English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film
English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century

This is a site created by NPR (National Public Radio), a distributor of news, talk, and entertainment programming. With a neat layout, this site is organized so that there are a good amount of attention-grabbing photographs accompanied with the text.

Maybe because this site is part of a broadcasting homepage, there are many video clips and audio files that users can access. These video/audio clips include scenes from the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire, Debbie Elliott's report on the history of the play, and a 1940s recording of Tennessee Williams discussing A Streetcar Named Desire in a report. Links to a site about the 1947 theatrical production and the 1951 film of A Streetcar Named Desire, the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, the playwright's biography and works, A Streetcar Named Desire's setting and characters, a New York Times review of the play's 1947 opening, the background and the making of the film, the opera production with a video clip, and a historical review of New Orleans streetcars are also available.

This is a very well-made site, with a lot of materials that are hard to find on other homepages. However, the last update was in 2002.

URL : http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/streetcar/index.html

Keyword(s) : A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, Drama, 20th century, Dramatists, American Dramatists, American drama

English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Theatre Studies
English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century

This site was created by Charles Sturt University. It contains hyperlinks with helpful headings, making it easier for the reader to access the information.

The homepage is well-categorized, and is convenient in finding any specific material provided here. Looking over Brecht's biography, the historical, cultural, artistic, scientific, and political context, the features of Brechtian drama including the Epic Theater, the stage, technology, acting style, movement and jester, the alienation effect, and music, this site contains a good balance of in-depth information and brief. Playbuilding activities that could be used in workshops are also listed, and there are four informative essays on four of Brecht's texts. Additional activities are also linked. In the middle of the texts there are various pictures. A bibliography is also added, providing more reading material.

Overall, a helpful, well-organized website.

URL : http://hsc.csu.edu.au/drama/hsc/studies/brecht/2758/Brecht.htm

Keyword(s) : Brecht, Drama, 20th century, Dramatists, German drama, Dramatic criticism

English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Theatre Studies
English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century

This is a site created to help students in the United Kingdom take examinations in English literature, drama, or theater arts, and which could also be helpful to students who are interested in modern theater or Bertolt Brecht. With hyper-links at the top of the page that quickly guide the user to particular sections of the homepage, it is a convenient site to get information.

The most interesting feature about this site is that it contains various views of Brecht, his plays, and their production. Possibly because this site was founded for exam preparation, the information under each category is brief and concise. In addition to looking over Brecht's plays, there are also sections that deal with his dramatic theories, rehearsals, acting theories, a Brecht dictionary, and some examples of possible exam questions.

This is a very effective site to get a general overview of Brecht. However, there is not much in-depth information or any links that lead to other recommendable websites.

URL : http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/drama/brecht.htm

Keyword(s) : Brecht, Modern Drama, Dramatic criticism, Dramatists, 20th century Drama

English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century
General Resources->Digital Repositories
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

Page entitled "ISU(Iowa State University) Play Concordances" : This site is a project originally created at Iowa State University by Rosanne G. Potter and Joe Struss. The ISU Concordance Databases simplify word-level research on the dialogue in the plays included in the project.

It contains a full concordances of ten modern plays which can be viewed complete acting dialogue for them and yet the complete acting dialogues are not a complete published text of the work and should be used for research purposes only. The ten plays are the following: Candida by Bernard Shaw , The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen , The Father by August Strindberg, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey, The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.

In a full concordance format, every word in the dialogue of the play is indexed and connected to its textual context. Users can search it for word lists alphabetically organized and frequency-ordered, and for collocations in the context around the keyword. Further Information about the literary references are also available.

URL : http://www.iastate.edu/~spires/concord.html

Keyword(s) : Candida, Bernard Shaw, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller, A Doll House, Henrik Ibsen, The Father, August Strindberg, Oscar Wilde,  ean OCasey, Drama, Modern Drama, Dramatists

English Literature->Journals
English Literature->Conferences
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

TheatreForum is an international theatre journal which documented and discussed the work of innovative theatre artists in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.

This site focuses on the new performances and works that reflect contemporary plays and articulate new concepts. Each issue includes at least two previously unpublished scripts, dozens of photographs, and a variety of articles and interviews written by both scholars and artists. Because this page has both back issues and current issues about international theater at the same time, the theoretical flows raised by many experimental performances produced all around the world is clearly understandable.

However, admission to these materials is charged after subscription. This page does not have any search system, so it is hard to search materials.

URL : http://www-theatre.ucsd.edu/TF/

Keyword(s) : theater journal, africa, asia, australia, europe, america, performance