Amplify & Ignite: A Symposium on Theatre For Social and Civic Engagement
The symposium will be held at
NYU Steinhardt
April 16-19, 2026
Registration
Non Member - $450*
Member - $350*
Student - $200
One Day - $125
*Rates will increase $100 on Saturday, January 17, 2026.
Join us for Amplify & Ignite: A Symposium on Theatre for Social and Civic Engagement, jointly sponsored by NYU Steinhardt’s Program in Educational Theatre and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. The Symposium will be held April 16-19, 2026 at
NYU Steinhardt in New York City.
This symposium will gather socially-minded, politically-aware, and critically-engaged artists, educators, facilitators, and scholars from a variety of arts-based and community-driven contexts to reflect on their artistic, justice-centered, and/or arts-based praxis.
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Additional Opportunities
Optional experiences to enhance your New York visit.
Thursday, April 16
2:00–3:30 pm
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Please join staff from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center for a comprehensive introduction to their world-renowned circulating and special collection materials. Learn about the history of the Billy Rose Theatre Division, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and Music & Recorded Sound Division, as well as the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, the world's foremost collection of video recordings of live theatre. Whether you're a performing arts scholar, professional, or fan, there's something for you at the Library, always free of charge.
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8:00 pm
Roundabout Theatre Company
“In 1925, English playwright Noël Coward caused a mild moral panic with his play Fallen Angels, in which two upper-class women toast to their premarital sexual dalliances with the same man. The risqué play drew a rebuke from the theater censor office of the Lord Chamberlain.
A century later, the fizzy scandal makes for rich material for Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara, who will play the two conspiratorial women (whose husbands are away for the day!) in Scott Ellis’s revival of Coward’s groundbreaking comedy.”
— The Guardian, Jan. 27, 2026
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SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS:
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