We are thrilled to be featured this month in Providence Monthly. Check it out: http://www.providenceonline.com/stories/Theater-Manton-Avenue-Project-childrens-play-,4446?category_id=59&town_id=1&sub_type=stories,packages,photos,blogs

Great Article about MAP in Motif Magazine – January 2013 Go to: http://www.motifmagazine.net/#/26

On January 13th, MAP families, volunteers, supporters and staff celebrated upcoming opening of our MAP Clubhouse with a potluck open house! Since it’s inception THE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT have been lucky enough to receive free-of-charge space for our playmaking classes, Playwriting Weekends and performances thanks to the William D’Abate School and Moses Brown. But we […]

Thank you to all who came out to support our MAP kids’ plays ALL IN FAVOR: the voting plays. What a remarkable weekend! And special thanks to the following artists who presented us with these awesome drawings of their favorite voting stories! These four represented our favorite drawings and each artist wins a free MAP […]

Our Wild Card! program classes started this year with a series of simple questions that I asked the kids: “Who has the right to vote in our country, and who doesn’t? Is this fair? Why? Or why not?” The responses to my questions included: “non-citizens”, “animals”, “kids”, and “prisoners”. When asked whether it was fair […]

Thank you, Susie and Piper, for sharing these amazing drawings (below) with us at our last show, My Blue Planet:the ocean plays. You are the winners of our Ocean Story contest – and you’ll each get a complimentary MAP button at our next show – All in Favor:the voting plays – September 28-30th! See you […]

Camp Ogontz Log By Jackie McCoy, MAP’s Summer Intern Day 1- July 22, 2012: We all met at the William D’Abate Memorial Elementary School, drove up in 3 cars, and arrived at Camp Ogontz, in Lyman, NH at 4:20pm.  When we arrived we unpacked and settled into our cabins.  The staff stayed in closed in […]

Special thanks to Jen Rudolph from The Roger Williams Zoo for coming to our Playmaking class last week to teach us all about endangered species. We learned about why certain animals become endangered, or even extinct, and what we can do to prevent it. We learned about habitat destruction and missing links in the food […]

This week’s Tag Team class was incredible. We discussed the theme for our play  – Keeping the Dream Alive: Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream for a better world – and we started to think about how to create a play inspired by Dr. King. We started with an overview of Dr. King’s words […]

MAP is thrilled to announce the hiring of Jesse Rye, our new Managing Director, who comes to us with myriad experience in arts management, most recently as a program director for the Maryland State Arts Council. Jesse holds a Master of Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon and a BA in Theatre from Ripon College. New […]