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| | The American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) is the national voice of community theatre. AACT represents the interests of more than 7,000 theatres across the United States and its territories, as well as theatre companies with the armed forces overseas.
This includes: Nearly 1 million volunteers A combined annual budget of well over $60 million More than 45,000 productions per year More than 375,000 performances per year Entertaining a total audience of 7.5 million people Providing educational and community outreach programs for children, seniors, and underserved populations. AACT is the steward of the national adjudicated festival for community theatres, held every two years. This festival, in which representatives from AACT's 10 regions perform before a panel of adjudicators, results in awards of excellence, and invitations for participants to perform at theatre festivals in other parts of the world. AACT is the central resource for theatre information and resources, connecting not only members in an information network, but providing data and information to non-members, businesses, other arts and not-for-profit organizations, and the media, as well as to members of local, state and federal governments. Each year AACT provides more than 1500 members with publications, a members-only website, e-mail discussion group, specialized expertise, a detailed database of company and production data, workshops, and discounts on theater-related products and services. | |
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| | The principal objectives of LORT are:
- To promote the general welfare of resident theatres in the United States and its territories;
- To promote community interest in and support of resident theatres;
- To encourage and promote sound communications and relations between and among resident theatres in the United States and between resident theatres and the public;
- To afford resident theatres an opportunity to act for their common purpose and interest;
- To act in the interest and on behalf of its members in labor relations and related matters:
- To serve as bargaining agent for its members in bargaining collectively with unions representing employees of its members;
- To establish and maintain stable and equitable labor relations between its members and unions representing employees of its members;
- To provide guidance and assistance to its members in administering collective bargaining agreements; If requested by a member, to handle disputes between members and their employees and/or union representatives; and
- To represent its members before government agencies on problems of labor relations.
- To carry on all lawful activities which may directly or indirectly contribute to the accomplishment of such purposes; and
- To communicate with the Federal Government through the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Arts Alliance and to keep those agencies apprised of the needs and status of its membership.
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| | NDTA is an organization created in 1978 to unify dinner theatres across the country and provide them the opportunity to gain new perspectives toward the industry. Members represent the finest professional dinner theatres in the United States. The NDTA holds auditions nationally.
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| | Click on title to visit the National Endowment for the Arts site, the federal agency that funds the arts. | |
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| | The Dramatists Guild of America is the only professional association for playwrights, composers, and lyricists. Membership is open to all dramatic writers, regardless of their production history. Learn more about the Guild, and how you can join over 6,000 members spanning around the globe. | |
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| | Click on title to link to the Theatre Communication Group, publishers of American Theatre Magazine. This site has an excellent "links" page, listing all national and global theatre related organizations including Guilds, Unions and Associrations. | |
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| | USITT keeps thousands of performing arts professionals in touch with today's rapidly changing scene. Our members comprise: technical directors, sound, set, costume, make-up, properties and special effects crafts people, stage managers, architects, lighting designers and technicians, production managers, stage managers, allied distributors, manufacturers and suppliers and academic staff and students. | |
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| | Why a magazine about the “culture of acting?” And why this moment in time? If you're reading this, then you know that there are some wonderful magazines out there that focus on the world of entertainment. But most of these magazines seem to truck in the whole of the theatrical world (writing, administration, directing, acting), posting ads for auditions, or speaking primarily to an academic audience. Similarly, some publications focus solely on the “two coasts” or take up most of their space dealing with gossip and box office. We respect all of these ambitions, but thought it was time for a magazine that dealt solely with the art and craft of acting.
The Culture of Acting.
We looked around and realized that there are talented actors all over the nation. We want to create a place where these men and women can go to discuss the craft in a competition-free atmosphere. A place to dig into the terms, theories, ideas, practices, pitfalls, tips, methods, new works, toils, and successes of a life in acting.
Look, we’re realistic. We know that the acting business has, at it’s root, COMPETITION. We know that there are many more actors than there seem to be jobs, especially paying jobs. With this as a given, we feel no need to dwell on this fact or to fan the flames of the “beat your colleague” mentality that sometimes makes us all feel as if we have to fake it, look over our shoulders, intimidate, or feel intimidated. Instead, we hope to create a SAFE PLACE where actors can go to engage in discussion and soak up additional education. A place to share, not horde, this art.
ACTING NOW will begin as a free, on-line quarterly with plans to expand. However, we can't expand without you. We need your feedback, we need your contributions, and we need you to spread the word. We need you to reach out to other readers who, like yourself, want in-depth articles on process, not superficial sound bites. Who want to hear from all voices of the acting community, not just the privileged few. Who want laser-like focus on the craft and culture of acting, with no distractions.
We thank you for reading – and participating in – ACTING NOW. This magazine is for you. And for all of us who share this passion. | |
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| | The AmericanTheater Web website includes a database of over 3,000 theaters and over 7,000 productions. Other main areas of the site include:
*Headlines - daily clippings from papers throughout the country
*Announcements - view and post announcements about the theater throughout the U.S. *Community - Develop a web site for your theater, learn how to enhance your theater's presence on AmericanTheater Web, join our mailing lists, or take part in discussions using our Callboards and chat rooms.
*Interactive - Submit your theater's site for listing, update your theater's listing, submit comments to AmericanTheater Web, contact ATW with comments and more. | |
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| | ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.
Direct links to the most interesting or important stories are posted every weekday beginning at 5 AM PT on the ArtsJournal news pages. Stories from sites that charge for access are excluded.
Arts Journal's editor-in-chief is Douglas McLennan, formerly an arts columnist and arts reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Weekly. In March, 2001, Jack Miles, currently senior advisor to the president at the J. Paul Getty Trust, formerly book editor at the Los Angeles Times, and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, joined ArtsJournal as senior editor.
Contributing editor Sam Bergman, a violist with the Minnesota Orchestra, has assisted in gathering news and preparing the site's daily editions since February 2001. He is also the editor of Senza Sordino, the newsletter of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, and a member of ICSOM's governing board. Adam Gottlieb, of the California Arts Council, is a contributor to ArtsJournal.
Arts Journal also publishes daily and weekly e-mail digests of our online content in both free and premium versions. To subscribe, visiti our website for more information. | |
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| | CultureFinder is your nationwide arts directory and event newsletters. Here you'll find contact information for over 3,000 arts organizations in 1,000 cities and towns across the country. Search for specific organizations and venues or browse by city.
Sign up for our bi-weekly newsletters and receive event information and special offers for arts events in your city! From opera to art, ballet to Broadway, we hope you'll use CultureFinder as your source for nationwide arts and culture information.
Arts Administrators...
Share your organization's information with our arts-hungry viewers. Find out more about listing on CultureFinder.
If you want to reach the CultureFinder audience, find out how to advertise on CultureFinder.
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| | Curtain Rising! is dedicated to the goal of maintaining its position as the premier site for links to live theatre. | |
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| | Click on title for complete news about Broadway shows in New York and on tour. | |
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| | New York theatre news, reviews and production listings with links to ticketing services. Connecting real audiences to real theatre in a virtual world. | |
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| | The Off Broadway Online website, the official website of Off Broadway, is presented by the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).
Off Broadway is the country's most artistically influential and culturally diverse theatre community and on any given day you can find literally dozens of productions playing throughout the City. There are performances happening in every neighborhood in every style for every taste and budget. Even we admit all this variety can be a little overwhelming. As a result, we have designed Off Broadway Online so that, in a matter of moments, you can find exactly what you want.
At Off Broadway Online, we assume that you know what you want, so rather than organizing the site so its easy for us, we've organized it so you can find the information that matters to you the most. For example, if you want to see what's playing in your neighborhood, or if a company is doing a play by your favorite author, use the "List by" to get a list of companies which meet the one criteria that is most important to you.
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| | Huge website including information about US and international theater listings, celebrities, quizzes, travel packages and ticketing. | |
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| | Since 1916, The Drama League has been a second home for those who love American theatre. Founded as an association of theatre professionals and patrons dedicated to encouraging the finest in professional theatre, The Drama League soon found another role -- as a service organization for theatre lovers interested in enhancing their understanding and experience of live theatre.
In this new century, the benefits enjoyed by our members include discounted tickets for the best Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional productions across the United States; informative panels, luncheons and discussions with leading figures in the theatre; gala events saluting theatre luminaries; our Annual Awards honoring the New York season's outstanding performers and productions, and much more.
Member dues and purchases fund new initiatives for young artists through The Drama League Directors Project, encouraging and training young talents while providing much-needed exposure and essential connections to the professional theatrical community.
"The Drama League plays an increasingly significant role on the national theatre scene," says Lincoln Center Theatre Artistic Director Andre Bishop. That role, to intimately connect audiences to this most engaging of art forms, is enjoyed by over 2,000 members across the United States and in Europe. Producer Robert Whitehead remarked that "The Drama League has always played a role in making people conscious of theatre...of letting them know that theatre -- good theatre -- can help illuminate the world for us."
If you love the theatre, consider joining The Drama League -- become a vital part of the national theatre scene, support young artists, and enrich your life. There are a number of membership levels to fit any lifestyle.
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| | American Theatre: Create, Produce, Promote [tm]. Sounds simple, doesn't it? But anybody associated with theatre knows that those three words can last literally a lifetime in the eyes of a producer, playwright or director.
Our goal at TheatreUSA.com is simple. We intend to provide a comprehensive online resource for the core of theatre arts and we will focus on three things
- Create in Writing: A playwright's dream. A listing of playwrights, organizations, resources, and education opportunities for both aspiring and accomplished playwrights.
- Produce on Stage: A stage manager's haven. All aspects of stage production, including light and sound resources, costuming, assocations and trade groups and more for both for-profit and non-profit theatre productions.
- Promote in Theatres: An theatre patron's paradise. Already over 1,000 listings of community, for-profit, and non-profit theatre listings are present, sorted by state.
We are just getting started and already we have over 1,100 Links in 62 different categories. Bear with us as we fine tune the site and make this the premier Theatre Site on the internet. | |
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| | Click on the title to view the official website of the Tony Awards. | |
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| | Click on the title to access the Actors Equity Association home page. Equity is the stage actor's union. | |
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| | Click on the title to access the home page for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union for television and radio artists. | |
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| | | Click on the title to link to the Denver Theatrical Stage, Film, and Exhibition Employees Union #7 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its’ Territories, and Canada. | |
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| | Click on the title to link to the national site for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its’ Territories, and Canada. | |
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| | Click on the title to access the home page of the Screen Actors Guild, the film actor's union. | |
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| | Click on title to visit the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, the US theatre teachers organization. | |
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| | Click on the title to link to the Web site for The United States Center for the International Association of Theater for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ/USA). This site is a resource for our member theaters and playwrights, as well as for anyone needing information about theater for young audiences. Here you will find a directory of theaters, the latest news from our member theaters, information about upcoming events, and links to theater publications and members' Web sites.
ASSITEJ/USA is a non-profit, tax exempt corporation founded in 1965. It is the only theater organization in the United States which has the development of professional theater for young audiences and international exchange as its primary mandate.
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| | The Colorado Alliance for Arts Education (CAAE) has created an avenue of communication to keep constituents informed regarding the arts, education and funding issues as they relate to Colorado's schools. In hopes of reinforcing Colorado's informational network and expanding arts education advocacy at a pivotal time in Colorado, "@rtsE, Arts Education On-line" will inform constituents in a timely manner about important education issues facing the Governor, Legislature and State School Board. | |
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| | The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is the administrative arm of the Colorado State Board of Education. With an organizational commitment to high standards, tough assessments, and rigorous accountability measures, CDE serves the preK-12 public education, adult literacy and library communities of Colorado. | |
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| | Click on title to read the Colorado model content standards for theatre instruction in Colorado schools. | |
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| | Click on title to visit the website for the Colorado State Thespian Society. Thespains is the high school honor society for drama. Included on this site is information about high school theatre productions throughout Colorado. | |
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