Pictured at Celebrate Somerville! Event

(from left to right) Tony Pierantozzi, Superintendent of Somerville Public Schools, Diane Michalowski Freedland, YAMA Executive Director, Raul Gonzalez, YAMA teaching artist, City of Somerville Mayor, Joseph Curtatone

Characters Educational Theater

Madame Curie: Discovery!

Grades 6-12

Show your students how Madame Curie's discoveries of radium and polonium had such a tremendous impact in the scientific world.

Molly Pitcher: Woman of the War

Grades 5-12

Women were not allowed to fight in the Revolutionary war, but Mary Hayes was not going to let that stop her!

Three Mill Girls: We Are Not Machines

Grades 7-12

Meet three women who earned a living working in the mills at the turn of the century and learn about their three very contrasting perspectives of the work they do.

Norah Dooley

Storytelling: Your Program - Female Heroines

Grades K-8

Norah Dooley puts her extensive arsenal of stories, folktales, and fables to work as she tells the tales of female heroines from around the globe!

Inter*Act Performances with Jan Turnquist

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Catalyst for Civil War

Grades 6-12

Students will meet the famous abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the woman whom Abraham Lincoln called "the little lady who started this great war."

Louisa May Alcott: Dynamic Author

Grades 3-12

Students will meet the courageous, determined, and fiercely independent author of Little Women, who will introduce them to important 19^th century ideas, including suffrage and equal education.

Valerie Tutson

The Right To... Liberty

Grades 3-12

Hear the stories of Black freedom fighters during the American Revolution, including Ona Marie Judge, a slave who ran away from George Washington, and Elizabeth Freeman, known as Mumbet, whose court case paved the way to abolishing slavery in Massachusetts.

April is National Poetry Month!  Young Audiences of Massachusetts offers programs that can help poetry come alive for your students.

Characters Educational Theater

Mother Goose

Grades K-1

Invite Mother Goose into your classroom to recite students' favorite nursery rhymes.

David Zucker

Poetry in Motion

Grades K-12

The poems of A.A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Langston Hughes, Shel Silverstein, Edgar Allen Poe, James Whitcomb Riley, and others come to life in this masterful performance of acting, mime, vocal gymnastics, humor, audience participation, and a trunk full of props.

Mister G

Who Writes Songs? You Do!

Grades PreK-3

Mister G empowers students to write their own songs and illustrates how great song lyrics, like stories, follow a narrative form with a beginning, middle, and end.