Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre

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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.

WikiProject Theatre

Founded: 28 May 2005 by Ganymead

Theatre Portal

Shortcuts:
WP:THEATRE • WP:THEATER
WP:THEATRES • WP:THEATERS

General (edit)

• Main Project Page
• Members
• Newsletter
• Article Alerts

Articles (edit)

• Article Assessment & Statistics
• Article Structure
• Articles Needing Creation
• Featured Theatre Articles

Infoboxes and Templates

• All Project Templates
• Template Sandbox
• Infobox person
• Infobox play
• Infobox venue
• Talk Page Banner
• Theatre stub
• Theatre Structure stub
• WPT Userbox

Things to do (edit)

Main List of Open Tasks

• Assess
• Contribute
• Critique
• Discuss
• Expand
• Join
• Add infoboxes:

1. Infobox play
2. Infobox person
3. Infobox venue
4. Infobox theatre group

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.

Other related WikiProjects include

• WikiProject Dance
  • 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.
   

Tasks

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!

Ongoing tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre:

Add {{Portal|Theatre}} to the See also section of Theatre-related articles. Tag the talk pages of Theatre-related articles, categories and templates with {{WikiProject Theatre}} (needed to generate article alerts). Join WikiProject Theatre and list yourself as a Participant. Attention: A list of articles needing immediate attention is available. Rate the Unassessed Theatre articles in WikiProject Theatre. Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability. References: Add references to Unreferenced biographies of living people. Requested articles: Requested articles for Stage and theatre. Stubs: Help expand United States theatre stubs, European theatre stubs, Play stubs, Theatre (structure) stubs, Theatrical people stubs, and more... Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

News

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Article Assessment

Current statistics

Theatre articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	11	11	33			58
FL		1	3	29			33
FM					134		134
GA	3	5	16	53			77
B	10	46	136	280		1	473
C	29	91	363	1,440		12	1,935
Start	31	116	813	6,737		53	7,750
Stub	4	33	279	5,273		18	5,607
List	1	7	218	239			465
Category					3,593		3,593
Disambig					52		52
File					544		544
Portal					4		4
Project					12		12
Redirect					1,030		1,030
Template			1		533		534
NA					4		4
Other					19		19
Assessed	81	310	1,840	14,084	5,925	84	22,324
Unassessed				1		12	13
Total	81	310	1,840	14,085	5,925	96	22,337
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 81,678			Ω = 5.14

Former Featured Articles

See Wikipedia: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.

Project Templates

Main template

WikiProject Theatre	(Rated NA-class)	TheatreWikipedia:WikiProject TheatreTemplate:WikiProject TheatreTheatre articles
v t 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.

{{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

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).

Participants

Members

1. Peripatetic
2. LordAmeth
3. Mkdw
4. Steven Walling
5. Dionysos Proteus
6. Robert Greer
7. Guybrush
8. Bobf
9. Larrybob
10. GentlemanGhost
11. Thomprod - stage manager, lighting designer, orchestra conductor, rehearsal pianist
12. Ecragg
13. Mark E (talk)
14. Declan Clam
15. Mdukas - trained audience member
16. Phaeton23
17. Mfs1013 wants to program moving lights for theatre
18. DoctorJoeE
19. Matthewrbowker - High School Thespian, Lighting Designer
20. Aaron Booth - Actor
21. Blethering Scot
22. ArtifexMayhem - Professional.
23. Beth Phillips - Ph.D English/Theatre History. Doctoral dissertation on Clifford Odets; currently writing biography of Odets.
24. Tito Dutta (talk)
25. JustDerek
26. Sirkablaam Just did some theatre in high school and college.
27. RL0919
28. Jburlinson Restoration theatre and American theater.
29. Maxim Stoyalov
30. The Dancing Badger (talk)
31. Saslos Theatre designers
32. Alexandru M. (talk · contribs)
33. Abishe (talk · contribs)
34. Andrew Hendo (talk · contribs)
35. Bardoleg (talk · contribs)
36. ClarityKTMpls (talk · contribs)
37. Menmsha Actor, musician. Primarily interested in Los Angeles theatre.
38. PhantomRed Actor, singer.
39. Riskyishwar
40. Karmadog1500$
41. Elizabeth Tavares Renaissance/English theatre history
42. Paelias
43. 50DFF Interested in Irish Theatre
44. Taranet (talk · contribs)
45. Codecinderblock Lighting Designer

Inactive members

1. Ganymead
2. Springboard08
3. Quill
4. Filiocht
5. Kevin M Marshall
6. Swiftblade21
7. 5300abc
8. Schoeler
9. Struds
10. PythiaMcThespia
11. Sydneysaurus
12. ironman5247
13. Kyoko
14. Girl-razor, primarily interested in European theatre
15. Fewster
16. Dozenthey
17. Duckie for broadway
18. Canadian Scouter
19. Msdressup
20. Rustythejester
21. Yossarian
22. Xinoph
23. Danyoung
24. TheSwami
25. UnderPressure
26. Kiwiboy121
27. Steven J. Anderson
28. Theolimeister
29. Dereksmootz
30. Carole Higgins
31. John Thaxter
32. callumsmith1234
33. Sebbi - primarily interested in contemporary theatre practices.
34. KlickingKarl - interest in UK theatre buildings.
35. Danwalk
36. Brettstout Interest in movie palaces
37. DramaticImpulse
38. Jezhotwells
39. TheatreAuthority
40. Lordknave
41. CPolo Interested in amateur theater
42. Thatguykalem - Trained actor.
43. Sean - HS Thespian and techie
44. 15lsoucy - Plays of Racine
45. LaNaranja
46. waltjohnson - BA and MFA in Technical Theatre w/pro exp. ad Tech Dir, Asst Tech Dir, and Production Mgr
47. OperaticNun - Interested in Irish and Shakespearean/classical theatre
48. Diggindeeper
49. TheFlyingWallaby
50. NortonFord
51. QHereKidSF
52. Sum (talk) 10:13, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
53. Act Class 1742
54. walt828
55. Truelight234
56. ÇaCestCharabia - PhD Candidate in Theatre History
57. Jwyllie - primary interest in improvisational theatre - co-founder of Canadian Improv Games - studied under David Shepherd
58. JoyceJoyce1 - Professional.
59. Alexroller - Professional actor doing mostly amateur productions, intend to pursue as a career.
60. James Fahringer
61. Entertainer91
62. Alla Breve
63. Leigh C. Tyler
64. User:Nightenbelle - Minor in theater, Former High school Thespian, High School Theater Teacher, Active in the Twin Lakes Playhouse Community Theater.
65. Dental plan (Lisa needs braces)
66. User:Purrform
67. Mturcott
68. Emholz
69. StevenAmendolaII
70. Rosario Berganza
71. Voltaire&Leibniz Enlightenment France and ancient Greek plays.
72. Ninquelosse Oscar Wilde's plays
73. Parasitaster - Elizabethan/Jacobean theatre; musical theatre; opera.
74. Bd1896 - Ph.D. in Theatre/English Professor. 19c/early 20c US theatre.
75. sixteennote
76. Preschooler.at.heart
77. Amadscientist
78. Cailil
79. Chickeninapram - Deputy technical mgr RSC 1998-2003
80. Sabiona
81. User:KunFooKoala
82. tomnnnn PhD Student. Interested in contemporary British theatre.
83. Solness (talk · contribs)
84. jwvarner Confused peasant looking for guidance.
85. Paracosms (talk · contribs)
86. User:aka bekka Modern Theater , Performance, live art
87. Neddyseagoon
88. Caleb Bond - Actor
89. tm1000
90. poisonborz Hungarian theatres and actors
91. Gonzalo84
92. Cazo3788

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