Educators
Welcome to Stages Theatre Company – Minnesota’s leading provider of theatre arts programming. We serve more than 125,000 people annually through our performance, education, and school outreach programs.
Field Trips
It’s show time! Here’s your opportunity to introduce your students to the magical world of theatre. Not only will your students be enthralled with the beautiful imagery and charming stories, but all the elements of theatre will be introduced: character, plot, language, sound and spectacle.
For more information visit the Field Trip page
Ready to Order?
Contact Nicki at (952) 979-1119 or e-mail to reserve tickets or for more information.
Residencies and Partnerships
Through a variety of options, students in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota can participate in performance-based workshops or use theatre, improvisation, playwriting, or dance to explore non-theatre curriculum in a dramatic way. Our teaching artists, working professionals from in and around the metro area, collaborate with teachers to “break open” curriculum for students with different styles of learning. They challenge students to reach new levels of curricular understanding through use of arts integrated lessons. Students participating in Stages Theatre Company artist-teacher’s collaborations have shown improved test scores as well as stronger social skills such as leadership and cooperation.
Home School Programs
Through a variety of options, home school groups in the Twin Cities Metro area can participate in performance-based workshops or explore non-theatre curriculum in a dramatic way. We can design a flexible program custom-tailored to fit your needs and we come to you! Youth of all ages can build an appreciation of theatre as an art form while developing important social skills like leadership, teamwork, and cooperation. Our artists create a positive, supportive, and nurturing atmosphere in which students are challenged to reach new levels of curricular understanding in and through the performing arts.
Funding FAQ
Got questions? We’ve got answers! Worried about how to pay for your bus transportation for a field trip? Want to have an artist come to your classroom, but you’re not sure how to make it happen? Are you part of a home school co-op wanting to know more about the costs involved in putting up a play? We want to help you make your dramatic dreams a reality and our Funding FAQ page is a great start!
Study Guides
Thousands upon thousands of young people receive their first exposure to theatre at Stages Theatre Company. Study guides are a great way to extend student learning beyond their visit. Our free study guides contain tons of information, ideas and activities: author/playwright biographies, notes on historical context, cross-curricular classroom activities, theatre etiquette, and discussion questions for before and after you come to see the show!
Professional Development
Our Professional Development Partnerships and Workshops give educators hands-on experience with teaching the art of theatre as well as arts-integration: theatrical techniques that teach across the curriculum. Arts Partnerships are custom-tailored collaborations in which you, the educator, work directly with our teaching artist to create curriculum designed to meet the needs of your students. Our artists will model lessons with your students in your classroom and then, after observing you working with your students, give your immediate feedback. Together, you both reflect and refine curriculum so you can then immediately implement lessons with your students. We also offer In-Service Workshops in which our teaching artists bring informative and lively workshops that provide you with accessible, skills-based theatre activities that are easily integrated across the curriculum.
Meet Our Teaching Artists
Stages Theatre Company calls upon the richness of the Twin Cities professional theatre community by utilizing some of the finest teaching artists in the metro area. As experienced professionals working in their field, our teaching artists bring their artistic excellence as well as their respect for and love of children to our classroom and yours.
