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American Place Theatre offers audiences new plays by living American writers. In recent years, American Place Theatre has implemented and expanded several education programs including Literature to Life, a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged adaptations of significant American literary works; Teacher's Place, a series of workshops for teachers which provide them with strategies for using dramatic techniques in the classroom and Urban Writes, 12 week residencies in city high schools encouraging creative drama and playwriting as a means of student self-expression and a catalyst for literacy.
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