Explores the benefits of using Readers Theatre in the content areas. Discusses how to select and adapt text for Readers Theatre scripts and provides suggestions for rehearsal and performing of the scripts. (MG)

A discussion of comprehensive advance planning for college performing arts programs outlines specific planning needs and looks at six myths about the audience for arts programs, particularly among the college student population but also including the surrounding community and other age groups. (MSE)

This article examines the use of theater in secondary education to highlight social issues and enhance students' lives. Several examples of plays and the subjects approached are briefly discussed. The article concludes with a list of theater companies that can be used as resources. (GLR)

Talks with Dr. Barbara McIntyre, Professor Emeritus, internationally known educator in the field of drama education about her own teacher preparation and early teaching experiences; how teaching in a one room school laid the foundation for her philosophy of drama education; major changes in the field of drama education; children's theatre and…

Reports on a study that presented rehearsal excerpts demonstrating the presence or absence of specific teaching attributes, asked subjects to evaluate them in each category, and compared subjects' ratings with data demonstrating the presence or absence of those attributes. Presents results based on the evaluation of 10 categories of student and…

Describes PATRON (Performing Arts Teaching Resources ON-line) at the University of Surrey (United Kingdom) that was designed to deliver digital audio, video, music scores, and dance notation across a high-speed network to the desktop. The principle aim is to improve access to reserve materials for staff and students. (Author/LRW)

Addresses two questions: (1) What is a charter school?; and (2) What does the creation of these schools mean for music teachers and music-education programs? Defines charter schools, discusses their emergence, and describes three charter-school music programs. (DSK)

Describes the use of puppet theater in an Alaskan elementary school focusing on the design and implementation of a play on the history of Alaska. Reports that the play's focus was on the change in architectural structures as a means to explore events that transformed Alaska. Provides recommendations for a similar project. (CMK)

Presents a course that integrates psychology and drama in order to study drama therapy and psychodrama. Explains that the instructors utilized both a lecture method and an active learning approach to increase student motivation. Describes the course, addresses the benefits for the students, and discusses the students' reactions to the course. (CMK)

At one Wisconsin middle school, a successful student motivator is an improv troupe that develops and performs unscripted, improvisational skits about social issues affecting adolescents. Skits stop at a critical decision-making point or show the devastating effects of a negative choice. Discussion reinforces the message. (MLH)

Describes a 10-week drama production project to create a scripted piece that suits adolescent actors. Notes that there is a scarcity of suitable scripts for middle school performers. Details the process used in the hope that others who face similar frustrations may learn from and adapt it for use in their own educational environments. (SC)

Discusses the use of improvisational acting exercises as a productive tool for overcoming reticence in English-as-a-Second-Language students. The approach stresses participation rather than accuracy of production. (Author/VWL)

Investigates the effects of readers theater participation on the oral reading ability and motivation of second-grade Title I reading students. Finds readers theater activities may offer otherwise struggling readers an opportunity to read aloud with enhanced skill that may transfer to reading achievement levels on other material. (NH)

Argues that arts education makes it possible for students to imagine themselves out of their current identities, describing how a middle school theater arts program supported female students' positive identities. Observation and interview data indicated that tools gained in the program transformed girls' attitudes toward education and other…

This article argues that justifications for art and culture recently have changed from one of basic freedom of expression and communication of an inner vision ("art for art's sake"), to one of utilitarianism and entrepreneurialism. On a very basic level, theatre in school settings works with young people inside the context of a community…