skits, often didactic works or adaptations of well-known fairy tales and fables
  • Crystal Theatre Publishing, publishing arm of Crystal Theatre, a children’s and community theatre group in Norwalk, Connecticut, creating original plays and musicals for youth and community theatre groups
  • Direct Plays, a small online publisher of ten-minute plays, one-person shows, and full-length plays. They offer printed copies of scripts as well as electronic ones
  • Dramatic Publishing Company, an extensive collection of plays for young audiences, including new works recently developed in major professional children's theatres around the United States, with works for professional, stock, and amateur markets, includes full-length plays, one-acts, translations, adaptations, and musicals
  • Dramatists Play Service, extensive catalogue featuring one-acts, full-lengths and musicals, including many contemporary works produced in New York City and by professional regional theatre companies
  • Eldridge Publishing, hundreds of plays and musicals geared for community and junior and senior high school productions; also featured are “freeviews,” downloadable samples of the scripts
  • French, Inc., see below
  • Heuer Publishing Company? specializes in one-act and full-length plays and musicals for school and community theatres,
  • Goldfish Publishers, Mark S. P. Turvin's original playscripts
  • Lazy Bee Scripts, full-lengths, one-acts, sketches, a few musicals, and lots of English pantomimes for schools and children’s theatre groups, with omplete scripts that can be read on the website; based in the United Kingdom with world-wide delivery
  • Limelight Scripts, British pantomime plays and musicals, plus an online in-depth explanation of the history of pantomime; also, new plays, pantomimes, musicals, and one-acts; based in the United Kingdom with world-wide delivery
  • Meriwether Publishing Ltd., musicals, plays, monologues, and sketches for secondary school, community theatre, and church performances
  • Music Theatre International, classic and contemporary Broadway musicals, including the “Broadway Youth Collection”: author-approved packages that are abridged for elementary, middle, and secondary school performance; also, licenses for full productions, revues, and concert versions of musicals and offer various production resources
  • Mysteries by Moushey, Inc., interactive mystery scripts and production packages with plot summaries available online; most scripts are considered appropriate for high school audiences, with adaptation by the playwright possible upon request
  • New Plays Incorporated, a small but reputable publisher devoted primarily to plays for young audiences; many are based on familiar fairy tales, but their scripts are generally more innovative and better constructed than other published adaptations of the same source material
  • New Theatre Publications, the publishing company owned by the members of the non-profit New Playwrights Co-operative, Warlingham, England, with large-print scripts and talking scripts
  • One Act Play Depot, a small new-script publisher that never charges playwrights; all plays featured remain the property of the playwrights. OAPD, in Spiritwood, Saskatchewan, Canada, receives only a small portion of production rights. Playwrights receive royalties for plays sold and are paid whenever they are owed $10 or more. Playwrights learn of contracted productions and may communicate with producers. OAPD will begin accepting submissions again in February, 2003, focusing on black comedy along with well-written dramatic and comedic pieces. OAPD accepts approximately one in every one hundred scripts submitted for perusal
  • Pioneer Drama Service, full service play-publishing, performance-licensing company in the United States; an online catalog of plays, including an authors' index, play synopses, and information about ordering scripts and performance royalties, Pioneer Drama Service offers new plays, musicals, melodramas, participation plays, and holiday scripts, as well as text and production resources, for school groups and other theatres
  • Plays Magazine, sixty-four-year-old magazine offers eight to ten plays in each issue (seven issues per year, October through May); each issue includes plays for students in every grade level; current subscribers may use plays royalty-free
  • Playscripts, Inc., new plays, Playscripts includes several former Thespian Playworks finalists in their catalogue; sells books and performance rights, and offers free online script samples
  • Playstage, royalty-free school plays and pantomimes written by drama teachers and children, ranging from modified Shakespeare, traditional stories, mini pantomimes, Christmas and nativity plays, and plays that can be used in both the classroom as a curriculum aid and for performance
  • Playwrights’ Co-operative, a writer-owned and -managed not-for-profit publishing company that gives the individual playwright greater control and responsibility in marketing scripts
  • Popular Play Service, national and regional award-winning plays which have a broad appeal to community and professional theatre audiences; always looking for new plays to add to its catalog
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatre Library, classic Broadway musicals, from the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein to Andrew Lloyd Webber, plus a few other new shows; also offers fairy-tale musicals for young audiences and revues
  • Samuel French, Inc., a major publisher of acting editions of scripts, including full-length plays, one-acts, solo works, musicals, and plays for young audiences, with a catalogue containing many scripts never produced in New York, including light comedies and mysteries
  • International Storytellers, an international license company for musicals, plays and family entertainment in general; contact Tjitte Meijer, Holland
  • Smith and Kraus, anthologies of plays that premiered at the Seattle Children's Theatre and in the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, plus other collections for secondary schools; also, many anthologies of monologues and scenes. They don't handle licensing, but their books contain contact information for rights
  • Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., licenses Broadway musicals, from Gershwin and Porter classics to contemporary hits; rental often includes choice of orchestration and stage manager's guide
  • TDR, the journal of performance studies, a forum for writing all kinds of performances in their aesthetic, historical, social, economic, political, and theoretical contexts; each fully illustrated issue includes texts of performance works
  • Theatre Communications Group, Inc. (TCG), scripts appropriate for regional theatres, some in thematic anthologies, including British and Canadian play publishers; TCG doesn't handle licensing, but books contain contact information for rights
  • Theatrefolk, a broad range of plays and collections specifically written for high school study and performance. A free catalog and sample pages are available on the website
  • USA Plays for Kids, a literacy and creativity project of Drury University, provides information from playwrights who focus on K-12 scripts; scripts are not available directly through the service, but descriptions of the plays include publisher name and, in some cases, website link

Publishers of Electronic Scripts

  • Havescripts.com, an online catalog of new plays sponsored by The Tidewater Dramatists Guild, which is a playwrights cooperative. Scripts for special groups, such as retirees, single gender, and the disabled
  • Original Works, Web equivalent to print publishing houses
  • ProPlay, plays which have received professional productions listed free-of-charge on the Web to encourage their further production
  • Business.com, screenplays
  • YouthPLAYS, a coalition of professional dramatists dedicated to making diverse plays and works available to schools, theatres, and institutions that serve young audiences; synopses of plays available on website

Playwrights with Personal Websites

Other Interesting Links

  • Ace-Your-Audition.com http://www.ace-your-audition.com/index.html, guide to auditions
  • Actors Interactive
  • Aisle Say
  • Amateur TheatreOrganisations and Information--UK Theatre Web, local and national amateur drama ("Am Dram") in the UK
  • Akropolis Arts Magazine
  • Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A., in its Joseph A. Levy Collection, http://www.asu.edu/lib/speccoll/drama/levy.htm, holds a vast source of small-cast one-act scripts for children.
  • The Applied and Interactive Theater Guide
  • Arts and Entertainment Network
  • Arts Books, British book store specializing in all the performing arts
  • BookWire - The First Place to Look for Book Information
  • Bravo Television a good selection of theatre on TV
  • A Brief Guide to Internet Resources for Theater and Performance Studies: by Dr. Ken McCoy
  • Broadway Press the titles currently available from Broadway Press, some published by Broadway Press, some published by other companies, with emphasis on technical theatre but with some books extremely useful to playwrights
  • Broadway World-Wide, source for Broadway theatre information
  • Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1650, strong in fifteenth and sixteenth-century bibliography, especially English drama
  • Chicago Theatre Homepage, a guide to the Chicago Theatre community
  • the collected works of William Shakespeare (in html)
  • Comedia, Hispanic classical theatre
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • Cornish Medieval Drama, http://www.the-camerino-players.com/medievaldrama/index.html
  • Downright Canadian Theatre Company, encourages and develops the writing of plays emphasizing Canadian society and diversity
  • Drama (Performing Arts)
  • Dramatherapy Certificate Course, U.K. part-time course for certificate
  • Dulaanonline magazine on Philippine Theater, Culture and Art highlighting selected events and artists with focus on Mindanao art and culture
  • East Coast Community Theater
  • Edinburgh International Internet Festival, aims to be the largest arts event on the Internet
  • ELAC Theatre Arts Online Library
  • The English Server Drama Page
  • Eric Bogosian's Home Page
  • European Medieval Drama, about 200 medieval drama links
  • FetchBook.Info, quick and easy way to compare prices of new and used books among dozens of bookstores
  • FINDaPLAY, an engine to search the catalogs of all major North American play publishers.
  • The Goldsmith's Playlist a database of contemporary plays and musicals on the World Wide Web, featuring search capability for items online and a facility to contribute new entries remotely.
  • Greensboro Playwrights' Forum , aids playwrights of the Piedmont Triad (North Carolina, U.S.A.) to get published or produced through contacts, marketing and skills improvement
  • Headquarters Entertainment Corporation Net Links
  • The History of Theatre, comprehensive guide to the history of world theatre
  • Hot Links for Student Research in Theatre: Stetson Dept of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts
  • International Amateur Theatre Association (AITA/IATA), the world body of amateur theatre
  • The Internet Theatre Bookshop—an international catalogue of quality plays
  • Lazy Bee Scripts, an online bookstore of scripts for pantomimes and plays with one-act-plays, plays for schools and children's theatre groups and panto scripts.
  • Le Théâtre Médiéval, Université de Haute Bretagne, in Rennes, France, presents a number of French mystery play texts.
  • Links to Canadian Theatre Sites, list of Canadian Theatre sites, approximately 230 links
  • The London Theatre Guide
  • London West End Theatre Guide, self-described
  • Medieval Drama Links
  • Miguel R. Homepage, Lighting Director, Teatro Nacional S. Joao, puts Portuguese theatre online
  • Naked Theatre, shameless London playwright has dared to come out of the closet and expose works
  • The 19th-Century London Stage
  • North European Amateur Theatre Alliance, organisation for understanding and education through theatre
  • On BroadwayBroadway shows
  • Playbill Online, show playbills
  • Playbill online!, shows on and off Broadway, in London, in regional houses
  • Plays and Songs, children's material
  • Playwrights on the Web—an international contact list of playwrights and their websites
  • Poculi Ludique Societas
  • Pussycat Theatre Company, devoted to producing new works by emerging playwrights, unafraid to tackle any subject
  • Records of Early English Drama (REED), an international scholarly project, a broad context from which the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew
  • Scott's Theatre Links, multiple links
  • Shakespeare Festivals, self-described
  • Shakespeare Globe Center, self-described
  • Shakespearean Insult, self-described
  • The Shaw Festival
  • Skenotheke, an exciting, extensive resource about ancient theatre
  • Tdfilm.com, online film resource
  • TDR: The Drama Review, serious scholarship, often esoteric
  • Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology
  • Tech Links, multiple links
  • Theater (Leisure and Recreation)
  • Theater-Paradies Deutschland [deutschsprachiges Theater], German-language theatre and film links
  • Theatre and Performance Studies Resources, best guide to theatrical discussion groups
  • Theatre Central
  • Theatre Insight, journal of performance and theatre studies
  • Theatre Links
  • Theatre Links!
  • TheatrLink, presents links to San Diego, California, U.S.A., area Local and Community Theatres
  • Tom White, Playwright, Austin, Texas, citations of Tom White's plays
  • U. K. Theatre Web
  • UVic Beckett Festival: Scholars
  • One Act Plays, the Victorian Drama League's archive, with scripts available to subscribed individual members ($45 per annum).
  • Virtual Library Research Assistant -Theatre Arts 100 - Penn State Allentown Campus
  • Welcome to Amazon.com Books!
  • Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Lighting Links Page, a collection of links to entertainment lighting sites on the Web
  • Wheellerplays, one-act plays for casts of five or more by an award-winning playwright in Southampton, England
  • Writing-World.com more than 250 articles on writing, plus over 500 links to other resources
  • www.absolutecasting.com, a new Internet service for all students, graduates and new entrants into the performing arts and media industries.
  • Yahoo_Arts : DramaYahoo's multitudinous links
  • Yahoo_Arts : TheatreYahoo's multitudinous links
  • YouthPlays.com, a coalition of award-winning dramatists dedicated to providing original, engaging material for young actors and audiences, a publisher of electronic scripts

Search Engines for Finding/Placing Websites

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  • Lycos. Lycos gets its 11,000,000 listings by automatically searching the entire Web. It may find your new site on its own! Still, ask the Lycos program to search/list your site ASAP, maybe three weeks.
  • WebCrawler. A robot search of the Web.
  • Yahoo. Vast resources.

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Present Web Links page updated August 10, 2010, by the Webmaster.