In keeping with their mission of supporting emerging writers, the Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) hosted some award-winning student writers at their recent gala in New York City. The winners of theNext Generation Works Thespian Playworks and Thespian Musicalworks writing competitions for members of the International Thespian Society (ITS) were the Foundation's guests at the invitation of Rachel Routh, DGF Executive Director.

As one of the nation's leading theaters, Paper Mill Playhouse has a well-earned reputation for launching both performers and shows for the Great White Way. The theater was the recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award. Since their inception in 1996, the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theatre presented by the Investors Foundation have ignited the careers of many notable performers, all of whom attended high school in New Jersey.

Spanaway Lake High School presents the heartwarming story of Almost, Maine, directed by Evan James Hildebrand.

Michael Dunaway's senior year at Nashville's Hume-Fogg Academic High School's has indeed been a busy one for the young song-and-dance man who this week opens in his school's staging of Disney's Newsies, one of the most-often produced shows of the 2018-19 season. Playing the musical's iconic leading man Jack Kelly, Dunaway leads off his final year as HFA's leading man with one of the most coveted roles in contemporary musical theater.

Little Rock Central High School Department of Theatre proudly presents "Sister Act". 

Extra, Extra, read all about it! Disney Newsies is coming to Marshwood High School! Based on the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899, Newsies depicts the story of New York newsies, boys and girls who sold newspapers on the streets, who went up against two newspaper publishers, Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and William Randolph Hearst of the New York Journal, to fight for their chance to earn a liveable wage.

Hillsboro High School's Tim Russell is deep into tech week with his castmates for their upcoming production of Bertolt Brecht's The Causasian Chalk Circle, which opens Thursday night, November 1, and is presented by The Hillsboro Players under the direction of Will Butler and Kristin Moon.

Grandview Heights High School Theatre Arts Program is proud to present Peter and the Starcatcher directed by April Olt, music directed by Lucas Fox. Peter and the Starcatchers, a play with music, is not only the prequel to Peter Pan, but it is also based on the book by Dave Berry and Ridley Pearson. Have you ever wanted to know how Caption Hook lost his hand? What is the backstory of Peter Pan? Tinkerbell? Wendy Darling? This anachronistic tale challenges traditional ideas of leaders, heroes, families, and home.  Complete with mermaids, pirates, lost boys and swashbuckling fun!

Very few actors can boast the resume, replete with some of the most iconic roles in musical theater, of Hume-Fogg Academic High School's Ava Locknar. Now a senior in Daron Bruce's and Lisa Forbis' renowned musical theatre program at the school, Ava's been at home on Broadway - albeit Nashville's Broadway - for four years, although it doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination to envision her on the Great White Way, taking on more musical theater challenges.

The Highlander Theatre Company, the resident theatre company of Somerville High School, is thrilled to announce its 2018-2019 theatre season. This year's productions comprise the inaugural season of the new organization, established last year to expand theatre opportunities for students at Somerville High. The season will consist of four productions that reflect the creativity, talent, and diversity of the Somerville High School community.

The Emanon Players of Absegami High School will be presenting the musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors on Thursday, November 1st and Friday, November 2nd at 6:30 PM and on Saturday, November 3rd at 2:00 PM. Originally based on the B-Movie horror film of the 1960s, Little Shop of Horrors is a deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical which has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become one of the most popular shows in the world.

Calling all high school aspiring singer-songwriters! Do you write lyrics and melodies in notebooks? Play an instrument and want to make your own music? You can learn how to successfully put those elements together with training from the new Singer-Songwriter Program at the Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains.

She NYC Arts, New York City's only festival devoted to producing full-length plays, musicals, and adaptations by female-identifying writers, is excited to launch CreateHER, a free 6-session workshop for female-identifying high school students interested in playwriting or producing.

Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce that students of the International Baccalaureate Program at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor presented "13 The Musical", on September 14 and 15, to benefit Bay Street Theater's upcoming Literature Live! production of Great Gatsby, and as part of the project selling ads and tickets to a cabaret dinner, students were able to raise $5,000 over and above the expenses they incurred for this IB project.

'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,' Rahway High School's fall drama shares a unique examination of life through the eyes of an autistic fifteen year old boy, Christopher John Francis Boone. Based upon the book of the same title by author Mark Haddon, 'The Curious Incident' explores the difficulty that the young Christopher has in dealing with the world and people around him.

The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF) will partner with The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) to entrust the management and administration of the nationally-recognized JumpStart Theatre program to the oldest theater for young audiences in the nation.

On September 29, Broadway and TV stars aligned to create heartfelt music at a private soiree benefiting Education Through Music-Los Angeles' music education programs in disadvantaged Los Angeles County schools.

San Diego Musical Theatre announced today their new educational outreach program 'SDMT Academy' and the hiring of a new Director of Education, Shauna Markey.

Circle Theatre is gearing up for their annual High School Playwriting Project and announcing a new partnership with the Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains.

ArtsBridge and the Georgia Lottery are teaming up for the HOPE Jingle Contest and the public can vote to choose the winners. The Georgia Lottery is giving Georgia high schools the opportunity to win additional money for their theatre department this year through the HOPE Jingle Contest.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts and The Rogers Foundation announced today that nominations are now open for their fourth-annual Heart of Education Awards, recognizing outstanding educators in Clark County School District (CCSD). Community members are encouraged to nominate teachers through January 18, 2019, as hundreds of award finalists will be celebrated at a special, red-carpet event in April at The Smith Center.

A collection of Tulsa Public School theatre / drama teachers will be honored as Theatre Tulsa's 2018 'Champion of the Arts' at the theatre company's annual Broadway Ball.

What does it take to put on a high school musical? Once the director chooses a show, students audition for parts. Casting is announced and then a flurry of activity begins - rehearsing, building sets, preparing and fitting costumes, setting lights, checking microphones and selling tickets. This happens at high schools across Northeast Ohio as students play their roles on stage, backstage or in the orchestra pit.

The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF) announces a major gift from Jeffrey Seller, in support of its JumpStart Theatre program that builds sustainable musical theatre programs in middle schools that previously had none. The gift will enable the program to expand to a new city in 2019.

The fourth annual Broadway Back to School, benefitting theatre education programs for underserved schools, takes place September 23 at Feinstein's 54 Below in New York City.