Prince of Petworth Article about YPT

Writing for local blog, the Prince of Petworth, Tina Radin explores Young Playwrights' Theater. She says "This is one of those places that you find out about and wish more people knew it existed."

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Celebrating Community: A New Writers Now! Event in honor of
Hispanic Heritage month

Washington, DC -- The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI) partnered with Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT) on Monday, October 27, 2008 to present Celebrating Community: A New Writers Now! Event in honor of Hispanic Heritage month.

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Leader to Leader Honors YPT

Leader to Leader Institute chose YPT’s In-School Playwriting Program as their Nonprofit Innovation of the Week for August 6 – 13, 2008. Chosen from among hundreds of submissions, YPT’s In-School Playwriting Program was noted for fully integrating English Language Arts Standards into the curriculum and working to implement an in-school model that can be replicated throughout D.C. Public Schools and beyond. 

For more information on the Leader to Leader honor, click here.

For more information on YPT’s In-School Playwriting Program, click here.

In the summer of 2008 YPT teamed with CityDance to provide an innovative playwriting and choreography camp at the Trinidad Recreation Center.  The summer camp was highlighted in a recent piece on WAMU’s Metro Connection, "Searching for Solutions in Trinidad." 

 

To hear "Searching for Solutions in Trinidad" from WAMU’s Metro Connection, click here.

 

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On Friday March 7th, the new musical Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure, written by YPT’s Founding Artistic Director Karen Zacarias with help from YPT students at Capitol City Public Charter School had a special performance in the White House’s East Room.

For the full article on Mrs. Bush’s remarks as she introduced the play click here.

For more about Chasing George Washington click here.

White House Photos by Joyce N. Boghosian. 

The dude on the dollar bill leaps to life in Karen Zacarias’ entertaining and sometimes inspiring children’s musical "Chasing George Washington." The production (at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater) also features a spry score by Deborah Wicks La Puma that ably mixes hip-hop, disco, ballads and traditional show music.

 

For the full article click here.

 

For more about Chasing George Washington and YPT’s role in it’s creation, click here.

DCist Interview with Program Manager, Patrick Torres

DCist, a popular local blog did an in-depth article on Young Playwrights’ Theater and Program Manager, Patrick Torres in advance of the 2008 New Play Festival. 

 

To link to the full article click here.

Washingtonian wrote about Karen Zacarias’ incredible season, with four new plays opening in Washington.  

 

To link to the electronic version of the article, click here.

 

Sojourners, a magazine of faith, politics and culture wrote about YPT Founding Artistic Director, Karen Zacarias in their article "Dramatic Possibilites."

 

To link to the electronic version of the article, click here.

 

To download and view a PDF of the magazine article, click here.  

The Washington Post profiled Patrick Crowley’s play "The Nation of Immigrants Project."  Patrick Crowley said "I do theater because I want to increase the dialogue."

 

To link to the Washington Post article, click here.

 

East of the River profiled YPT Producing Artistic Director, David Snider about his work with YPT and as head of the League of Washington Theatres.

 

To link to the article click here.

 

To download a PDF of the article click here.