Drama Source Resources Area Script Guidelines  |  Submitting Your Work  |  Good Books Copyright Information  |  Related Sites   Drama Source contracts for exclusive rights.  Submitting Your Work To submit your work first see our pages about Script Guidelines and royalties. We want you to feel comfortable having us as a partner. Next fill out our submission form as thoroughly as possible. Also include the following information: Synopsis (One page well written.) Cast list and short explanation of characters. Bio of artists involved. (You don't need to be world famous.) If it is a musical please also include: Demo Tape. Sample of the score. Send it to: Submission Editor Drama Source 1588 E. 361 N. St. Anthony, Idaho 83445   Great Places To Buy Sheet Music Sheet Music Plus. They have over a quarter million titles to choose from, and you can order online. Good Books for Playwrights and Musicians These Searches Are In Association With Amazon.com If you have a suggestion you would like to see added here feel free to let me know at: web@dramasource.com Dramatist Sourcebook This is a wonderful book for the professional giving theatre listings and submission guidelines, contests, fellowships and grants, agents, etc. for the playwright or musician. Stage Writers Handbook : A Complete Business Guide for Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Librettists This is a great book dealing with issues such as contracts, copyrights, and many other items related to the business end of theatre. This is good for all those working in the field of drama. Making Musicals : An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theatre The man who wrote the words to The Fantasticks and several other musicals shares his hard-earned wisdom in a book that's part history, part how-to, with just enough memoir thrown in to give it a unique personality and flavor. Staging Musical Theatre Producers, directors and choreographers in community theaters and other troupes will welcome this book that covers everything they need to know to put a show on the boards, including how to: select, analyze and interpret a musical; coordinate scenery, lights, costumes and props; cast top talent through well-organized auditions; and conduct productive rehearsals for music, choreography, blocking and the full production. Directing Plays (Theatre Arts) A book recommended to us. The Art of the Playwright : Creating the Magic of Theatre Book recommended to us. 1999 Writer's Market Good book that gives places to market your works. Also good for authors. Amazon Books, Music, and Video Search  Search: Books Popular Music Classical Music Video Select a Search Phrase or Phrases Press ctrl and click to get more than one. Playwright Theatre Theaters Creative Writing Dramatic Music Theater - Playwriting Theater - General Musical Script Performing Arts Or Enter keywords to search for Copyright Information By United States copyright law you have copyright on your original work from the time the work is created in fixed form, effective immediately. Including a copyright symbol with the year (and perhaps the month) with your work will remind others of that fact. It very often is still a good idea to register it with the copyright office. (If anyone has links to other country copyright info I'd love to know about them.) Here are some other copyright links: The United States Copyright Office Form To Copyright Works of Performing Arts "10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained", an essay by Brad Templeton More Copyright Information links at Yahoo!   Related Sites Green Room - The Green Room at the New Globe is a free electronic meetingplace for Playwrights, Screenwrights, Directors, Actors, Critical Writers, Theatrical and Filmic Support Staff, and individuals preparing for those professions.