Bring Mainstage to Your School!


LEARN MORE ABOUT MAINSTAGE’S AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Outreach programs are available starting in January 2024.
All programs are great for grades 1-6
All programs are designed to incorporate age appropriate common core standards from English, Language Arts (ELA), Social Studies & Performing Arts!

 After School Drama Club
An 11-15 week after school outreach program led by Mainstage staff. This program teaches students to write, stage, and perform a full play!

Residencies typically meet once per week for 1-2 hours per week, built around your academic calendar.

Cost begins at $150 per student.

In-Classroom Creative Writing
An 8 week outreach program with professional theater artists guiding students through adapting a book into a fully staged play!

Residencies typically meet once per week for 1-2 hours per week, built around your academic calendar.

Cost begins at $150 per student.

Residency Options

  • After school drama clubs bring together students from a range of grades to work together. 11 or 15 week programs take students through creating a play from beginning to end. Students will adapt a book into a play, research locations and cultures, write a script,
    audition and be cast, rehearse and finally perform their play in costume and on a student designed set for friends and family right at your school!
  • Classroom residencies focus on the creative writing element of the process. Teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers in the adaptation and research process then take the lead to stage students in a “staged reading” style sharing of their finished script.
  • In all residencies students are also introduced to theatrical concepts such as set and costumes, performance techniques and general public speaking as well as learning time and project management.

 

To register or learn more information contact:
Courtney Bird (courtney@mainstage.org) or call 855.936.2467

 

About Mainstage Center for the Arts
Mainstage is dedicated to providing South Jersey youth with arts experiences that lead to: positive interactions with others, a greater sense of self-worth, community involvement, exposure to professional arts & entertainment. We offer year-round classes at our Performing Arts Studio including classes in acting, musical theatre and more for ages 4-18. For 35 years we have brought hundreds of students together during our Summer Stage program. Our professional teaching artists all work in theatre throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. All teachers receive regular background checks. Students are encouraged to engage in writing, research and performance. We are committed to making the arts accessible to students all over South Jersey. 

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