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.
Core Acting Classes
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 Spring 2010 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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 Spring 2010 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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 Spring 2010 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
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 Spring 2010 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
Main Street Theater and RicOrnel Productions would like to invite you to the premiere of
BACKSTAGE: (WORKING TITLE)
DATE: May 9, 2010
TIME: 5pm
LOCATION: Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market
PRICE: FREE!!!
SEATING IS LIMITED SO ARRIVE EARLY!!!
*Enjoy a Meet and Greet with the student and teacher filmmakers as well as free appetizers and drinks!*
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!
Spring R&P Lab
Briar Rose: The Tale of Sleeping Beauty
Adapted by Stephen Hotchner from the fairy tale
Despite warnings from her hysterical, hyper mother, Briar Rose touches the thorns of some roses given to her by that devious thirteenth fairy. Consequently, she and the rest of the royal family fall asleep for 100 years under the evil fairy's curse. Finally a prince and his wisecracking bodyguard (a two-headed troll) are able to break through the growling, hissing briars that surround the castle. But since the prince has a serious kissing phobia, what will happen if he can't wake Briar Rose up?
Registration for all Spring 2010 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Adapted by Thomas W. Olsen from the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Any fan of the world's greatest detective would love to get hold of the story of the Giant Rat of Sumatra …and that's only the beginning of this thriller! A derelict ship docks in London, its hold full of strange cargo and the only survivor on board raving with madness. The royal family faces scandal, and the Queen's niece, Princess Victoria, is kidnapped. The game is afoot for Sherlock Holmes, but before he can get far, a mysterious attack leaves him at the point of death. Fortunately Watson and the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of scruffy urchins Holmes enlisted as spies, are ready to take over. Can they stop a madman from blowing up London?
Registration for all Spring 2010 classes is complete. We are currently accepting registrations for Summer Camp.
