Your much-needed tax-deductible contributions go 100% into bringing the unforgettable experience of live theater to New York City's public school students, on our stages and in their classrooms.
According to a 2009 Center for Arts Education report based on data from the New York City Board of Education, the arts play a key role in keeping students in high school and graduating on time. Click here to learn more about LCT's Open Stages Education Program.
Friends of Open Stages contributions are fully tax-deductible. For information on becoming a Patron of Lincoln Center Theater, a separate program offering special benefits to contributors, click here or call 212.501.3252.
Your gift of $25 as a Friend of Open Stages
Will provide CDs to an entire class of Open Stages students in Brooklyn to document songs they created in a Songwriting in the Schools residency.
Your gift of $50
Will provide classroom materials to recent-immigrant students at a high school in Queens who are participating in a Learning English and Drama ('LEAD Project') Open Stages residency designated for English language learners.
Your gift of $90
Will provide an entire Open Stages middle school class from the Bronx with individual copies of a Shakespeare play they are studying.
Your gift of $225
Will provide a day of in-class theater workshops by an LCT Teaching Artist to an Open Stages high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Your gift of $500
Will provide bus transportation from Queens to an LCT matinee for an entire class of Open Stages high school students.
Your gift of $1,500
Will enable an entire Open Stages classroom from the Bronx to attend a student matinee and participate in a 'talk-back' after the show with the actors.
Your gift of $2,000
Will provide a school in Brooklyn with a nine-session Songwriting in the Schools Open Stages residency, culminating in the creation of original songs mentored by a professional composer and lyricist.
Your gift of $4,000
Will provide an 18-session Learning English and Drama ('LEAD Project') Open Stages residency to a class of recent immigrants in a middle school in lower Manhattan, along with ten hours of professional development at LCT for their teacher
Please donate to LCT's Open Stages Education Program and
