Portal talk:Theatre/DYK

How to find DYKs

Example search: [1]. Cirt (talk) 09:36, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Note: Up to 3rd pg in search results. Cirt (talk) 08:12, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

From WikiProject Theatre

1. Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois) - 11 January 2007
2. Takemoto Gidayū - 6 July 2007
3. The Voice of the Turtle (play) - 2 July 2008

These three were at WP:THEATRE, will check against main list and add them into rotation. Cirt (talk) 21:48, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Moved from main/archive for historical purposes

Moved below from main/archive for historical purposes, while in process of switching to randomized format. Cirt (talk) 09:20, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

March 2008

...that in the Japanese theatrical art known as Taishū engeki (pictured), it is not uncommon for fans to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of yen on gifts for the performers?
...that Anne Meacham was praised in the New York Times by Tennessee Williams when he said "There’s nothing she won’t say or do onstage without any sign of embarrassment?"
...that the Griffin Theatre Company is the only theatre company in Sydney, Australia dedicated entirely to the production of new works by Australian playwrights?
...that the Reps Theatre, founded in 1960, is one of the oldest amateur theatrical organizations in Zimbabwe?

February 2008

...that Izumo no Okuni is considered the founder of Japanese Kabuki theatre?
...that Anne Meacham was praised in the New York Times by Tennessee Williams when he said "There’s nothing she won’t say or do onstage without any sign of embarrassment?"
...that the Griffin Theatre Company is the only theatre company in Sydney, Australia dedicated entirely to the production of new works by Australian playwrights?
...that the Reps Theatre, founded in 1960, is one of the oldest amateur theatrical organizations in Zimbabwe?
...that Philip Henslowe, an Elizabethan era theatre manager, wrote a diary that recorded the theatrical activities in London of that era?

March 2006

...that Cardenio is a lost play believed to have been written by William Shakespeare?
...that Beijing opera did not actually originate in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei?
...that the oldest continuously-operating theatre in the English speaking world is the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
...that the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company staged performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas in the UK, Europe, America, South Africa and elsewhere from the nineteenth century to the twenty first?
...that Kuchipudi (కుచిపుడి) is a classical dance form from Andhra Pradesh, a state of South India?