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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 other and...

Teacher Feature - End of the year “crazy time”

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 Education@Ce...

The Art of Teaching Theatre: Endings and Rituals

Alone on the Mark Taper Forum stage one evening in early March, Philip Patrick Bucknor performed an excerpt from August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. He finished and … silence. Then, explosive, roaring applause. It was a dual accolade that would be cherished by actors far more experienced than Bucknor, a high school senior, and it...

August Wilson's Historic Cycle Touches the Future

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