YPT In The News
The links below track YPT's recognition in local and national news.
Chasing George Washington performed at White House
First Lady introduces new musical written with help from YPT students
On Friday March 7th, the new musical Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure, written by YPT’s Founding Artistic Director Karen Zacarias with help from YPT students at Capitol City Public Charter School had a special performance in the White House’s East Room.
For the full article on Mrs. Bush’s remarks as she introduced the play click here.
For more about Chasing George Washington click here.
White House Photos by Joyce N. Boghosian.
Chasing George Washington to a Good Story
Washington Times, March 13, 2008
The dude on the dollar bill leaps to life in Karen Zacarias’ entertaining and sometimes inspiring children’s musical "Chasing George Washington." The production (at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater) also features a spry score by Deborah Wicks La Puma that ably mixes hip-hop, disco, ballads and traditional show music.
For the full article click here.
For more about Chasing George Washington and YPT’s role in it’s creation, click here.
DCist Interview with Program Manager, Patrick Torres
DCist, a popular local blog did an in-depth article on Young Playwrights’ Theater and Program Manager, Patrick Torres in advance of the 2008 New Play Festival.
To link to the full article click here.
Dramatic Possibilities
Sojourners, January 2008
Sojourners, a magazine of faith, politics and culture wrote about YPT Founding Artistic Director, Karen Zacarias in their article "Dramatic Possibilites."
To link to the electronic version of the article, click here.
To download and view a PDF of the magazine article, click here.
David Snider: East of the River's Heavy-Hitting Theater Advocate
East of the River, June 2007
East of the River profiled YPT Producing Artistic Director, David Snider about his work with YPT and as head of the League of Washington Theatres.
To link to the article click here.
To download a PDF of the article click here.
YPT News from 2007 and Before
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On The Rise -
from The Washington Post, May 29, 2007
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Students from YPT’s afterschool program at Kelly Miller Middle school are featured in the Kidspost for their original play. [filetype:PDF]
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A Creative Teenager Mourned, Celebrated -
from The Washington Post, May 22, 2007
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The May New Writers Now! staged reading was a tribute to Edwin Ventura, a student at Bell Multicultural High School who tragically lost his life in April of 2007. Article by Elissa Silverman [filetype: pdf]
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| The Next Generation of Playwrights
from The Washington Examiner, May 7, 2007
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The Washington Examiner lauds YPT’s Express Tour as "the future of American the American Stage." [filetype:PDF]
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Where do we go from here? -
from the magazine American Theatre, April 2007
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Founding Artistic Director, Karen Zacarias, joins a panel of leading playwrights to discuss the future of the theatre. [filetype:Word doc]
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| African Roots/Latino Soul
from The Washington Post, October 4, 2006
An article about the play of the same name, co-produced in Fall of 2006 by YPT and Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater.
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A Fabulous Gamble -
from the Washington Theater Review, Fall 2005
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An overview of all that is YPT. Article by Daryl Davis [filetype: pdf]
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Karen Zacarias: A Writer’s Tightrope -
from American Theatre Magazine, January 2006
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"She’s in the family business but goes about it her own way." Article and interview by Caridad Svich. [filetype: word doc]
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Finding Unity in Words -
from The Washington Post, June 23, 2005
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"Student playwrights celebrate heritage through drama." Article by Lindsay Ryan. [filetype: word doc]
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What a genius - "Einstein is a Dummy" -
In November of 2005 a new musical at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta takes a fun look at the Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein. [filetype: pdf]
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For Zacarias - Chicago’s Goodman is a ’Desert’ Oasis -
from The Washington Post, January 25, 2005
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YPT Founder, Karen Zacarias’s play "The Sins of Sor Juana" opened at the renowned Goodman Theatre in Chicago. [filetype: word doc]
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