Broadway League Announces National Education Grants
The Broadway League has announced the theaters that will receive National Education Grants. These $5,000 awards support innovative programs that enable students from coast to coast to experience touring Broadway as a form of artistic expression and as an educational tool.
The theaters that have received grants are The Fox Theatre (Atlanta), Wharton Center for Performing Arts (East Lansing, MI), Peace Center Foundation (Greenville, SC), Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Nashville), Kimmel Center, Inc. (Philadelphia), California Musical Theatre (Sacramento), Proctors (Arts Center and Theatre of Schenectady, Inc.) (Schenectady, NY), 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle), Straz Center for the Performing Arts (Tampa), and Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (West Palm Beach).
These theaters will be creating special workshops and student guides for such touring productions as 9 to 5, Dreamgirls, In the Heights, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal, Shrek the Musical, The Lion King, and West Side Story.
