Poetry for the Elderly discusses inspirational poems. Elderly residents of retirement facilities, care homes, nursing homes can draw meaningful responses.

Just recently, two of Virginia’s most noted poets, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Robert P. Arthur have combined talents to produce a work for the stage, River Country. Kreiter-Foronda is a former Poet-Laureate of Virginia and an award-winning poetry advocate who tirelessly brings poetry to the community in the form of workshops and readings. Arthur, also a

Poetic drama or verse drama has successfully reared its head along the way: Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas who understood theatricality and resonance and dramatic cadence, for example. I once saw a production of that play by the National Theatre of the Deaf with signing from the stage which was not only functional but as

Setting the stage for a growing trend in the 21st Century, Verse plays make a comeback as theatre directors discover new audiences. Back in the day, at the beginning of Western drama, the Greeks had it right. Plays and poetry are handmaidens. With the advent of naturalism and realism, poetic drama began to take a

The main difference between a bed and breakfast and a hotel is that the owners of a B&B see their patrons as guests, while hotels may see their patrons as customers. To increase their personal appeal, a few B&B's have added interactive murder mystery plays to their repertoire to appeal to holiday makers. From A

Many theater performers want to be on stage when they are older. A good number have never acted before, others have performed when they were young and want to do it again.  Some have acted all their lives and they know the joy of performing.

Does your school or college Christmas Play have Royal Characters like a Queen, a Princess or a Duchess? Learning to play a Queen, Princess or Duchess for a school play can be quite a challenge for kids and teens unless you know the rules of Royal Etiquette based on British monarchy rules.  How do you stand?

A low budget solution for developing an audience for live theater - Readers' Theater