Skills Classes:
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Rehearsal and Performance Classes:
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Winter Camp:
Skills Classes
In the Skills Classes, the students focus on particular aspects of performance and/or production under their teachers' guidance. The students' ideas inspire the final showcase--from selecting material to creating stories, props and costumes.
Like our summer camps, these classes introduce young actors and actresses to the fundamentals of theater: imagination, character development and story, as well as creating basic sets, props and costumes. Using stories from many cultures, they will explore dramatic structure as they create their own piece to perform for family and friends on the last day of class.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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Not just for fans of stand-up comedy or Whose Line Is It Anyway?, this class is an indispensable tool for putting yourself in the mind and body of a character and learning to think on your feet. Taught by Alison Coriell, this class leads up to a hilarious showdown of wit and comedy for family and friends.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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By popular demand, we are now offering a class dedicated to stage combat - the illusion of physical combat used in the theater without causing harm to the performers. Taught by Alan Hutton, our stage combat teacher from Summer Camp, this class will teach students safety procedures and the basics of armed and unarmed stage combat and culminates with a demonstration for family and friends.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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- NEW!
Under the guidance of Art Ornelas and Amelia Rico, the resident videographers for Kids On Stage, students will collaborate on a short film to be screened at MST – Chelsea Market. Students will work on every aspect of the film, from script to storyboard to acting to filming.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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Rehearsal and Performance Classes
We offer two types of Rehearsal & Performance (R&P) classes - R&P Lab and R&P By Audition. Both are directed by first-rate professionals, both put on a performance at the end of the rehearsal process, and both require learning lines outside of class. Everyone who signs up for the R&P Lab classes will have at least one role in the final performance for family and friends. The R&P By Audition classes' performances are open to the public, but not all who audition will be cast. There are no prerequisites for either type of class. Choose the level of your challenge!
Myth Adventures
By Eric Coble
At a whirlwind pace, Dionysus, the Greek god of fun, introduces the audience to famous figures of mythology: heroes with amazing gifts, flawed gods and goddesses, muses and mysterious beasts. Do you dare to shake hands with King Midas? Follow the world's greatest musician, Orpheus, on his quest for the one thing his music can't do—bring back his dead love Eurydice. In the Underworld, he'll face Charon, the undead boatman, Cerberus, the three-headed hound, and Hades, the twisted King of the Dead himself. Then it's time to follow Theseus as he tracks down the bloodthirsty minotaur in the labyrinth. Theseus is determined to be a true hero, but will he survive long enough for the world to remember his name?
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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After the Rain King
By Steph DeFerie
Glory may be just a little kid, but she's in big trouble—she has accidentally unleashed the ruthless Rain King, Master of Sorrows, by opening an old locked book. Vowing vengeance on the world that imprisoned him, the Rain King kidnaps Glory's friend Pete and disappears back into the world of books. Of course Glory and her friends must follow, and soon they find themselves pulled from story to story—battling pirates, helping young Arthur pull the sword from the stone, and facing down bank robbers in the Wild West—in their quest to set things right back in their world.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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Sally Cotter & the Censored Stone
By Dean O'Carroll
Sally dreams an adventure that reminds her very much of some books about a famous young wizard: She discovers her true heritage as a sorcerer, and enrolls at Frogbull Academy of Sorcery and Sorciology. She meets Headmaster Albatross Underdrawers, Gamekeeper (and comic relief) Ruebenon Ryebread, and Professor Shiftia Shape. But danger is lurking, and it's up to Sally and her new friends Dave and Harmonica to defeat the schemes of the evil Lord Murderdeath. Will she become the hero like the one in her favorite series? And who is the mysterious Censor who keeps rewriting the story as it goes along? This loving parody will thrill fans and newcomers alike.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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Anansi the Spider and the Middle Passage
By Frank Higgins
Long ago, the trade route called the Middle Passage brought stories as well as slaves from Africa to America . Kidnapped from her village, young Shontay is frightened and helpless. Shontay's mother comforts her by telling her legends of Anansi, the trickster spider, and how he won an amazing box of stories from Nyame the Sky God. In each tale, Anansi springs to life along with the story characters for action-packed, light-hearted adventures. Shontay and her mother have brought Anansi with them to America, where his stories of outwitting the greedy and powerful inspire them.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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Getting ready for spring auditions?
Is your 8th-grader getting ready for high school theater programs? The Monologue/Audition Intensive class may be what you’re looking for. Teacher Chris Tennison will help students select material for prepared monologues, practice cold reading and improvisation skills, and anticipate situations that may be encountered at auditions at HSPVA and other high school theater programs.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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For each day of this mini-camp, students will work on short-term projects such as improvisation, storytelling, mask-making, and dance routines.
Registration for all Fall and Winter 2009 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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