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Websites for Theatre

General Theatre websites

• Arts Council of England
• British Council : Drama
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Live Art Development Agency - an organisation to support live art in London 
• The Space: the arts - free, live and online 
• Unbound : live art and performance publishing and distributing
• Writing encounters : 'curating the encounter between writing and performance'. A York St John University website.

Theatre archives

• The Live Art Archives
• Scottish Theatre Archive 
• Theatre Archive Project: investigates British theatre history 1945-1968
• Bristol University Theatre Collection : a major resource celebrating the UK’s unique performance heritage.
• Yorkshire Theatres Playbills and Posters : a pilot project, part of a feasibility study to look at the possibility of digitising collections of playbills and posters from Yorkshire theatres.

Theatre companies - Britain and Ireland - mainstream

England : the North

• Birmingham Repertory Theatre
• Bolton : Octagon Theatre
• Richmond, North Yorkshire : Georgian Theatre Royal 
• Hull Truck Theatre 
• Leeds : West Yorkshire Playhouse 
• Liverpool :  Everyman Playhouse
• Manchester :  Manchester Library Theatre Company
• Manchester : Royal Exchange Theatre
• Newcastle Theatre Royal
• Oldham Coliseum Theatre 
• Scarborough :  Stephen Joseph Theatre
• Sheffield Theatres : including The Crucible
• York Theatre Royal

England : the South

• Bristol Old Vic
• Donmar Warehouse
• The Globe Theatre : including the virtual tour
• National Theatre on the South Bank, London
• Royal Court in Sloane Square, London
• Royal Shakespeare Company - 'probably the most famous classical theatre company in the world'

Scotland

• Glasgow Citizens Theatre
• Traverse Theatre, in Edinburgh

Northern Ireland

• Lyric Theatre in Belfast

Wales

• Clywd Theatr Cymru

Ireland

• Abbey Theatre in Dublin - the National Theatre of Ireland

Theatre companies - Britain - experimental

• Forced Entertainment: based in Sheffield

Theatre companies - USA - experimental

• Goat Island based in Chicago
• The Wooster Group: based in New York City

Festivals

• Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• LIFT : the London International Festival of Theatre

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