Suggests that, from nursery school throughout the elementary years, teachers can encourage children to participate in dramatizations by incorporating dramatic experiences into the classroom context. Provides guidelines for implementing a variety of drama activities--dramatic play, story drama, readers theater, role playing, and other creative…

Describes how the author applies the four Rs of volunteerism: research, recruit, retain, and recognize. Outlines the basics of each and how they can be incorporated in a school program. (SG)

Considers how in the past 15 years, with renewed interest in women writers and education for girls, there has been a revival of interest in the Theatre of Education, a large, coherent body of plays for children written in Europe and America between 1750 and 1830. Discusses plays written for children from the 1500s to the early 1900s. (SG)

Recounts that the Dickinson Theatre Project has been active not only in the advocacy of drama in the elementary classroom, but also in the support and development of weekly one-act productions, the creation of student-produced plays, and the development of full-length productions with casts and crews as small as 25 and as large as 250. (PA)

Argues that the further theatre studies moves away from its roots in the art and the business, the less valuable it is as an academic subject. Proposes that it is precisely in the historic tension between theatre departments and universities that theatre departments can best clarify their existence and goals. (PM)

Notes a resurgence of interest and practice in participational theater. Explains that playwrights, directors, and theater educators have begun to ask questions and seek information about available scripts and guidelines for creating new works. Includes edited remarks by six practitioners who talked about their experiences with participation…

Asserts that there is a need for more empirical research in the area of theatre for young audiences. Discusses myths about empirical research. (MS)

Describes the similarities between a vocational education program and what happens in an educational theater scene shop. Highlights the one main difference between the two as being the approach to risk management. Compares the goals of each program, and discusses their approaches to risk management. (PA)

Discusses mask building as a theatrical exercise. Provides a simple method for building masks. Outlines a format for the classes that follow mask construction, in which a character is gradually built to suit the finished mask, including the birthing process, physical character and voice development, getting to know the character, and what happens…

Discusses ways to use older adults in high school productions, including casting senior adults in the older roles and using adults in all stages of design and production. Provides guidelines for a student-directed short play competition. (PA)

Presents a conversation with five theater practitioners and artists about advocacy for theater. (SR)

Discusses the value of name recognition for theater companies. Describes steps toward identity and recognition, analyzing the group, the mission statement, symbolic logic, designing and identity, developing a communications plan, and meaningful activities. (SR)

Addresses the following censorship issues: (1) whether a group has the right to impose its world view on another group; (2) whether artistic visions which attack any group's values should be permitted; and (3) the limits of artistic freedom and who defines those limits. Cites examples from various plays through the years. (PA)

Analyzes the issue of censorship in relation to how it has influenced anti-apartheid South African playwright/director Mbongeni Ngema's theatrical style and the evolution of his style from the socio-political context in which he works. Illuminates the playwright's strategies for overcoming censorship. Discusses his most well-known work,…

Argues for the participation of theater programs in the development of a gay and lesbian curriculum. Predicts that gay and lesbian studies will soon take its place alongside existing cross-disciplinary programs in women's, African American, Native American, and other area studies. Presents examples of how to introduce gay studies into theater…