In this article I draw on an ethnographic case study that examined mas' makers' perceptions of the learning/teaching practices at work in the production of costumes for Trinidad and Tobago's annual Carnival celebrations. During the 2005 Carnival season I spent four months in the field, my country of birth, and collected data through participant…

Small high schools on a limited budget do not have to sacrifice a theater program. An innovative teacher/director can use basic materials to develop an outstanding program based on units within the language arts curriculum, minicourses, staged readings, or productions of original plays. Recent research supports dramatics in schools. Includes 13…

Describes an effective technique the author uses in college productions to combat staleness in rehearsals and to help actors make new discoveries about their roles. (PD)

Tells how actors can be taught stage dialects. Covers pre-rehearsal procedures, auditions, initial dialect sessions, and rehearsal procedures. Includes a bibliography of standard texts and recorded materials. (PD)

Provides six classroom exercises to stimulate student awareness of the principles of Readers Theater. Emphasizes the use of scripts and space, flexibility of voice and body, staging, pantomime, and characterization. (PD)

The most popular liberal arts elective offered during "Interim," a three-week intensive study semester given at the Fashion Institute of Technology, is described. Course origin, concept and format, course instructor, department coordinator, and course modifications are described. (MLW)

Discusses the advantages of using reader's theatre over other dramatic activities, as well as ways to implement reader's theatre in the classroom. (HTH)

Offers several suggestions to high schools for organizing, coordinating, promoting, and selling their theater season. (JMF)

Defines "tableaux vivant" as the three-dimensional enactment of still pictures. Describes its use in the theater and as a tool in theater study. Presents a series of warm-up and tableaux exercises for use in the classroom. (JMF)

Discusses the efforts, problems, and controversies involved in the full-scale reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Critics question the cost and necessity while supporters proclaim its value as a monument to western civilization. The theater opens to a full season of plays in 1997. (MJP)

Presents a list of suggestions for developing a cooperative relationship among the various specialists who are involved in a high school musical production, such as "Hair." (JMF)

Outlines how Bishop Walsh High School in Cumberland, Maryland, solved the problem of staging a multiset musical, "Guys and Dolls," on a circular thrust stage with no curtain, by using four four-sided rolling variations of the Greek "periaktoi," tall column-like structures whose faces can be painted with scenic elements. (JMF)

Suggests ways to create appropriate, well-fitting, economical costumes. (PD)

Discusses the quality and value to students of recent Broadway plays. Noting that dramatic output is limited in size and content, recommends the use of an international English-language repertory for the education of young students. Cites British, Australian, Canadian, Caribbean, African and South African authors. (JG)

Describes an effective secondary school theatre program. Covers values, curriculum, production, audiences, class operations, standards, student directors, and pressures. (PD)