TDF's Theatre Newsletter for Teens' Tribute to August Wilson

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:24am

Play by Play is TDF’s student theatre newsletter which is beginning its tenth year of publication in 2006. Written by and for high school students it features reviews, stories, interviews with theatre artists as well as information about student discounts and internship opportunities.

It is published quarterly during the school year and each May an additional insert gives students information about opportunities to see theatre and/or become involved in the process throughout the summer.

Play by Play has an annual circulation of 140,000 (35,000 per issue) and is distributed to 144 public high schools in New York City and to hundreds of arts organizations in New York and nationwide.

In conjunction with each issue a Teachers' Guide is published and made available online. Each guide includes exercises and teaching points for the contents of that issue.

Inside the current Special Issue, celebrating the life and works of August Wilson are:

(1) students synopses of his 10 plays, from Jitney (1982) to Radio Golf (2005);

(2) a student roundtable discussion the work of August Wilson by a drama class at Adlai Stevenson High School in The Bronx;

(3) an interview with Phylicia Rashad on her role in Gem of the Ocean by a senior from Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens as well as a review of the production;

(4) a reprint of an essay by August Wilson which was a preface to the published version of King Hedley II; and

(5) a remembrance of August Wilson by Jujamcyn Theatres Creative Director and TDF Open Doors mentor, Jack Viertel, as told to a twelfth grader at the High School of Telecommunications, Arts and Technology in Brooklyn.

The current issue of Play by Play as well as all back-issues from Fall 1996 to the present are available at www.playbyplayonline.org



http://www.tdf.org/playbyplayonline/awilson/index.html

Updated On: 1/24/06 at 10:24 AM