The Educational Center of the Arts in New Haven, formerly a synagogue, serves approximately 125 students in the area identified as having a potential for visual or performing arts. (Author/MLF)

Advocates rearranging the steps directors follow in conventional theater productions. Describes a collaboration with an artist and a group of Lake Ridge Academy (Ohio) theater students that began with the construction of a sculpture/set piece that inspired the performers to write. The company then performed these writings around the sculpture/set…

Notes that in academic theatre there is a deep division between those individuals who consider themselves practitioners and those who consider themselves theorists. Considers the role of ideology in theater practice. Discusses the author's experience teaching drama with an idealistic view. (SG)

Explores the complex issues of academic freedom raised by administrators' objection to a student production of "Angels in America" at the Catholic University of America. (EV)

Notes that in the popular imagination, theatre is still linked integrally and stereotypically with homosexuality. Discusses various critical debates of the 1960s about the linguistic and conceptual divorce of theatre and theatricality from performance and performativity. Concludes that if Theatre Studies has an enemy at all, it is in its own…

Contends that community-based theatre (CBT) can productively redefine the parameters of what "political performance" can mean. Draws on the work of community-based performance artist Tim Miller and on the author's experience as a dramaturg to suggest that artists and scholars must develop a revised idea of what constitutes activist democratic…

Describes the author's experience working on a reader's theatre version of a radio play based on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Reflects on how the grade 8 students created meaning for themselves and for their audience. Notes limitations of the script and format and her work within those limitations became the structure the group needed, a container…

Lists 10 things to do to make a drama program known to the public: know the newspapers; know the neighborhood; know the people; cultivate other sources; do something special; write the press release; take care of details; keep students involved; use other ways to get the word out; and never give up. (PA)

This introduction to the World Wide Web describes its uses by performing arts students and teachers at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (District of Columbia). Some specific Web sites for arts students and teachers are recommended. (DB)

Discusses the production of an autobiographical play about the Holocaust, "Who Will Carry the Word?" by Charlotte Delbo. Notes that the play is in three acts, needs a large female cast, and was mounted by the Teen Repertory Company of the Oddfellows Playhouse of Middletown, Connecticut. Describes rehearsal techniques and audience…

Offers a view of Drama Education in Higher Education in Canada. Presents the reply in letter form. Discusses the complexity of the Canadian governmental and educational scene. (SG)

Notes that in rehearsals and performances, a jumble of silences are encountered. Discusses silence in the following situations: as frustration; as imposition; as invisibility; as power; as pleasure; as safety; as humility; as necessity; and as potential. Contends that when dramaturgs enter into conversation and break silence, they must carefully…

Discusses the experiences of a professional and academic dramaturg as she learns how to respond to non-realist plays. Proposes that non-realism is not simply the absence of realism but is a form in itself. Presents a vocabulary for non-realist texts. Notes that to create this vocabulary the features of its style should be defined. Discusses the…

Presents the keynote address given at the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Junior High/Middle School Committee's conference on "Exploring the Curriculum through Drama." Discusses why drama and theater must be an integral part of the education of children. (SR)