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Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Free by Lindsay Price is a strong character-driven drama that will leave your audience thinking, complete with a variety of casting options. Two te…
Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Floating on a Don't Care Cloud by Lindsay Price is a powerful and emotional issue-based play that is a theatrical and vivid personification of drug…
Teaching is an incredibly rewarding profession; many even consider teaching to be their calling. Theatre and drama teachers have the privilege of sharing their passion for performing arts wi…
The Gorgon Sisters by Laramie Dean is a fabulous take on Ancient Greek characters with lots of casting flexibility and suggested cuts for one-act competitions. The story is everything to …
Working from home has become the new normal for many of us, and with it comes new challenges. The line between home life and school life has become increasingly blurred with distance learnin…
Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. The mysterious dramedy, The Bottom of the Lake by Steven Stack is an awesome combination of ghost stories, urban legends, teen issues, romance, absurd…
As we are quickly discovering, distance learning has its share of challenges. There's new technology to navigate, lessons and assignments to adapt for use outside of the classroom, near-cons…
The Exile and the Onion Girl by Lindsay Price is a vividly modern adaptation of Aeschylus' play, The Libation Bearers. Ore has been exiled for 10 years, working as a goat herder. Onee has…
The term "self-care" is often met with eye-rolling and sarcastic laughter. We equate self-care with basking in a Jacuzzi with a fancy drink, taking a luxury cruise, or "treating yo'self" wit…
With schools being closed, social distancing, and live productions being cancelled, how do you put together an online performance? What does it look like? Read on for an overview of Lindsay …
darklight by Lindsay Price is not only a fantastic vignette play for high school performers, it's also an opportunity for discussion, community and communication on a topic that is happening…
Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Dead Men Don't Do Radio Plays by Allison Williams is a collection of two plays that can be performed separately or combined to make a full evening of …
We're in the midst of a global pandemic and we've been thrown into a situation with many unknowns. We don't know when we'll be able to safely see our friends and family in person. We don't k…
Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Postcards from Shakespeare by Allison Williams is so much more than your typical Shakespeare spoof. Your budding Bards will have a lot of fun with thi…
Chaucer's classic collection of tales come to life in the brilliant full-length adaptation, The Canterbury Tales by Lindsay Price. A group of travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage…
The following exercise has a straightforward premise: watch a movie musical and analyze it! This written exercise helps students practice skills including analytical and critical thinking, o…
These are uncertain times and it can feel like all of the "norms" we were used to have been thrown out the window. Maintaining a definitive line between work life and home life " when it's a…
Virtual Family by Christian Kiley is a look at a soothing world where complete dependency on technology takes away all ills. But is everything really perfect? Plus, three endings to choos…
Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Power Play by Lindsay Price is a dramatic play for your high school performers that is sure to evoke discussion and dialogue. A gunshot is heard. W…
It's fun and interesting to imagine alternate endings to our favourite musicals. What if Annie had ended up being adopted by Lily and Rooster in Annie? What if the Von Trapp family wasn't ab…
Through the Looking Glass by Lindsay Price is a fantastical physical journey for both actor and audience, and a great companion to our adaptation of Alice. Alice is back in Wonderland and…
The following exercise challenges students to take on the role of costume designer and come up with a modern look for a character from a different era. Students will learn about the characte…
Wait Wait Bo Bait by Lindsay Price is a vignette play all about waiting that's definitely worth the wait. A high school play with a separate middle school version, students of all ages will …
Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Chemo Girl and Other Plays by Christian Kiley is an incredible dramatic collection of plays that can be performed as a full night of theatre or as a c…
Distance Learning Note: This blog post is written for an in-class scavenger hunt. But, this is an activity that can easily be adapted for distance learning. Students can work independently t…
