Answers questions drama teachers ask on funding drama programs, motivating apathetic students, rehearsal schedules, publicizing school plays, and set construction/design techniques with limited facilities and finances. (PD)

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)

Provides sketches and directions for constructing a structure and draperies for a problem stage or a traveling theatre production. (PD)

Chronicles the production and presentation of "The Threepenny Opera" by the Council of Independent Schools, a consortium of 11 Baltimore area high schools. The director discusses some details of his decision-making process. (JMF)

This special journal issue examines the place of the musical production in secondary school theatre activities. Articles in the issue discuss (1) the value of a musical production to students and the school drama program, (2) mature directing of a musical production, (3) the use of "off-Broadway" musicals in the high school, (4) the advantages of…

Describes an integrated approach to teaching broad-based theatre skills, including script analysis, research, design, directing, and acting. (PD)

Presents opinions of professionals on the current state of the high school play. Participants include a playwright, play supplier, high school theater instructor, workshop leader, and play publisher. Discusses selection, production, and performance of plays. (JMF)

Presents guidelines and activities for radio theatre production. Covers playwriting, production techniques, skits, and improvisations. Includes an opening segment of a script adapted for radio of Chekhov's "A Marriage Proposal." (PD)

Emphasizes the impact set design has on overall production efforts and on the audience and discusses creative stagecraft for the small secondary school stage. (MH)

Discusses the functions of student designers and points out problems they may encounter and methods for dealing with such problems. (MH)

Cites technical theatre documents available in the Resources In Education and the Current Index to Journals in Education volumes in the ERIC information dissemination system. (MH)