(Cologne, Germany)

Cabaret and variety theatres:
“Willkommen, Bienvenue,Welcome...“ Politische Revue – Kabarett – Varieté in Köln 1928 –1938
http://www.museenkoeln.de/ausstellungen/nsd_0802_kabarett/

-Note: the morons responsible for the Cologne museums have removed this useful resource from the web (not found on 24 July 2018) -

Cinemas:
Köln im Film
http://www.koeln-im-film.de/kinos.html

A comprehensive and richly illustrated site on ancient Greek and Roman theatres (in German only):

http://www.theatrum.de/

There is also a sister site on amphitheatres: http://amphi-theatrum.de/

A comprehensive database of performance history and theatre venues in Australia:

https://www.ausstage.edu.au/

I added links to this database from all my pages on Australian theatres (where applicable).

A 1906 card sent from Regensburg to Santa Monica (California) is perhaps the one postcard in my collection that holds the most incredible wealth of pictorial information. It's the first card on the Regensburg: Stadttheater page.





At first glance the card may seem quite unsuspicious, but since it is mounted on light wood that is almost 5 mm thick , it surely stands out from any stack of postcards. With one Bavarian and no less than six American red stamps the address side it is also quite impressive.

In the middle of the picture side, there is a little leporello that can be taken out. Folded out, it is 176 cm long and contains photographed portraits of 44 members of the ensemble of Theater Regensburg.

This image shows them arranged in groups of six:



For the single portraits, see a new Wikimedia Commons category.

Scanning the card and its leporello also helped to illustrate some Wikidata items and three German Wikipeda articles:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Cortolezis
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Jungk
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_von_Bukovics

Most names of the portraited ladies and gentlemen can be found in the "Neuer Theater-Almanach" of 1906 that is available at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/stream/deutschesbhnen1906genouoft#page/516/mode/2up

While all ensemble members of 1906 have passed away long ago, the theatre itself is still alive and kicking:

http://www.theater-regensburg.de/

Theater in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien /(2013), free online:

http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/6999-4inhalt?frames=yes

Otto von Weddigen's monumental two-volume "Geschichte der Theater Deutschlands" (1904) is available at the Internet Archive:

Vol. 1: http://archive.org/details/geschichtederthe01wedd

Vol. 2: http://archive.org/details/geschichtederth02wedd

Thanks to the University of Toronto for this most welcome scan.

Theatre Finder is supposed to become "a comprehensive, web-based, world-wide guide to theatres over 100 years old"

http://mith.umd.edu/theatrefinder/

Wiener Theater- und Kinotopografie

http://www.kinthetop.at/

Hampelmanns Abschied vom alten Schauspielhaus

transcribed at Wikisource

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