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Visibility, Creativity and Community: Theatre Arts Programming Offers a New Pathway for Older Adults

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The cast of Theatre 55’s 2019 production of the 1969 musical, “Hair.”

The cast of Theatre 55’s 2019 production of the 1969 musical, “Hair.” *Photo credit: Jolie Olson

In this issue of The Creative Aging Resource Newsletter, Diantha Dow Schull talks with theatre professionals,  Julie Kline, Lifetime Arts’ Director of Education & Training, and Ed Friedman, Lifetime Arts’ Co-Founder and Executive Director (retired), on creative aging programming in the theatre arts and shares global programming efforts from a variety of theatre groups.

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subject terms

Creative Aging

Creative Aging > Arts Education

Creative Aging > Creative Aging Model

Creative Aging > Creative Expression

Creative Aging > Program Models

Creative Aging > Skills Mastery

Creative Aging > Social Engagement

Creative Aging > Teaching Artistry

contributors

Jacqueline DuMont

Shannon McDonough

Diantha Schull

related organizations

Altentheater

Elders Company

Elders Company of the Royal Exchange Theater

GeriActors & Friends

Leeds Playhouse

Ping Chong + Company

Plan-B Theater

Queens Theater

Stagebridge

Theater 55

VIVA Theater

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

resource type

Newsletters

year

2022

keywords

Canada, Europe, Germany, UK

art forms

Performing Arts, Theatre

program site type

Arts Organizations

Founded in 2008, Lifetime Arts is a nonprofit arts service organization that offers a positive, modern, artistic and social lens through which to serve, inspire and engage America’s growing population of older adults.

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