WikiProject Theatre
Welcome to WikiProject Theatre! The goal of this project is to improve all articles relating to theatre, making Wikipedia one of the best online resources on the subject.
As it currently stands, the vast majority of these articles are in need of some serious attention. While many of the important topics do have existing articles, the quality of these can be quite poor. If you would like to participate in the project, please sign up below, look for jobs in the to-do list, and join in with project-related discussions at the talk page.
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[edit] Project scope
Any and all articles related to theatre on Wikipedia, including, but not limited to:
- Drama (including plays)
- Theatrical biographies (such as playwrights, actors, directors, 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
Comedy and Parody
[edit] Devolved responsibility
Theatre is a very broad topic! There are several descendant and related projects to help organise work on theatrical articles:
- Musicals, and biographies relating solely to musical theatre.
- Gilbert and Sullivan.
- The finer details of Stagecraft.
- Shakespeare and English Renaissance theatre
- See WikiProject Shakespeare and WikiProject Elizabethan Theatre (defunct)
[edit] Goals
- To improve the quality of articles on theatre, bringing articles on important topics up to featured article standard.
- To create articles to cover the topic of theatre comprehensively, including articles on non-western theatre.
- To make Wikipedia the finest, most comprehensive resource of theatre topics available online.
[edit] Tasks
[edit] Improve the bird's eye view
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 answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):
- What's missing?
- Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
- 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.
The outline 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 "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.
Please help improve it.
It's our bird's eye view.
Thank you.
[edit] Develop articles
- Improve top priority theatre articles (stubs | start-class | C-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!
[edit] Ongoing tasks
 To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre: |
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The current Theatre Collaboration of the Month is
the Theatre article.
In the last 30 days, this article received 52,500 hits, or roughly 2,000 hits every day.
Help select the next collaboration at the COTM page.
[edit] News
- Articles for deletion
- 11 Jul 2012 – Joel Goodness (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JaGa (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- 28 Jun 2012 – Arizona Theatre Company (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jimfbleak (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
- Proposed deletions
- 06 Jul 2012 – Karl Argue (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Arms & Hearts (t · c) was deleted
- 06 Jul 2012 – An Art Lawful Productions (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Breno (t · c) was deproded by Cavarrone (t · c) on 12 Jul 2012
[edit] Article Assessment
[edit] Current statistics
| As of 13 May 2012, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
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[edit] Former Featured Articles
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Featured Articles for a list of current and former featured articles.
[edit] Did you know (DYK)s
- See Portal:Theatre/DYK for related WP:DYKs that appeared on the Main Page.
[edit] Project Templates
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[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
- The descendants of this WikiProject are
- WikiProject Elizabethan Theatre - now defunct
- WikiProject Musical Theatre
- WikiProject New York Theatre (inactive)
[edit] Similar/Related Wikiprojects
- Similar WikiProjects are
- WikiProject Dance
- WikiProject Opera
- WikiProject Literature
- WikiProject Shakespeare
- WikiProject Circus
- WikiProject Stagecraft
[edit] Wikipedia Resources
- 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
[edit] External Resources
- Internet Broadway Database
- Internet Movie Database - contains a surprising amount of information on live theatre.
- Playbill Magazine - information on current theatre.
- TheatreLinks - information on historic American theatres.
- Cinema Treasures - information about historic theatres that have served as cinemas.
- Internet Theatre Database
- de:Portal:Theater - the Theatre portal on the German Wikipedia
- AusStage - Gateway to the Australian Performing Arts
- Global Performing Arts Database
[edit] Project Theatre: Page view statistics
Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Popular pages - this page shows which pages in this Project receive the most traffic. Gives an idea of which pages are popular and might need attention (if their quality level is not as high as we would wish).
[edit] Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
[edit] External watchlist
[edit] Participants
[edit] Members
- Yossarian
- Xinoph
- Danyoung
- Preschooler.at.heart
- TheSwami
- Peripatetic
- LordAmeth
- Mkdw
- UnderPressure
- Kiwiboy121
- VanTucky
- Amadscientist
- Dionysos Proteus
- Robert Greer
- Steven J. Anderson
- Guybrush
- Theolimeister
- Cailil
- nrswanson
- Dereksmootz
- Gonzalo84
- Carole Higgins
- Cazo3788
- Bobf
- John Thaxter
- Larrybob
- callumsmith1234
- GentlemanGhost
- Sebbi - primarily interested in contemporary theatre practices.
- KlickingKarl - interest in UK theatre buildings.
- Danwalk
- Brettstout Interest in movie palaces
- DramaticImpulse
- Thomprod - stage manager, lighting designer, orchestra conductor, rehearsal pianist
- Jezhotwells
- TheatreAuthority
- Chickeninapram - Deputy technical mgr RSC 1998-2003
- Lordknave
- Sabiona
- Ecragg
- Mark E (talk)
- CPolo Interested in amateur theater
- Declan Clam
- Thatguykalem - Trained actor.
- tm1000
- Mdukas - trained audience member
- Sean - HS Thespian and techie
- poisonborz Hungarian theatres and actors
- 15lsoucy - Plays of Racine
- LaNaranja
- Phaeton23
- waltjohnson - BA and MFA in Technical Theatre w/pro exp. ad Tech Dir, Asst Tech Dir, and Production Mgr
- OperaticNun - Interested in Irish and Shakespearean/classical theatre
- Diggindeeper
- Tadija - interested in Serbian theater
- TheFlyingWallaby
- NortonFord
- Mfs1013 wants to program moving lights for theatre
- QHereKidSF
- DoctorJoeE
- Sum (talk) 10:13, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- Act Class 1742
- Matthewrbowker - High School Thespian, Lighting Designer
- walt828
- Aaron Booth - Actor
- Warburton1368
- Truelight234
- Neddyseagoon
- ArtifexMayhem - Professional.
- Caleb Bond - Actor
- ÇaCestCharabia - PhD Candidate in Theatre History
- Jwyllie - primary interest in improvisational theatre - co-founder of Canadian Improv Games - studied under David Shepherd
- JoyceJoyce1 - Professional.
- Alexroller - Professional actor doing mostly amateur productions, intend to pursue as a career.
- James Fahringer
- Entertainer91
- Alla Breve
- Leigh C. Tyler
- Beth Phillips - Ph.D English/Theatre History. Doctoral dissertation on Clifford Odets; currently writing biography of Odets.
- User:Nightenbelle - Minor in theater, Former High school Thespian, High School Theater Teacher, Active in the Twin Lakes Playhouse Community Theater.
- Dental plan (Lisa needs braces)
[edit] Inactive members
- Ganymead
- Springboard08
- Quill
- Filiocht
- The Singing Badger
- Kevin M Marshall
- Swiftblade21
- 5300abc
- Schoeler
- Struds
- PythiaMcThespia
- Sydneysaurus
- ironman5247
- Kyoko
- Girl-razor, primarily interested in European theatre
- Fewster
- Dozenthey
- Duckie for broadway
- Canadian Scouter
- Msdressup
- Rustythejester
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