Theatre for Young Audiences

This week's Howl and will focus on creating new models and infrastructure for Theater for Young Audiences' producing, presenting, and touring.

Creating and producing social advocacy theatre faces many roadblocks. Emily Freeman learned that exercising relentlessness while practicing love is the best way to find an audience.

Join us thursday to discuss the changing landscape of Theatre for Young Audiences

Kim Peter Kovac on the changing landscape of Theater for Young Audiences, and the opportunities that presents.

This week's Howl goes all the way with TYA

Lindsay Price offers a meditation about working as a professional playwright for the school market.

Sarah Gubbins reflects on the premiere of her play fml, its licensing, and the idea that the line between theater for young audiences and mainstream theater isn't so distinct after all.

Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Ashley Forman continues this series.

Barry Kornhauser argues for the importance of a new brand of TYA: theater for babies.

Steven Dietz asks what the perfect audience for a play would look like.

Cheryl West tells of her own experience writing theatre for young audiences surrounding the topic of race, and how children are a lot more well-equipped to process difficult topics than we think they are. Are we holding children back by trying to censor programming "for their own good?"

Gabriel Jason Dean writes about TYA, and what themes we do and do not allow children to experience onstage. But when is sheltering and censoring more of a burden than a benefit for young theatregoers?

Under the idea that children’s stories are for all ages, Finegan Kruckemeyer expresses the need for stories to show the complexities of emotions that the youth experience.

Elissa Adams offers a roadmap to those first jumping into the field of Theater for Young Audiences.

Sarah Coleman talks about the stigma of "sweetness" that surrounds TYA, and the idea that creating plays for children is no child's play.

Playwright John Olive looks at what theatre for young audiences (TYA) can learn from video games.