Travel and Cultural Opportunities

        All travel opportunities provided for theatre magnet students have as their rationale the artistic, cultural and academic enhancement of our students.

       In past years DP theatre students have twice performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, as one of 20 schools in the United States invited to represent the American High School Theatre Festival.
Hosting the District V Thespian Festival at Dr. Phillips this year, students who qualify at Districts will travel to Tampa to compete in the State Thespian Festival.

      Each October junior and senior theatre students may participate in the Fall College Tour. Traveling by bus to colleges along the East Coast, students on a typical tour experience meetings with admissions officers and workshops with theatre faculty at schools such as NCSA, NYU, Juilliard, SUNY at Purchase, and Boston College, and Emerson. On alternate years the focus of the trip is New England or New York.

    Our next trip is going to include Boston, Concord, Salem in Massachusetts, as well as museums and Broadway shows in New York. Beside the obvious historical sites in Washington, D.C., students visiting our nation's capital will visit the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Smithsonian Institute.

    Every year the activities are coordinated with the academic curriculum. Examples from previous trips include:
                     o reading Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow in social studies in conjunction with a trip to Ellis Island
                     o studying Anne Frank before visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington
                     o reading The Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, and Walden prior to touring Salem and Concord in Massachusetts
   Because upper-class theatre students earn a humanities credit collapsed with their English classes, the tour always includes museum experiences. This year's tour will visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Previous tours have included:
                     o The Picasso exhibit at MOMA
                     o 20th Century Retrospective at the Whitney
                     o Medieval art at the Cloisters
                     o The sculpture gardens of the Smithsonian