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May 23, 2017

Going to the Depths of Hell with Crystal Skillman’s GEEK!

To all high school theatre directors, I have just three words: “Do Geek! now!” Not “someday.” Not “after I find that perfect student.” Not “after I do these other five shows on my bucket list.” Now. This very next season. You will…

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Apr 11, 2017

Know Your Neighbors: CV Rep Shows the Power of Theater to the Valley’s Students

A great theater experience allows us to see our human selves reflected back — in a way that moves, informs and enables us to relate to the realities of the lives of others.

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Apr 5, 2017

Award-winning playwright, 17, shines spotlight on marginalized people

Phanesia Pharel is just 17 and already has won some of the biggest awards for playwriting.

She was a first-place playwright at the Florida State Festival; a first-place playwright at…

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Mar 23, 2017

Shining The Light: How One Teacher Brought The Ghostlight Project To His High School

A lot of my students, right now, in 2017, are scared. A lot of that is the usual teenage concern about not fitting in, the changes in their bodies and the like, but lately something is…

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Jul 14, 2016

SIGNATURE IN SCHOOLS

I started writing for the Signature in the Schools program 11 years ago under the tutelage of the late, great, Marcia Gardner, and I continue to under current Education Director David Zobell. The innovative program, started in 1995 by Marcia and playwright Norman Allen, has had a profound…

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Jul 7, 2016

Rehabilitation Through the Arts: Performing THE WIZ (Part 2)

This past January, the women of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility put on a production of The Wiz, managed and produced by Rehabilitation Through the Arts. In the first article of this series, Anne Lloyd and Michael…

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Jul 7, 2016

Rehabilitation Through the Arts: Performing THE WIZ (Part 1)

This past January, around 150 people gathered together for an evening performance for invited guests of The Wiz. Most, if not all, of the actors were new to the stage. The cast was made up of only women.

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Jun 17, 2016

Shaping Lives Through Theatre Education

To see the faces of children light up when they step on stage is to see the growth of self-confidence they will take with them forever.

Since 1929, the Educational Theatre Association (home of the International Thespian Society) has…

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Apr 26, 2016

We’ll Have The Grandest Garden Ever Seen

The Secret Garden sat on the bucket list of Red Mountain Theatre Company’s Executive Director, Keith Cromwell, for a number of years. A script that features half a cast alive and the other half dead, explores themes of grief and hope, draws on British and…

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Apr 5, 2016

FUN HOME Launches Partnership with StoryCorps, The National Oral History Project, to Celebrate the Musical’s One-Year Anniversary on Broadway

Producers Fox Theatricals (Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson) and Barbara Whitman are thrilled…