Related Databases

Australian

• AustLit - the Resource for Australian Literature, providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
   
• Australia Dancing, hosted by the National Library of Australia, provides users with access to both current and historical information about dance in Australia. The primary zone, the directory of resources, describes dance research materials held by the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, and other selected institutions.
   
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online provides access to over10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.The articles are concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.
   
• AustralianPlays.org provides a one-stop shop for theatre professionals, community groups, researchers, educators, students and others with an interest in fine writing for performance. Set up by the Australian Script Centre in collaboration with PlayWriting Australia, Currency Press and Playlab Press.
   
• australianscreen - Australia's audiovisual heritage online - is a look at the Australian film and television industry, from its earliest days to the present. You can view clips from Australian feature films, documentaries, TV programs, shorts, home movies, newsreels, advertisements, other historical footage, and sponsored films produced over the last 100 years, with curators' notes and other information about each title.
   
• Circus in Australia: An Index of Show Movements, 1833-1969 [flyer] Circus, Variety, Theatrical, Musical & Allied Arts, compiled by Mark St Leon. An invaluable reference work for performing arts research, genealogy, local and economic history. Approximately 400 pages, includes searchable CD-Rom (Windows & Mac).
   
• MusicAustralia is an online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive (a division of the Australian Film Commission) and other cultural institutions across the nation. You can find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services.
   
• Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.
   
• Reviews from The Age [xls], includes title of production, venue or company, reviewer, publication and date. Contact Frank Prain at The Age on 03 9601 2806 for further information.

International

• AHDS Performing Arts (UK) collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use of digital resources to support research and teaching across the broad field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance. 

• GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.
   
• Theatre Aotearoa (NZ) is an archive of stage productions seen in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The archive is structured around productions and gives information about the script, writers, directors, cast and crew, venues, dates and much more. It is catalogued around genre, category and keywords.