Performing Arts in General:
Great Performances
Special features, program companions, multimedia presentations, and more from the long-running and award-winning PBS series.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia.
Discover the performing arts treasures of the Library of Congress with finding aids, digitized items from the collection, databases, links, and special Web features.
Dance:
ABT Online Ballet Dictionary
An interactive site where you will find an introduction to the art of ballet in small video clips illustrating 170 technical terms.
Cyber Dance: Ballet on the Net
Thousands of links to ballet and modern-dance companies, schools, services, products, organizations, and other dance Web sites on a site started in 1995.
Theater:
Theatrecrafts
The aim of this site “is to eventually be the best resource for practical information and advice about technical theatre techniques for theatre folk at any level”.
TheatreHistory
Provides theatre history galore, including an online script archive, changing feature topics, articles about theater around the world, and a daily “Today in Theatre history”.
Tony Awards
Everything you ever wanted to know about the ultimate in theater accolades, including video clips from the awards show, interviews with winners, and more.
Film:
Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
A vast amount of film information that includes television movies and series, searchable by titles, keywords, characters, and more. Video clips of television programs and movie trailers are also included.
rogerebert.com
The best American film critic currently writing maintains a strong Web presence and shares his movie reviews, essays, interviews, and more.
Costumes:
The costumer's manifesto
the most useful section is history sorted by period, a massive collection of links to sites about clothes, ranging from barbarian Europe to corporate Goth.
The Costume Page
contains over 2,000 unique links for those interested in studying or making costumes.
La Couturiere Parisienne
treating period costume from the Middle Age through the early twentieth century, this site offers a database of over 4,000 images, hundreds of articles, and even some clothing patterns. This site is mostly European.
Music:
Classical Music Archives
this site claims to have the largest collection of classical music files on the Web. In addition you'll find music lessons and information about composers and artists, all to be browsed while listening to your selection.