PHILADELPHIA -Magee Rehabilitation Hospital will host a theatre arts program for individuals with disabilities in the Philadelphia region this spring. This marks the fifth year Magee has provided this program to the community.

Participants will study a number of performing art genres including improvisation, play writing, mime, acting and comedy. The class is also designed to help individuals enhance memory, analytical and communication skills, body awareness, creativity, self-confidence, public speaking, flexibility and social skills.

Classes are held 1 - 3 p.m. Fridays, March 25 through June 3. Registration for the class is $15. For more information or to register, please call (215) 587-3063.

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, a founding member of the Jefferson Health System and ranked among U.S. News & World Report's top rehabilitation hospitals in 2004, is the Philadelphia region's original provider of physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. The non-profit healthcare organization is a partner with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of Delaware Valley, a federally designated spinal cord injury system of care, and with MossRehab in the traumatic brain injury system of care. Magee provides lifetime wellness programs for individuals with spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, amputation, orthopedic injury, geriatric illness and work injury.