• Fun, fast-paced classes: In addition to daily rehearsals in theater and dance, students will get to explore enrichment classes such as stagecraft (in which students will construct their props and costumes), storytelling, writing, stage combat, movement, and theater history.
  
  
• Tools for creativity: Your child already has the tools he or she needs to love the arts—and to create them: a voice, a body, and an imagination. At Main Street Theater’s summer camp, your young actor or actress will be able to exercise those tools under the guidance of theater and performing arts professionals.
  
  
• Applying skills: Within each age group, students write and stage their ORIGINAL theater pieces and dance pieces, creating their own roles, lines, and choreography. They may base their piece on a story they know or characters they would like to portray, learning the fundamentals of acting and dance by applying them to the pieces they create.
  
  
• Room for everyone: In our day-to-day class process and our final performances, every child will be featured and every child will be challenged. Children of all skill and experience levels learn from each other in rehearsal.
  
  
• Popular camp, individual attention: Though we are Houston’s most popular summer performing arts camp, our classes aren’t crowded. Classes are limited to 14 students (for 6 & up’s) or 12 students (for 4- and 5-year-olds) with two members of teaching staff supervising them throughout the day.
  
  
• On-stage performance: At the end of each session, students present their plays and dance pieces on one of Main Street Theater’s stages. Family and friends are invited to attend free of charge!
  
  
• Our energetic, professional teachers are ready to help your students explore the performing arts! They are actors, directors, dancers and educators, and they are experienced at working with students of all skill levels.
  
  
• FOUR locations around Houston: in the Rice Village, the Museum District, Montrose, and Bellaire/Meyerland.
  
  
• Before-/After-Care: Some options for extended-day care are available for all full-day students.

• Read the Registration and Refund Policies before registering.
• Please read the policies for your camp location before registering:
  Shlenker  |  MST – Chelsea  |  MST – Rice Village  |  St. Stephen’s

If your questions are not answered in the Policies or the FAQ, please call the Kids On Stage office at 713-524-9196 x104.

KOS Classic: This is the summer camp you’ve come to know and love. Collaborating with their classmates, students will create and stage a short play and dance piece—and be introduced to every phase of the artistic process along the way! (MST – Chelsea Market Session 1 and Session 4)

Comedy Showdown: From standup to sitcom, from improv to comic timing, this class will introduce students to the “how” of funny! Students will use what they learn from comedy classics like Charlie Chaplin, Abbot and Costello, and Whose Line Is It Anyway? to create a variety show to perform on the last day of class. (St. Stephen’s Session 1)

Shakespeare Mashup: Students will explore the many worlds of Shakespeare in a fun and physical way, relating to the characters through their own experiences. For their final project, students will feature their favorite characters in a mashup of great Shakespeare scenes, in new settings and styles. Comedy, tragedy, treachery, and swordfights guaranteed! (MST – Chelsea Market Session 2)

Filmmaking: Students will write and direct a short film, shot on site at camp (and using bluescreen techniques for exotic locales). Students will work on every aspect of the film, from script to storyboard to costumes, acting, music selection, and filming. The film will open the final showcase on performance day. (Shlenker Session 2)

Project Broadway: Students will write a short musical based on a plot suggested by an existing song of their choice. (For example, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” might inspire a musical about a scary Halloween night, and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” might lead to an epic urban adventure.) Working with their instructors, they will write, stage and choreograph this mini-musical for performance on the last day of class. (No singing necessary!) (Shlenker Session 1, MST – Chelsea Market Session 3)

• Read the Registration and Refund Policies before registering.
• Please read the policies for your camp location before registering:
  Shlenker  |  MST – Chelsea  |  MST – Rice Village  |  St. Stephen’s

If your questions are not answered in the Policies or the FAQ, please call the Kids On Stage office at 713-524-9196 x104.