Welcome to the Live Arts Theatre Resources page!
We hope you find them helpful. If you have a resource you would like for us to add to this page, please send it to beccaparker@liveartstheatre.org
board development
Board Source (free resources and articles on board building and management)
Joan Garry (great blog on nonprofit management and board development, podcasts and free resources)
For community theatres
American Association of community theatres
monologues
Monologue Archive (Divided up into Men, Women, and Children/Seniors, includes full text of monologues and citations)
Stage Milk- Men’s Monologues (the more common ones, full text)
Stage Milk- Women’s Monologues (the more common ones, full text)
Stage Milk- Teen Monologues (full text to copy and paste)
Kids Monologues (Great free monologues for kids at Freedrama.net)
Stage Milk- Kids Monologues (full text to copy and paste)
professional development
GA Theatre Conference
Southeastern Theatre Conference
Theatre Communications Group
Scripts
Project Gutenberg– Project Gutenberg is an archive of materials in the public domain in the United States. They have an extensive selection of scripts that are royalty free.
shakespeare
Complete Works of Shakespeare (maintained by MIT, site contains full text of all plays, poems, and sonnets)
Folger Shakespeare Library (official site of the Folger Shakespeare library. Lots of different information)
No Fear Shakespeare series (features full text of plays with modern translation to the left)
Shakespearean Insult Generator (just for fun, generates insults from Shakespeare’s plays)
Shakespeare Online (full text of all plays, information on theatres, biography, and history of plays. Lots of great information)
Shakespeare’s Words (full text of all plays and poems, chronological listing of plays, searchable glossary)
Stage Milks’ list of top Female Shakespeare Monologues (listed by play, act, scene, and character)
Stage Milks’ list of top Male Shakespeare Monologues (listed by play, act, scene, and character)
teaching theatre
Copyright lessons
The improv encyclopedia
technical resources
Lighting Manuals:
Congo Family
ETC Element
ETC Express
ETC Ion
Leviton Innovator 48/96
Whole HOG 2
Lighting Lessons:
Stage Lighting Primer for Students
Video on TeacherTube introducing lighting instruments
Costuming resources
Roman Clothing
Article from the MET Museum on Greek Clothing
THEATRE history
A Basic History of the Theatre (lots of fun links here)
Greek Theatre (USC, good article on comedy and tragedy)