Talk:National Theatre of the Deaf

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Add and develop subsections related to the topic such as: history/performances/performers/etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jullian Drews (talk • contribs) 13:43, 26 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Possible Sources:

Baldwin, S. (1993). Pictures in the air : The story of the National Theatre of the Deaf. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.

Powers, H. (1972). Signs of silence: Bernard Bragg and the National Theatre of the Deaf. New York: Dodd, Mead.

Lang, H. (2015). The History of Gallaudet University: 150 Years of a Deaf American Institution. Sign Language Studies, 15(3), 363-366.

Bragg, B., & Bergman, Eugene. (1989). Lessons in laughter : The autobiography of a deaf actor (1st ed.). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.

Sweet, J. (2014). The O'Neill : The transformation of modern American theater. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Duprey, R. (1998). The National Theatre of the Deaf's "Peer Gynt". The Puppetry Journal, 49(3), 4-5.

Buchwald, L. (2015). Deaf Talent, Seen and Heard. American Theatre, 32(9), 28-75.

In Memoriam: Lou Fant and Charles Corey. (2001). American Theatre, 18(7), 12.

Jullian Drews (talk) 13:40, 26 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

I've made the first line of this section a header to differentiate it from the bot's section above. - Purplewowies (talk) 06:21, 27 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

A new section could be added about the famous actors involved with the National Theatre of the Deaf. You could create a bibliography of any of the actors by describing their background, what made them become actors, and how they are associated with NTD.

I found two sources that could help expand your article. Here are the links:

http://www.ntd.org/ntd_history.html

http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/nationaltheaterofthedeaf.htm

Dnalves1990 (talk) 16:34, 18 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

This article is off to a great start. It has good information and the writing is clear and well thought out.

Right now all the information is encompassed in one paragraph. I would suggest creating a separate section for NTD's Production History, listing the show titles and directors. You have famous actors at the bottom of the paragraph but you could incorporate those in a separate section.

Additionally adding a section about the type of work they do. You said their mission but it might benefit you to expand on the genre of work, what Storytelling methods do they use? (ABC Stories? Personification? etc?) Etoppo (talk) 16:28, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your sources are hard to access, I would suggest imbedding a link to make them easily accessible.

Etoppo (talk) 16:20, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Looking at the sources that aren't linked, that might be difficult, as one is a book and the other a newspaper article and they're both from the '80s. However, I did find the book here on Muse for anyone who'd like to update the source. The newspaper article doesn't appear to be online but that's okay, as long as the article does back up what it's being used to cite. - Purplewowies (talk) 03:06, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

This article has a great beginning overview and looks good so far. My main suggestion would be to make the lead section more broad and make new sections for a lot of what you have included there. You could have a section for the NTD's history, its notable works and artists, its modern-day status, and its significance to the Deaf community, among others. The NTD website also has a great "About" page that may be helpful to you if you haven't looked at it already: http://www.ntd.org/ntd_about.html

Good work! --Sburkholder (talk) 17:50, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for reviewing the draft of paragraphs created to add to the existing lead paragraph in Wiki. Please note that the lead paragraph is not my work and refer to my sandbox to see the draft to be peer reviewed. Jullian Drews (talk) 18:18, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for reviewing the lead paragraphs of the existing article in Wiki. Please note that the lead paragraph is not my work and refer to my sandbox to see the draft to be peer reviewed. Jullian Drews (talk) 18:21, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

• The grammar in the sentence that starts "It was founded in 1967..." needs to be cleaned up.
• "is considered instrumental" should be rephrased, possibly with a citation, to reduce bias.
• I am confused about who founded NTD. First the article says NTD was founded by Arthur Penn and Anne Bancroft, but then other "co-founders" are referenced.
• The sentence "After additional actors were selected and the material to be produced agreed upon, the first production of the NTD, xx, occurred in Middletown, Connecticut at Wesleyan University." needs a production name. There are other "XX" marks throughout that need to be replaced.
• The first sentence of the "mission" section has the word hearing capitalized but not the word deaf.
• The section "Notable/Famous NTD Actors" needs to be elaborated or deleted.
• You might talk about Children of a Lesser God, as it is currently on Broadway and was just nominated for at least one Tony award (for Lauren Ridloff).

Ncaselli (talk) 16:07, 3 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Ncaselli, thanks for pointing out these issues. If you're comfortable editing an article, go ahead and work on these changes yourself. I'd recommend doing them in separate edits, one by one (in any order you please) rather than bundling them all together in one big edit. That way, if there's a problem, a revert won't undo all your work, just some small fraction of it. Good luck, Mathglot (talk) 10:30, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

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