Dallas Theater Center

Dallas, Texas

Founded in 1959, the theater's mission is to engage, entertain, and inspire its diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living. The company does this by consistently producing high-quality plays, educational programs, and other initiatives that reach the broadest possible constituency. Dallas Theater Center presents a wide array of education and outreach programs that explore the theatrical process and engages community members in a dialogue with each other and artists. Each year, the company serves more than 85,000 patrons of all ages, including Title I middle- and high-school students from across North Texas.

As part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, Dallas Theater Center will produce Henry IV as the season's first production in The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the Dallas Center for Performing Arts. Director Kevin Moriarty will abridge Shakespeare's original two part play into one full-length production. Before the production opens, Dallas Theater Center's teaching artists will attend a week-long, intensive workshop with Thom Jones the head of voice and speech at Brown University. Activities will include pre-performance workshops, study guides, post-performance discussions and a professional development workshop for teachers to provide resources of incorporating Shakespeare into the classroom. Student will come from Dallas and the surrounding areas, was well as rural schools within driving distance. Title I schools will received free tickets and transportation to an evening performance.

Visit them at: www.dallastheatercenter.org