Joan Lancourt
Junior Programs undertook “a visionary rethinking of the potential relationship between the performing arts and the lives of the nation’s children, with the specific artistic innovations emerging organically from that rethinking”.
For many dramatists, the label of ‘leftism’ was not pejorative: it was about fighting for human decency and political reform.
Theater Commentary: January 6 — What About the Children?
Despite a seven-year record of artistic, social, educational, and organizational success, Junior Programs has, until now, been a forgotten chapter in the history of America’s children’s theater. And we desperately need to remember that chapter now.
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