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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

In the new national tour of The Sound of Music, on stage at the Ahmanson Theatre through October 31, Maria teaches the von Trapp children to sing in perfect harmony in a matter of minutes—exactly the time it takes to sing the song “Do-Re-Mi” from start to finish. Not exactly realistic....

The Hands are Alive with 'The Sound of Music'