August is here, which means a new school year is right around the corner. Get your acting students excited for fall with these plays that are perfect for both the drama classroom and school productions.
From comedies and parodies to dramas and adaptations, Stage Partners has plays for schools, drama competitions, and more. Best of all: You can read them all for FREE year-round!
Get ready for all-caps FUN with these four plays for young actors that are guaranteed to make a splash with your student performers. From aspiring YouTubers to Pokémon-obsessed gamers to hopeless high school romantics, Stage Partners has a great summer play for everyone
Looking for something suspenseful? Silly? Sherlockian? Stage Partners has these mysteries and so much more for audiences of all ages.
Whether you need one-acts or full-length, our collection includes hilarious whodunnits, intriguing adaptations, and outrageous originals with flexible casting that your acting students will love working on. These shows are great for any drama program, theater festival, or youth-friendly
Stage Partners got to sit down with playwrights Janet Allard and Michael Bigelow Dixon, authors of Alice in Winter Wonderland, a new adaptation inspired by the stories and characters created by Lewis Carroll. On a dreary Christmas Eve, Alice follows a White Rabbit down its hole, plummeting her into Wonderland in the middle of winter. Now it's up to Alice, and many of Lewis Carroll’s iconic characters, to restore Wonder to Wonderland.
The beginning of a school year can be a bit chaotic. Choosing a play for your season shouldn't be. Education Director Maria McConville offers some tips to guide you in the right direction.
First of all, you're off to a great start if you're browsing through the collection at Stage Partners. Not that I'm biased or anything.
Look, we understand your Fall dilemma. Some years, play selection so very clear. Some years you are open to anything. And some years it’s already October and you just need to choose already!
Well here are 5 TIPS to help you narrow down your play choices.
Great plays always have a big question they are exploring. Perhaps there is a theme or topic your students are currently grappling with. Your school principal may have prescribed a theme to build the year
In non-chronological order, Amy and Craig dissect and examine their tortuous first love affair in scenes that are both heartbreaking and hilarious.
Stage Partners got to sit down with playwright Werner Trieschmann, author of Fake News!, a hilarious and timely new play that rips the headlines.
Stage Partners commissioned renown director and playwright Jon Jory to create contemporary, plainspoken versions of some of Shakespeare's best-known works. We call the series
Stage Partners got to sit down with playwright Claudia Haas, author of Antigone in Munich: The Sophie Scholl Story, a beautiful new play that brings an important story to the stage. Sophie Scholl was a member of the White Rose Society in Nazi Germany which encouraged passive resistance against the totalitarian
Creating fantastic theatre moments on stage is always an exciting challenge for theatre teachers and directors. Consider the play A Wrinkle in Time with its moments of traveling through space and time, also known as tessering. Or the scenes that happen on far off planets? There are so many exciting ways these imaginative moments have been created on stage. Projection design company, Theatre Ave, has offered another way of enhancing these magnificent moments of storytelling. Theatre Ave is a projection design company that handcrafts each projection design in their Atlanta studio. Stage Partners got to speak with Theatre Ave Founding Creative Director, Mitch Stark, about what drew him and his team to design projections for the play A Wrinkle in Time.
Stage Partners linked up with Mitch Stark, Founding Creative Director of Theatre Avenue, an art and animation studio which produces theatrical digital projections.In theatre, storytelling is king. And one of the most effective storytelling tools is now more affordable and easier to use than ever. Not sure where to get started? Mitch shares helpful Tips for Using
This past school year, director, educator and a Stage Partners favorite, Peter Royston, directed two play adaptations of The Jungle Book. His middle schoolers produced the Stage Partners Jon Jory’s adaptation and the elementary students performed the Disney musical. In this intimate essay, Peter shares his experience working on the two different adaptations and what his students took away from viewing each other’s work.
Playwright Sonya Sobieski sits down with her eleven-year-old daughter to talk about life, theater, and her new play Morning Announcements. Skyler is about to enter sixth grade, and like many persons her age, is incredibly loquacious and forthcoming.
Sonya: Hey, Skyler.
Skyler: I don’t really want to do this, and I’m not going to say anything.
Sonya: C’mon. What are you looking forward to about middle school?
Skyler: Being more organized.
Sonya: Yeah?
Skyler: ‘Cause I got a lot of stuff.
Sonya: What kind of stuff?
Skyler: School stuff. D&D books.
Education Director Maria McConville offers ideas for making the auditions process a skill-building process. Get students to show you their best work through these simple tips.
Auditions can be the most nerve-wracking part of the theater process. As a theatre teacher, you want each of your students to get the part. They put themselves out there and they should be proud of the work they present. I know it can be overwhelming to see our students so stressed. Oh, the nerves! But auditions are also an opportunity for students who don’t normally participate to really shine.
Here are some tips to honor students' emotions and to give them the tools to apply for college and beyond.
Stage Partners Education Director, Maria McConville, shares her thoughts on starting a new school year and how theatre games can help break the ice.
And just like that, another summer break has come and gone. They don’t seem long enough, do they? I always find the beginning of a new school year to be quite exciting, though. There is so much possibility and potential.
Your approach to the first few weeks of class or residency can set the tone for the rest of year. How will you introduce this group to the ideas of theatre? How will you begin to guide them to trusting
(And check out he 5 FREE LESSON PLANS we commissioned him to develop for A Wrinkle in Time stage adaptations...)
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MARIA: After working off-Broadway, what brought your focus to connecting the professional theatre to theatre education?
PETER: Theatre’s in my blood, I can’t get enough of it, and I’ve always wanted to share
Stage Partners playwright and funny man Ian McWethy dishes on his new play My Last Day of School and shares what he may or may not remember from his own last day of school.
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It may have been because I had been looking forward to it for so long, dreaming of it all year, that the reality of my last day of high school ever was a bit of a let down. Or it may be that I was a relatively boring 18-year-old. I was a rule-follower in high school. Big time. Still am. I don't even cross the street until the "blinking silhouette of a man" tells me I can. Because that's THE RULE! You don't walk when the street sign says "Hand!" Come on! That's chaos! Wait for the blinking man to say it's okay! But, blinking lights aside, maybe I just wasn't the type of guy who would do something crazy on the last
