In the fall of 2003, the All Stars Project (ASP) fulfilled its longtime dream: we officially opened our new center, All Stars Project on 42nd Street. Now we are experiencing the tremendous growth that our new locationlocation — our new stage — brings. The ASP has greatly expanded its programs, offering young people many new learning opportunities. Thanks to the support from thousands of people...

Nekia Wise, 25, from Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn has been dancing with the All Stars Talent Show Network ASTSN) for nearly a decade. For the past four years she has managed and choreographed Fully Loaded, a dance group of young girls from her community, winning two grand prizes in ASTSN shows. All the while, Nekia has worked to become a public school kindergarten teacher at PS 157 in Brooklyn, and she has just...

I was introduced to the All Stars when I was 16 years old. I danced for four straight years winning talent shows and advancing to the National Finals at Town Hall in 1998. After taking a break from the All Stars while I attended college,I began choreographing a group of girls on my block in BedStuy, Brooklyn for community block parties. I learned how block party rehearsals were the highlight of the day for them. Once that was over some of the girls would resume their daily routine of...

The All Stars Talent Show Network (ASTSN), the flagship program of the All Stars Project, Inc., is undergoing some exciting changes for 2004-05. Like the All Stars Project itself, the ASTSN is continuing to grow into its new home at 543 West 42nd Street, and with that growing, comes a renewed sense of opportunity to build and expand the All Stars’ community. “Throughout the years, the structure of the ASTSN has been...

Under the leadership of Artistic Director, Dan Friedman, Youth Onstage!, the All Stars Project’s newest program, will have a busy fall season. Two productions will open, the rehearsals for a third will begin, and the Youth Onstage! Community Performance School will offer a full schedule of classes. Youth Onstage! kicks off the 2004-05 season with its second All Stars Hip-Hop Cabaret, co-produced with the All Stars Talent Show Network. Bringing together...

On my way to see This Is Your Ridiculous Life, I thought I knew what to expect, since I had seen Castillo’s previous production of TIYRL at its previous location on Greenwich Street last year: Selected audience volunteers have the chance to be “interviewed” by a resident therapist, while the Castillo ensemble reenacts various scenes of the audience members’ lives... What I had forgotten though, was just how comical it was...

The All Stars Project New Jersey celebrated a “summer of development” with high quality youth-development program activities and a high energy grassroots fundraising campaign. Forty-two young graduates of the Development School for Youth spent eight weeks in paid summer internships at 26 corporations throughout the New Jersey metropolitan area. On August 19...

The Atlanta All Stars produced a one-day “performance event and open mic” on July 31 at the Grady Homes, a housing project in downtown Atlanta. Eighty adult and youth residents from Grady Homes attended along with 16 All Stars volunteers. Nichelle “Browneyes” Joseph and Murray Dabby...

In June, Dr. Elouise Joseph, Bay Area All Stars Youth & Community Outreach Coordinator, and Caroline Donnola, Volunteer & Operations Manager, brought a team of All Stars youth leaders to the Big Apple to visit the All Stars Project Inc.’s new home on 42^nd Street and to receive advanced training.  The team included A’Dunyae Lee, All Stars Emcee and Youth Outreach Team Co-Leader; Kai King, Producer and Youth Outreach Team Co-Leader...