Teaching Moments in Albany Park’s ‘Learning Curve’
This site-specific Chicago project takes audiences back to school, where the lessons aren’t all on the syllabus.
Education
Who Better to Satirize School Segregation Than Students?
Epic NEXT’s high schoolers devise theatre to address their immediate concerns—and get trained and paid in the bargain.
Trinity Rep Launches the Grade 11 Project
The program will offer free tickets to the theatre’s production of ‘Midsummer’ to all Rhode Island 11th graders.
Strings Attached: A Chicago Immigrant Tale Travels to Scotland
Adventure Stage’s ‘Reprise’ tells the story of community change via a loaned violin.
What Does Shakespeare Have to Say to New York Teens?
In a five-week summer intensive at Stella Adler School, underserved youth take a stab at ‘Julius Caesar.’
Do Robots Dream of Electric Scene Partners?
Robots onstage are less likely to replace humans than to heighten the contradictions of the human condition in a technological age.
Improv in Warsaw? Yes, And
Since improv comedy shows began cropping up in 2008, the Polish capital has become one of Europe’s new hotspots for the art form.
Theatre by the Book in Big D
How Dallas Theater Center enriches audiences’ experience through reading.
You’re in the Band: Bay Area Students Perform ‘School of Rock’
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical gets its first amateur staging at the Curran Theatre while still a hit on Broadway.
Offscript: Young at Art With Linda Hartzell and David Saar
This week’s guests are Childsplay’s David Saar and Seattle Children’s Theatre’s Linda Hartzell, TYA giants soon to retire. Plus, the editors recall their first theatre experiences.
