SCHOOL YEAR PROGRAMS
(Age 2-Grade 12)
Inspire the imagination,
develop performance skills,
build confidence
at Stages Theatre Company
FALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Register ONLINE or by PHONE
952-979-1111
Box Office Hours: Tue-Fri Noon-5pm.
CLASS DIRECTORY - FALL 2023
Grade levels refer to the grade level students will enter in Fall 2023.
Age refers to the age students will be on the first day of the class!
Select your grade level below.
FALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Register ONLINE or by PHONE
952-979-1111
Box Office Hours: Tue-Fri Noon-5pm.
CREATIVE PLAY (Ages 2-5)
CREATIVE PLAY (Ages 2-5)
Dramatic play, music, and movement build confidence in young people…while also being an excellent outlet for energy & fun! Creative play lays the groundwork for collaborative learning, fosters social-emotional and motor skills development, and cultivates a sense of discovery & empathy in young students. Watch as your little one develops their inner artist and see their creativity bloom!
Play-A-Day: Ages 2-3 (Stay & Play)
Activate your child’s creative side through a guided stay-and-play class that includes a new story each week, music, movement, and sensory play! Teaching Artists will play alongside you, guiding each young person and their caregiver through a sensory-stimulating, fun-filled, creative story time.
Tuition: $125.00 (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: Hopkins Center for the Arts
Story Drama: Ages 3-4 (Drop-off)
Each class highlights a new story, with a new jumping off point for dramatic adventure. Using our favorite books as our guide, students will journey through different environments, discover characters, and solve problems using their bodies, voices & imaginations!
Tuition:$165.00 (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: Hopkins Center for the Arts
Drama Adventures: Ages 4-5 (Drop-off)
Your student’s imagination will be our guide as we traverse on epic dramatic adventures! Together, we’ll discover characters, travel to new and surprising worlds, tackle obstacles, and solve problems as we create a brand-new story each week.
Tuition: $165.00 (includes $5 handling fee)
Locations: Hopkins (Hopkins Center for the Arts) OR Eden Prairie (PiM Arts High School)
THEATRE EXPLORATION (Kindergarten - Grade 3)
FALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Register ONLINE or by PHONE
952-979-1111
Box Office Hours: Tue-Fri Noon-5pm.
THEATRE EXPLORATION
(Kindergarten – Grade 3)
Students learn to use their “Actor Tools”—body, voice, and imagination – to play, create and tell stories! Theatre Exploration classes incorporate age-appropriate acting games, dramatic play, music, storytelling, and theatre making. Students share their work for family and friends during the final day of class.
K Stage (Kindergarten)
Students use their body, voice, and imagination to travel to new worlds to devise and tell stories. Students will go on a session-long imagination quest, adding more to their tale each week. Working as an ensemble, students will create and play the characters they encounter along the way!
Tuition: $225.00 (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: Hopkins (Hopkins Center for the Arts) OR Eden Prairie (PiM Arts High School)
First Stage (Grade 1)
Students build self-confidence, creativity, and performance skills as they use their body, voice, and imagination to create characters within the world of the story! Using their actor tools, students will go on imagination quests, create stories through book-based inspiration, and devise original tales.
Tuition: $225.00 (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: Hopkins (Hopkins Center for the Arts) OR Eden Prairie (PiM Arts High School)
Center Stage (Grades 2-3)
Explore stories, create characters, and play theatre games designed to build actor tools – body, voice, imagination. Students will learn what it means to perform for an audience with confidence as they transition imaginative play to acting performance! Students engage their body, voice and imagination while devising a performance through book-based inspiration and short-scripted plays.
Tuition: $270.00 (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: Hopkins (Hopkins Center for the Arts) OR Eden Prairie (PiM Arts High School)
ACTOR TRAINING (Grades 4 - 8)
FALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Register ONLINE or by PHONE
952-979-1111
Box Office Hours: Tue-Fri Noon-5pm.
ACTOR TRAINING (Grades 4-8)
Students delve into their actor training through a series of leveled classes designed to build performance skills and confidence and develop student artists for success in whatever they may pursue. Students examine devised and scripted work, explore the use of body, voice, and imagination to create characters, learn ensemble-building and acting techniques, and work through the rehearsal process.
There are entry points in the program for students to join at any time and at any level of experience, as classes scaffold and are designed to build skills overtime. Each session ends in a sharing for family and friends to celebrated skills learned throughout the session.
Acting (Grades 4-5 and Grades 6-8)
Through theatre games, guided improvisation activities, and scene work, students learn how to develop a character within a story. This class focuses on forming a solid foundation for acting and growth as an individual, performing artist.
Tuition: $305.00 per class (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: Hopkins (Hopkins Center for the Arts) OR Eden Prairie (PiM Arts High School)
Acting for Grades 4-5
Acting for Grades 6-8
Acting 2 (Grades 5-8)
Students learn to prepare their body, mind, and voice for performance; study how to approach a script; make strong character choices; and work as an ensemble. Students explore improvisation and engage in monologues and scenes from the contemporary theatre.
Tuition: $305.00 per class (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: PiM Arts High School
* To enter Acting 2 students must have complete two sessions of Acting, or equivalent experience. Please contact Education Director, Megan Collins for entrance into Acting 2 classes.
Acting 3 (Grades 6-8)
Students build acting skills through the exploration of scenes and ensemble building exercises. Students master their understanding of character, relationship, objective and tactic, and environment to make strong character choices for performance.
Tuition: $305.00 per class (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: PiM Arts High School
* To enter Acting 3 students must have complete two sessions of Acting 2 (or Advanced Junior Conservatory or Teen Actor Training) or equivalent experience. Please contact Education Director, Megan Collins for entrance into Acting 3.
Musical Theatre (Grades 4-5 and Grades 6-8)
Success on the musical theatre stage requires high levels of technique in three disciplines: singing, dancing, and acting. Students will strengthen skills and learn to tell stories through the art of musical theatre by learning and rehearsing musical theatre scenes, songs, and show-stopping dance numbers. Each Musical Theatre class is co-taught by two instructors – one dance instructor & one vocal music instructor.
Tuition: $305.00 per class (includes $5 handling fee)
Location: Hopkins (Hopkins Center for the Arts) OR Eden Prairie (PiM Arts High School)
Musical Theatre for Grades 4-5
Musical Theatre for Grades 6-8
Location: PiM Arts High School
Location: PiM Arts High School
Location: Hopkins (Hopkins Center for the Arts) OR Eden Prairie (PiM Arts High School)
TEEN PROGRAMS (Grades 9-12)
Providing comprehensive, youth-powered, theatrical experiences exclusively for high school students in Grades 9-12.
Teen programs are designed to provide arts access for all teens - fostering passion for those interested in theatrical careers, and high-quality arts engagement for those who are curious to try something new.
Check back soon for Fall 2023 opportunities!
SCHOOL YEAR PROGRAMS
POLICIES & INFORMATION
FALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Register ONLINE or by PHONE
952-979-1111
Box Office Hours: Tue-Fri Noon-5pm.
FALL 2023 CLASS LOCATIONS
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HOPKINS: Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins
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EDEN PRAIRIE: PiM Arts High School 7255 Flying Cloud Dr, Eden Prairie
REGISTRATION
Registration Opens June 16, 2023 at Noon
To Register, either click the link of the class you want or contact our box office.
Box Office Hours: Tue-Fri, Noon to 5:00 pm.
TUITION ASSISTANCE
Tuition assistance is available through our Open Door Program, we offer need-based tuition assistance for our fee-based programs,, including all education camps, classes, and workshops. Please fill out the Tuition Assistance Application via the button below.
CANCELLATIONS & REFUNDS
You may cancel your class or workshop up to THREE WEEKS prior to the start of class, for any reason, and receive a full refund – minus the $5 handling fee. Call the Education Registrar at 952-979-1113.
COVID-19 POLICIES
Stages Theatre Company will continue to follow the advice and guidelines from the Minnesota Department of Health and the CDC. The safety & well-being of our students, staff and teaching artists is our top priority, and we reserve the right to change our protocols if community levels of COVID-19 rise in our area.
Face Masks: Masks are optional for all Education Programs & Classes at this time. Stages Theatre Company Education Programs will follow the updated guidelines regarding face masks put forth by the MDH & CDC. Stages Theatre Company will not be checking students vaccination status at this time.
Positive COVID-19 Cases: If your student tests positive for COVID-19 while enrolled in a class, please notify Stages Education Director, Megan Collins, as soon as possible. If you your student tests positive for COVID-19, regardless of vaccination status, they will be required to stay home for at least 5 days.
Close Contact Protocols: Your family will be notified by a Stages staff member if your student is a close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19. Students do not need to quarantine and can return to class, regardless of vaccination status. Students will be required to wear a well-fitting mask for 10 days following the close contact exposure.
Student Health: Students who are sick are kindly asked to stay home to help mitigate the spread of illness and germs. If your student is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, they will NOT be permitted in class, without proof of a negative test, regardless of vaccination status.
Contact Megan Collins, Education Director, at mcollins@stagestheatre.org or (952)979-1117 if you have any questions or concerns.
DROP OFF
We will begin checking students in NO EARLIER than 10 MINUTES prior to class start.
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Students can be dropped off at the Main Entrance of the building/school in the designated loading zone.
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Pull into the open space closest to the Stages sign.
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PLEASE STAY IN YOUR VEHICLE. Our staff will meet students at the vehicle.
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A brief check-in will be completed at your vehicle: emergency contact numbers will be checked on the first day of class.
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Our staff will escort students into the building to begin class!
If you would prefer to walk your student in, you are welcome to do so. Please park and meet us in the main lobby.
Concerned about drop off Policies?: Please contact Elinor, Education Registrar, at ejones@stagestheatre.org to discuss an alternate drop-off plan.
PICK UP
Pick up will begin promptly at the end of class.
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Students can be picked up at the Main Entrance of the building/school in the designated loading zone.
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Pull into the open space closest to the Stages sign.
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STAY IN YOUR VEHICLE. Our staff will direct traffic and walk students to vehicles.