BYMT will kick off its 2025 season of 14 new musicals with a fresh new revival of a recent BYMT favourite The Naughty ...

GENESEO – Geneseo Central Drama Club’s spring play isn’t just a performance — it’s a look into a little-known part of American history.

The Orphan Trains follows the story of the New York Children's Aid Society, created in 1853 to provide thousands of street children with homes in rural communities in the American midwest.

Her name was Lillian Niehaus. The “Orphan Train” program operated from 1854 to 1929, transporting more than 150,000 orphaned children from New York City throughout the United States.

Orphan Train is a powerful reminder of how a nation and its character are built — one child, one family at a time. This world premiere New York Musical Theatre Festival production is directed by ...

Brace, Charles Loring. The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years Work Among Them. Montclair, NJ(reprint): Patterson Smith, 1967. Fry, Anette. The Orphan Trains. New York: New ...

In 1854, there were over 10,000 abandoned, orphaned children living on the streets of New York City. Out of this desperate situation was born the orphan Train. This is a fictionalized account ...

GENESEO — Geneseo Central Drama Club’s spring play isn’t just a performance — it’s a look into a little-known part of American history. “The Orphan Train,” taking the stage at ...