Beat by Beat Blog

Beat by Beat Response to COVID-19

Theatre is about community. Beat by Beat’s role has always been to enrich the lives [...]

Introducing…The Show Must Go Online! A Virtual Children’s Musical

  [Update April 6, 2020: This show is now available! Click here to learn more.] It [...]

Teaching Improv: How do I help students create specific environments within their scenes?

 “My students are very vague when it comes to object and environment work. How do [...]

Teaching Improv: How do I help students make their scenes more interesting?

  “My students get stuck fixating on one thing in a scene and the scene [...]

Drama Game: Emotional Quadrants

  Type: Creativity Purpose: An active way to allow students to explore a range of emotions. Procedure: 1. Create [...]

Drama Game: Affect the Player

  Type:  Creativity, Improv Purpose: A useful game that will help students explore objective and tactics. Most [...]

Drama Game: The Truth About Me

Type: Ensemble Building Purpose: Participants share truths about themselves in order to find commonalities amongst the group. [...]

New Play for Middle & High School Coming February 5th, 2018

We’re kicking off the new year with a big announcement… On Monday, February 5th, 2018 we’re releasing [...]

Drama Game: MeYouYouMe Name Game

Purpose: A fun, quick game to help learn the names of everyone in the class. Procedure: [...]

VIDEO: Tony Nominee Mentions Beat by Beat Musicals on Late Night with Seth Meyers

We just had a I-can’t-believe-that-just-happened moment! Patrick Wilson was a guest on Late Night with [...]