Bernadette Peters to Host Shubert Foundation's 10th Anniversary High School Theatre Festival

3/20/2024 3:05pm


In its 10th year, more than 100 talented young NYC public school theatre artists will make their Broadway debuts in The 2024 Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival for NYC Public Schools on Monday, March 25 at 7:30 PM at the Winter Garden (1634 Broadway). This annual theatre education experience for NYC students is presented by The Shubert Foundation and the NYC Department of Education Arts Office. Bernadette Peters will host this year’s event. Additional guest presenters, supporting public school theatre education, will include James Caverly, Miguel Cervantes, Charlotte d’Amboise, Jeanna de Waal, Trechelle Edmond, Drew Gehling, Tamar Greene, Anika Larsen, Apollo Levine, Julian Elijah Martinez, Gary Perez, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Seth Rudetsky, Brandon Uranowitz and Kara YoungThe Shubert Festival celebrates six outstanding high school student productions from the 2023-24 school year, selected from more than 20 productions across the city by professional theatre artists and theatre educators. Over the course of the festival’s 10-year history, school productions from all five boroughs have performed at the event. This year, student presentations from the following schools will present excerpted scenes and musical numbers in order as follows: TITANIC – Professional Performing Arts High School (Manhattan); JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT – Lexington School for the Deaf (Queens); MAMMA MIA! – Curtis High School (Staten Island); ZANNA DON’T! – Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts (Manhattan); TITANIC – Frank Sinatra School of the Arts (Queens) & URINETOWN – Brooklyn High School for the Arts (Brooklyn). Press contact: Polk & Co (917/261-3988)...