Project:WikiProject Theatre

Any and all articles related to theatre on Wikipedia, including, but not limited to:

• Drama (including plays)
• Theatrical biographies (such as playwrights, actors, theatre directors, theatrical producers and theatre companies)
• Theatre history (including Greek theatre, Chinese theatre, Roman theatre, Commedia dell'arte, Kabuki, Renaissance theatre, Epic theatre etc.)
• Modern theatre (i.e. experimental theatre, Theatre of Cruelty, physical theatre etc.)
• Genres (comedy, tragedy, etc.)
• Theatres, i.e. theatre buildings, venues and structures
• Stagecraft topics

Theatre is a very broad topic! There are several descendant and related projects to help organise work on theatrical articles:

• WikiProject Musical Theatre covers musicals and biographies relating solely to musical theatre.
• WikiProject New York City/Theatre covers theatre-related activities in the New York City area.
• WikiProject Shakespeare covers William Shakespeare and his works.
• WikiProject Stagecraft covers the details of stagecraft. (believed to be inactive)

;Other related WikiProjects include:

• WikiProject Dance (believed to be inactive)
• WikiProject Ballet
• WikiProject Opera
• WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan
• WikiProject Richard Wagner
• WikiProject Literature
• WikiProject Circus

1. To improve the quality of articles on theatre, bringing articles on important topics up to featured article standard.
2. To create articles to cover the topic of theatre comprehensively, including articles on non-western theatre.
3. To make Wikipedia the finest, most comprehensive resource of theatre topics available online.
   

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of theatre. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please consider the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

1. What's missing?
2. Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
3. Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what. It is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise theatre-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics. It was built as a "[http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/689/1/ reverse outline]", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

• Improve top priority theatre articles ([http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Theatre&importance=Top-Class&quality=Stub-Class stubs] | [http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Theatre&importance=Top-Class&quality=Start-Class start-class] | [http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Theatre&importance=Top-Class&quality=C-Class C-class] | [http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Theatre&importance=Top-Class&quality=B-Class B-class])
• Create new articles – we have a list of plays and related articles identified by the project at articles needing creation, or see the Theatre section of Wikipedia requested articles.
• Prioritise work on articles found in unknown-importance Theatre articles - see article assessment to help decide if an article is of top, high, mid or low importance to the project.
• Collaboration of the month – vote for the focus of next month's efforts.
• ...or work towards our goals in any way you can!

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Hi there! I came across this WikiProject and definitely think it links to my article that I am currently working on 'The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre'. I would really appreciate some feedback on my article from the reviewers connected to this WikiProject. Thanks guys! Happy editing!

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:See Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Featured Articles for a list of current and former featured articles.

:See Portal:Theatre/DYK for related WP:DYKs that appeared on the Main Page.

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• :Category:Theatre
• :Category:Drama
• :Category:Musical theatre
• List of playwrights
• Movie palaces list
• List of musicals
• List of Canadian plays
• List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
• Links to recent changes in theatre-related articles

• [http://www.ibdb.com Internet Broadway Database]
• [http://www.imdb.com Internet Movie Database] - contains a surprising amount of information on live theatre.
• [http://www.playbill.com Playbill Magazine] - information on current theatre.
• [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa/links.html TheatreLinks] - information on historic American theatres.
• [http://www.cinematreasures.org Cinema Treasures] - information about historic theatres that have served as cinemas.
• [http://www.theatredb.com/ Internet Theatre Database]
• :de:Portal:Theater - the Theatre portal on the German Wikipedia
• [http://www.ausstage.edu.au AusStage - Gateway to the Australian Performing Arts]
• [http://www.glopad.org/pi/index.php Global Performing Arts Database]
• [https://www.abouttheartists.com About The Artists] - growing IMDb-style, crowd sourced database of theatrical productions in the United States and elsewhere

Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Popular pages shows the 1000 pages in this project that receive the most traffic. This gives an idea of which pages are popular and might need attention (if their quality level is not as high as we would wish).

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• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=WikiProject_Theatre&namespace=4&hideredirects=1&stripprefix=1 subpages of this page]

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