The "History of Australian Theatre Archive" (HAT) is a non profit website that aims to encourage the study of Australian Theatre History. It has a large database of people associated with Australian theatre history, articles about theatre history, short biographies from the newspapers, autographs , historic pictures of theatres and performers and links to other websites. It also has information about Houdini's Tour of Australia and a section on Australian Magic History.

http://www.hat-archive.com/

The site includes many images of theatre buildings:
http://www.hat-archive.com/theatres.htm

The spectacular "donation" of 100,000 images by the German National Archives (Bundesarchiv) includes hundreds of theatre exteriors and interiors, mostly from the former GDR, but also from the old West.


Photo: Müller, CC-BY-SA (Source)

Some examples:

• Admiralspalast Berlin
• Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin
• Kino International Berlin (and more)
• Komische Oper Berlin
• Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin
• Palast der Republik Berlin
• Schillertheater Berlin
• Staatsoper Berlin
• Theater der Freundschaft Berlin
• Opernhaus Chemnitz
• Staatstheater Cottbus
• Anhaltisches Theater Dessau
• Kulturpalast Dresden
• Semperoper Dresden
• Opernhaus Halle
• Staatsoper Hamburg
• Neues Gewandhaus Leipzig
• Opernhaus Leipzig
• Schauspielhaus Leipzig
• Theater Magdeburg
• Stadttheater Meißen
• Schauspielhaus Potsdam

East London Theatre Archive
http://www.elta-project.org/home.html

Old Theatres
http://www.oldtheatres.co.uk/
advertising a new book on theatres in the Midlands as well as a new magazine "Old Theatres", Britain's first magazine for theatre enthusiasts

Carthalia featured in The Collector's Weekly Hall of Fame:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/hall-of-fame/view/carthalia

Thanks to Marty Weil for featuring Carthalia on his Epehemera blog.

Link: http://ephemera.typepad.com

The Ravensburg postcard I'm talking about is this one:

See the new list at de.wikisource:

http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Lokale_Theatergeschichte

If you know of digitized books on local theatre history that are not yet featured on this list, feel free to add them.

Thanks to a fellow opera nut from America, I could add three postcards to the page showing the Teatro della Concordia at Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy.

By the way, the illustration on the right serving as logo for this blog also shows this charming little theatre. It is taken from the official Italian postage stamp celebrating this theatre.

Performance spaces in Baden-Baden (new pages):

• Festspielhaus
• Kurhaus
• Theater

Other additions from Germany:

• Berlin: Kino International
• Berlin: Schauspielhaus (open-air on Gendarmenmarkt)
• Berlin: Volksbühne
• Berlin: Zoopalast
• Bochum: Schauspielhaus (multiview card with interior)
• Chemnitz: Centraltheater (interior)
• Chemnitz: Naturtheater Rabenstein
• Chemnitz: Ufa-Palast (new page)
• Chemnitz: Wintergarten (new page)
• Coburg: Landestheater
• Friedrichshafen: Graf-Zeppelin-Haus (new page)
• Halle: Steintorvarieté
• Hameln: Theater
• Jena: Palasttheater (new page)
• Karlsruhe: Stadthalle (aerial view)
• Köln: Opernhaus
• Lünen: Theater
• Weißenfels: Kulturhaus / Apollo-Theater (new page)

Actors at the stagedoor (or „Bühnentürl“ in Viennese dialect):

• Bürgertheater
• Burgtheater
• Raimundtheater
• Staatsoper
• Volkstheater

Another card that is not from this series, but somewhat in the same line:

• Theater in der Josefstadt (actress Hansi Jarno-Niese posing in front of the theatre)

Plus some other new images from Austria:

• Bregenzer Festspiele stagesets
• Klagenfurt: Stadttheater (foyer)
• Kremsmünster: Theater (new page)
• Thiersee: Passionstheater (new page)
• Wien: Ronacher (litho showing Ronacher and Carl-Theater)

UK:
Newbury: Watermill Theatre (new page)

Turkey:
Bergama: Tiyatro
Efes: Odeon (new page)
Efes: Tiyatro

Germany:
Bad Wildbad: Kursaal
Bad Wildbad: Kurtheater
Bayreuth: Festspielhaus
Bayreuth: Haus Wahnfried (concert room) (new page)
Bayreuth: Opernhaus
Berlin: CinemaxX Potsdamer Platz (new page)
Berlin: Deutsches Theater
Berlin: Friedrichsstadtpalast (old)
Berlin: Komische Oper
Berlin: Musicaltheater
Berlin: Neuköllner Oper / Passage-Kino (new page)
Berlin: Philharmonie (old)
Berlin: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin: Volksbühne
Bermen: Staatstheater (old) (new page)
Bremen: Die Glocke (new page)
Bremen: Schauspielhaus Neustadtswall (new page)
Bremen: Stadthalle (new page)
Bremen: Theater am Goetheplatz (new page)
Chemnitz: Centraltheater (curtain!)
Chemnitz: Opernhaus
Duisburg: Stadttheater
Frankfurt am Main: Hippodrom
Marl: Theater
München: Cuvillies-Theater
München: Deutsches Theater
München: Kammerspiele (new page)
München: Residenztheater (new page)
München: Volkstheater (new) (new page)
Nürnberg: Staatstheater (curtain!)
Rothenburg o. d. Tauber: Theatersaal Wildbad (new page)
Saarlouis: Capitol cinema (new page)
Schwetzingen: Rokokotheater
Weimar: Weimarhalle (old)
Worms: Spiel- und Festhaus (old)

Théâtre in Ambert.

Théâtre in Annonay.

Théâtre de l'Eldorado in Lyon.

Centre Culturel in Villeparisis (near Paris).

Some of the many „lieux de spectacle“ in Paris: Théâtre de Belleville, Théâtre des Gobelins, the foyer of the locomotive repair works turned theatre, Théâtre de Lierre (which means ivy, by the way), Théâtre Mogador, Théâtre de Montparnasse, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin and a postcard of the former Salle Berlioz, now Théâtre de l'Oeuvre.

Last, and in a certain way least, a special gem of French theatre architecture: the Théâtre of Somain.

PS: Opéra Municipal de Marseille now with an interior view of the Art Nouveau auditorium.

The beautiful little Palace Theatre of Chimay.

Kortrijk's Schouwburg.

And two lost theatres of Liège:
Théâtre du Gymnase and Théâtre sur la Batte.

First, København's stunning new, privately funded Operaen.

Second, Stadttheater in Hadersleben/Haderslev. Well, a theatre of some sort. Maybe rather a restaurant with entertainment hall. Anyone who knows more about this building is welcome to submit some information.

Third, Musikhuset concert hall in Arhus.

And finally the capital's best-known cinema: Palads Teatret in København.