January 27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA - Gateway to the Arts is excited to promote its annual Gateway to the Arts Promising Performer Award Honoring Rob Marshall. Established in 2008 in honor of director and choreographer Rob Marshall, a graduate of Allderdice High School, the Promising Performer Award aims to encourage talented Pittsburgh Public School students to pursue training in the performing arts. It is awarded to a Pittsburgh Public School sophomore whose music, language arts or drama teacher identifies them as an outstanding music, theater or musical theater student.

December 14, 2009 -Gateway to the Arts is excited to announce that we will be partnering with the Pittsburgh Public Schools to provide programming for the first PPS Summer Dreamers Academy. Gateway proposed and was approved to provide four teams of teaching artists to present four diverse five-week residencies.

By allowing middle school youth to immerse themselves in an art form of their choosing, from discovering the joy and challenges of what it takes to run a production company to using visual arts and movement to explore the Twilight novels, these residencies are designed to engage youth in the excitement of discovery, foster a passion for an art form and to create lasting skills to help them succeed in school and in life.

Gateway to the Arts is proud to announce that our Western Pennsylvania Wolf Trap program has been certified by the state as an approved provider for early childhood professional development.