Drama
The following links are arranged by topic area to help you research your topic areas.
- General links
- Topic 1: Dramatic traditions in Australia
- Topic 2: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice
- Topic 3: Tragedy
- Topic 4: Irish Drama
- Topic 5: Brecht
- Topic 6: Site-specific, Street and Event Theatre
- Topic 7: Approaches to Acting
- Topic 8: American Drama
- Topic 9: Seventeenth Century Comedy
General links
The Sydney Morning Herald 
regularly
reviews Sydney theatre.
Read the New York Times Arts
Section for theatre reviews from the New York stage.
Theatre Reviews Limited provides
the latest reviews on Broadway Theatre.
The Age regularly reviews
Melbourne theatre.
The London Theatre Guide provides
reviews and general information on current productions in London.
Topic 1: Dramatic Traditions in Australia
The Currency Press web
site has several articles on Australian Drama and Theatre.
Topic 2: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice
The Currency Press web
site has several articles on Australian Drama and Theatre.
Topic 3: Tragedy
Encyclopedia
Brittanica has
some biographical information on Miller, Tony Kushner and Sophocles.
Topic 4: Irish Drama
The Early Theater magazine includes
valuable background information.
Topic 5: Brecht
Topic 6: Site Specific, Street and Event Theatre
Welfare State International and Celebratory Art
The Devising Celebration web site provides
a complete case study of an environmental theatre event.
Bread & Puppet's1998 Domestic Resurrection Circus & Pageant contains
information on the Bread and Puppets 1998 performance festival.
Bread & Puppet's1998 Domestic Resurrection Circus & Pageant contains
a review by Eve Crevoshay.
Topic 7: Approaches to Acting
There are a number of web sites with valuable resources for Augusto Boal, Jacques le Coq, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Tadashi Suzuki.
Topic 8: American Drama
The David Mamet web page contains
biographical information on David Mamet.
David Mamet (1947) contains
a brief biography of David Mamet.
EOneill.com is
an electronic Eugene O'Neill archive.
Thornton Wilder contains
information on Thornton Wilder and his works especially, Our Town.
Online Newshour contains
background information on A Streetcar Named Desire.
Topic 9: Seventeenth Century Comedy
Game of Love: Restoration Comedy contains
an article by Esther Lombardi.
Masks, Costumes, Ceremony Life In Seventeenth Century France is
an article by Harriet J. Bauman of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.