Back in Middle School, I was all about competing in speech tournaments. One of my favorite events? Readers' Theatre. One of the scripts that my middle school used for Readers' Theatre? Greater Tuna. Not in its entirety, of course. Readers' Theatre, according to the rules we went by at least, could only be ten minutes long. Also, it probably wouldn't do for a bunch of twelve-year-olds to talk about cross-dressing, animal poisoning, and philanderers. What......

Thomas FitzSimmons High School in North Philadelphia will graduate their first class of all boys this Thursday. The school went all-boys two years ago, and is the only all-boys public school in the state. Meanwhile, the Ada H. Lewis Middle School in East Germantown might be voted closed on June 20th by the School Reform Commission, due to declining enrollment and a $38 million repair estimate. But parents and teachers are fighting to keep the......

When this Phillyist was a teenager, she was definitely doing a lot of theatre. Not to brag or anything, but in the Coronado High School (go T-Birds!) theatre program, she was actually kind of a big deal. But now she feels like she was actually a total slacker, because she just heard about this program happening at the Prince Music Theater tonight called the Rainbow Connection Festival, an evening of plays not only performed by......