#YouthTheater

[johnbiscello]

Adventures of a Young Day Dreamer: A Taos Play

[datpassionguy]

Resume builder pt# 5 - There was a time where I was able to help out with a local youth theater program. From stage designs, painting sets, building & repairing props. From Beauty and the Beast JR to Mary Poppins and even some Lion King. I truly enjoyed watching a program come to together and put on shows. #youththeater #stagedesign #propmaking #proprepairing #lionking #beautyandthebeastjr #marypoppins #setbuilding #fauxpainting #theater https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ83QdIjAgS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[believeinbooksliteracyfdtn]

Children’s Summer Theater Series Returns!

With the summer in full swing, BIBLF is proud to present the return of the Children’s Summer Theater Series at the Theater in the Wood.  This Summer, each show will be performed by our Believe in Books Youth Theatre Camp kiddos.  The culmination performance each week may be enjoyed beginning tomorrow, Friday, July 10th at 5:00 pm.  

Tickets are only $5 per person and must be purchased online in advance to the show.  There are limited capacities at each performance due to CDC and State guidelines so it is important to purchase your tickets as early as possible to guarantee entry.  We will not be accepting any cash at the doors of the performance unless restrictions lighten as the Summer continues.  

Each week, guests may enjoy a unique take on a classic fairytale!  The lineup begins with the story of Peter Pan, and is followed by the tales of the Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Snow White, Aladdin, Cinderella, and the Wizard of Oz.  

We hope to see you at the Theater in the Wood to enjoy these adorable shows and to learn more or purchase tickets visit: http://www.believeinbooks.org/children-s-summer-theater-series.html

[ensotheatre]

Lovely folks — tickets for “Gruesome Playground Injuries” by Rajiv Joseph will go on sale this Saturday February 8th! Mark your calendar. Only 3 chances to see this beautiful show, directed, designed and performed by a group of remarkable teen artists. Full Value is $25, but if that’s not available for you right now, there are $15 and $10 options for everyone. Can’t wait to see you! Thank you so much for your support. #EnsoGetsGruesome 💜Caitlin & Kieran & The Ensemble #studentdirectormentorship #gruesomeplaygroundinjuries #mindfultheater #youththeater #teentheater #portlandtheater #pdxtheater https://www.instagram.com/p/B8KnSYch_Em/?igshid=dl132bv9crqt

[jillehat]

My girls were in Beauty & the Beast, Jr as villagers, wolves, & enchanted Salt & Pepper! It was such a fun show! Thanks to my amazing husband @taylorehat for these great pictures! Brighton’s hair is half up rope twist & Hallie’s is a waterfall half up braid. @hallieehat @brightonehat #beautyandthebeastjr #villagers #musicaltheater #ilovetowatchyou #performers #youththeater #halfupbraid #halfuptwist #saltandpeppercostumes

[cscnextgen]

TEEN TAKEOVER: TWELFTH NIGHT

Sunday December 17th was our second Teen Takeover of the year. As you may know, the Teen Takeover is a special matinee performance of the mainstage show, where members of NextGen perform various jobs related to the performance and learn more about how the show goes on. NextGen members get complimentary tickets, and any teen interested in the show can book tickets for $10 using the code TEEN10. The show also includes a talkback specifically for teens (as opposed to Tuesday Talkbacks, which are open to the public).

Teams for the Teen Takeover include Behind the Scenes Team, who takes a tour of backstage to see what goes on before the show starts; Front of House Team, which comprises ushers and a box office assistant; Social Media Team, who documents the experience on our Instagram page; and Talkback Team, who helps Kate to facilitate the talkback with actors after the show.

Behind the Scenes team started off the day with a tour of the theater, led by Light Board Operator Alan Waters and Wardrobe Supervisor Sarah Dixey. Alan took students through his pre-show routine checking all the lights to make sure they were all in top shape, as well as explaining how the lighting grid works. Then Sarah took students backstage to the dressing rooms, where she has a setup complete with steamer, ironing board, and washer/dryer to keep costumes looking fresh. Students also got a closer look at CSC’s (cozy) dressing rooms.

After the tour, it was time to get started on some social media documenting. Social Media Team Members Felicity and Wengelyn were on the case!

Felicity (right) runs the Instagram page for the day while Wengelyn (left) runs the Instagram story

Felicity gives viewers a peek at the nautically inspired set

More of Felicity’s contributions to the takeover can be found on our Instagram page under the hashtag #CSCTwelfthNight.

Closer to showtime, students in the box office helped distribute tickets to patrons, while student ushers ripped tickets under the direction of the house manager. At curtain, it was time for ushers to take their seats and for the show to begin!

After a fun-filled, ensemble-driven, text-focused production of Twelfth Night courtesy of Fiasco Theater, it was time for the Talkback Team to kick off the post show while actors got out of costume.

NextGen student Spencer (far right) helps Kate generate discussion with the audience while actors Emily Young, David Samuel, and Paul Coffey (left to right) field questions.

Actors are joined by castmate Javier Ignacio (left)

After some great questions from an enthusiastic crowd, it was time to wrap up. If you’d like to learn more about our Teen Takeovers, click here! The next Teen Takeover is on Sunday, February 11th, where students will be seeing the world premier of a brand new Terrance McNally play, Fire and Air.

If you’re a teen interested in seeing the show, tickets can be found here. Click the link, then click “Have a promotion code?” in the top right corner and enter “TEEN10,” then select your seats. (You can also visit the box office in person, or call at 212-677-4210 ex10). The promo code entitles the user to up to two tickets, and while at least one of you has to be a teen, your guest can be anyone: a friend, a younger sibling, a parent, a neighbor. So find someone you know and join us for what is sure to be an exciting afternoon of new theater! (Tickets subject to availability; see site for details).

We hope to see you at the Takeover, and stay tuned for more updates on NextGen!

[und3ad-valkyri3]

The kiddos did a phenomenal job last night! Today's matinee at 3pm is your last chance to catch #TuesdaysWithMorrie Visit lcnaugusta.com/store or call the box office at 706.722.3322 @leschatonsnoiraugusta #youththeater #workhardplayhard #getonourlevel (at Le Chat Noir)

[datpassionguy]

“Do you wanna build a snowman?!” , yes I do and yes I did lol. Here is my Olaf puppet for a youth Frozen production. #foam #foamsculptor #olaf #frozen #frozen2 #stageprop #youththeater #theater #theaterprop #olafpuppet #doyouwannabuildasnowman #liveyourpassion #puppet https://www.instagram.com/p/B5CHZ4mjjt5/?igshid=13hviabye1d6g

[minniekinney-blog1]

As the official photography sponsor of @bwayboundkids I was so happy to join them yesterday for their production of The Wizard of Oz!! #michellekinneyphotography #broadwayboundkids #wizardofoz #thewizardofoz #youththeater #childrenstheatre #nycphotographer #nycphotography #theatre #musicaltheatre #nikon #girlboss (at The Elektra Theater)

[ensotheatre]

Meet our 2019-20 Student Director! Kieran is super excited to be making his directing debut with Enso! Kieran is primarily an actor, a sometimes playwright, and a first time director--and he couldn't be more happy, nervous, amazed, and thankful. Kieran is a Junior at Wilson high school, and a young professional at Oregon Children's theatre and most recently performed in DNA with them. He has a portland area musical theatre award for outstanding young performer as Michael Banks in Northwest Children's Theatre's production of Mary Poppins (2014) as well as a Troscar for best leading actor as Gibson/Mr. Burns in Mr. Burns with the Wilson theatre company: Southwest Stageworks. He thanks Caitlin and Jordan for giving him this opportunity and leading and teaching him along the way, his family for always supporting him, Parker for inspiring him to take up directing through Enso, and Dani, Matt, and Miller for teaching him. He hopes to see you at the show! Big, big thanks to @portland.civic.theatre.guild for your support of Enso’s Student Director Mentorship this season!! ❤️❤️ Stay tuned for our student director show announcement!! #studentdirectormentorship #ensotheatre #pdxtheater #youththeater #teentheater https://www.instagram.com/p/B6bvFnMB_sI/?igshid=17ig8ywxbyn3

[cuteculturechick]

Great job to all the cast and crew of Stagecrafters Youth Theater's production of HONK! #stagecrafters #honk #theater #baldwintheater #youththeater #royaloak (at Stagecrafters)

[cscnextgen]

NEXTGEN MEETING: GUEST OWEN HORSLEY + ENSEMBLE WORK

The most recent NextGen meeting featured a special guest: CSC’s Director in Residence Owen Horsley. Owen has worked extensively with Shakespeare’s texts, having directed productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company (located in Shakespeare’s hometown, Stratford-Upon-Avon), as well as serving as associate director for Cheek by Jowl, an international theater company that focuses on classical works.

As part of Owen’s residency here at CSC, he is teaching several workshops on Shakespeare’s text both for professional actors and for Shakespeare enthusiasts (more info here). For the NextGen meeting, he gave students a preview of his approach to Shakespeare.

Owen started by explaining that many people get tripped up by Shakespeare’s text because we no longer talk that way in everyday life; it can be seen as inaccessible, snobbish, or overly cerebral. While the language is certainly heightened––even in Shakespeare’s time, no one spoke in verse off the stage––that doesn’t mean we should be overly precious with it. Owen likes to emphasize that the language can connect with our bodies as well as our minds: to illustrate that, he led the group in a few physical exercises to break the ice.

Before diving into the text itself, Owen started the group off with a mirroring exercise wherein two partners face each other and try to synchronize movements without communicating verbally. The fast-paced nature of the game helps to get students out of their heads and more in tune with their partner. Albeit simple, the exercise was by no means easy: working together takes work!

Once warmed up, Owen took students through an exercise of physicalizing certain words within a monologue from Twelfth Night. He set the parameters by providing a sort of physical vocabulary of gestures: reaching up high, reaching forward, crouching down, etc. Within this vocabulary, he asked students to act out certain words in the monologue. In keeping with the theme of minimizing any overthinking, students had five seconds to pick a word and then pick a physical gesture to represent it.

Owen (right) demonstrates an action within the physical vocabulary, while Twelfth Night actor David Samuel (left) follows along.

Students look over monologues from Twelfth Night

Owen then transitioned into an exercise that shows the importance of punctuation within the text. To do this, students partnered up again to recite the monologue together, switching speakers with every major change in punctuation (periods, colons, and semicolons), as well as specific gestures for every punctuation mark. This exercise shows how much information can be gleaned just by paying attention to punctuation: whether a character is reflecting on something, changing their train of thought, feeling unsure of themselves, feeling very sure of themselves. Yet, although the exercise pays close attention to details within the text, it is still very physical: more doing than thinking. Owen helped show students how the text can come alive, off the page and into our bodies.

Zola and Spencer demonstrate their version of Viola’s ring speech for the group

After an informative session full of speaking the text, jumping, high-fiving, and more, it was time for Owen to run and for David to take over.

If you’ve read this blog before, you may recall David Samuel from a previous workshop on actor musicianship in As You Like It. David is at CSC once again, playing Fabian and Antonio in Twelfth Night. Since Twelfth Night is a production in collaboration with Fiasco Theater, an ensemble-driven theater troupe, David came to speak to students about building a production as an ensemble.

Ensemble work is an approach to theater that focuses on the group as a whole working together to create a theatrical piece. (It comes from the French word ensemble meaning “together”). Fiasco Theater is an acting troupe founded on that same philosophy. The core group of actors that make up Fiasco all met in grad school at the Brown/Trinity Rep M.F.A. acting program (the same program from which David recently graduated), and have been doing collaborative work together ever since. For Twelfth Night, they use a similar approach to one they learned in the program, where two of the actors in the show also serve as co-directors––in this case, Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld, who play Orsino and Feste. This approach creates a more equitable environment and gives everyone a chance to contribute their ideas, which often leads to more experimentation and exciting outcomes. You can read more about Fiasco’s philosophy on their website, here.

With that, it was time to wrap up and discuss the Teen Takeover for Twelfth Night, which took place on Sunday, December 17th. Stay tuned to read more about it!

[und3ad-valkyri3]

It's getting real y'all 😭 Tix available at lcnaugusta.com/store or by calling the box office at 706.722.3322 #tearjerker #TuesdaysWithMorrie #LadyDirector #genderbender #youththeater @leschatonsnoiraugusta @lcnaugusta (at Le Chat Noir)