Global Resources
- SIBMASInternational Association of Libraries, Museums and Archives for the Performing Arts offers a directory listing performing arts archives around the globe.
- GLOPACGlobal Performing Arts Consortium is a multimedia, multilingual, Web-accessible database containing digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects (such as 3-D images) related to the performing arts from around the world.
- Hemispheric InstituteThe Hemispheric Institute at NYU connects artists, scholars, and activists from across the Americas.
North America
- New York Public Library of the Performing ArtsOne of the world's most extensive combinations of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field.
- Library of Congress - Digital CollectionsVast archives organized into 77 different collections ranging from American folk music, to vaudeville, early cinema, musical theater, opera and radio.
South America
Europe
- University of BristolOne of the largest archives of British theatre history and live art.
- Victoria and Albert MuseumThe national collection of performing arts documenting current practice and the history of all areas of performing arts in the UK, including drama, dance, opera, circus, puppetry, comedy, musical theatre, costume, set design, pantomime, popular music and more.