- November 16, 2023
- // Publisher: CNN
- // Categories: International Thespian Society, Theatre Education
A Texas school board voted to reinstate the original cast and script of a local high school’s production of “Oklahoma!” after the school district put restrictions in place for the performance that a parent said cost his transgender student a role in the play.
- July 6, 2023
- // Publisher: The Washington Post
- // Categories: Theatre Education
- May 2, 2023
- // Publisher: The Washington Post
- // Categories: Advocacy, Theatre Education
Schools are canceling student shows with LGBTQ characters.
- June 27, 2022
- // Publisher: Playbill
- // Categories: International Thespian Society
The initiative from the Educational Theatre Association, Disney Theatrical Group, and Music Theatre International will see schools competing for their state's exclusive performing rights to the Disney musical.
- May 18, 2022
- // Publisher: Country 94.1fm Canada
- // Categories: Events, International Thespian Festival, International Thespian Society
- March 1, 2022
- // Publisher: Nebraska Public Media
- // Categories: Advocacy, International Thespian Society, Programs
Theatre students from schools across the state traveled to the Capitol Tuesday to engage in a different type of performance…advocacy.
- January 24, 2022
- // Publisher: Cincinnati Family
- // Categories: Foundation, JumpStart Theatre
Now accepting applications for middle schoolers.
- January 10, 2022
- // Publisher: Playbill
- // Categories: Events, International Thespian Festival
This year’s festival will be in-person for the first time since 2019.
- December 6, 2021
- // Categories: Foundation, Pathway
Pathway is designed to bring powerful theater experiences to students and pair them with mentors of color.
- May 6, 2021
- // Publisher: Playbill
- // Categories: Awards, Grants and Scholarships, Foundation, International Thespian Festival, Thespy Awards
The initiative will award $500,000 over the next decade with an emphasis on students from underserved communities.
- March 10, 2021
- // Publisher: Playbill
- // Categories: Foundation
The arts education advocacy group also adds Sarah Jane Arnegger, Tim Kashani, and Craig Pospisil to their National Board of Trustees.
- November 30, 2020
- // Publisher: Inside Philanthropy
- // Categories: Foundation, JumpStart Theatre
The pandemic has devastated the nation's school theater programs, which rely heavily on ticketed revenue. We check in with Educational Theatre Association.
- November 24, 2020
- // Publisher: EducationWeek
- // Categories: Advocacy, Theatre Education
High school theater troupes around the country are trying to do something that not even Broadway has been able to pull off—host live shows in-person and remotely amid the pandemic.
- July 30, 2020
- // Publisher: NPR
- // Categories: International Thespian Society, Theatre Education
NPR Ed published the first-ever database of the most popular high school plays and musicals in the U.S. in July 2015, and has updated its story annually.
- July 17, 2020
- // Publisher: Deadline Hollywood
- // Categories: Foundation, Pathway
Money raised from a November 2018 memorial concert honoring Zadan will fund five grants a year for school theatre programs in communities of color nationwide.
- June 17, 2020
- // Publisher: New York Times
- // Categories: Events, International Thespian Festival
Thousands of students should be gathering to cheer on the year’s best shows. But this isn’t a typical year.
