USA: Spotlight will go dark: Youth theater group to present its final show next month
"Spotlight Theatre will run one final weeklong camp Aug. 8-12 in Riverhead at Vail-Leavitt Music Hall (established in 1881)...[...] Spotlight is about more than just acting, dancing and singing. The group accepts youngsters of all abilities and finds a place for them. Kids with autism, mental illness, emotional issues and other problems are welcomed. The therapeutic value of theater is real, said the founders Kim Galway and Darby Moore, both Registered Drama Therapists and Licensed Creative Arts Therapists.
“It helps kids with their confidence, with their ability to interact with others, with their ability to problem-solve on their feet, improvise, all of that,” Ms. Galway said. “It just makes them more flexible and more self-confident overall.”
“We have worked with kids who have been extremely shy in social situations,” she continued. “We get them onstage playing a character, and they just come right out of their shell, and that’s been so exciting to see that transformation onstage and beyond.”
Read the full interview and article by Bob Liepa in The Suffolk Times here
