AusStage: Gateway to the Australian Performing Arts

AusStage is a bibliographic resource that comprehensively covers live performance like spoken‐word theatre, dance, circus, comedy, and musical theatre. Musical performances such as concerts are not included. Dates encompass European settlement of Australia through to the current day. AusStage is an index, though some records will link through to online resources like digitised reviews.

AusStage was conceived as a national theatre research database in 1999 to index performing arts and to develop a research resources directory, the history and the scope of the project fascinates. The About section of the site gives considerable detail about the origins, and Stone (2004)...