2006: January In March We conducted a comprehensive Children's Workshop under contract with Fairmont School District #89 in Lockport, Illinois.  For 8 weeks we worked with students (grades 3-8) using Language Arts, reading and comprehension in reading age appropriate stories and developing them into skits/one act plays.  The students were involved in every aspect of preparing the production including set design, props, costumes and script writing.  The culmination of this project produced four skits which was performed by the students involved with the program.  July, New Branch has expanded the Children's Theatre Workshop with a Poetry concentrated workshop as well as our Children's Theater Workshop which both include the Illinois Learning Standards.  In August, New Branch started the fourth season with "The Mark" a Christian Drama written by Cleveland O. McLeish.  The audience was intrigued with the content which lead to many questions about the end of days.  The show ran one weekend at The Vittum Theater on the near North Side of Chicago.  November NBTC's annual Dinner Mystery Theater Show is "Murder at the Disco" - taking everyone back 30 years to 1976.  When hair was big and bell bottoms even bigger.