Strut and Fret

Playworks: Call for collaborators

No Comments By Julie York Coppens | May 14, 2013
The Thespian Playworks team is looking for some experienced student designers (set, lighting, costume, sound) and stage managers to help bring this year’s four winning finalist scripts to life. A select group of aspiring behind-the-scenes ...
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School theatre in China

1 Comment By Matt Conover | May 9, 2013
Nihao! That’s how 20 percent of the world’s population greets each other every day—Nihao! It means “hello” or “greetings” in Mandarin. Xìjù is Mandarin for “theatre” or ...
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Thespian Playworks: we got the hook up

1 Comment By Julie York Coppens | May 7, 2013
Emma Woodhouse? The Reverend Sun Myung Moon? Yente, from Fiddler on the Roof? Amateurs! Over twenty years at Thespian Playworks, we’ve elevated matchmaking to a fine art. Of course, the marriages we arrange here—artistic unions ...
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Grant sends two troupes to Festival

No Comments May 2, 2013
The Educational Theatre Association launched the second annual Send a Troupe to Festival fundraising campaign in early December. This year, EdTA wanted to make it possible for two deserving troupes to make the trip to the Thespian Festival in ...
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The works

No Comments April 12, 2013
Would you risk your life to make a point? What if your soulmate existed only on paper? How could this Italian honeymoon possibly go more wrong? Good plays ask good questions, and this year’s Thespian Playworks submissions—seventy-two ...
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