Award-winning, Fort Worth-based playwright, Rob Bosquez, Jr.'s original play tells the tale of a little girl who finds herself racing all around the world when she and her new kite get caught-up in a tornado.
Behind the Scenes nights are a great, free way to learn more about a topic related to the play you are seeing. Various plays throughout the season will featuring a Behind the Scenes night in which experts present a lecture on a topic featured in the evening's play.
a highly praised professional theatrical preparatory course training young people in all aspects of the craft from on-stage to technical in a safe, fun and challenging atmosphere.
Professional staged readings of the top two winners from the Texas Playwriting Competition plus other similar offerings. This year's dates are February 28 and 29, 2012.
Stage West is pleased to announce that its annual search for the best new, unpublished/produced plays is now open, and this year it has been expanded to also include writers from New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, thus becoming the Southwest Playwriting Competition.
Each fall for the past five years, Stage West has been honored to present a play for the Bass Hall’s Childrens' Education Program. It is the only local troupe to this day to have been asked to be a part of this prestigious program. This year, nearly 8000 students saw Stage West’s adaptation of
Plays from the Neighborhood Play Contest are cast using kids from the FWISD. They are then professionally produced using seasoned designers, directors and actors working alongside the kids. The students present the six Neighborhood Play Contest winning stories at the Festival of the Kid. The
FWISD students are invited to write a short narrative about a true event from their lives. Themes such as cultural, neighborhood, family or school pride are encouraged. Two from each grade level are selected to be work-shopped into mini-plays by professional theatre artists. The work-shops are essentially writing masterclasses that are open to all students participating in the contest. The entire event is 100% free and aligns completely with TEKS standards. Fall.
