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Schools cut the drama program. Youth playhouses stepped in. Now what?
A decade of public-school theatre cuts handed the work to community youth playhouses. The model is working — but the bench of organizations that can actually do it is thinner than anyone wants to admit.
May 10, 2026 · Tessa Hadley
Programs
Programs: the 5-week summer conservatory that quietly outperforms the 9-month track
Concentrated, immersive, expensive — and apparently the best predictor of young actors who actually stick with the work into college.
April 25, 2026 · Marc Dellaplane
Performers
Performers: at fifteen, Ana Sandoval has already played a 38-year-old. The training shows.
A young actor coming out of the Miles Conservatory program describes a craft pedagogy that takes teenagers seriously as performers.
April 12, 2026 · Lila Okonkwo
Schools
Schools: the unified-arts model that's reviving school theatre in three small districts
An off-the-shelf approach borrowed from inclusion programming is producing the strongest school-theatre revivals the field has seen in a decade.
March 30, 2026 · Cassidy Bell
Spaces
Spaces: Reed Park's quiet renovation is the model other public youth-arts buildings should be studying
A 1929 city-owned youth playhouse, $4.2M, four years of construction, and a finished result that doesn't look like a renovation. Here's why.
March 15, 2026 · Jordan Whitcomb