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Street Address. Check it out here and get a glimpse of the Youth Theatre in action. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Throughout the sesason, we shared videos, photos, and Youth Theatre memories celebrating the 25th anniversary, leading up to a reunion and celebration.

Like many organizations throughout NYC and the country, the Creative Arts Team is continuing to feel the financial repercussions of Covid We are working diligently to continue working with young people across NYC, but we need your help to make that happen.

In these uncertain times, having some financial stability would be incredibly valuable. Click here to make a financial contribution of any size, or text GIVE to If you want to donate but not through Network for Good, please contact us. To provide young people with hands-on opportunities to create original theatre experiences from their own ideas that will stimulate:.

Never found a real home until I came to CAT. Everyone listens and is open without judgement. I don't know who I would be without CAT.

It is truly one of the very best theatre organizations going, as are their shows. I can't stop thinking about the show and how much depth there was. How brilliant and talented the young people are and how moving it was to see them speak their mind, and from the heart. So profound. So honest. So brave! I was so inspired. It's amazing. We couldn't share in person, but we still shared online! In the winter of , members worked online creating an original piece looking at the extraordinary time we are living in now.

In this year of Covid, virtual learning, social distancing, political unrest and upheaval, and constant uncertainty, the young people discussed how they, and we all, are living history. BLOOD: A sometimes humorous sometimes harrowing look at what blood reveals about our humanity: Violence, vulnerability, life, health, death, family, ancestry…the ins and outs of blood.

They are passed down through generations, played at family gatherings. Lines of dominoes are set up just to get knocked down. Where do things start? What sets things off? A breath, a look, a push, a pull, a statement, a question, a passion, an injustice — one thing leads to another - escalating. Do we contribute to the fall? Or stop it? When do we want to be a catalyst? Language is used to include and exclude, to express love and hate, to oppress and to speak out against wrongs.

But whose voices are dominating? What are they saying? How do we choose to use our voices? CAT Youth Theatre examines these questions and more in an entertaining and provocative original production. Recent shows include:. The See-Saw: an iconic image of childhood, of playgrounds, of innocence. But a see-saw can also represent balance and extremes, highs and lows, instability and risk. There is a different view from each end of the see-saw — how does what we see effect what we perceive?

Where are things balanced in society, and what inequities exist? How do we choose to live our lives - what struggles do we engage in? From childhood, we are told to tell the truth, believe certain truths, and be true to ourselves and to each other. But how do we know the truth? Whose truth dominates and how are we misled?

Within our families or within our society, what are the stories we are told and those we choose to tell? Why are certain things harder for us to talk honestly about? From sex to drugs, from our current relationships to our past history, the CAT Youth Theatre examined these questions and more in an entertaining and provocative original production.

What meaning can we make from viewing the world through the concept of Inside Out? Sweaters and socks can be turned inside out - but so can people and lives.