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UK Theatre Web - Information on performing arts covering both both amateur and professional activities. What's on, notices, newsfeeds and reviews.

TheatreNet.com - Theatre news and gossip, directory of links and special offers for club members..

Theatrical Management Association (TMA) - Industry body and main support network for theatre managers in the UK. Members include repertory, producing theatres, arts centres and touring venues.

Dramaonline - On-line version of Drama Magazine, the journal of National Drama UK. Details of subscription fees, articles, links and contact details.

The James Topping Drama Fund - Site created by a young British actor with information on fundraising and drama training in the UK, based on his own experience.

theatredigz.com - Aimed at touring professionals within the entertainment industry: local information, maps and pictures of properties.

Maxidram - Runs audition workshops throughout the UK: information, profile, FAQ and contact details.

Pope, Michael - Actor/theatre director. Includes credits, photos, voice demos and contact details.

Theatre/Sylvia Milne - Links to sites about theatres and drama.

Encore Theatre Magazine - A weekly online commentary and information resource on the rights and wrongs of British Theatre.

British Touring Shakespeare Company - Professional touring summer Shakespeare company, playing in repertory at English country houses.

Stratfordians: A Dictionary of the RSC - A dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including entries on actors, directors, designers, plays and theatres. With alphabetical and category index.

Playbills from Edinburgh?s Theatre Royal - A database of 240 playbills, which were used to advertise performances and events at the start of the 19th century. From the collection of the National Library of Scotland.

Stage Beauty - Edwardian stage and music hall. Theatres, plays, programmes and a gallery of the female stage stars.

Laurence Olivier Awards - Awards presented each year by the Society of London Theatre. Background information, nominations plus winners and nominees for every year of the awards.

Dramaturgs Network - Promoting dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg in British Theatre. Offers a forum for debate, exchange of knowledge, and ideas for working dramaturgs, including literary and production.

Michael Chekhov Centre UK - Charitable organisation which runs courses and forums for UK based Chekhov theatre groups. Including forums, photos and movies.

Stamford Theatre Photography - A gallery of production photographs from theatre performances in Stamford. Includes Shakespeare, costume drama and restoration comedy.

Fringe Report - Awards, reports, articles, reviews and how to do a show at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The British Theatre Guide - News, reviews, interviews and feature articles on all aspects of theatre including amateur, student, youth, London and regional shows.

The Society for Theatre Research - For all those interested in the history and technique of the British theatre. Information on publications, lectures, journal, annual festival, research grants and resources.

Earl Carpenter Concerts Ltd - Production company established to produce concert presentations within the musical theatre industry. Details of current and past shows, team members and booking information.

The Grace Project - Performing arts school with classes in voice, speech, movement, singing and poetry. Details of fees, courses and the faculty.

AmaDrama - Resource and information for anyone interested in Amateur Dramatics. Offering free services for Am Dram Groups.

Robert Gooch - Specialist performing arts photographer with a theatrical lighting background. Portfolio and commissioning details.

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These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Theatre When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Theatre There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Theatre Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Theatre blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." 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Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Theatre He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Theatre Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Theatre Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Theatre "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. 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