This page contains external links to resources. The links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only. The inclusion of links to particular items is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended as an endorsement by Theatre Alberta of any of the products or services offered on these sites.
Journals
- Stage Directions– The latest in the art and technology of theatre (US)
- ArtsJournal – A digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world
Dialects
- International Dialects (IDEA) – Online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings
- The Speech Accent Archive – Speech samples used to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers
Sound Effects
- Free Sound Effects (Dramatic Publishing) – Pick and choose your sound effects to create your own customized CD
Play Indexes
- The Guide to World Drama– Descriptive database of playwrights and their plays.
Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Configurations – A fresh look at configurations – and reconfigurations – of Shakespeare from the first quartos to the most recent incarnations
- Ultimate Shakespeare Resource Guide by FreeBookNotes – A list of some of the best Shakespeare resources on the web
- Shakespeare Monologues – a website containing all of Shakespeare’s monologues, sorted by gender and show
- Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project – “CASP is the first research project of it’s kind devoted to the systematic exploration and documentation of the ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatre practice … including learning, teaching, multimedia, and research resources and pedagogical tools related to how Shakespeare has been adapted into (and out of) Canadian theatre”.
Resources for Drama teachers
- Free Stuff (Theatrefolk) – “No strings, no signups, just good stuff for you to use in your classroom.”
- New Drama Teacher Toolkit (Theatrefolk) – Exercises and activities, classroom management, advocacy and podcasts.
- Good School Plays – “My name is Richard Stuart Dixon. During my years as a high school teacher in British Columbia, Canada, I wrote, directed, and produced over one hundred and sixty large-cast scripts for my drama classes. I’m offering an assortment of these stage-tested scripts for the free use of teachers and their students.”
