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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 + Hamm...

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

In spring, middle school students from eight diverse schools in the Burbank, Inglewood, Los Angeles and Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School Districts worked in small groups to write 10-minute plays rooted in their experience. This was their final project for Center Theatre Group’s Middle School Playwriting Program.

Middle School Playwriting Program inspires adolescents' self-expression