Play Reading and Analysis–An Important Skill for Our Students
Play Reading and Analysis–an Important Skill for Our Students I am a drama teacher. Consequently, I eat, sleep and breath theater even now that I’m newly retired. I listen to the Sirius Broadway station all day which keeps me abreast to upcoming productions and tours. Because of my love for theater, I spend a lot […]
Three Interactive Ways to Teach The Play Tom Sawyer To Your Students
Three Interactive Ways to Teach The Play Tom Sawyer To Your Students Today’s post is Three Interactive Ways to Teach Tom Sawyer To Your Students. Several years ago, (for thirteen years) I taught sixth graders an introduction to theater class in a middle school. All the sixth graders–almost 500 of them each year. If you’d like […]
The Reasons Reader’s Theater is Successful with Our Students
The Reasons Reader’s Theater is Successful with Our Students When I was a little girl, I loved to read aloud. I was good at it, too! I think it’s where I realized performing was something I loved because by reading aloud it gave me an opportunity to try out characters and voices. My teachers readily […]
Start a Playwriting Contest Using 20 Questions
Here are some questions to contemplate when creating your own playwriting contest:
1) What is the mission of our contest? What is our end result? Are we looking for something particular subject to be explored? Reach a particular audience? Attract an underserved demographic
Start a Playwriting Contest Using 20 Questions
Here is the story of probably the most important thing we did in this company: We created a national playwriting contest for large cast youth theatre plays. It is called the Jackie White National Playwriting Award Contest and is still in existence to this day.
Announcing: Bumbling Bea The Play –Act one, Scene one
I’m one of those people who do what they say they are gonna do.
Gulp!
I am adapting Bumbling Bea into a play! (I feel we need trumpets blaring and hi-steppers stepping….)