WikiProject Theatre

[edit] Scope

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

• Drama (including plays, musicals etc)
• Technical Theatre/Stagecraft (including costume design and construction, lighting, sound makeup, scenery, props etc)
• Biographies of theatrical folk (such as playwrights, actors, theatre companies, directors and producers)
• 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, ie theatre buildings, venues and structures

[edit] Goals

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

[edit] To-do list

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Add {{Portal|Theatre|P culture.svg}} to the See also section of Theatre-related articles. Tag the talk pages of Theatre-related articles with {{WikiProject Theatre}} Join WikiProject Theatre and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Attention: A list of articles needing immediate attention is available. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information... Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed Theatre articles in the Theatre WikiProject. Requested articles: Requested articles on Theatre and stage Stubs: Musical theatre stubs, United Kingdom stage actor stubs, European theatre stubs, Theatrical people stubs, Play stubs, Stagecraft stubs, Theatre (structure) stubs, United States theatre stubs, More...

The current Theatre Collaboration of the Month is
August Strindberg.
The next collaboration will be selected on
Template talk:Collab-Theatre.

[edit] Cleanup

[edit] Article Assesment

[edit] Current statistics

Theatre articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	6	5	3		15
	GA		4	5	14		23
	B	2	19	64	38	20	143
	C	5	23	43	52	13	136
	Start	21	71	261	514	196	1063
	Stub	10	51	194	684	305	1244
	List	1	1	4	28	5	39
	Assessed	40	175	576	1333	539	2663
	Unassessed		4	3	14	575	596
	Total	40	179	579	1347	1114	3259

As of 15 April 2009, we have assessed 73% of all articles with a project banner. (Many article talk pages require banners however)

[edit] Former Featured Articles

• Blackface
• Humphrey Bogart
• Ian McKellen
• Irish theatre
• Porgy and Bess
• Julia Stiles
• Western (genre)

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

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

[edit] Project Templates

[edit] Main template

WikiProject Theatre	(Rated NA-Class)	TheatreWikipedia:WikiProject TheatreTemplate:WikiProject TheatreTheatre articles
Theatre portal v • d • e This page is part of WikiProject Theatre, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of theatre on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.

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[edit] Descendant WikiProjects The descendants of this WikiProject are WikiProject Elizabethan Theatre WikiProject New York Theatre WikiProject Musical Theatre

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[edit] Wikipedia Resources Category:Theatre Category:Drama Category:Musical theatre Category:Dinner 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