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By Robert Viagas | September 15, 2016Students applying to colleges and universities this fall share the tasks of filling out forms, writing essays and getting letters of recommendation. But performing arts students have one extra responsibility, perhaps the most daunting of them all. -
By Meredith Ganzman | August 24, 2015Singing and dancing onstage, and finishing homework backstage make for busy days for Broadway's youngest stars. As part of Playbill.com's Back to School week (#BwayBacktoSchool), the children of Fun Home. The King and I and Finding Neverland, as well as the adults who care for them at the theatres, discuss their busy schedules and backstage study halls.
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By Talaura Harms | August 28, 2015As part of Playbill.com's Back to School week (#BwayBacktoSchool), we give you the opportunity to prove once and for all that musical theatre majors can, indeed, do math. (Have you ever seen a biochemist try to clap on one and five while stepping on four and eight?)
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By Robert Simonson | August 25, 2015A field trip to the theatre is as old a school tradition as back-to-school (#BwayBacktoSchool) shopping and the Homecoming dance. Teachers pile the kids into a school bus and head to a matinee at a local troupe–usually attending a performance specifically geared toward school groups. Very often, such occasions are a kid’s first exposure to live performance. And they burn bright in the memory as those individuals grow older.
