Sites for the Interim - 2001

It's been a week of small updates and housekeeping with the Charts of the 2001 Theatrical Awards. We've added Chicago's Jeff Citations for non-Union productions and the Connecticut Critics Circle Awards. And since there's absolutely no word on the FANY's (the Friends of New York Theatre awards), they've been stripped from the charts; we're still looking for info on the presumed shuttering of the organization, if you've got it.

So while we await the final set of awards (the oobr awards), here forthwith is:

Sites for the Interim - 2001 Edition!

Theatre.com is no more

Neither is it Theater.com, and therein lay the problem. Because of spelling confusion ("re" vs. "er") and the fact that Theatre.com neglected to register "Theater.com," which is, in fact, registered to Broadway.com, the owners of the site made the decision to clear up the confusion with a name change: the site is now BroadwayOnline.com. (Oh, and also due to the fact that Theatre.com was borged by BroadwayOnline.com -- the internet division of the Broadway Television Network, the group that brings "live" theatre to pay-per-view cable.)

We contend that this does not, however, actually clear up the confusion -- those of us who type URLs in while find ourselves doing a lot more typing waiting for the auto-complete, what with BroadwayOnline.com, Broadway.com, BroadwayArchive.com (Broadway Digital Entertainment's site for sales of videos of plays adapted for television), BroadwayStars.com (perhaps the web's best theatre resource which synopsizes and links to articles on major theatre and news sites), Broadway.org (the site of the League of American Theatres and Producers), BroadwayTheatre.com (the official website of the Westchester Broadway Theatre), not to mention On-Broadway.com (which, actually, has been assimilated by BroadwayOnline.com). (Down below you'll find a bunch of less related sites you can stumble on by typing http://www.broadway....)

Along with the name change comes a facelift -- a facelift for which many believe the patient should demand his money back. Yes, they still have the same resources as in the good ol' Theatre.com days; in fact there are many improvements. But it's all buried under an inscrutable, arcane interface, made plodding by gobs of javascript, java, and Shockwave. They'll even resize your browser window as they see fit! There have been many reports of people being entirely unable to access the site due to browser crashes and few people, myself included, actually see the site as BO conceived it because of browser/operating system incompatibilities.

If any site deserves a "text only" version, it's this one. There are wonders there -- if you can find them. Aside from timely news articles from one of the best reporting staffs online, where else can you find the likes of the brilliant and

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