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The rehearsal process is often exciting and often frustrating. Frustrations are worst when they have nothing to do with the play itself.What do you do when... The distribution is not understood It's inevitable that arguments will break out in your cast. Life gets in the way and it's natural for…

We have another one prompt collection here for you! All of these prompts are related to animals - thinking about unusual animals, moving like animals, talking like animals, meeting animals, and more! Use them to inspire theater scenes, improv scenes, designed scenes, or whatever you want. There are 50 prompts…

There are a variety of styles when it comes to taking the helm of a production. What kind of director are you? Which one suits your students best? "Do as I say" - Dictator This type of director has a very specific (and sometimes narrow) vision of how the process…

Welcome to Spotlight Play. Letter of Burgundy by Kirk Shimano is a comic retelling of the classic novel The Scarlet Letter, set in a high school and reframed for a digital age. In an online community, Hester90 is publicly shamed and shunned for a racial slur against another student, but…

One of the biggest predictors of a student's success in theater and their school productions is whether or not they work on their own outside of school rehearsal hours. Whether they like it or not, students can't expect to just practice during rehearsals and be good. They have to practice…

Imagine this scenario: you are in drama class with your students. They were divided into small groups, each group has a scene to work on, and you gave them the instructions: "You have x number of minutes to rehearse your scene." The first few minutes go smoothly, but then everything…

I liked the original The companion to the drama class? The Drama Classroom Companion: Volume 2 has several articles, exercises, reflections and rubrics that focus on reaching 21st century teenagers using 21st century skills. How do you approach common assumptions about theater class? How do you repeat the reverse? How…

Have you ever had a student come to you after theater or rehearsal and say, “I can't do (xyz) that I worked on. It's too hard! "This can be hard to hear, especially if you've been working on that topic or task for a while and it's the first time…

This article was inspired by a situation that happened to me. Recently, we directed a production of Descendants of Disney: The Musical with a distribution of 23 extraordinary students in the 8th, 9th and 10th grades. We've been waiting to direct this two-year-old show - it was originally scheduled to…

Teachers are special people. Yes you are! You do so much for your students and you wear so many different hats. But teachers are also human. You may feel frustrated by the students' apparent lack of interest or effort. You may feel that your students are not performing at their…