About National Theater for Arts & Education

Mission Statement

National Theater for Arts & Education, LLC is an educational organization dedicated to supplementing the basic classroom curriculum by making available drama, music and dance programs of the highest professional quality.

Our goal is to help schools and teachers increase their pupils’ cultural awareness by providing significant and enjoyable involvement with living theater at truly modest prices.

National Theater has consistently brought you and your students new and exciting cultural enrichment programs covering the vast panorama of English, Spanish, French and German language, history and culture, as well as the worlds of Science and Mathematics.

In addition to presenting such internationally renown music and dance programs as The Ballet Folklorico Mexicano, Dondines Dancers of the Americas and The Music and Dance of Austria & Germany, we have expanded the diversity of our productions by offering bilingual Spanish, French and German plays of well-known authors such as Molière, Saint-Exupery, Cervantes, Lorca, Nestroy and Rostand. These programs have made National Theater for Arts & Education the largest producer of such concerts and cultural events in the world.

We are now thrilled to bring you some of the most spectacular and diverse programs ever presented for student audiences. The music and drama performances, supplemented by carefully designed multilingual explanations and language utilizations, ensure that each program will provide enjoyable, educational and memorable field trips for your students.

Bilingual Techniques

National Theater’s foreign language “DoubleBack”TM bilingual instant-replay technique and audience participation will enthrall your students visually while providing them with a unique opportunity to enrich their fluency and understanding of the foreign language they are studying. At the end of various scenes performed in English, the lights are dimmed and a strobe light is turned on. The actors walk backward through the entire scene, creating the illusion of a motion picture running in reverse. The lights then go back on and the scene is then played again, this time in Spanish, French or German, at a pace easily understood by students at all levels.

National Theater employs other foreign language techniques during the performance including verbal interplay between the actors and audience, in both English and the foreign language. Besides adding to the enjoyment of the program, this bilingual approach will give your classes an extraordinary opportunity to try their own powers of translation, while learning to decipher nuances of sound and vocabulary that distinguish one language from another.

 

National Theater performs nationally in over 350 cities