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See The Tony Awards!

Tony Awards Dress Rehearsal Attendance Application In order to attend the Dress Rehearsal for this year’s Tony Awards, each Impact Broadway member must fill out the application and submit it to their school’s Impact Broadway advisor by May 1st. One advisor from each school will be in attendance on that day and only 87 out […]

FELA! Review

Eric Escalante Impact Broadway City College of New York Theatre Undergraduate Student Concentration and Interest: Directing and Playwriting FELA! Fela! is an experience that any person with the passion, desire, and commitment towards leaving a mark, contributing to the growth of, and fully impacting the Broadway community and the new direction world theatre is taking […]

Impacters of Today

John Leguizamo Actor and comedian John Leguizama was born on July 22, 1964 in Bogotá, Colombia. With his chameleon-like ability to satirize a range of ethnic groups, Leguizamo is pheraps best known for his one-man stage shows. Although born in Colombia, Leguizamo spent his formative years in Jackson Heights, a formerly-rough neighborhood in Queens, New […]

Impacters of Yesterday

Ruby Dee Born: October 27, 1924 Cleveland, Ohio African American actress Ruby Dee’s acting career has spanned more than fifty years and has included theater, radio, television, and movies. She has also been active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Congress of […]

Theatre Communications Group

TCG Mission To strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, was founded in 1961 with a grant from the Ford Foundation to foster communication among professional, community and university theatres. Today, TCG’s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking theatres to […]

The Broadway League

The Broadway League 729 Seventh Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY  10019 (212) 764-1122 The Broadway League is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. There are 600-plus members who include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the commercial theatre industry.  […]

Making Music Mightier Than the Sword

By BEN BRANTLEY There should be dancing in the streets. When you leave the Eugene O’Neill Theater after a performance of “Fela!,” it comes as a shock that the people on the sidewalks are merely walking. Why aren’t they gyrating, swaying, vibrating, in thrall to the force field that you have been living in so ecstatically for […]

Impact Broadway – Spotlight

Hello, my name is Katrina Mackey and I’m a senior at McKinney Highschool of the Arts in Brooklyn New York. I got involved with Impact Broadway in my junior year when Ms. Donna came to our school with several of her colleagues and introduced the concept. In short they explained to me and other founding […]

Bronx – La Isla Bonita

When you think about La Isla Bonita… you usually think about Puerto Rico (especially when you speak about Bodiquan people living on it). Well, the Pregones Theater stretches your understanding of the diaspora with its premier productiona. Aloha Boricua is Pregones’ new musical play about the first Puerto Ricans to set foot on the Hawaiian […]

Staten Island – COAHSI

When you think about Staten Island, so many things come to mind in regards to the arts. There seems to be a little something for everyone. Please go over to http://www.statenislandarts.org/cultural-calendar.html and check out the collection of COAHSI Cultural Calendar and see what this great organization has pulled together for your enjoyment. And if you […]

Brooklyn – Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers is an amazing institution where the arts though not necessarily incorporated in their academic platform, flourishes on an extremely organic level and reaches the attention of some really big wigs in the international theater scene. Such is the case of Impact Broadway Collegiate Advisor, Thomas Bradshaw.

Queens – LaGuardia College

LaGuardia College will be doing an intense season that will surely delight all that are interested in multiple aspects of theater and art in new mediums. One such case is Around the World in 24 Hours– The Internationalists (Lab 301) at Little Theatre on November 7th at 3pm thru November 8th, 3pm. The Internationalists is […]

Manhattan – DREAMGIRLS at The Apollo

Harlem will be on fire as it opens its doors to the show that made Jennifer Hudson, a household name! No, I am not talking about American Idol. I am talking about Dreamgirls. A sensational new stage production of DREAMGIRLS, it is set to come into our own backyard, the legendary Apollo Theater on November […]

Historical Narratives

History of Latinos on Broadway Written and read by Neyda Martinez HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ON BROADWAY Written by Maxine Lyle Read by Coleman Domingo (A Boy and His Soul and Passing Strange)

IB Schools – Staten Island

Susan E. Wagner High School School Bio: It is the mission of Susan E. Wagner High School to create a unified community of students, parents and educators, which will provide a rigorous instructional program in a supportive atmosphere. This community will strive to stimulate in each child a thirst for knowledge, which will result in […]

IB Schools – Queens

LaGuardia Community College 31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 (718) 482-7200 LaGuardia Community College is the best place to think globally and act locally. Whether it is in creating a piece of software or writing a play, understanding how to do calculus or understanding how to do physical therapy, students at LaGuardia Community […]

IB Schools – Manhattan

Manhattan Theatre Lab High School School Bio: Manhattan Theatre Lab High is a high school designed to train, nurture, and edify students with sincere aspirations in Theatre, Music and Dance.  Our mission also includes providing a learning community where academic rigor and creative expression go hand in hand.  The teaching environment will encompass the utilization […]

IB Schools – Brooklyn

Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School School Bio: Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School in Canarsie, Brooklyn was founded in September 2007 in partnership with Vital Theatre Company. The school offers students the opportunity to study theatre from grades 9-12 while also pursuing their regents or Advanced Regents Diploma. Vital Teaching Artists offer  4-12 week residencies that […]

IB Schools – Bronx

Theatre Arts Production Company School (TAPCo) School Bio: TAPCo is a learner-centered, performance-based school of choice.  We are committed to promoting intellectual engagement which fosters creativity, diversity and personal responsibility. As a small school, we are able to provide a safe and personalized environment to a multi-cultural community. TAPCo challenges students through a variety of […]

Michelle Obama tells international audience on “Why the Arts Matter”

Michelle Obama hosted a concert this morning at the Pittsburgh Creative & Performing Arts School for its students and the spouses of international leaders deliberating at the G-20 economic summit.  She gave an 11-minute address about the arts as a prelude to performances by guests Sara Bareilles, Yo-Yo Ma and Trisha Yearwood. Here are  excerpts from […]

Impacters of Today

Savion Glover Savion Glover (born 19 November 1973) is an American actor, tap dancer and choreographer. Glover is a graduate of the Newark Arts High School. Born in Newark, New Jersey, while a student at Broadway Dance Center in Manhattan, Glover’s teacher arranged an audition for him with Broadway choreographer Henry LeTang.

Impacters of Yesterday

August Wilson P. II A Fruitful Partnership Mr. Wilson’s career was closely linked with that of Lloyd Richards, who became the first black director to work on Broadway when he staged the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s “Raisin in the Sun,” in 1959.

FELA! The Man Behind the Music

FELA! director and choreographer Bill T. Jones and biographer Dr. Carlos Moore discuss Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary pioneer of the Afrobeat genre. A provocative hybrid of concert, dance and musical theatre, FELA! features arrangements by Aaron Johnson and Antibalas with direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones.

Impacters of Yesterday

August Wilson Pt. I A Fruitful Partnership August Wilson chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays. He stands as a landmark in the history of black culture, of American literature and of Broadway theater.

Theater Terms and Definitions

1) Glossary of Theater Terms: Downloadable PDF/ crossword puzzles 2) Glossary of Theater terms online www.theatrecrafts.com www.upstagereview.org www.tctwebstage.com 3) Glossary of theater terms -downloadable to smartphone www.cnet.com

Theater Publications

www.backstage.com www.playbill.com www.artslynx.org www.littleviews.com www.ibdb.com (Internet Broadway Database) www.artsjournal.com www.broadwayfanclub.com www.broadwayworld.com www.nytheatre.com

Buy Theater Tickets

Broadway.com – www.broadway.com Telecharge – www.telecharge.com Theatre Development Fund – www.tdf.org Theater Mania – www.theatermania.com Givenik.com – www.givenik.com Studentrush.org – www.studentrush.org Tickets for Memphis – Click Here Tickets for Porgy and Bess – Click Here TIckets for Sistas, the Musical –Click Here