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Eresources

Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design Contains original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States. These materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric.
PlayBill Vault Searchable database or view by season/year.
New York Times Theatre
OpenSource Shakespeare Archive Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind.
Shakespeare's Staging Established and funded by the Shakespeare Program of the University of California at Berkeley (originally sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UC Berkeley Administration), and has since been supported by further grants from the UC Berkeley Senate Teaching Committee and Committee on Research, and from the California Council for the Humanities.