Joan Lancourt

Author Interview: Joan Lancourt on Junior Programs — Pioneers of Theater for Young Audiences

April 14, 2025
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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”.

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Theater Commentary: January 6 — What About the Children?

August 9, 2022
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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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Book Review: “Broadway Goes to War — American Theater during World War II”

June 13, 2021
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For many dramatists, the label of ‘leftism’ was not pejorative: it was about fighting for human decency and political reform.

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