New Residency!

For its 2023/24 Season, Jamaica Center for the Performing Arts has invited Shadow Box to become a resident theatre for young audiences.

Since 1967, Shadow Box Theatre (SBT) has been the first theatre experience for over a million children from all of the boroughs in New York City.  Shadow Box Theatre has been performing their flagship productions, The African Drum and The Earth and Me, as field trips for Queens Schools at Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC), part of the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) since 2010.  Last year, SBT partnered with JCAL to welcome Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian child refugee who travels the world raising awareness about children displaced by war and strife, by building a Rufus King puppet to greet her at her first stop in America, The Rufus King Manor.  She was also welcomed by See-More, a puppet from The African Drum and other shows, who represents the children in SBT audiences, and Butterfly from The Earth and Me.  And this year, JCAL has invited Shadow Box to become a resident theatre for young audiences, where SBT will perform public shows this season.