PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

PlayhouseSquare understands its vital role as an educator in our community, and is committed to providing arts learning opportunities of the highest quality to enrich the lives of students, families, teachers and adults. PlayhouseSquare’s Community Engagement & Education Department is unique in the performing arts industry for the variety of programs it offers, the partnerships it initiates and the access it provides students, educators and aspiring artists to performing arts professionals. Since its inception in 1998, the Community Engagement & Education Department has offered thousands of events, workshops, classes and more, most with minimal or no fees, to people of all ages from all areas of Northeast Ohio.

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education is a member of Cleveland Arts Education Consortium (CAEC).
See a list of CAEC members and learn more about CAEC at http://www.csuohio.edu/class/caec.

Director/CEO: Colleen Porter, Director of Community Engagement and Education
Address: 1501 Euclid Ave. Suite 200
City, State Zip: Cleveland, OH 44115

Organization Contact Info:

Contact Person: Lauren Fraley
Phone: 216-771-4444
Website URL: www.playhousesquare.org

Program Listing

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 09/11/09 07:00 pm
Friday

This free annual performance showcases Northeast Ohio's finest dance companies in a vast array of dance styles. Join us this year to see Antaeus Dance, Dance/Theater Collective, Dancing Wheels, Foreground Dance, Inlet Dance Theatre, Ohio Dance Theater, Travesty Dance Group and Verb Ballets.

Location: Ohio Theater
Dance   Ages: 3 - 18,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 10/21/09 03:00 pm
Wednesday

Join dance captains Kristin Marie Taylor and James Gray as they lead a dance master class for The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein.  Participants must be professional dancers or advanced students who aspire to a career in dance. Others are...

Location: Idea Center, Gund Dance Studio
Dance   Ages: 14 - 18,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 10/24/09 11:00 am
Saturday

Baby bat Stellaluna's life is flitting along right on schedule - until an owl attacks her mother one night, knocking the bewildered batlet out of her loving grasp. They tiny bat is lucky enough to land in a nest of baby birds, but her whole world has just turned upside down. Literally....

Location: Ohio Theater
Drama   Ages: 3 - 9,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 01/16/10 11:00 am
Saturday

Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and Mixed-Up Chameleon spring to life on stage through the colorful black light puppetry of the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. The Very Hungry Caterpillar munches his way through an amazing variety of food toward his eventual metamorphosis...

Location: Ohio Theater
Drama   Ages: 3 - 9,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 05/03/10 11:00 am
Monday through Saturday

Experience a world of live performance as PlayhouseSquare presents a week-long festival. Come once or come every day to see something new!

Shows from around the world will be presented from Tuesday-Saturday including Corbian Visual Arts and Dance from Canada, Farfalle (Butterflies) from...

Location: Ohio Theater
Dance, Drama, Music   Ages: 3 - 15,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 05/04/10 06:30 pm
Tuesday

Corbian Visual Arts and Dance introduces us to Darwin, a dinosaur brought to life by the great Professor Henslow, who encourages Darwin to go and explore. In his explorations, Darwin encounters many different types of living creatures, learning the value of both good and bad, love and hate,...

Location: Palace Theatre
Dance, Visual Arts   Ages: 6 - 13,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 05/04/10 02:00 pm
Tuesday

Become immersed in a world made of music, dance, digital images and butterflies. Through sounds, movement and imagery, Farfalle traces the life cycle of the butterfly, transforming this biological story of metamorphosis into stunning art. During the performance, children are invited to enter...

Location: Allen Theatre
Dance, Music, Visual Arts   Ages: 3 - 8,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 05/04/10 05:00 pm
Tuesday

Become immersed in a world made of music, dance, digital images and butterflies. Through sounds, movement and imagery, Farfalle traces the life cycle of the butterfly, transforming this biological story of metamorphosis into stunning art. During the performance, children are invited to enter...

Location: Allen Theatre
Dance, Music, Visual Arts   Ages: 3 - 8,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 05/05/10 06:30 pm
Wednesday

Corbian Visual Arts and Dance introduces us to Darwin, a dinosaur brought to life by the great Professor Henslow, who encourages Darwin to go and explore. In his explorations, Darwin encounters many different types of living creatures, learning the value of both good and bad, love and hate,...

Location: Palace Theatre
Dance, Visual Arts   Ages: 6 - 13,   Central

PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement and Education

This program began on 05/05/10 05:00 pm
Wednesday

Become immersed in a world made of music, dance, digital images and butterflies. Through sounds, movement and imagery, Farfalle traces the life cycle of the butterfly, transforming this biological story of metamorphosis into stunning art. During the performance, children are invited to enter...

Location: Allen Theatre
Dance, Music, Visual Arts   Ages: 3 - 8,   Central