Honolulu Theatre for Youth to Premiere THE TINY TREE (BroadwayWorld.com): With live music and song, a charming father-son astronaut duo and a fantastical setting on a planet far far away, the play is designed especially for tiny tots-but will also resonate powerfully with adults. (Read More.)
Childsplay Founder David Saar to Receive 2016 Shelley Award at 35th Annual Governor's Arts Awards (BroadwayWorld.com): The award, named in honor of former Arizona Commission on the Arts Executive Director Shelley Cohn, is presented to an individual who has advanced the arts through strategic and innovative work in creating or supporting public policy beneficial to the arts in Arizona. (Read More.)
Latina/o Plays for Young Performers: A Resource for Teachers (HowlRound): By Roxanne Schroeder-Arce: Several years ago, I began to compile a list of plays with Latina/o themes and characters appropriate (or worthy) to be performed by young performers; quality dramatic literature for teachers to produce with their students. (Read More.)
Chicago's Halcyon Theatre to Host Latina Social Issues Panel (Lawndale News): In association with its mission to present new voices from inadequately represented communities, Halcyon Theatre will host a one-night-only post-show discussion immediately following the 8p.m. performance of Estrella Cruz [the junkyard queen] Friday, February 19. (Read More.)
‘Bad Kitty’ kids’ books make a leap onto the stage (SFGate): A handful of excited elementary-age girls, wearing kitten ears and clutching paperback books, stood in front of Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. (Read More.)
BWW Interview: Cody Daigle-Orians and THE BOOK OF D at The Growing Stage (BroadwayWorld.com): In the play, D is a young outcast who escapes into a world of stories. He keeps a book, The Book of D, to grapples with the tough things in his life - his parents' divorce, his lack of friends, and the reasons for everything. (Read More.)
David Wood – the dramatist putting Dahl's scares on stage (West Briton): "My first Dahl adaptation was The BFG. I was writing it – again by the sea – at Hastings. I always play a game with myself when I'm writing so that I don't get distracted – this time, I had a television in my room but I wouldn't allow myself to watch it until I finished writing. One day, I decided to allow myself a little treat and turned it on at the exact moment it was announced on the news that Roald Dahl had died. That was one of the spookiest moments of my life." (Read More.)