A combined project of the Music and Art Departments provided for the student production of a puppet version of the Nutcracker Suite. (EJS)

Deplores the pretenders" not on the stage but in the director's role on campus. (Editor)

A teacher provides a brief account of her experiences in using puppets in language instruction and comments on their applications for televised instruction. (LS)

The Young Playwrights' Festival is a project of the Dramatists Guild, New York City, for young writers aged 8-18. This article discusses the Festival of 10 plays written by children and presented professionally at New York City's Circle Rep Theatre and the playwriting workshops for children taught by project director Gerald Chapman. (PD)

Draws information from documents in the ERIC system to define oral interpretation, demonstrate its benefits for students, and describe classroom approaches to oral interpretation, including readers' theatre. (DD)

An American press history teacher develops student interest in his topic by masquerading as major personalities in the history of journalism. (RL)

Suggests ways to use readers theatre programs to teach literature while polishing reading skills. (DD)

Demonstrates the usefulness of readers theater in the literature class. (DD)

States that undergraduate theater students typically approach their required courses in theater history with apprehension. Argues that, with the introduction of new methodologies in theater history, it is time to inspect the place of the survey course in the curriculum and to review the particular demands placed upon the teacher of theater…

Offers insights, discoveries, and practical suggestions (collected during 16 years of experience) on how to successfully direct and teach high school actors. (SR)

Outlines the structure and approach of a high school course in theater history. Includes suggestions of plays for scene work, ideas for interdisciplinary lesson plans from selected periods, and a list of books for additional reading. (SR)

Provides the responses of seven practicing English teachers to the questions, "How do you use dramatics in your classroom? How do you introduce your students to live theater?" (HB)

Presents a sequence of exercises that requires students to think about telling their stories in terms of physicalization. Requires students to think about their blocking: their chosen movements on stage, the gestures they use to communicate their stories, and the business they must create to keep their stories believable and clear. (SC)

This paper is a wake-up call, reclaiming the place of the artistic and the aesthetic in theatre and drama education as its core experience. Drama and theatre educators need to remind themselves that although drama is now being viewed as a multileveled discourse, the true appeal and beauty of drama and theatre in education lies in its power to…

This article describes the Spare Tyre Theatre Company, which has been creating theatre about gay issues including homophobia since the mid-nineties. They have worked with a variety of groups and over the years have aimed their projects at a younger and younger age group. Shows are accompanied by workshops run by the actors, and audiences are…