Les Archives du spectacle – The Performing Arts Archive – is an online French database covering live performance (theatre, dance, opera, puppetry, etc.). It was created in 2007.
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Les Archives du spectacle. Retrieved 19 August 2020
Goals
The site is designed to provide free information about plays, actors, actresses, directors, playwrights and other people and companies involved in the development of a show, a play, a musical or an opera in a French-speaking country (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada). Details are given of major revivals as well as new works. Foreign shows performed in France are sometimes covered. The site offers no judgments on the quality of the shows it covers.
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Organization
The site is run from the city of Montpellier
Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...
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Societe.com. Retrieved 19 August 2020 It operates in co-operation with the French Performing Arts Archives and , a national centre created by the French
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to coordinate and increase digital resources on circus, street and theatre arts.
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History
The site's first prototype dates from December 2006, and the first version was launched in March 2007 by Jacques Brunerie, an engineer who graduated from the .[ The site is hosted by Infomaniak Network SA from Geneva.][
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References
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Online databases
Theatre databases