Applications open today for Academy Breakin' Convention, the new hip hop theatre school that's one of the major initiatives at Sadler's Wells' fourth London venue, Sadler's Wells East, due to open next year as part of the East Bank development in Stratford's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.   Find out more about the new leadership and how to apply.

 A Class Act NY, the award-winning acting studio, will present four performances of MEAN GIRLS: High School Version in New York City the weekend of November 11 and 12. 

Conductors Elias Peter Brown and Aleksandra Melaniuk have been selected by Esa-Pekka Salonen to join the San Francisco Symphony conducting staff in the 2023–24 season as an extension of their work as Salonen Fellows in the Colburn School Conservatory of Music’s Negaunee Conducting Program.

Colburn School and San Francisco Symphony announce Elias Peter Brown and Aleksandra Melaniuk as the new Salonen Conducting Fellows. They will join the San Francisco Symphony conducting staff in the 2023-24 season.

Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre have launched the “Theatre for Every Child campaign” ahead of the next general election. They are asking for politicians to commit that every child will attend the theatre before they leave school. 

Learn about Asase Yaa's Arts Outreach Program's exciting partnership with 19 schools for the Hip Hop Kingdom program in the 2023-2024 school year. Discover how students will explore the historical and cultural influences of Hip Hop while participating in a tailored theater curriculum. Plus, find out about the appointment of the new Managing Director, Kwesi Nkroma.

Broadway Bridges kicks off today! The fall 2023 program includes 20 participating shows. Check out the press release for more details.

Discover how PURLIE VICTORIOUS is giving NYC high school students the chance to see this incredible musical with a new student ticket initiative. Find out how to take advantage of this limited-time offer and experience the magic of PURLIE VICTORIOUS in New York City.

National Youth Theatre (NYT) have launched Assemble, a new programme created to address isolation amongst disabled young people in non-mainstream schools that specialise in moderate or severe learning support needs, seed funded by the National Lottery Community Fund’s Bringing People Together programme. Learn more about the programming here!

 From September 19th through October 7th, the music of the night will swell through the streets of London, Ontario, as the Grand Theatre presents the 25th Anniversary High School Project (HSP):  Andrew Lloyd’s Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. Learn more about the performance here!

The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF), The Music Man Foundation (TMMF) and Music Theatre International (MTI) announced a special partnership that will give up to ten high schools a unique opportunity to perform the new, revised version of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”. Learn more here!

Up to ten $10,000 grants funded by TMMF will be made available for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years to be used toward costs associated with the production of the musical. Any accredited high school based in the United State is eligible to apply.

Performing and visual artists are banding together in Save NYSSSA Now to relaunch arts programming for talented high school students in the 52-year old New York Summer School for the Arts, known as NYSSSA. Despite an even greater need for student expression, the program has not been scheduled for 2024.

Broadway Licensing Group, Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions have announced an exciting partnership to bring Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the award-winning record-breaking hit play, to high school and secondary school theatre programs worldwide starting in 2024.

BroadwayWord sat down with Educational Theatre Association's Musical Theatre Teacher of the Year Matthew Wolfe to discuss winning this award, his thoughts on creating a safe, inclusive theatre department, and his hopes for his future, as well as the future of his students and program.

Did the pandemic put a damper on your film acting career plans? The Actor’s Launch House in Los Angeles is here to help you pick up right where you left off…. but under one roof and with more motivation than ever!

16 year-old student Alexandria Reese from Mokena, Illinois, is ready for the world to hear her voice. 

These past few months, I suspect that every member of the theatre industry has grappled with the same question. What do you do when your home-base theatre, school program, or summer camp has been forced to shut its doors? When you're an artist indefinitely detached from the stage, well, what's next? Playwright, lyricist, and teacher Scott Greenberg did the only logical thing a theatre-maker, starving to create, would do. He made a new stage. Spoiler alert: it comes in the form of a six-week theatre intensive taught by industry professionals, and it's everything I wish I had as a high school theatre-lover.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is pleased to announce the finalists of The AT&T High School Playwriting Competition for Colorado high school students now in its seventh year.

Please join the Centennial Knights Players for their spring musical production of Matilda!

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, have established an ongoing program to offer High School Students complimentary tickets to any Road Theatre Company production.

Playhouse on the Square's Department of Theatre Education would like to congratulate the following schools that have submitted to the second annual 10-Minute Play Slam competition!

Hoff-Barthelson Music School's Great Composers Lecture Series continues on Friday, February 14, 2020, at 11:00 am with Heaven, Hell, and Hollywood: Life and Music in Exile.

Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and Blaise Allen, Ph.D., the Festival's Director of Community Outreach, today announced the winners of the annual Palm Beach County High School Poetry Contest. The 16th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival runs January 20-25 at Old School Square in Delray Beach.

Roundabout Theatre Company and Education at Roundabout have announced that Skyline High School in Oakland, CA will present the regional premiere of LOCKDOWN: AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.