Drama
Drama Basics and Advice - Actors, drama students, instructors, and theater lovers will find essential drama resources here. This section provide guides to auditioning, line memorization, and stage direction. English students will also find resources for studying and writing about dramatic literature. (T)
Reader's Theater Editions - Reader’s Theater Editions are free scripts for reader’s theater (or readers theatre) adapted from stories written by Aaron Shepard and others—mostly humor, fantasy, and world tales from a variety of cultures. A full range of reading levels is included, with scripts aimed mostly at ages 8–15. (M, O, T)
Reader's Theatre Basics - Reader's Theatre is a valuable tool for any classroom. It allows students to take virtually any piece of literature, analyse it and adapt it into a script. This script can then be performed with a minimum of preparation, props or scenery. This site will provide you with the knowledge, experience, resources and sources to conduct a reader’s theatre workshop in your classroom. (T)
Acting Out: Create a Play Using Sculpture - Combining appreciation for outdoor sculpture with drama (Y, M, O, T)
How to Write a Radio Play - Radio is an extraordinary medium. A radio play can travel through time and space, between centuries and continents... We asked two award-winning radio dramatists, Marcy Kahan and Mike Walker, to share their secrets and to explain what makes an effective radio play. (Note that the navigation through the information is on the right of the page) (Y, M, O, T)
Method Acting - This page will lead interested individuals to descriptions of various techniques and procedures of so-called "method" acting. (M, O, T)
Theater on a Shoestring - You might wonder if there is any content after you've drilled down through a couple of layers of navigation, but those who stick with the site to get to the content are well-rewarded with great resources for anyone in or interested in theater. (O, T)
The Costume Page - Lots of information about period costuming (M, O, T)
Teaching Shakespeare Through Exercises on Acting and on the Basic Emotions - This article describes a college Shakespeare course employing participatory methods. Students carried out a series of exercises designed to put them in touch with the basic emotions and to approach the plays in terms of those emotions. Students carried out other exercises derived from actor training--including vocal warmups and memorizing and delivering two speeches. Various experiments are described which attempted to engage students more immediately with the plays. Plays mentioned: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale. (O, T)
Radio Days: A Webquest - Back before there were televisions and computers, there was radio. Families of the 1930s and 1940s would gather around the radio and listen to their favorite programs such as Little Orphan Annie, Amos and Andy, The Guiding Light, and The Shadow. Millions of Americans tuned in daily to their favorite programs, just as today we tune in to our favorite television shows. Radio allowed the listener to create their own images of characters and settings, a luxury that we no longer have in these days of television. Take a journey back to the "Golden Age of Radio" as you learn about Radio Days. (M, O, T)
Woodland Opera House Theatre - The Woodland Opera House Theatre offers five Mainstage Productions from September to June. The theatre also has a Summer Melodrama Program, a Youth Theatre Camp in August of each year and a Young People's Theatre Program. With our School Outreach Program, the Woodland Opera House and Yolo County schools bring local classes, grades K-12, to the theatre for professional and Young People's Theatre performances. Special events and guest artists' programs are held at the Woodland Opera House throughout the year. The theatre also has numerous rental events by local organizations for the public's entertainment. (Y, M, O, T)
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George - Grade 5 (Y)