Lincoln School of Creative Arts

BBC's Theatre and Drama Archive including full recordings of programmes, collections of historic programmes on Arts and Entertainment, Society and Welfare, War and Conflict, and more. Programmes include documentaries on Shakespearean actors, Second Wave Feminism, the Gay Rights Movement, and much more.

Get Into Theatre belongs to a series of practical resources for young people interested getting into the creative and cultural industries.

This is the first online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents as heard around the world.

IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

Information about playwrights and what plays they have created.

Hints and tips on playwriting

The Royal Albert Hall Archives exists to capture, preserve and make accessible the Hall’s history of performance, the iconic Grade 1 listed building and the organisation itself.

The Stage provides news and services for the UK entertainment and performing arts industry

Theatrecrafts.com has been online since 1997 and is a developing resource for students, theatre technicians, designers and practitioners.

A compilation of websites compiled by Lulus.com on dress and costume throughout history, from ancient history to 1900s. Also includes additional resources for theatre, including stage lighting, building stage sets and stage terms.

This archive contains video and audio recordings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems made for radio and television as well as entertainment and information content related to the life and work of the Bard.

Explore the works of Shakespeare and Renaissance writers in relation to the social, political and cultural context in which they were written, and investigate the ways in which these works have been interpreted over the last four centuries.

An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
This authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope, is regularly updated and currently holds over 8,500 records dating from the 1890s to the present day.

Get access to the full text of Shakespeare's plays and poems

History of Shakespeare and the period in which he wrote

The world's largest collection of Shakespeare related material accessible by the public.