Virtual Theatre Activities
Learning from home? Miss performing? Take the initiative to create theatre at home!
In the mood to read a play or create a performance in your own home? Follow these links for a complete list of entire plays you can read and perform online!
The Internet Archive has provided thousands of plays available to you to borrow digitally! Just create a FREE account and you have access to all their digital resources including this list of plays:
https://openlibrary.org/subjects/plays#sort
https://openlibrary.org/subjects/plays#sort
Still not enough for you? Here is an exhaustive list of resources, compiled by theatre professional, Krista Carson Elhai. Enjoy!
| 10 Things Student Actors Can Do During the School Closure | ||
| Online Teaching Resources for Theatre Design & Technology | ||
| Digital Theatre Plus-Username dtremote PW dtremote | ||
| 15 Musicals & Plays to watch online for free | ||
| Broadway Book Musicals-Crash Course Theatre | ||
| Broadway Seriously-Crash Course Theatre | ||
| Artists in a Time of a Global Pandemic | ||
| Careers.Broadway | ||
| Laura Benanti Twitter Challenge | ||
| Online lessons/podcasts/websites/shows | ||
| Jennifer Tepper calls for musical theatre performers | ||
| New Victory Arts Break | ||
| 12 Ways to Stream the Stage | ||
| Live theatre broadcasts on TV and at movie theatres | ||
| PBS Theatre recordings | ||
| 6 podcasts for Theatre Buffs | ||
| Sound, Scenic, Production resources | ||
| USITT Costume Archives | ||
| Imagineering in a box | ||
| Streaming Shakespeare plays | ||
| Daily theatre classes from Broadway Dreams via Zoom | ||
| Center Theatre Group College Faire March 21 | ||
| Online resources from Florida Thespians | ||
| National Theatre videos | ||
| Theatre lesson plans | ||
| YouTube interviews with directors | ||
| THEATERish resources | ||
| How to Make an Awesome Self Tape | ||
| Ballet to Broadway series | ||
| Develop a one minute monologue (or several) for audition puposes | ||
| Watch You Tube Videos of Uta Hagen's acting class and try an individual exercise | ||
| Explore theatre design | ||
| Self teach a unit in set design | ||
| Expore sound design | ||
| Review or learn about various moments/movements in theatre history | ||
| Prepare a college/university virtual audition and load it to Acceptd.com | ||
| Explore Viola Spolin's Improv games and play some with a family member | ||
| Write a ten minute play | ||
| Who's Who In Theatre- Learn the different jobs in theatre | ||
| 15 minute Broadway Workout | ||
| Virtual Theater Design (use code: OnlineTeaching) | ||
| Theatre Publicity-4 Day Unit | ||
| Lighting: Learn how to program on an ETC EOS/ION lighting console at home! | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-Ao0hIFwH_PrkRb377QGvAz3rfIj6me | Advanced |
| Free ETC EOS console software (PC) | ||
| Free ETC EOS console software (Mac) | ||
| Meisner Method Master Class (live streaming workshop) | ||
| Tour 11 Famous Theaters Across the World | ||
| Sound and Foley Design and in Film | ||
| Learn about the history of Broadway musicals | ||
| Introduction to projections and digital media in theatre design | ||
| Gyre and Gimble- Puppetry (National Theatre) How to make a puppet | ||
| Gyre and Gimble- Puppetry (National Theatre) Bringing a puppet to life | ||
| Gyre and Gimble- Puppetry (National Theatre) Storytelling with puppets | ||
| A variety of Ted talks for all arts | ||
| Tony awards links on YouTube: watch numbers from amazing musicals! | ||
| Theatre documentaries and creative videos | ||
| TedX Talk Demonstration: What is Theatre Capable Of? | ||
| Musical review | ||
| Writing Scripts from News Stories | ||
| Acting Theory Articles from the International Thespian Society-select any article and improve acting skills | ||
| History of Acting! Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of The Group Theatre, from "American Masters" | ||
| BalletNovaCenterForDance offers free live streamed ballet class! | ||
| Technology in Arts Management | ||
| Working in the Theatre, American Theare Wing video collection | ||
| Directing a Shakespeare Scene with Intentions | ||
| Theatre vocab practice using cross words and word finders. | ||
| Adapt a Fairy Tale and add a twist by including a social issue | ||
| Additional website for adapting fairy tales | ||
| Making a Greek mask | ||
| Stars in the House-daily concerts from Broadway performers | ||
| AATE Resources for Teaching Online | ||
| Teaching Artists Guild resources for teaching online | ||
| Educational Resources for Home Learning | ||
| Sparkfile podcast | ||
| Cirque de Soleil-IRIS full production | ||
| How to Art if you've never arted before | ||
| StoryCorp-recordings of inspirational stories from around the globe | ||
| Arts programming online | ||
| Free online acting classes_begins 3/27/20 | ||
| Theatre lessons for all age groups | ||
| Institute for Social & Emotional Learning | ||
| Live Facebook chats with Broadway theatre makers | ||
| 54 Below live-stream of concerts by BW performers | ||
| Teaching Theatre online resources | ||
| Let's Make a Musical Podcast | ||
| San Diego USD Theatre resources-updated regularly | ||
| Free books and plays | ||
| Six tips for Acccent work | ||
| Jim Henson video on how to make a puppet | ||
| History of Theatre Timeline | ||
| Broadway or Bust-Follwing musical theatre students to the Nat'l HS Musical Thatre Awards | ||
| Black Box Theatre resources | ||
| Bippity Boppity Boo Transformation Challenge | ||
| Wheel to Decide-musicals | ||
| Free musical theatre classes-sign up required | ||
| Live Theatre | ||
| Career & Technical Education resources (CTE) | ||
| Disney Cruise line production of Beauty & the Beast | ||
| Disney Cruise line production of Tangled | ||
| I Heart Radio Broadway content | ||
| Daily 8 Count | ||
| Misc ideas for keeping students engaged remotely | ||
| Californians for the Arts resources-Federal, State, Local news | ||
| Live-streamed performances from The Public NYC | ||
| Ballet, dance, workout classes online | ||
| Howlround-Teaching during a Pandemic | ||
| Palace of Versaille virtual tour | ||
| 70 short films from cancelled SXSW festival | ||
| National Emergency Library-1.4 million books available | ||
| 75+VAPA resources k-12 | ||
| Lincoln Center Pop up classes | ||
| Working in the Theatre-Special Props | ||
| 118 Must Watch Documentatires for Broadway musical fans | ||
| Making it rain on stage | ||
| Cirque de Soleil videos | ||
| SDSU Digital Conversations with Musical Theatre professionals | ||
| Scenic & Lighting Design resources | ||
| iTheatrics JTF Fridays with musical theatre guests | ||
| CREATE CA resources in all areas of VAPA | ||
| Six full length live theatre shows-Red, Much Ado, Present Laughter-and more | ||
| Resources from The Old Globe, San Diego | ||
| Theatre Squared online classes/videos | ||
| Cult of Pedagogy resources for teaching distance learning | ||
| TED-Ed VAPA lessons | ||
| The Virtual Theatre-design your own stage | ||
| Kennedy Center-Theatre lessons | ||
| Theatrefolk-Distance Learning for Technical Theatre | ||
| Creative Drama-resources for teaching theatre online | ||
| Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM | ||
| Broadway Dreams-daily classes and workshops | ||
| Ballet classes on Instagram | ||
| Arts Education Partnership resources-mostly organization related | ||
| COVID-19 resources for VAPA | ||
| The Show Must Go On-theatre performances | ||
| Broadway.Com livestreams | ||
| UCLArts & Healing series-healing through the Arts | ||
| Open Culture-online classes k-12 | ||
| Theatre 101 course | ||
| History of Padua Hills Theatre in Claremont | ||
| Margolis Method Actor Training | ||
| Artist in Residence assignment | ||
| The make up of Moulin Rouge the musical | ||
| Arts resources | ||
| Travis Wall Virtual Dance convention | ||
| Fosse dance videos on YouTube | ||
| Teaching Drama Online | ||
| Accent Study Guides-Adam Michael Rose | ||
| Disney Curriculum | ||
| Hamilton Education Program | ||
| Mehron make demos | ||
| Colorado Dept of Ed resources | ||
| Abbey Theatre's Dear Ireland-conversations with artists | ||
| August Wilson Century Cycle-voice recordings | ||
| Mehron tutorial-Aging Made Easy | ||
| Disney Lion King, Aladdin, Frozen resources |
Theatrefolk theatre activities https://www.theatrefolk.com/distance-learning?page=exercises
Projects with Jason https://projectswithjason.com/past-shows/