YPT's exclusive interview with Nora Foster and Kaitlyn Murphy, YPT alumni and two of the eight female playwrights featured in GIRLS WRITE OUT! on October 19! Get to know these two artists and see their work realized onstage at Sidney Haman Hall. Free and open to the public!
YPT previews GIRLS WRITE OUT!, the first performance of our 2015-2016 season! This professional staged reading celebrates the power of young women's voices, with performances of plays and monologues by female playwrights ages 12-22! Part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Monday, October 19 at 7pm - FREE!
That’s a wrap! YPT’s 20th anniversary performance season is in the books, and it was one for...well, the books. Read all about it here, including summaries of all six 2014-15 performances!
YPT's 2015 New Play Festival is just around the corner! This year, our Featured and Finalist Playwrights were so creative that we couldn't fit all their work in one show (or book), so we posted it here! Take a look and join us April 20-22 at 7pm at GALA Hispanic Theatre to see the 2015 New Play Festival live onstage!
You've met the nine other theater companies performing student-written plays at our upcoming 20th Anniversary Festival - now meet our wonderful student playwrights and find out about the plays themselves! 20Fest is coming up Friday, December 12, 2014 at 7pm at Theater J - be there for a FREE theater event 20 years in the making! The… Continue reading Our 20Fest plays and playwrights!
On May 16, 2014, Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) professionals from all over the world made their way into the Family Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Laughter echoed off the wood-panelled walls as they caught up with old friends and admired the elegant space where they would spend the… Continue reading New Voices Share New Visions at New Visions/New Voices 2014
It’s the last week of YPT’s 5-Line Playwriting Challenge! Have you submitted your play yet? We've already received some amazing plays from YPT's super creative community. Check out these teasers below, including this touching play sent to us from our Young Playwrights’ Workshop alumna, Reyna Rios: I LOVE YOU Jasmine: Hi, (shakes Martin’s his hand)… Continue reading 5-Line Playwriting Tips from the Experts
This winter, YPT is turning the tables and giving our supporters the chance to be playwrights! YPT couldn’t ask for better supporters. Over the years, you’ve packed houses at performances, participated in our online contests, joined the conversation on Facebook, gotten 15 to give 15, and run an 8k for us, all helping us grow… Continue reading Announcing YPT’s 5-Line Playwriting Challenge
Calling all YPT superheroes! Acumen Solutions Race for a Cause™ is officially one month away! We can’t wait to run with all our friends and supporters on October 14th! As we enter the final stretch, we’ve recruited the ultimate trainer – our very own Supergirl, YPT's 8k team leader and star of our recent reality show training video!… Continue reading Supergirl’s Training Journal
It’s hard to believe, but the mornings are getting cooler, shelves are stocked with back-to-school supplies, and here at YPT we are gearing up for an amazing new year of programming and performances. Summer is almost over, and in less than two months, YPT staff and friends will be lacing up their running (or walking)… Continue reading I’m Running for YPT Because …
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