Thursday, 27. June 2013

Additions 2013-06

Some additions from Germany: Bad Sulzuflen

Wednesday, 31. August 2011

Theatres and cinemas in Vienna

Wiener Theater- und Kinotopografie

http://www.kinthetop.at/

Friday, 1. May 2009

Musical postcards from Spain

"Tarjetas postales" ("Postcards") is the title of five small piano works by Joaquín Turina.

1. Danza Vasca

http://www.youtube.com/v/4M2W6rPjukU

2. Ramblas de Barcelona

http://www.youtube.com/v/TmheSR-ka2k

3. Madrid

http://www.youtube.com/v/HxRWhAJNZCc

4. Paisaje Granadino

http://www.youtube.com/v/3aq5QsGnYds

5. Romeria

http://www.youtube.com/v/HTQTdgs5eEQ

Pianist: Antonio Soria

A postcard from Frankfurt with a poem

Hampelmanns Abschied vom alten Schauspielhaus

transcribed at Wikisource

Saturday, 21. March 2009

Australian Theatre History

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

Friday, 6. March 2009

Many new theatre images at Wikimedia Commons

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:

Two new websites

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

Saturday, 5. January 2008

Wow, I'm famous (kind of)

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

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

Wednesday, 5. December 2007

Interview on Epehemera

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:

Saturday, 1. December 2007

Digitized books on local theatre history

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.
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