Lincoln Center Theater
 
 
 
Friends Program

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 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 designed for English language learners.

Your gift of $125 will provide a class of 35 Open Stages middle school students from the Bronx with individual copies of a Shakespeare play they are studying.

Your gift of $250 will provide a day of in-class theater workshops by a Lincoln Center Theater Teaching Artist to an Open Stages high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Your gift of $500 will provide Learning English and Drama ('LEAD Project') workshops led by LCT teaching artists to two classes of recent-immigrant students in Queens, along with planning and capacity-building sessions for their classroom teachers.

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 $2,500 will provide two classes at a school in Brooklyn with nine-session Songwriting in the Schools residencies, culminating in the creation of original songs mentored by a professional composer and lyricist.

Please donate to LCT's Open Stages Education Program and