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An ensemble of young theatre artists is embarking on three months of discussions and workshops with social scientists, community activists, and workers of all kinds about work, in all its multiplicity — as a career, as a passion or as a paycheck. In the tradition of Youth Onstage!, the young performers are coached by skilled playwrights and theatre directors as they create a new performance piece that is both challenging and entertaining.
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Long before Castillo was performing the world it was performing the city, and the All Stars Talent Show Network is the name of that performance. For over two decades Director of Youth Programs Pam Lewis and her All Stars have been a source of young talent, and those vibrant performances continue this year—across the five boroughs and in cities around the country.
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Colonial Jamaica. Napoleonic Paris. A barren Peruvian grassland. A modern-day New York City street. These are the settings for The Task, Heiner Müller’s collage of stage images—of dream and nightmare, of love and betrayal, of revolution and of revolution called off. This is theatre as secular spiritual experience, featuring music and lyrics by Fred Newman.
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Frank Galati’s skillful and stirring adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic story won a TONY award for Best Play in 1990. In this City Lights/Youth Onstage! co-production, the struggles of Tom Joad and his family are given voice by our young people: "Maybe a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one." |
