Interesting Links

Standard Disclaimer

The lawyers made us do this. Like everybody else, we have the standard disclaimer that we do not endorse the products, software or services listed below. It's just that we've found these really interesting places in our travels that are pertinent to various aspects of theatre management and we'd like to share with you. If you find any that are interesting and you think they belong on this page, please let us know and we'll add the links.

General Sites

Canadian Actor Online - a site containing information about the Arts & Entertainment scene in Canada.

Christians In Theatre Arts (CITA)

CITA has been organized to give Christians a continent-wide support network of other believers who are also theatre artists. Whether you're leading or participating in a church drama ministry, or teaching at a high school or college, or working in the professional theatre; whether you're a performer, director, designer or playwright, CITA is dedicated to serving you!

Industry Sites

Macs in the Theatre	Alan Shaefer has compiled a list of software of interest for those who use the Macintosh in the theatre.
OPUS	Professional Music Notation Software for the Macintosh. This product is from Sincrosoft in Italy and seems quite well done. It is shareware and is fully functional. If you like it they are asking $299 US for it.
Mac Fixit	Having general problems with your Mac. MacFixIt is a really great place to go for late breaking information. They seem to have all the antidotes to recently reported problems. If you love your mac, there is a place called Mac Fanatic which has useful information. Be warned, they do like their macs!
Version Tracker	Version Tracker is a site that seems to keep an up to date list of some of the latest releases of Macintosh Software.
Useful Microsoft Office Links	Microsoft has some free updates for Macintosh Office productivity tools and their other products that help bridge the gaps in the different formats for word documents, excel documents and powerpoint documents. The updates even allow Word on the Mac to read the latest Windows 95 Word formats. For the main page for mactopia on microsoft Click here

Industry Sites

Metafile Companion

We found a shareware graphic editor for Windows 95 and NT that can be used to create a graphic map for your venue called Metafile Companion. The program can be used 30 times before it disables itself. Visit Metafile Companion's site for the latest version, or you can download version 1.11 from our site.

If you prefer, you can use any commercial program that creates .EMF or .WMF files such as Powerpoint or Corel Draw

MacLan

If you have a network of Macs and PC's, MacLan is a very useful program to install on your PC to allow it to connect to Mac or vice versa. It also allows a PC to print on Mac Printers.

Win95 Freeware

This site has a number of shareware and freeware patches/utilities to fix some of the shortcomings in Windows 95. Especially important is patch release 2 for Win 95 which fixes a lot of problems. If you are running NT, you should have service patch release 3 installed.

Software

Sometimes we've referred to software produced by other companies in this web site. Click on the links to go to their site and download the software.

A lot of people on the Internet provide their documents in PDF format. This was created by Adobe so that the same document could be read on all platforms. Adobe Acrobat is a really useful tool or browser plug in.

We think that the Netscape Browser is one of the best tools to browse and retrieve items from the Internet. We've run it on a number of platforms and it rarely interferes with other applications. Netscape's Java support is very good. As of Jan 25/98, Netscape is giving away its browser free to all users.

Microsoft Explorer is a useful browser as well. We've used IE version 4.01 and have found it to be relatively stable on Windows 95 and NT but it does take a lot of space and appears to take over your desktop. If you are just getting used to Windows, IE could overpower your senses. We have not tried the Macintosh version.

	Canadian Actor Online - a site containing information about the Arts & Entertainment scene in Canada.
Christians In Theatre Arts (CITA)	CITA has been organized to give Christians a continent-wide support network of other believers who are also theatre artists. Whether you're leading or participating in a church drama ministry, or teaching at a high school or college, or working in the professional theatre; whether you're a performer, director, designer or playwright, CITA is dedicated to serving you!

	A lot of people on the Internet provide their documents in PDF format. This was created by Adobe so that the same document could be read on all platforms. Adobe Acrobat is a really useful tool or browser plug in.
	We think that the Netscape Browser is one of the best tools to browse and retrieve items from the Internet. We've run it on a number of platforms and it rarely interferes with other applications. Netscape's Java support is very good. As of Jan 25/98, Netscape is giving away its browser free to all users.
	Microsoft Explorer is a useful browser as well. We've used IE version 4.01 and have found it to be relatively stable on Windows 95 and NT but it does take a lot of space and appears to take over your desktop. If you are just getting used to Windows, IE could overpower your senses. We have not tried the Macintosh version.