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Riding an Emotional Roller Coaster at the August Wilson Monologue Competition Preliminary Auditions

Auditions are always a roller coaster of emotions, and the preliminary auditions for this year’s August Wilson Monologue Competition were no exception. One hundred forty-six students from 45 high schools in 52 cities convened at Center Theatre Group’s Downtown L.A. headquarters on Saturday, November 14 to ride this particular coaster. Their ass...

Riding an Emotional Roller Coaster at the August Wilson Monologue Competition Preliminary Auditions

Meet the 2015/16 Student Ambassadors

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

Crashing Into a Career in Theatre

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

Conversations from the Classroom: How Do Theatre Teachers 'Start at the Very Beginning'?

Center Theatre Group is excited to connect educators who are bringing high-quality theatre education to students across Los Angeles. At the same time, we want to help those outside the classroom to learn more directly about the challenges of and solutions to teaching theatre in our schools and communities. In our new Conversations from the Classroo...

Conversations from the Classroom: How Do Theatre Teachers 'Start at the Very Beginning'?

What's Your Role?

What’s Your Role?by Center Theatre Group | Posted on February 20, 2015  ...

Meet August Wilson Program Alumnus Pablo Lopez

Center Theatre Group is now in its fourth year serving as the Los Angeles home to the national August Wilson Monologue Competition in which high school students discover Pulitzer-Prize-winning, African American playwright August Wilson and bring his characters to life.  We recently caught up with many of our alumni and will share updates with you...

Middle School Playwriting Program inspires adolescents' self-expression

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

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