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With a ten year history, the website has "grown into a premier destination where aspiring and veteran thespians from all over the world come to learn and grow." This site also includes monologues of all types that can be used for auditions.

"For more than 50 years, Backstage has been the most trusted place for actors to find career advice and casting information."

Lance Carter (a working L.A. actor)'s site is full of acting advice and interviews with "actors, directors, screenwriters, [and] casting directors...."

The "NYCDA has compiled a host of information and tips on the ins and outs of acting and the business."

Louis E. Catron (a Professor of Threatre)'s site offers a wealth of practical information to novice thespians everywhere.

Free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings.

Accents and dialects

"The World's Greatest Museum of Art and Design". Collection overviews with photographs and featured articles accompanying each subject provide excellent resources for research.

"With over 50,000 costumes and textile artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present, the Chicago History Museum Costume Collection is the second largest in the world and one of the nation’s most complete repositories..." Offers digital collection of images for browsing online.

This website presents online, the entire "500 costume designs" from the book, The History of Costume ("printed from 1861 to 1880"), which has been translated into English from its original German. "These...[designs] consist...of historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century" and "provide a source for researching plays which take place during the Victorian period, such as 'The King and I' or 'The Sea Gull'."

"The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than thirty-five thousand costumes and accessories, representing five continents and seven centuries of fashionable dress, regional costumes, and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present." Offers digital collection of images for browsing online.

Presented by Special Collections at the University of Calgary, this collection features a selection of designs dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. Offers digital collection of images for browsing online.

Tulane University’s Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) preserves possibly the largest collection of New Orleans Carnival paper and ephemera, such as invitations, dance cards, call out cards, printed float plates and bulletins, and original float and costume designs.