Five Philadelphia schools participated in our Adopt-A-School Program, reaching 2,847 students at underserved schools, making this the most schools and students adopted in program history!
124 schools and 255 performances reached 62,743 students through four different touring outreach productions from September of 2023 through May of 2024. Over 150 of these performances were offered at no cost to Title One schools, thanks to generous donors and grant funding, to help increase accessibility of live theatre.
WST Educational Staff served two new Year One schools, in grades 3-5, to help establish their own theatre programming; Students made Disney magic which culminated with an in-school performance as well as a community performance. Additionally, our Year two and Year three schools also held performances. All told, DMIS impacted 3,213 students!
I want to tell you that this summer has been by far the best camp experience he has ever had. From day one this summer he has come home happy, told me how nice everyone is. When he came home with the Camper of the Day sticker, he was over the moon. So besides all of the incredible theater he is learning, writing and acting in an original show, whatever you and the staff do to make the kids feel that they can be themselves and treat everyone with kindness, it's working.—Parent
My girls truly loved being at camp Walnut and Laila now has a newfound interest in theatre. We especially support the strict anti-bullying policy at camp. We greatly appreciate all the staff and the effort they put into camp this summer. We are looking forward to attending future shows and becoming members of the Walnut Theatre. Have a wonderful summer.—Parent
This show is so important, most of the messages in this show our students are not comfortable sharing with their parents or teachers and I hope that after seeing this they know that they can. You all did amazing and it was a wonderful show with a message that in a world that is suffering truly needs impact from.—Teacher
I appreciate your attention to detail, thoughtful creation of a valuable program for our team and the time and effort that went into this preparation.—Charles W. Lentz , Assistant Director of Curriculum · Abington School District
