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Serious Re-write needed
Any material regarding non-Western theater, in any medium, would constitute a welcome addition to this article.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 16:56, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
Any material regarding non-Western theater, in any medium, would constitute a welcome addition to this article.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 16:56, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
== Serious Re-write needed ==
This article regarding the theater is un-encyclopedic. Saying "Nero would be proud" is an unsubstantiated and unprovable claim and has no place in scholarly writing of any kind.
Secondly, if this article is to focus on the theater, then any discussion about the Hays production code is completely irrelevant and ought to have its own article devoted to the subject.
The article also claims that plots became "increasingly salacious" without giving any concrete examples or statistics to back it up. Not only that, but it completely lacks any reference to the major playwrights of the late 19th and early 20th century. There is no mention of Anton Chekov or Henrik Ibsen (essentially the fathers of modern drama) no discussion of the varying methods of acting and how they changed over the centuries, no mention of the realism movement from the 30's to the 50's (ie the works of Arthur Miller and Tenesee Williams, as well as others)
Instead it veers off into a discussion of telivison and film censorship. I don't know if there are any qualified theater historians in this camp (I myself am only a student) but this article deserves to have another look at by someone who has studied the theater extensively and who will write a concise, focused article on theater itself.