A few good world wide web sites are listed below; they will lead you to many more. There are web pages devoted to many aspects of the theatre. Start with The American Association of Community Theatre home page. On it you'll find that you have an array of possibilities to click: Organizations and Services, Festivals, Directories, AACT Tip of the month, Sources for Plays, Theatre Links, and Job Listings are supposed to be coming. This is what is called a 'meta page'; it contains links to many other sites.

(If this sounds like a foreign language to you, and you have never used the World Wide Web before, come to the Library. The library staff will explain all, or almost all.) Click Theatre Links, for a fabulous selection of theatre web sites. You'll find sites for:

Acting
General
Organizations
Regional
Directories
Books
International
Playwrights
Rights & Royalties
Children's Theatre
Lighting
Puppetry
Shakespeare
Costumes
Musical Theatre
Recordings
Sound
Volunteerism

Acting: Acting Workshop Online and the Actor's Page. These have MORE links.Books: Samuel French Bookstore homepageChildren's Theatre: Children's Theatre Resource PageGeneral: Links to lotsa sites, including PlaybillInternational: UK Theatre Web
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Lighting: Lighting Design, Lighting Links on the Web
Musical Theatre: Broadway Musicals Online, Musical Cast
Album Database, Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Homepage.
Organizations: International Amateur Theatre Association,
Institute of Outdoor Drama, League of American Theatres
and Producers, and the Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers.
Playwrights: Links to homepages for a couple of dozen
playwrights.
AND MANY MORE...

Joe Geigel's Favorite Theatre Related Resources at http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu/OnBroadway/links/
will connect you to sites which cover Books/Music, Education, Indices, Listings/Tix, Newsgroups, People, Professional, Shows, Stagecraft, Theatres.

Warning:

Remember that you always have to evaluate the sources you use for your information, on whatever topic. The World Wide Web provides a particularly accessible venue for putting incomplete, one-sided and undocumented material before the public. Just because you found it on the 'net doesn't make it ture. anybody with a computer, web access and a book on HTML can create a home page that may look very professional, but as the old saying goes, "you can't judge a web page by it's graphics." Content is what counts.

Happy Surfing!