“The books we choose have meat on their bones,” [Barbara Zinn] Krieger says. “They talk about journeys of discovery and change. But we invent characters, scenes, dialogue—whatever we need to...

Making Books Sing Associate Artistic Director Emma Halpern interviews theater practitioners about incorporating puppetry into their work for family audiences.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum co-presents this youth-targeted play about the jazz great.

At P.S. 199 in Queens, words are coming to life. Thanks to Barbara Zinn Krieger and her nonprofit arts program, "Making Books Sing,"...

NYC Stage Review Interviews Barabara Zinn Krieger, Artistic Director of Making Books Sing.

One of the latest actors to embrace the challenge of channeling Satchmo is Jeremy Giraud Abram, a Slidell native who lives in New York City, not terribly far from where Armstrong himself...

Pura Belpre returns to East Harlem next month.

The stage adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett is, it is probably safe to say, the only play about the Holocaust that...

There are no gilded mirrors in "A Shelter in Our Car," but there's plenty of heart. This musical by Making Books Sing takes Monica Gunning's book about homelessness and,...

While theater fans by the thousand flock to attend Broadway performances in the heart of Times Square, the rest of us have Making Books Sing.

Children's arts-education program turns novels into plays, musicals and operas.

Habia una vez un nino llamando Juanito que vivia viajando de un lado a otro y cambiando de vivienda cada dos por tres, pues sus padres— originarios de Mexico— eran trabajadores...

A popular book by former borough resident Juan Felipe Herrera is set to turn the local theater world upside down this month…

Fourth graders get into the spirit of Making Books Sing by staging part of "Sacagawea," the story of Lewis and Clark's Native American guide.

Teaching artists bring drama to the classroom.

After six years at the forefront of the Vineyard Theatre's arts-in-education programming, Making Books Sing has become an autonomous nonprofit.

A nun practicing kung fu may sound like a character from a Christopher Durang play or ''Saturday Night Live.'' But the martial arts instructor in ''Beautiful Warrior...

A new opera based on an old legend blends love and kung fu and a girl's quest for independence.

Barbara Zinn Krieger and young opera fans at Grand St. Settlement.