Category:Theatrical genres

• Ballets by genre (1 C)
• Plays by genre (29 C)
• Opera genres (4 C, 46 P)
• Stock characters by theatrical genre (4 C, 2 P)
• Theatre by theme (8 C)

B

• Blackface minstrelsy (8 C, 23 P)
• Blackface theatre (11 P)
• Burlesque (5 C, 16 P)

C

• Cải lương (1 C, 7 P)
• Cantonese opera (4 C, 5 P)
• Children's theatre (1 C, 72 P)
• Comedy theatre (7 C, 10 P)
• Commedia dell'arte (3 C, 66 P)
• Concert dance (11 C, 17 P)

D

• Dinner theatre (25 P)
• Drag (entertainment) (6 C, 23 P)

E

• Experimental theatre (18 P)

F

• Fantasy theatre (6 C, 39 P)
• Fringe theatre (1 C, 25 P)

G

• Gilbert and Sullivan (8 C, 22 P, 1 F)
• Grotesque (3 C, 17 P)

H

• Henan opera (1 C, 1 P)
• Historical ballets (8 C)
• Historical musicals (10 C, 3 P)
• Historical plays (14 C, 91 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)
• Theatrical music genres (8 C, 3 P)

O

• Theatre of the Oppressed (8 P)

P

• Peking opera (5 C, 17 P)
• Performance art (19 C, 80 P)
• Physical theatre (24 P)
• Ping opera (1 C)
• Postmodern theatre (2 C, 69 P)
• Psychodrama (1 C, 14 P)
• Puppetry (15 C, 31 P)

Q

• Qinqiang (3 P)

R

• Restoration comedy (122 P)
• Revenge plays (1 C, 22 P)

S

• Shadow play (1 C, 28 P)
• Sichuan opera (1 C, 3 P)
• Site-specific theatre (1 C, 24 P)

T

• Taiwanese opera (2 C, 6 P)
• Theatre of the Absurd (2 C, 74 P)
• Theatrical jousting (5 P)
• Tragedy plays (4 C, 435 P)

V

• Variety shows (18 C, 53 P)
• Vaudeville (6 C, 46 P)
• Ventriloquism (2 C, 20 P)

Y

• Yue opera (2 C, 2 P)

• Theatrical style

A

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

B

• Backstage musical
• Baile (Spanish play)
• Black light theatre
• Boulevard theatre (aesthetic)
• Box house
• Brecht Forum
• Bruscello
• Burlesque

C

• Café-théâtre
• Cantastoria
• Carpa
• Chamber theatre
• Cine-variety
• City comedy
• Comedia (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
• Immersive theater
• 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
• 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
• Schwank (comedy)
• 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
• Vaudeville in the Philippines
• Victorian burlesque

W

• Well-made play

Z

• Zauberspiel