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  • BIG GREEN THEATER (BGT) is an annual community based program that brings the youth of Bushwick directly in touch with the professional world of theater. From January-April every year, The Bushwick Starr works with a group of 5th grade students after school, teaching them a combination of playwriting and environmental education, and helping them create a series of short, environmentally themed plays. These plays are then performed by an ensemble of professional actors, directors, and designers at our theater in Brooklyn, using only green theater methods (recycled materials for sets and costumes, fluorescent and LED lighting, paperless programming and ticketing, etc.).

    Our theater is committed to supporting community environmental awareness, as well as creative after-school arts programs.

    Please read about the project details on our "About the Program" page.

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The BGT playwrights and leaders at the final draft reading in March 2013

BGT performance dates announced! April 27th + 28th, 2013

The Bushwick Starr’s 3rd annual Big Green Theater festival will perform the weekend of April 27th + 28th, 2013. Our Sat. and Sun. 4pm matinees are free! Walk-ins are accepted, but we do encourage you to make a reservation in advance as seating is limited. Our Saturday evening show at 7pm is a Special Benefit … Read more

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A report from the classroom at P.S.123!

This week at Big Green Theater, students are assigned an image to use as inspiration for their plays and work on some finer points of character development in their playwriting. The plays on this particular Wednesday featured global warming, melting ice caps, tsunamis, famine, UFO’s and aliens, mixed in with Star Wars references, BMX bikes, … Read more

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Photo highlights from BGT 2012!

Rehearsal for Big Green Theater 2012

Big Green Theater is just around the corner!

Big things are afoot this week at The Bushwick Starr. As trees unfurl their leaves and flowers bloom around the city, our Big Green Theater festival is blossoming too! Rehearsals are in full swing with Superhero Clubhouse captain Jeremy Pickard directing. The image above is of Jeremy rehearsing “The Plankton’s Escape”, by PS 123 student … Read more

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BGT 2013 has begun! Classroom sessions at P.S.123 are in full swing and Festival dates announced: April 27+28!

Performances April 28 + 29, Saturdays at 4pm + 7pm, Sunday at 4pm General Admission: $12.  PURCHASE TICKETS HERE FREE for all kids under 18 and Bushwick, Brooklyn community members (*please bring proof of address to our Box Office) The Bushwick Starr is proud to present our 2nd Annual BIG GREEN THEATER Festival, created in … Read more

A report from the classroom at PS 123

This year, the creative team behind our Big Green Theater initiative is the 5th grade class at PS 123. The 2012 BGT session began in January. After a few weeks of learning about “eco-playwriting”, the class visited The Bushwick Starr, with Lee Mandel of Boswyck Farms. There, they toured Lee’s hydroponic roof garden, and the … Read more

Big Green Theater 2012! April 28th+29th at The Bushwick Starr

This year’s BGT program is well underway!  Students at our local Public School 123 are meeting with us twice a week to learn about the environment and write plays about the topics that inspire them.  Stay tuned for an inside report from the classroom where these wonderful kids are working, learning, and having Big Green … Read more

A first reading of new work by the Still Waters writers.

Big Green Theater in 2011

It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of January! Following a break for the holidays, Superhero Clubhouse’s Jeremy Pickard and Maria Portman Kelly are back at work with the writers at Still Waters in a Storm. Big Green Theater, our environmental education program which will culminate in a production of kid-written plays about the … Read more

Superhero Clubhouse performers

Superhero Clubhouse

  As we enter our 2010-2011 season at The Bushwick Starr, we’d like to introduce some of our friends who will be working with us on our new Big Green Theater environmental education program. This month, we’d like you to meet Superhero Clubhouse’s Captain, Jeremy Pickard, and First Mate, Maria Portman Kelly. Superhero Clubhouse is … Read more

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