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ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF ?On the Road Again: A digital forum in the history of entertainment and culture? <https://otra.library.utoronto.ca> This new online resource integrates four scholarly projects on a modular extensible platform, to support the ability to make linkages between different aspects of performance history over time, and to work interactively with other theatre historians on creating new scholarship. The forum has been built using the open-source Drupal platform and Openlayers GIS mapping through partnership with the University of Toronto Libraries (Digital Library and Web Services Group - for database design and sustainability), and the Department of Geography (GIS and Cartography Office ? for interactive mapping.) The forum includes two previous digital database projects in the history of itinerant performance, while adding two more: 1) Records of Early English Drama (REED): Patrons and Performances <https://reed.library.utoronto.ca> 2) Juba Project (Early Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain) 3) Fringes of Show Business in Canada West: Performance culture in Southern Ontario to 1919 (new) 4) The Exhibition and Reception of American Popular Film in Canada (new) We thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the Connections grant that made our work possible. The partners participating are listed on the individual project sites.