Examines reasons why those who engage in performance and direct performances take up the burden. Considers performance an authentic, primary experience; a way of knowing; and also a way of knowing what is worth knowing. (PD)

This article presents guidelines to the elementary teacher for producing a class play. The script for a short adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" is appended on pages 47-49. (SJL)

Draws an analogy between teaching and theatrical performance by analyzing the criteria essential for evaluating both: setting, structure, form, content, presentation, style of the performer/teacher, and communicative skills. (CAM)

Sketches the nature of early theater, vaudeville, and film competition. Focuses on one tool of competitive strategy--protection by copyright. (JMF)

Describes the history and current state of special courses to prepare librarians for work with performing art collections. Results from a survey of library educators and theater librarians indicating mixed feelings about such courses are discussed, and the survey questions are appended. References are provided. (BK)

To insure that the school play was an actual learning experience, third-graders were allowed to make the decisions about sets, costuming, script, and rehearsals. (SJL)

Draws information from documents in the ERIC system to define oral interpretation, demonstrate its benefits for students, and describe classroom approaches to oral interpretation, including readers' theatre. (DD)

An American press history teacher develops student interest in his topic by masquerading as major personalities in the history of journalism. (RL)

Suggests ways to use readers theatre programs to teach literature while polishing reading skills. (DD)

Discusses the contributions of Clare Tree Major, the first theatre professional to provide touring plays exclusively for children's audiences, and examines her treatment of classic children's literature through the play "Little Women" Available from: Children's Theatre Review, American Theatre Association, 1029 Vermont Avenue, N.W. Suite…

Demonstrates the usefulness of readers theater in the literature class. (DD)

Defines "something else" as something that attends to the complexity of the questions asked and the diversity of the "audiences" for whom "knowledge" is being produced--the fruits of research efforts. Finds that it is less a matter of continuing to perpetuate the qualitative/quantitative debate than attempting to…

Recounts the life and times of a pioneer children's theater playwright and fiction author, Nora Tully MacAlvay (1900-86). Points out that her interest in children's theater and children's literature was lifelong and intense. (PA)

Recounts how attendance at an international theater festival in Scotland brought unexpected stimulation for one teacher. Cites several examples of imaginative productions with minimal sets and lighting but in which the actors brought the texts to life and provided inspiration for festival attendees. (PA)