Describes a successful project in Philadelphia that paired students from Germantown Friends School with children at the Home of the Merciful Savior School for Children with Cerebral Palsy. States that the arts staff at both schools composed a musical which the two schools performed together. Concludes that performing the musical taught acceptance…

Posits that theater can be a transforming experience. Describes a program, "Write on the Edge," run by the Manhattan Theatre Club which attempts to formalize and institutionalize theater's potential to alter the course of young people's lives. Notes that students are drawn from New York city jails and alternative high schools. Concludes…