Arts and Entertainment

[Art][Events][Movies][Music][Theater][Other Entertainment]

Art
300 Important Women Artists: Medieval to Modern
Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall -- Information about graffiti.
Art History Resources on the Web
Artchive -- Includes CD-ROM reviews, theory and criticism, links to galleries, and an archive of art.
Artcyclopedia -- Guide to museum-quality art on the Internet.
ArtLex - Art dictionary
AskART -- American artists bluebook. Information on more than 35,000 American artists.
Digital Archive of Art -- Online images from Boston College.
ImageBase
Internet ArtResources -- Searchable database of information on the visual arts. Includes galleries, artists, art publications, art shows, fairs, and art schools.
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
MUSEE -- Interactive directory to museums' collections.
MuseumSpot -- Guide to museums on the Web.
MuseumStuff -- Includes a list of museums by state.
National Gallery of Art - The Collection -- Data on all of the more than 100,000 objects in the National Gallery of Art's collection.
Timeline of Art History -- Covers prehistory to present day.
Timelines of Art History
Worldwide Art Resources

Events
Arts and Crafts Show Listings
California Festivals
Fairs Net -- Guide to North American fairs.
Festival Finder -- Details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America.
Festivals -- Database of over 33,000 events worldwide.
Festival USA
Find a Fair -- Provided by the International Association of Fairs and Expositions.
Ticketmaster Events -- Dates and Locations for concerts and other activities.
Trade Show News Network -- Locate trade shows, exhibitors, and suppliers.

Movies
All-Movie Guide -- Film and video database.
American Film Institute's Movie List -- Movies judged on critical recognition, popularity over time, historical significance, cultural impact, and major award winners. Registration required.
Box Office Guru -- Contains comprehensive box office data on over 3,000 films released since 1989. Information from Variety. Includes opening and closing dates as well as gross statistics.
Drew's Scripts-O-Rama Index -- Search for film scripts on the Internet.
Film Festivals
Glossary of Film Terms
The Great MGM Musicals -- A chronical listing of every MGM musical from 1929 to the present.
Greatest Films -- Lists of top movies in numerous categories from the Online Film Critic Society.
IMDb - Internet Movie Database -- Comprehensive source of movie and tv information.
Kids-in-Mind -- Viewers rate movies for sex, violence and profanity.
Movie Rating Search -- Movies rated since 1968.
Movie Review Query Engine -- Entries are reviews posted to rec.arts.movies.reviews and other Internet sources.
On Video: Guide to Home Video Releases -- Schedules and reviews for new home video releases.
Oscar Awards
RaveReviews -- The site for movie tie-ins; books, music, software, etc.
Roger Ebert Movie Reviews -- Reviews dating back to 1985.
U.S. National Film Registry -- Titles -- Films selected as being culturally, historically, or esthetically important.

Music
8Notes.com -- Over 1500 free sheet music pieces and riffs.
All-Music Guide -- Search by album title, artist, song title, and music styles.
AllRecordLabels -- Comprehensive listing of record labels worldwide.
Andante - Reference -- Classical music references.
Aria Database -- Searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type. Includes a database of all characters from the operas included.
ASCAP's ACE on the Web -- Information on all compositions licensed by ASCAP can be searched by titles, writers, performers and publishers.
Bigbands Database Plus -- Dedicated to bands, to jazz, to swing history, and to the "American Popular Song".
Billboard Music Charts
BMI Hyper Repertoire Internet Song Title Database -- Song title registration information contained in the BMI repertoire.
CD Universe -- Search by artist, album title or song title. Includes charts of new releases and classical music search.
CDnow -- Commercial site with a large inventory. Search for artist, album, song or record label.
Classical Music Navigator -- Provides information on important classical composers and their works.
Classical Music Pages -- Includes history, biographical information about composers, explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. The information is from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.
Classical USA
Classics from the Silver Screen -- Index of classical and opera music which have appeared in feature films.
Classics Today -- Search reviews of classical music.
Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
Essentials of Music -- Basic information about classical music.
Gold and Platinum Database -- Database of gold, platinum, multi-platinum, and diamond record sales awards provided by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Gracenote: CDDB Database of Title, Track, and Song Information -- Claims to be the largest database for CD information on the Internet.
Grammy Awards -- All Grammy winners (1958-present).
H&B Recordings Direct -- Large database of classical and popular CDs.
Historic American Sheet Music -- Provides digital images of American sheet music published between 1850 and 1920.
History in Song
Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music From Back Roads to Big City
Indiana University Sheet Music Collection
Instrument Encyclopedia
Jazz: A history of America's Music -- From PBS.
Lyrics
Lyrics World Top 40 Hits of 1930 - 1999
Mojam -- Large listing of live music worldwide. Search by performer, city, venue, or event.
Music Database -- Includes a listing of the song tracks on albums. Search by album, artist, song title, style, language, and country.
The Musicals Home Page -- Information about musicals includes lyrics, commentaries, and links to homepages.
Operabase -- Includes opera schedules, opera houses, opera festivals, opera reviews, opera links, etc.
OperaGlass
Operissimo -- Information about the world of opera.
Pollstar -- Information about concert tours.
Sheet Music Collections -- Directory of sheet music with public access (either through a web page or online catalog).
Women Composers
World War I Sheet Music

Theater
American Theater Web -- Resource of over 1,500 theaters in the United States.
American Variety Stage -- Multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings.
Baker's Plays -- Catalog of plays.
Broadway.com -- Theatre resource.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. -- Catalog of over 2,000 plays.
English Server Drama Collection -- Access to original plays and screenplays.
Inter-Play -- On-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals.
Internet Broadway Database -- A comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway.
LAPL's Play File -- Index to plays which remain unpublished or have only been published in periodicals.
Medieval Drama Links
MGPL Webrary Play Index -- Index to books in the Morton Grove Public Library containing two or more plays.
Official London Theatre Guide
Playbill On-line -- Detailed information about theatre productions.
Samuel French, Inc. -- Catalog of plays.
TheaterMania -- Information about productions in 25 locations.
Theatre History on the Web -- Links to historical information.
TheatreHistory
Vaudeville! A Dazzling Display of Heterogeneous Splendor
Virtual Vaudeville

Other Entertainment
Card Games -- A collection of rules for card games.
Circusweb: Circuses Present and Past
Episodes Guides Page -- Television shows in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Every Rule -- Covers sports, board games, card games, kids games, computer games, casino games, TV game shows, etiquette, and every other rule.
iHeard -- Search engine for Internet radio stations.
Music, Theater & Dance -- Music, theater and dance Collections from the Library of Congress.
Museums in the USA
Performing Arts in America 1875-1923
SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions -- Lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts.
TV Acres -- Information on "characters, places and things that appeared on television programs.
TV-now -- Includes "Stars on TV" search engine.
Virtual Library museums
Zap2it.com TV Resources -- U.S. television stations.

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