Did the pandemic put a damper on your film acting career plans? The Actor’s Launch House in Los Angeles is here to help you pick up right where you left off…. but under one roof and with more motivation than ever!

16 year-old student Alexandria Reese from Mokena, Illinois, is ready for the world to hear her voice. 

These past few months, I suspect that every member of the theatre industry has grappled with the same question. What do you do when your home-base theatre, school program, or summer camp has been forced to shut its doors? When you're an artist indefinitely detached from the stage, well, what's next? Playwright, lyricist, and teacher Scott Greenberg did the only logical thing a theatre-maker, starving to create, would do. He made a new stage. Spoiler alert: it comes in the form of a six-week theatre intensive taught by industry professionals, and it's everything I wish I had as a high school theatre-lover.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is pleased to announce the finalists of The AT&T High School Playwriting Competition for Colorado high school students now in its seventh year.

Please join the Centennial Knights Players for their spring musical production of Matilda!

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, have established an ongoing program to offer High School Students complimentary tickets to any Road Theatre Company production.

Playhouse on the Square's Department of Theatre Education would like to congratulate the following schools that have submitted to the second annual 10-Minute Play Slam competition!

Hoff-Barthelson Music School's Great Composers Lecture Series continues on Friday, February 14, 2020, at 11:00 am with Heaven, Hell, and Hollywood: Life and Music in Exile.

Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and Blaise Allen, Ph.D., the Festival's Director of Community Outreach, today announced the winners of the annual Palm Beach County High School Poetry Contest. The 16th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival runs January 20-25 at Old School Square in Delray Beach.

Roundabout Theatre Company and Education at Roundabout have announced that Skyline High School in Oakland, CA will present the regional premiere of LOCKDOWN: AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.

Sarasota High School produced a heart-warming rendition of Irving Berlin's a?oeWhite Christmasa?? this past week. The show which is full of laughter, was engaging and entertaining, and another shining example of the incredible theatre productions our local schools produce.

The High School Broadway Shadowing Program connects New York City public high school students with behind-the-scenes professionals including producers, stage managers, house managers, and marketing and advertising staff, who share what goes into creating and maintaining a Broadway production. On Thursday December 12th, 70 students and teachers from all over NYC came together at our host venue, Theatre Row, to learn more about non-performance careers in theatre. These participants also had the opportunity to attend The Phantom of the Opera; for some of these students it was the chance to attend a Broadway show for the first time.

I love stories that make you think. You know they ones that make your mind contemplate what is wrong and what is right. I knew I was in for a great evening when Director Scott Keys took the stage before the show and asked the question, a?oeIf you could live forever, would you?a?? With that thought racing through the minds of the audience a?oeTuck Everlastinga?? produced by Booker High School began.

CreateHER will showcase the original works of 9 high-school woman-identifying playwrights and producers on Sunday, December 15th at 5:30pm, at Lululemon Soho Loft (520 Broadway). Now in its second year, CreateHER gives students the opportunity to learn from leading women in the theater industry, while being given the tools to write and produce their own work. The program culminates in a staged reading of the students' short plays.

The Harlem School of the Arts' (HSA) dance director, Aubrey Lynch, today announced that the world-famous Radio City Rockettes will help to prepare the young precision dance ensemble, The Harlemettes, for their December 19th, 7:00 pm appearance at the Kaye Playhouse, located at 695 Park Avenue, NYC 10065.

Theatre visionary Brian Clowdus, whose immersive approach to the stage is reinvigorating live theatre nationwide, will work with Columbus Children's Theatre (CCT) to bring a?oeHeathers: The Musicala?? to life within an actual high school summer 2020. Westerville City Schools, a district that prioritizes theatre, will provide an ideal location for this unique experience, opening Westerville North High School to audiences for the run of the show. a?oePicture walking down the halls of the school with the Heathers slamming lockers left and right in a production where you aren't watchinga??you are in it!a?? offers Clowdus. a?oeThis immersive production will come to life using state-of-the-art technology in which every space of the school becomes part of this cult classic musical!a??

At local high schools, young performers will take the stage to pull back the curtain on what life is like for young trans people here in San Diego. Created in collaboration with local LGBTQ+ youth, Danny's Story is a forum theatre play that will allow high schoolers in the audience to explore their own reactions to experiencing or observing transphobia. The predominately queer cast members, who make the choice to out themselves as part of the performance, will invite students to step into character roles and interact with the professional performers in order to consider different ways to address bigotry and bias in our community. 

Based on the classic children's book of the same name, Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach tells the story of a young boy and his human-sized insect friends as they travel across the ocean in an oversized peach.

We asked, and you answered! To celebrate the importance of arts in education, we asked BroadwayWorld readers to let us know which shows their high schools and colleges are performing this fall. We've now gathered some of the most popular answers for you to enjoy, with roles ranging from classics like My Fair Lady and Damn Yankees to newer additions like School of Rock and Urinetown! Check them all out!

The Rahway High School Performing Arts Department kicks off an exciting 2019-2020 theatrical season this weekend with 'Peter & the Star Catcher.' Please join us for this unique and enjoyable production that is great for the entire family.

An awe-inspiring evening of mentorship and musicianship awaits as two special guest artists join the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Brahms' Double Concerto at the upcoming Winter Concert. Both principal musicians of Pacific Symphony, Dennis Kim (concertmaster) and Warren Hagerty (recently appointed principal cello) also have a connection to OCSA.

1st Stage believes that the theater should be a home to our entire community particularly, the young minds of our next generation of artists, creators and patrons.  With this in mind, we are proud to announce our new Youth Engagement Subscription or YES Pass. 

Students and faculty of Metropolis School of the Performing Arts entertain audiences with Here We Come A-Caroling: Holiday Favorites at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre December 15, 2019.

We asked, and you answered! To celebrate the importance of arts in education, we asked BroadwayWorld readers to let us know which shows their high schools are performing this fall. We've now gathered some of the most popular answers for you to enjoy, with roles ranging from classics like 42nd Street and Fiddler on the Roof to newer additions like Legally Blonde and Bright Star! Check them all out!

 Two Worlds Entertainment, LLC., a twenty first century think-tank committed to provide the local community with theater based educational initiatives, will host a second edition of  Casted: The Audition Workshop with Award winning Broadway artists and directors on Sunday October 27th for all high-school aged students in the area.