Education

Mind the Gap, New York Theatre Workshop’s intergenerational theatre program, has been bringing elders and teens together across New York City and the world for now sixteen years. Founded in 2009, Mind the Gap workshops match elders (ages 60 and up) to teens (13-19), and asks them to share with each other their hopes, dreams, and stories from their lives.

To celebrate this “Sweet 16,” we are looking back at where we’ve taken Mind the Gap this year, celebrating our partnerships across the globe, and reflecting on the community cultivated by this program throughout its history.

October 6, 2025 by NYTW Education & Engagement

Are there any queens in the house? In this two-page, briefer edition of “The Brief” Study Guide, learn more about the process of making SATURDAY CHURCH, its inspiration from the real-life program at St. Luke in the Fields, and its adaptation from 2017 film to 2025 Off-Broadway musical. Explore our community partners, and reflect on the show’s themes of community and ballroom culture. Then, get hype about the show and get your tickets before they sell out!

October 1, 2025 by NYTW Education & Engagement

We can’t wait to introduce you to the newest cohort of 2050 Artistic and Administrative Fellows! These wonderful artists and administrators will spend the next year with us in community and we hope you’ll join us in welcoming them! The new Artistic Fellows are directors Miguel Bregante and Adam Coy; solo performer Rachel Lin; and playwrights Abigail C. Onwunali and May Treuhaft-Ali. The new Administrative Fellows are Chandler Gregoire (Development), Angela Guerra (Marketing), Kimmarie McCrann (Artist Workshop) and Julie Monteleone (Education & Engagement).

June 20, 2025

The lights are shining bright onstage for LIGHTS OUT: NAT “KING” COLE at NYTW! Our partner schools from across the city will be joining us for our Student Matinee soon, and you can join us in learning more about the show too! In the latest edition of “The Brief” Study Guide, dive into topics like the sociopolitical context surrounding Nat “King” Cole’s variety show, the history of Black performers in tap dance, and more about the production itself. Get excited about this dazzling show with us, and then grab your tickets here!

May 14, 2025 by NYTW Education

BECOMING EVE is now onstage at the Abrons Arts Center. Before we bring our partner schools to down there for our Student Matinee, we’re bringing them through several themes from the play, including gender and its intersections with Jewish texts, puppetry, adaptation, and more. Want to join us? Check out the latest edition of “The Brief” Study Guide.

March 27, 2025 by NYTW Education

Ready to catch a preview or performance of A KNOCK ON THE ROOF at NYTW? We know our students are! Our amazing partner schools from all over New York City will be joining us for our Student Matinee next month. To help the students (and all of us!) get excited about the show, our Education department has published the latest edition of “The Brief” Study Guide. From ​solo performance to the metric system, the topics covered in the guide will help prepare audiences to understand the weight of Khawla Ibraheem’s character, Mariam, and find commonality in her everyday life, feelings, and obstacles.

January 23, 2025 by NYTW Education

For more than 45 years, we’ve been producing theatre that animates, challenges and celebrates the world we live in. Through this work, we not only build shows, but also community.

While we may be best known for award-winning work—Rent; Merrily We Roll Along; On Sugarland; Hadestown; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Here There Are Blueberries and so many more—they represent a fraction of what we do in our unique home in the East Village.

December 11, 2024 by NYTW

The revolution is here, and you can be a part of it! Join us for WE LIVE IN CAIRO now at NYTW, and take a look at our study guide created by our Education department. As part of the Learning Workshop program, our teaching artists have started visiting our partner schools, using the study guide to help today’s students find parallels between themselves and the young activists they will see onstage during the student matinee.

October 11, 2024 by NYTW Education

The Veteran Voices Playwriting Seminar is celebrating its fourth cohort of participants composed of 8 to 10 military veterans and their family members. A collaboration with Poetic Theater Productions’ Veteran Voices, the program has been sponsored by NYTW since its conception in 2020 during the pandemic. The program ends with a presentation of short plays by the participants which will be presented in-person later in May.

April 23, 2024 by NYTW

It’s the best time of year – Casebook season! If you don’t already know about Casebook, you’re in luck – because this post is all about it!

Casebook is one of our show-specific education offerings. Through Casebook, audience members are given a behind-the-scenes look at how a production comes together at NYTW. NYTW designates one show per season as a case study and hosts a 7-week class designed to provide theatre lovers with a true insider’s view of the development process, including insights into budgeting, artistic and design decisions, and how a show might change from the final dress rehearsal to opening night.

February 21, 2024 by Corey Bravo Sloan, NYTW Development Fellow