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Peer reviewedMcCaslin, Nellie – Children's Theatre Review, 1984
Traces standards and goals for children's theatre in America, since its founding in 1903. Outlines positive and negative aspects of children's theatre. (PD)
Descriptors: Children, History, Objectives, Theater Arts
Peer reviewedSalazar, Laura Gardner – Children's Theatre Review, 1985
Examines style in children's theatre, focusing on pantomime, vaudeville, and theatre of the absurd. Traces shifts in the appeal of these styles from adult to children's theatre and then possibly to extinction. (PD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Children, History, Literary Genres
Peer reviewedPillai, Janet – Children's Theatre Review, 1985
The author, an instructor from 1979-83 at the Children's Theatre Program of the Komplex Budaya Negara (National Cultural Complex), describes how children's theatre has evolved to achieve a distinct Malaysian identity by drawing from traditional theatre forms. (PD)
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, History
Peer reviewedSalazar, Laura Gardner – Children's Theatre Review, 1984
In the early 1900s adults found the theatre unsatisfactory entertainment for children. In the name of children's rights, children were forced out of the audience and off the stage of New York's professional theatres. (PD)
Descriptors: Censorship, Child Welfare, Children, Childrens Rights
Peer reviewedRegan, F. Scott – Youth Theatre Journal, 1990
Traces the development of the Association Internationale du Theatre pour l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse (ASSITEJ), the international association of theaters for children and youth, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1990. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, International Organizations
Kerns, Ruth B. – 1990
One of the most creative, active, purposeful and successful efforts of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), active from 1935 to 1939, was the Children's Theatre. Plays for production were selected on the basis of educational and cultural value, with special attention on sufficient realism to help children's awareness of self and place in the world.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Children, Childrens Literature
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Dorothy T.; Bedard, Roger L. – Children's Theatre Review, 1984
Reviews the 40-year history of an association dedicated to the growth and development of children's theatre and child drama in the U.S. and abroad. (PD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Creative Dramatics, Drama
