HS Theater Programs

[Anonymous]

SA HS is 80-90 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SA HS is 80-90 kids.

But it doesn’t really expand much - 10-15 kids enter. It seems like it does great with college admissions, but then once you’re there, you have to catch up a lot in non-humanities or arts subjects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SA HS is 80-90 kids.

But it doesn’t really expand much - 10-15 kids enter. It seems like it does great with college admissions, but then once you’re there, you have to catch up a lot in non-humanities or arts subjects.

Correct, it doesn’t expand much.
You’re incorrect that students have to catch up on anything in college.

[Anonymous]

I don't know much about private schools, but I know that The Hewitt School has a strong drama program. It is an all girls school.

Historically, St Jean Baptiste (a Catholic Church) had a strong theatre program; iniitally it was "the" place for French language theatre in NYC when St. Jean's congregation was made up of French immigrants. So, the Church has an unusually good theatre space.

Nowadays, it has an arrangement with Hewitt. The school rents the theatre during the week and on a few weekends. The rest of the time the theatre is used by the St Jean Players and other off-Broadway theatre companies, especially York theatre, a professional theatre company known for its musicals.

In any event, access to this space gave Hewitt a much better theatre than most. Hewitt is sort of second tier among the NYC private schools. IOW, among girls schools it ranks below Brearley, Spence and Chapin, but it's probably as good academically as any of the others. My understanding is that it has distinguished itself from the others by having an unusually strong performing arts program.

See https://www.hewittschool.org/academics/arts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
In any event, access to this space gave Hewitt a much better theatre than most. Hewitt is sort of second tier among the NYC private schools. IOW, among girls schools it ranks below Brearley, Spence and Chapin, but it's probably as good academically as any of the others. My understanding is that it has distinguished itself from the others by having an unusually strong performing arts program.

See https://www.hewittschool.org/academics/arts

Hewitt might have a decent theater program, but it is in a very different league academically. Look at college results in Insta, not even vs the schools you mentioned, but against a Nightingale (which is considered 2nd tier). Not that college is the only metric of a “good” school, but for 70k/yr it should definitely be something to be aware of. A kid who could easily get 8s/9s on an ERB— it’s unlikely to be the school for them.

[Anonymous]

Masters in Dobbs Ferry! Still a commute but very theater and arts oriented.

[Anonymous]

LaGuardia is really the answer. And I think your info about academics is outdated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cute.

Pp. Totally. Cute. Op has no idea…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LaGuardia is really the answer. And I think your info about academics is outdated

Thanks - I’d heard that they lowered the minimum grade standards to the point where they were pretty much meaningless. So the classes are still pretty rigorous? I guess that regardless of that you have to be pretty smart / dedicated to pass an audition?

Anonymous wrote: Pp. Totally. Cute. Op has no idea…

About what? I’m happy to admit I’m naive about this stuff - if the answer is that this is not actually attainable in NYC for whatever reason then that would be interesting to hear about too. (I’m certainly not imagining she has a career in theater, but “smart theater kid” is not a bad college pitch, and the basic skills translate to all sorts of other professions)