Filichia Features: Junior Theater Festival is a Perfect 10

Most people like to sleep late on a Saturday morning, but on Jan. 17, more than 4,000 people, ranging from tweens to seniors, are wide awake not long after the crack of Saturday’s dawn.That’s been the case in Atlanta for the last ten years ...

Meet the Freddie G. Broadway Experience Class of 2014

The Freddie G. Broadway Experience is a celebration of eight outstanding educators who are selected at the annual Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta for their exceptional contributions to their communities through the staging of Broadway Junior ...

Music Theatre International and Itheatrics Celebrate The Turnaround Arts Program as Guests Attending a Special Event at The White House

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announces that after a successful two-year pilot, Turnaround Arts will expand into an additional 19 school districts in 11 states. Washington, D.C. – June 4, 2014 – Music Theatre ...

You Can’t Stop Denzel Washington and the Hundreds of NYC Students Performing an MTI Broadway Junior Musical on a Broadway Stage!

Legendary actor and star of Broadway’s A Raisin in the Sun, Denzel Washington hosted an inspiring morning of musical theatre performances by hundreds of students from middle and intermediate New York City Public Schools on the stage of Broadway’s ...

Denzel Washington to Host Music Theatre International Broadway Junior Student Share Celebration

Hundreds of NYC Public School Students to Make Their Broadway Debut Denzel Washington, currently starring in the acclaimed Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, will serve as Host of the Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway Junior Student Share ...

New Posthumous Award Initiated as The Kennedy Center Seeks Nominations for Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards

Series of Annual $10,000 Awards Named for Broadway Legend Honors Teachers In All Fields of Education (WASHINGTON, D.C.)—The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seeking nominations for the 2014 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim ...

Bridgeport Roosevelt School to Perfom Disney’s JUNGLE BOOK KIDS with Support of Turnaround Arts and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Funders Myrna and Freddie Gershon Support the Program to Transform the School writing proposalOnce the lowest performing school in the State of Connecticut, Roosevelt is one of eight schools around the country turning itself around through the arts. ...

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