Gday,
I need to put a question out there about what to categorise theatre photography as? It's not technically 'concert' or 'event'. It could sometimes be classed as portrait, but that would be for individual images as opposed to an entire shoot of a play.
It's one of those annoying questions for me that only comes up when I do this type of work.
Can you help me out?
:)
I would say it's reportage or journalistic, as you're trying to tell the story of the event.
Better late than never to put my two cents in -- it is "theatrical" photography. Nothing else is quite like it. It's like writing a play vs. writing a novel or screenplay. Another animal entirely. And I've done theatrical photography and have written plays....