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…

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)

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)

Experiences as a seasoned theatre arts educator in teaching drama to high school students. (CH)

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)

Describes a program of half-hour, lunch period, dramatic productions staged by high school students. (DD)

This book presents 16 original scripts that have been adapted from classic works of literature for use for readers theatre with young adults and ESL (English as a Second Language) students. Adaptations of the following works are included: "Little Women" (Louisa May Alcott); episodes from "Don Quixote" (Miguel de Cervantes; "The Necklace" (Guy de…

Dramatic improvisation ideas for high school English teaching. (CH)

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)

This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of the one-act musical based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel, "Anne of Green Gables," with music by Richard DeRosa and book and lyrics by Greg Gunning. The guide is designed to help teachers foster students' appreciation of theatre, dance,…