| Theatre
for the Whole City completes season on high notes! |
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The 2004-2005 theatre season was full, rich, and diverse
-- both in the variety of offerings on the All Stars’ three
42nd Street stages -- and in the audiences that
came to see the shows. More than 10,000 people attended at
least one of the twelve productions staged between October
2004 through June 2005. The press took note of most of the
productions as well, with reviews and feature articles appearing
in The New York Times, Newsday, Daily News, Star
Ledger, The Journal News, Brooklyn Eagle, The Amsterdam News,
Time Out, and on almost all local TV stations... 
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| Youth
Onstage! - expands youth theatre and training center! |
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Coming off a season,
which included the production of Casper Hauser (A Language
Game), Robin Hood: A Political Romance, and two All
Stars Hip-Hop Cabarets, Youth Onstage! (YO!) is gearing
up for a busy summer. YO!, the youth theatre of the All Stars
Project, also runs a performance-training program, the Youth
Onstage! Community Performance School. Courses and workshops,
which are taught by theatre professionals on a volunteer basis,
are provided in movement, voice, improvisation, character development
and theatre history. The integrated semester of study is...
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| 2005
Otto Awards |
| On June 6, the
seventh annual Otto Rene Castillo Awards for Political Theatre
were held at the All Stars Project’s 42nd Street
center. 150 people gathered to celebrate the achievements
of seven distinguished political theater artists and cultural
organizations from around the world. They included: The
Carpetbag Theatre, Compagnie du Dahut Synthetique, The Culture
Project, Dell’Arte International, Epic Theatre Center, the
Flea Theater and the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company...
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| May/June
Hip-Hop Cabaret Rocks the House! |
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The All Stars Project’s
third installment of its wildly successful Hip-Hop Cabaret
concluded its sold-out run on June 17. Emceed by Antoine “RL”
Joyce (who daylights as the National Producer of the All Stars
Talent Show Network) and backed up by DJ Tommy Lee, the talented
young cast also featured the dance group Fully Loaded, the song
stylings of blues guitarist Lightning (Brock Carson) and Chocolaté
(Victoria Jenkins), and rappers Squeak (Brannon V. Woodfin)
and Charlie Biggs (Alistair A. Sealy, Jr.)... |
| The
New York All Stars Talent Show Network breaks records! |
| The All Stars Talent
Show Network (ASTSN) has concluded yet another season of creating
culture and development with young people from inner-city neighborhoods
in New York City. “This was the first year that we were able
to organize three shows from one audition in each community
we visited,” Joyce says. “At Clara Barton High School in Crown
Heights, Brooklyn, our April audition had a turnout of 600 young
people representing over 90 acts, which then produced four workshops
and three shows.” The third talent show took place at Clara
Barton on June 25. And while...
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| The
Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth secures 162
paid summer internships!! |
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On Monday, May 23,
the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth (DSY) graduated
91 students from its two 2005 Spring semester classes. This
summer, those students will be among the 162 DSY graduates and
alumni being placed in paid internships at 62 different leading
corporations in New York City. During the past two semesters,
the DSY has welcomed 16 new volunteer Program Associates to
its faculty. These corporate professionals, trained by DSY
Co-Directors Dr. Lenora B. Fulani and Pamela A. Lewis, help
the young people learn the proper posture and... |
| All
Stars Project New Jersey begins five year expansion campaign!
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| From
April through June, the New Jersey All Stars Talent Show Network
sponsored its 11th cycle of cultural events in
Newark, with an audition, performance workshop and talent
show at Barringer High School. The talent show drew a record
500 participants – performers, youth and adult volunteers
and audience members from the community. The show was emceed
by Michael Santana and Darlene Fluker, both graduates of the
Development School for Youth who are “giving back” by building
the ASTSN in Newark. The Grand Prize went to the 13-year-old...
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| Bay
Area All Stars is Off the Hizzle! |
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The Bay Area All
Stars held a performance workshop on Saturday, April 2 and
an All Stars Talent Show on Saturday, April 16th at Oakland
Technical High School. Sixty-six performers (22 acts) participated
in the show as 200 parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbors
and other community members cheered them on. On May 18, the
Bay Area Center for Independent Culture (BACIC) held its first
Phat Friends Off the Hizzle dinner benefit raising
$30,000 for the Bay Area All Stars. Held at Scott's Seafood
Restaurant in Oakland, Phat included...
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| There's
no stoppin' the Atlanta All Stars! |
| The Atlanta All
Stars held an audition at the South Cobb Recreation Center
in metropolitan Atlanta on Saturday, June 25th.
The talent show will be held in July. Over 35 volunteers are
working the audition and talent show. Volunteer, Christy
Seigling led the community outreach effort pre-registering
over 50 acts including dance, step, mime, rap and vocals!
Many young people have also joined the Atlanta All Stars volunteer
ranks. Among them is Fatimah, a 16 year-old poet and artist
who travels several hours a day, several times a week to help
out with...
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