Our Mission
We provide comprehensive professional theater education and performance opportunities in a safe, supportive, bilingual environment to youth and adults of the Greater New Haven Community, and we create meaningful partnerships with community organizations. Broadway on Main maintains a vigorous program of scholarship assistance wherever qualified participants and audiences need help affording our programs.
Core Values
THE COMMUNITY OF THEATER
We are a pan-community theater that is all inclusive, one that provides opportunities artists and artisans of all ages the creative freedom to speak their many truths and to celebrate their vast diversity. We make theater that is entertaining and instructive, work that immerses audiences into the world of our plays and encourages them to be amused and, at the same time, critically aware of the world we live in.
EDUCATION
We provide education on a number of levels: training in the arts and crafts of theater. We encourage our participants to learn every aspect of the theater thoroughly. At the same time, we educate our company to be community activists, to exercise the power of theater for change and for good. Further, we educate our audiences in the joy of theater as well as in their responsibilities as a community to honor one another’s multi-various ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations, religions, etc. In our own space and in the greater community, we continue to spread our message of inclusion and unity, and build partnerships throughout the state.
ARTISTRY
We will produce a broad range of theater, musical theater, cabarets, and musical festivals to celebrate the many ways a theater can be the center of arts and ideas for the entire community. We feature local performing artists and invite guest performing artists to share their various talents and perspectives .
We are a pan-community theater that is all inclusive, one that provides opportunities artists and artisans of all ages the creative freedom to speak their many truths and to celebrate their vast diversity. We make theater that is entertaining and instructive, work that immerses audiences into the world of our plays and encourages them to be amused and, at the same time, critically aware of the world we live in.
EDUCATION
We provide education on a number of levels: training in the arts and crafts of theater. We encourage our participants to learn every aspect of the theater thoroughly. At the same time, we educate our company to be community activists, to exercise the power of theater for change and for good. Further, we educate our audiences in the joy of theater as well as in their responsibilities as a community to honor one another’s multi-various ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations, religions, etc. In our own space and in the greater community, we continue to spread our message of inclusion and unity, and build partnerships throughout the state.
ARTISTRY
We will produce a broad range of theater, musical theater, cabarets, and musical festivals to celebrate the many ways a theater can be the center of arts and ideas for the entire community. We feature local performing artists and invite guest performing artists to share their various talents and perspectives .
Our Programs
Broadway on Main is a nonprofit association of performing artists, artisans, and educators. We have created a safe haven for performers and craftspeople from all segments of the local community by offering multi-ethnic, bilingual (English and Spanish to start with other languages to be added later) opportunities for participation in and enjoyment of programs for and by a wide swath of the population. We target the Greater New Haven community at large, and are accessible to the entire state. In addition to theater practitioners, audiences will experience unique theatrical and learning experiences. Our productions are immersive and inclusive, and we invite local school groups to attend rehearsal sessions at little or no cost to the students. We plan to reach out to organizations in the area with whom we can form partnerships that offer programs promoting mental and behavioral health. Further, we will offer workshops, seminars, classes, and performances in local schools and community centers and will invite educators to bring school groups to our theater for performances and meet-and-greet and talk-back sessions with cast and crews that examine issues and topics relevant to the community. All our productions will promote interracial, cross-cultural understanding and will be followed up by discussions and seminars that promote community building. We want to foster a new generation of community-minded activists.