| Theatre/Drama
Greek theatre, Roman spectacles, medieval miracle plays, Chinese opera,
Elizabethan comedies and dramas and historical plays, Japanese Kabuki--theatrical
entertainment and art has been around for centuries. It is a product of
imagination.
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about theatre.
Places To Go | People
To See | Things To Do | Teacher
Resources | Bibliography
Places To Go
The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out
about theatre.
 Vintage
Ragtime and Vaudeville Show
Travel back in time to a vaudeville show. Find out about the history of
vaudeville, why it was so popular, and what brought about its demise.
You can hear some old recordings of vaudeville performers and there's
even a video taken from an old recording.
Eugene O'Neill National
Historic Site
Visit the home of the playwrite who wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night,
The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms, A Moon for the Misbegotten,
and Mourning Becomes Electra.
Playbill
Online
Virtually travel to Broadway and to find out about the latest hit plays.
Drama
Teacher Resource Room
Travel to this resource room to find
lesson plans, articles, and other resources for drama teachers.
People To See
William Shakespeare
Spend some time with William Shakespeare. This site has a fun section
called Magnetic Poetry where you get to rearrange Shakespeare's words.
Greek
Plays and Playwrights
Learn more about the ancient roots of modern theatrical pursuits.
Tony Awards
Spend some time with the Tony Award winners.
Noel Coward
101
Make the acquaintance of Noel Coward
who wrote plays for more than 60 years.
Vaudeville
Meet the old time stars of vaudeville.
Helen Hayes
Remember Helen Hayes. She is often referred to
as The First Lady of American Theatre.
Andrew
Lloyd Weber
Evita. Phantom of the
Opera. Cats. Sunset Boulevard. Starlight Express . Get to know Andrew
Lloyd Weber through his lavish musicals.
Gilbert
and Sullivan Archives
Meet William S. Gilbert and Arthur S.
Sullivan. Gilbert wrote the words and Sullivan wrote the music for their
numerous operettas.
Time
100: Rodgers and Hammerstein
Spend
time with composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein and
learn about their contributions to musical theatre.
Henrik
Ibsen
Meet Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright
and explore the secrets behind his symbolic plays.
PBS:Arthur
Miller
Get to know
the author of the play, Death of a Salesman.
Moliere
Meet Jean Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere, the 17 th century French playwright.
e-Oneill.com
Get to know Eugene O’Neill and his plays about “tormented
families and people torn between wealth and noble ideals.”
Cole Porter
Meet Cole Porter. His popular musicals became
a staple of Broadway.
Neil
Simon
Learn about Neil Simon, the prolific
American comedic playwright.
Aeschylus
Meet Aeschylus. He is the
Father of Greek tragedy. He wrote Prometheus
Bound, Agamemnon, Eumenides, and The Libation Bearers.
James
Barrie
Get acquainted with J.M.
Barrie. He is famous for his play, Peter
Pan.
Stephen Sondheim
Sing along with Stephen Sondheim and his popular
Broadway musicals. As a young man, he studied with Oscar Hammerstein.
Tennessee
Williams
Meet
Tennessee Williams. He wrote more than 60 plays, and all of them are set
in the South.
Things To Do
 Kabuki
for Everyone
Learn about this traditional form of Japanese drama.
Pulitzer
Prize
Find out who has won this annual award since 1917.
National Standards
for Theatre Education
From the menu, choose "Lesson Plans" to find links to lesson by grade
level or choose "Theatre Games" for ideas and activiteis to use with students
in drama classes.
Japanese
Noh Theatre
Learn about Japanese Noh theatre. These plays are formal dance dramas
and often have ghosts in them! Some Noh performances can last as long
as 10 hours.
Theatre
History on the Web
Locate information about
classical theatre, medieval and renaissance theatre, Elizabethan theatre,
17 th, 18 th, and 19 th century theatre, and contemporary theatre.
EServer Drama Collection
Browse through this collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism,
and links to other sites concerned with theatre.
ScriptCrawler
Use Scriptcrawler to search for thousands
of screenplays, teleplays, radio scripts, and stage plays.
Theatricopia
Explore this information
on musical theatre.
Playwrights
on the Web
Browse through dozens of links to
prominent playwrights.
Teacher Resources
Online activities are a listing of internet
sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one.
(You can learn how to use this WWW
Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Virtual Field Trips are teacher and student-created
tours of curricular topics. (You can learn how to use this UEN Virtual
Field Trip tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Lesson Plans/WebQuests
Bibliography
- Bolton, Reg. Showtime! : Over 75 Ways to Put on a Show. New York :
DK Pub., c1998.
- Manning, Mick. Drama School. New York : Kingfisher, c1999.
- Muir, Kerry. Child's Play. New York : Limelight Editions, 1995.
- Wood, David. Theatre for Children : Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing,
and Acting. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c1999.
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