Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City/Theatre

Older NY theater

I've added myself to the participant list. I don't really expect to be too active in it, but I've written probably the majority of what is in Wikipedia on Yiddish theater, about half of it about theater in NYC. Also, someone might want to ping BrianSmithson, who has done a lot of work on blackface minstrelsy (on which I've also done a little). -- Jmabel | Talk 07:48, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

"Theatre"?

Since this is about New York, shouldn't the title be Theater? User:Zoe|^(talk) 16:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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Links to Official Theatre Sites

Hi, I'm new here (from an editing perspective), stumbled on this project because I was reading some of the articles on the various Broadway theatres, and noticed some of them didn't have links to the official websites for the theatres. Some did. So I started adding the links to make it consistent. Whoops! I was swiftly told to discuss it here before doing so. Does anyone have any objections to the various New York Theatres having links to the official sites/pages for those theatres? It primarily applies to Broadway, although some of the Off Broadway theatres also seem to have official sites. The sites generally include historical information as well as current information about what is going on at that theatre. Jtattenbaum 22:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

If there is an article on an individual theatre, it definitely should link that theatre's official site. - Jmabel | Talk 20:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Sorry for the delay in my reply--I've been away for the holidays.Jtattenbaum 15:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

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Photos

I notice that the WikiProject page doesn't even mention that (free) images should be added to all articles. From the four days of my life that I spent in NYC, I found quite a lot of theatre pictures on my hard drive ;-) and uploaded lots of them today, described them (hopefully correctly) and added them (again hopefully correctly) to theatre, and sometimes musical, articles. Maybe you find some errors, or even some more use for the pictures. I appreciate every comment and correction. Some of the photos are not very good, but I think they are at least better than none. I created a category at commons:Category:Theaters in New York City. If you upload your own photos to the Commons, please use this category that is also linked to worldwide theatre building categories and the relevant NY categories. --AndreasPraefcke 20:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

While I could add images of most Broadway theatre building exteriors to the articles, the following are still in want of recent exterior photographs:

• American Airlines Theatre
• Longacre Theatre
• Manhattan Center
• Palace Theatre, New York
• Studio 54

Of the off-Broadway houses, I think the following are in an especially urgent want of an image:

• Delacorte Theater
• Elgin Theater (Joyce Theatre)
• Little Shubert Theatre
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• New York Theatre Workshop
• Theater for the New City
• Victoria Theater (New York City)

As there are barely any theatre interior photographs at all, do take your cameras with you and upload! --AndreasPraefcke 07:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

New theatre template

I'm not sure if there's much going on over here, but I've been working on a new template for articles on theatre structures. It can be seen in the WikiProject Musical Theatre template sandbox. Please let me know if there are any objections, omissions, or problems. —  MusicMaker5376 04:21, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Off/Off-Off_Broadway

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US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next

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Request an Assessment

Mike Nichols- partially expanded and rewritten.--206.188.55.235 (talk) 21:38, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Spelling: Theatre District, New York

The move discussion at Talk:Theater District, New York was closed without alerting editors at the relevant Wikiprojects to join in. It has long been the consensus at WP:THEATRE and WP:MUSICALS to spell the word "theatre", in part because theatre professionals prefer this spelling throughout the English-speaking world, and because this spelling is not wrong anywhere, while "theater" is wrong in many places,such as the UK. BTW, I am an American from New York City. Note that nearly all of the Broadway theatres are called "X Theatre". I have re-opened the discussion on the talk page to see if we can get a wider consensus on this issue. Please join in, either way. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

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Requested move 4 May 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: project moved (non-admin closure) Kharkiv07 (T) 02:31, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Theatre → Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City/Theatre – This project is about theatre in New York City, per the description of the project linking to NYC and not NYS. As it is an inactive project concerning NYC, and WP:NYC is an active project concerning NYC, this project should be subsumed as a task force of the active project. This would do the same thing as how many other inactive projects have been converted to taskforces of active projects of the same geographic scope or greater topical scope --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 04:17, 11 May 2015 (UTC) 65.94.43.89 (talk) 05:38, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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• Support moving the entire existing wikiproject into a task force of WPNYC. This project is mostly inactive, so it can be downgraded to a task force. Epic Genius (talk) 13:00, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
• Conditional support - if the project is truly inactive, then, yes. move it; if there's still life in the body, let the participants of the project decide. BMK (talk) 23:27, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
  • No one has edited this page in 6 years except for this RM, automated "stock" messages, formatting, and requests for help (which, apparently, are also stock messages). Epic Genius (talk) ± 22:20, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion

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Victor Herbert

Both {{WikiProject New York City|class=B|importance=Mid}} i.e. Broadway theatre and {{WikiProject Pop music|class=B|importance=Mid}} i.e. Tin Pan Alley are clearly justified by the Victor Herbert article.

I added these two WikiProjects to the Victor Herbert article, and they were immediately removed. I asked the editor about it, and was told Herbert was not important to NYC, nor to pop music. I never engage in edit wars, but I think both are relevant to him. Perhaps someone more familiar with Broadway and musical theatre would care to follow up on this situation. Herbert had much of his career in Manhattan, classical, opera, operetta, and pop music songs. I will continue working on Guernsey and Jersey people, places, and more.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 02:40, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Whoa! That is totally wrong. I removed the "WikiProject New York City" banner, not this one! I think it is over-bannering to put location banners on the bios of people simply because they lived and worked in NYC or on musicals that happened to premiere in NYC, especially when there are more relevant banners (like the musical theatre and opera projects') already on the article. -- Ssilvers (talk) 13:30, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

New Article

Hi there. You guys are quite a small WikiProject, so I just thought I'd let you know of Nitehawk Cinema which was recently creaated and is really good quality. Thanks, Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 16:13, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Draft:List of Broadway productions by year

I am currently working on a three year project that could use attention/help. It is a list of Broadway productions by year, and a very helpful resource can be found in the talk page. Regards, Heart ^(talk) 06:05, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Category Theatre companies in New York City

This list has both companies in it that our currently active and also ones that have long stopped existing. I think it would be useful to remove the ones that don't exist so that people looking at it can see the theater companies currently in New York City but I wanted to seek consensus before making this change. KNY22 (talk) 00:30, 23 March 2022 (UTC) The list I mean is (Category:Theatre_companies_in_New_York_City for some reason I can't get it to display properly above) link. --KNY22 (talk) 00:39, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

You could create a w:category:Defunct Theatre companies in New York City and put all the defunct companies there. See: w:Category:Defunct companies based in New York City and w:Category:Defunct restaurants in New York City for examples. --Wil540 art (talk) 01:48, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

You could follow Wil540 art's suggestion, but if you don't, removing defunct companies from that category is not on. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:34, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Great this sounds like a good solution thank you @Wil540 art I will work on creating that category -- KNY22 (talk) 01:53, 24 March 2022 (UTC)