Playwriting
Resource Sites and Centers
- The Playwriting Seminars - according to the site's self-description, this is "a professional manual of the playwright's craft, with an inevitable excursion into film"
- Plays for Today - extracts and details of contemporary published stage plays and screenplays by awarding-winning playwright; includes links to various screenplay- and drama-oriented sites
- Screenwriters/Playwrights Page - a playwriting and screenwriting page that is no longer on the web, but available for download
Publications
- The Drama Review - quarterly drama journal from MIT Press
- Poets & Writers Magazine Online
Scripts
- Playmarket - database of New Zealand plays & playwrights, with scripts and performing arts information
- The Dramatic Exchange - dedicated to archiving and distributing scripts.A place for playwrights to "publish" and distribute their plays, for producers to find new plays, and for anyone who is interested in drama to browse
Unions and Organizations
- New Dramatists - an organization for American playwrights
- The Playwrights Forum - educational organization devoted to the development of playwrights, based in Washington, DC
- International Centre for Women Playwrights - encouraging production of plays by women, bringing international attention to their achievements and providing tools to develop their craft
Contacts and Communities
- Playwrights on the Web
- Playwrights Cafe - San Francisco Bay Area play writing group. Site includes writing exercises, playwriting discussion forums, information about meetings, links, and Play of the Month
- Playwrights' Directory - directory of playwrights' centers in Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Minneapolis
Theatre Companies
- The New Jersey Repertory Company - nonprofit professional theater presenting infrequently performed classical and modern plays, with a special commitment to works of minority playwrights
- Roundabout Theatre Company - produces classic and new dramas by established playwrights
- Stage 3 Theatre Company - non-profit company producing a season of six plays by contemporary and emerging playwrights
- Victory Gardens Theater - not-for-profit professional developmental theater dedicated to playwrights and their works
- Wings Theatre - Off-off Broadway theatre producing year-round season comprised exclusively of new plays and musicals by American playwrights and composers