The Argonaut

An arts education, advocacy database for teachers, parents, students and business

    May 12th, 2008

Plays
 

A1 FREE SCRIPTS - Free playscripts for children and young people. Songs, musicals, and pantomimes.

Absolute Shakespeare - This impressive site includes not only the plays, sonnets, and historical background, but also such features as trivia, study guides, quotes, filmography, and bibliography. One of the best.

Anchorage Press - the first publishing house to concern itself primarily with quality theatrical literature for young audiences. It also served a sister concern for dramatic activities and education for the young.

Children's Theatre Plays.com - Excellent stageplays for children, young audiences, schools and families. Theatre producers, directors, drama coaches and teachers will find quality scripts for productions of every size, scope and budget.

Doollee's Database - Database of plays and playwrights, whose aim is to list all playwrights and their plays, written, adapted or translated into English - over 20,000 entries.

FINDaPLAY.com - offers a searchable directory of the catalogs of major play publishers.

Native American Women Playwrights Archive: "The Native American Women Playwrights Archive is a collection of original materials by Native women playwrights of the Americas. NAWPA hopes to identify playwrights, collect and preserve their work, try to make it widely known, and encourage performances and continued creativity. Plays in manuscript, disk, videotape, or other format are cataloged, given appropriate preservation treament, and made available to anyone who wishes to read them in the library."

Noh Plays - Japanese texts and English Translations of a series of texts of thirteen Noh dramas from the medieval period.

Pioneer Drama Service - Provides acting editions and licensing to theatrical productions written for the middle-high school, college, church and community theatre markets

Playdatabase.com - Searchable database of plays and monologues

Playwrights Project - classroom programs using playwriting and drama to teach K12 curriculum in Southern California, run annual contest and produce work for young playwrights.

Realm of Theatre - A site dedicated to theatre persons in search of monologues, solos, duet acting scenes, or duet musicals.

Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online - This site sources small-cast one-act plays in all media worldwide, giving access to over 600 unpublished and published scripts in many languages for four or fewer actors.

Theatre Encyclopedia - A complete theatre reference site.

USA Plays for Kids: This program sponsored by the Drury University (Missouri) Dept. of Education (and other partners) provides a listing of authors willing to make direct contact with children who are producing their plays--a worthy project, and well-thought out.

Yiddish Playscripts   

  

      

Theatre History Plays