Temple's School of Communications and Theater has a new two-year master's program that targets experienced actors who want to learn to teach. Program director Dan Kern says the program offers even experienced actors a chance to grow in ways that day-to-day life in show business does not. "The whole mentality is about getting the job, not what you do when you have the job. So even though these are accomplished mid-career professionals, when you start to work on issues like Measure for Measure — a tough play — it provides huge challenges." The program's summer series begins in July with rotating performances of Shakespeare and Chekhov. Kern hopes to develop the summer series into a major repertory theater.