Category talk:Theatre

Relevant Wikipedia projects
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 * WikiProject Broadway
 * WikiProject New York City/Theatre
 * WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan

Merge Theatre and Drama categories?
Drama is a subcategory of Theatre (or is it vice versa?). And, they're both subcats of Performing Arts. Doesn't make sense. Wasn't there a proposal somewhere to merge Drama and Theatre? I'd vote for that. --Ssilvers 01:21, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. Drama and Theatre are two separate (albeit interconnected) things. Drama can be performed anywhere - in a drama workshop, in school, as a role-play on a training course etc. Theatre relates more to a performance, which may or may not be dramatic. ShaunPenton 09:38, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Drama refers to a 'social form' (i.e.:"the drama") as well as a genre (from mid-c19th, as opposed to tragedy and comedy). It is usually used to indicate the 'literary' aspects of a theatrical event - the dramatic text. Theatre is the apparatus that supports the realisation of the drama (See Keir Elam, The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama, for example). As such, the apparatus is capable of supporting other forms. Drama in the sense used by ShaunPenton, given above, is relatively recent (1960s onwards) and arises out of theatre-in-education practice (where children explore self-expression and collaboration through 'drama', without a necessary relationship to a textual framework) (see McCullough, Theatre Praxis, for example).
 * Consequently, Drama ought to be a subcategory of Theatre, which in turn is a Performing Art. That hierarchy / enveloping corresponds to standard critical usage. DionysosProteus 16:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Theatre by City?
Is there/should there be a "theatre by city" listing also?--TimothyJacobson (talk) 20:07, 6 February 2010 (UTC)