Performance Related Forums at Your Favorite Things:
Arts and Entertainment - A place to discuss your favorite movies, plays, tv shows, literature, and more.
Literature - From fiction to petry, romance to science fiction, drama to biography and all others. Wether you enjoy reading, writing or just listening. This is the place to discuss your favorite authors, books and all things literary.
John Adams Institute - Promotes American literature and culture in Europe by bringing authors and other speakers to Amsterdam to give lectures. With lecture details and membership information.
NetRead's EventCaster - "Broadcasts up-to-date literary events nationwide to event editors at newspapers and web sites that subscribe . . . book readings, author signings, book conferences, open mics, and literary contests."
Salon.com: Audio - Free spoken word recordings from hundreds of authors. Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and live author events.
Seeing Ear Theatre - Features classic and contemporary science fiction and fantasy--in fully dramatized form (many programs from old radio shows), and also read by authors. Requires RealPlayer.
Spoken Interludes - A monthly salon for stories featuring writers and actors reading their own work and the work of others.
Telltale Weekly - Seeks to record, produce, and sell performances of at least 50 public domain texts per year, with the intention of releasing them under the Creative Commons Attrubition Non-Commercial License five years after their first appearance on the site (or after a hundred-thousand purchases of the recording, whichever comes first).
Wired for Books - Features modern and classic literature and literary criticism and discussion. Works are available in RealAudio, RealVideo, and multimedia presentations.
Wollcott & Sheridan - Aural performance library offering free streaming, downloadable audio performances of contemporary and classic works such as Poe, Shakespeare, Frost, Marlowe, and Yancy.
ZBS - Features contemporary audio drama, from original and published sources. (Requires Apple QuickTime 4.)