2015 | Center Theatre Group

Here at Center Theatre Group, we love giving people internships. However, three times a year, I have to tell most applicants they haven’t been selected for the program. The truth is, the majority of applications don’t receive serious consideration because of small, easily fixable errors. If you’re thinking about applying, ple...

Tips for Applying to Our Internship Program

Over 50 percent of Los Angeles County citizens live in a home where a language other than English is spoken. I teach theatre at Jefferson Middle School in San Gabriel, about 10 miles east of Downtown L.A.; approximately a quarter of our students are English learners, and they speak 25 different languages. In previous years, I have taught language l...

Conversations from the Classroom: English Learners Speak the Language of Theatre

They are leaders, feminists, teachers, and writers. They feel passionately about activism, caring for people, horses, and art. They want to strengthen their teamwork and leadership skills, inform and connect people with their communities, and voice their ideas. They are this year’s Center Theatre Group Student Ambassadors, and for the rest o...

Meet the 2015/16 Student Ambassadors

During the best of/worst of times called “adolescence,” finding a passion for something—and getting support for others as you pursue that passion—can save your sanity, and maybe even your life! Center Theatre Group’s Theatre Crash Course opened its arms and its doors to a group of adolescents trying to find that passion in theatre—and i...

Crashing Into a Career in Theatre

Theatre is one of the only disciplines where educators are expected to do it all. A teacher trained in acting is still expected to teach costume design. And a costume designer is still expected to teach the tenets of lighting. So how does a theatre teacher (or a teacher who’s had the theatre program dumped on them—and might be trained i...

Teaching Theatre: Crash Course Style

Three times a year, Center Theatre Group welcomes a new class of bright-eyed students and recent graduates to its internship program. With internships available in almost every department, from artistic development and marketing to community outreach, the program brings together a diverse group of young people from theatre and non-theatre backgroun...

Our Fall 2015 Interns Dream Big

Throughout the school year, we are asking Los Angeles educators for their most inspiring and essential ideas for teaching and integrating theatre in the classroom. If you’re a local educator with a passionate and innovative approach to working with students or a self-growth strategy to share with colleagues, pitch your blog idea to Educa...

The Art of Teaching Theatre: Who Needs Stuff to Make Drama?

Center Theatre Group is profiling the work of Los Angeles educators in a new Teacher Feature series. These features — which highlight both theatre and non-theatre teachers — provide a glimpse into the daily challenges and successes in the classroom (and sometimes on the stage) and offer a space for fellow educators to learn from each o...

Teacher Feature - End of the year “crazy time”

When you welcome over 1,500 fourth and fifth grade students to the Ahmanson Theatre with the promise of magic, you know it is going to be a good day. From the sparkling on the plaza floor, to the sparkle in their eyes, the true magic of the theatre was ever present at our Young Audiences Program student matinee performance of Rodger’s +...

Post-its to Possibilities: A Day at the Theatre

Center Theatre Group's Young Audiences Program is more than just a field trip, and sometimes even the educational materials that we develop for our student matinees go on long journeys of their own.

Educational materials tour the nation