State: NY

Drama Club will bring Shakespeare's text to life in ELA classes in 2 District 79 schools for adjudicated youth in NYC. Students will explore the language and themes of Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, or Julius Caesar through improvisation as they build a culminating performance demonstrating their grasp of the material and its relevance to their lives.

In Theatre for a New Audience’s (TFANA) World Theatre Project arts education residency, students engage in an in-depth study of a Shakespeare play and attend student matinee performances of TFANA’s professional production. The program will serve approximately 1,100 students and teachers in grades 5 to 12 in 10 underserved New York City Public Schools.

The Neo-Political Cowgirls will create a new work consisting of a series of female characters from Shakespeare's canon, thread them into a collection exploring the archetypal maidens/mothers/crones with Shakespearean text, dance, and world music. Women's representation, voices and ambition in Shakespeare's plays will be shared in local schools and with general audiences in dynamic form.

The Acting Company will tour, Christina Anderson’s Play On Shakespeare “translation” of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. We will bring the show, workshops, in-school residencies, and pre- and post-show discussions to school communities including West Palm Beach, FL; Iowa City, IA; Asheville, NC; Jicarilla and Albuquerque, NM; Stony Brook, NY; Fairfax, VA; St. Johnsbury, VT; and Charleston, SC.

Catskill Mountain Shakespeare presents a traveling school tour of “Romeo and Juliet” in Spring 2025 throughout the Catskill mountains of NY state. Study guides, talkbacks and post performance workshops will be offered by CMS Teaching Artists.

In 2022, TAC will produce a nation-wide tour of ROMEO & JULIET, directed by Leah C. Gardiner, which continues 50 years of bringing Shakespeare to the U.S. TAC will produce...

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) requests $25,000 to support its World Theatre Project (WTP) educational residencies and student matinee performances associated with the Theatre?s 2023 production of Shakespeare?s HENRY...

Redhouse's school district partnerships serve over 3,000 students annually, using arts to address the opportunity gap that inherently exists within the urban population of CNY. Redhouse plans on engaging students...

In spring 2023, HVSF will produce Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, which will tour as part of our HVSF On the Road initiative. We will tour to approximately 35 middle and...

CTH's The Young Company (TYC) Education Program is a collaboration with Columbia University where their graduate acting students become certified teaching artists, allowing them to lead theater workshops for NYC...