The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is excited to stage its next performance: Nonviolent Acts: The Peace Plays! Nonviolence Acts: The Peace Play Festival! is the culminating production of The Manton Avenue Project’s Play-it-Again program, an after-school playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. 4th grade playwrights are each writing a play about the […]

OLNEYVILLE, THE OPERETTA! comes to AS220’s Black Box November 30 through December 3. Performances are Thursday and Friday at 7pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm.  GET YOUR TICKETS HERE! The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is excited to stage its next performance: Olneyville, The Operetta! Olneyville, The Operetta! is the culminating performance of The Manton Avenue Project’s TAG TEAM […]

 “New collaborative play by kids to explore how bicycles empower communities” (Providence, RI) The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) will stage its next performance: Pedal Power: The Bicycle Play, December 1-4. Performances will take place at 7pm on Thursday and Friday, and 2pm on Saturday and Sunday, in the Blackbox at AS220 at 95 Empire Street […]

 “New plays by young people devised with Strange Attractor, explore relationship with audience and each other”   (Providence, RI) The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) will stage its next performance: August 4-7. Performances will take place at 7pm on Thursday and Friday, and 2pm on Saturday and Sunday, in AS220’s blackbox at 95 Empire Street in […]

“New short plays by kids celebrate the 100th birthday of National Parks” (Providence, RI) The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) will stage its next performance: May 5-8th. Performances will take place at 7pm on Thursday and Friday, and 2pm on Saturday and Sunday, in the Blackbox at AS220 on Empire Street downtown. There will be a […]

WORK IT OUT: the work and labor play WORK IT OUT: The Work and Labor Play is the culminating performance of The Manton Avenue Project’s TAG TEAM program, an afterschool playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. Nine young playwrights, 5th and 6th graders, will collaborate on a play about work.  For this project, The […]

INTO THE DEEP: The Narragansett Bay Plays! December 3-6 AS220 Blackbox       What do a squid, a ghost ship, and Ida Lewis have in common? The Narragansett Bay, of course! Join us as 4th grade playwrights at The Manton Avenue Project tackle this history of our beautiful bay and the challenges we face […]

The Public Park play festival! Public Parks Theme in Next MAP Festival of Plays by Young People (Providence, RI) The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is proud to present it’s next production: “This Land is Our Land: the public park plays” April 17-19, 2015. Performances will take place at 7pm on Friday and Saturday, and 2pm […]

If you missed it the first time due to snow, we’ll be performing Open For Business on Sunday, April 19th as part of double feature with our Public Park plays! Show starts at 2pm. Open for Business is the culminating performance of The Manton Avenue Project’s Tag Team program, an afterschool playwriting class held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. Seven […]