Category:Theatrical genres

• Plays by genre‎ (25 C)
• Opera genres‎ (4 C, 46 P)
• Stock characters by theatrical genre‎ (4 C, 2 P)
• Theatre by theme‎ (7 C)

B

• Blackface minstrelsy‎ (7 C, 17 P)
• Burlesque‎ (2 C, 44 P)

C

• Cantonese opera‎ (4 C, 4 P)
• Children's theatre‎ (1 C, 59 P)
• Comedy theatre‎ (7 C, 9 P)
• Commedia dell'arte‎ (3 C, 65 P)
• Concert dance‎ (11 C, 16 P)

D

• Dinner theatre‎ (25 P)

E

• Experimental theatre‎ (13 P)

F

• Fantasy theatre‎ (4 C, 35 P)
• Fringe theatre‎ (1 C, 21 P)

G

• Gilbert and Sullivan‎ (8 C, 19 P, 1 F)
• Grotesque‎ (1 C, 14 P)

H

• Henan opera‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Historical plays‎ (4 C, 56 P)
• Huangmei opera‎ (2 C, 1 P)

K

• Kunqu‎ (1 C, 6 P)

L

• Lehrstücke‎ (1 C, 1 P)

M

• Mime‎ (2 C, 16 P)
• Modernist theatre‎ (17 C, 102 P)

O

• Opera‎ (32 C, 6 P)
• Theatre of the Oppressed‎ (8 P)

P

• Peking opera‎ (5 C, 17 P)
• Performance art‎ (14 C, 63 P)
• Physical theatre‎ (26 P)
• Ping opera‎ (1 C)
• Postmodern theatre‎ (2 C, 32 P)
• Psychodrama‎ (1 C, 14 P)
• Puppetry‎ (21 C, 104 P, 5 F)

Q

• Qinqiang‎ (2 P)

R

• Restoration comedy‎ (120 P)
• Revenge plays‎ (22 P)

S

• Shadow play‎ (15 P)
• Sichuan opera‎ (2 C, 2 P)
• Site-specific theatre‎ (24 P)

T

• Taiwanese opera‎ (1 C, 4 P)
• Theatre of the Absurd‎ (2 C, 71 P)
• Theatrical jousting‎ (4 P)
• Theatrical music genres‎ (13 C, 2 P)
• Tragedy plays‎ (2 C, 351 P)
• Tragicomedy‎ (2 C, 6 P)

V

• Variety shows‎ (17 C, 49 P)
• Vaudeville‎ (6 C, 31 P)
• Ventriloquism‎ (2 C, 19 P)

Y

• Yue opera‎ (2 C, 2 P)

• Theatrical style

A

• Afterpiece
• Angura
• Aqua drama
• Avanspettacolo
• Avant-garde theatre

B

• Baile (Spanish play)
• Black light theatre
• Vaudeville in the Philippines
• Boulevard theatre (aesthetic)
• Box house
• Brecht Forum
• Bruscello
• Burlesque

C

• Café-théâtre
• Cantastoria
• Carpa
• Chamber theatre
• Cine-variety
• City comedy
• Comedia (Spanish play)
• Comédie en vaudevilles
• Comédie-ballet
• Comedy (drama)
• Comedy thriller
• Community theatre
• Concert saloon
• Contextual theatre
• Cuban musical theatre

D

• Devised theatre
• Dinner theater
• Documentary theatre
• Drawing room

E

• Entremés
• Expressionism (theatre)
• Extravaganza

F

• Féerie
• Fin de fiesta
• Folk play
• French history in the English-speaking theatre
• Fringe theatre

G

• Gang Show
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• Grand Guignol
• Gross out
• Guerrilla theatre
• Gunungan (wayang)

H

• Hale's Tours of the World
• Harold (improvisation)
• Hip-hop theater
• Hippodrama

I

• Illusionistic tradition
• Improvisational theatre
• In-yer-face theatre
• Interactive theatre
• Intercultural theatre
• Invisible theater

J

• Jilin opera

K

• Kitchen sink realism

L

• Legitimate theatre
• Little Theatre Movement
• Living Newspaper
• Loa (Spanish play)

M

• Macchietta
• Madrigal dinner
• Masque
• Medieval theatre
• Melodrama
• Memory play
• Methexis
• Mime artist
• Monopolylogue
• Morality play
• Moscow music hall
• Mummers' play
• Music Circus
• Music hall
• Music theatre
• Musical theatre
• Mystery dinner
• Mystery play

N

• Nativity play
• New Drama

O

• One-Mensch-Theater
• Oral interpretation

P

• Pantomime
• Parade (French street entertainment)
• Participatory theatre
• Pasku
• Passion Play
• Sri Lankan Passion plays
• Passion Plays in the United Kingdom
• Postdramatic theatre
• Postmodern theatre
• Problem play

R

• Randai
• Readers theater
• Real time (media)
• Realism (theatre)
• Revenge play
• Revenge tragedy
• Revue
• Royal Command Performance

S

• Sainete
• Satire
• Sceneggiata
• Senior theatre
• Shadow play
• Shinpa
• Sideshow
• Site-specific theatre
• Slice of life
• Sotie
• Jig (theatre)
• Stand-up tragedy
• Suffrage drama
• Summer stock theater

T

• Ta'zieh
• Tableau vivant
• Teatro di narrazione
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Theatre of Cruelty
• Theatre of the Grotesque
• Theatre of the Oppressed
• Theatre pedagogy
• Toga play
• Tom show
• Tonadilla
• Toy theater
• Tragedy
• Tragicomedy

V

• Variety show
• Victorian burlesque

W

• Well-made play