Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre

 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.

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, 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

Related projects
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

Goals

 * 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.

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 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 "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.

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!

Article Assessment
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!

Former Featured Articles

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

Did you know (DYK)s

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

Main template
WikiProject Theatre

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

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

Popular pages: page view statistics
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).

Participants

 * subpages of this page