Classroom Partnership Package

This affordable year-long partnership between your classroom and First Stage gives you the best of what First Stage has to offer at the lowest price possible!  Partnership classrooms receive a significant discount on First Stage programming.  The cost of each student is only $16 - a savings of nearly $200 per classroom!

For only $16 per student you get:

Tickets to any First Stage play

• The cost of tickets for each student is included in the Partnership Program package; groups receive one additional chaperone ticket for every 10 students attending a school show.
• Enrichment Guides integrating age-appropriate curricular connections for each production are distributed to classroom teachers.

Pre-Show Workshop

• A 45-minute in-school workshop lead by a First Stage teaching artist prior to seeing a production at First Stage.
• These unified lessons combine discussions of production elements with active participation in dramatic activities related thematically to the play.
• This involvement prepares students for the production, as well as deepens their understanding and personal connection to the themes and issues explored throughout the play.

Post-Show Workshop

• A 45-minute in-school workshop lead by a First Stage teaching artist after seeing a production at First Stage.
• This participatory workshop continues the development of students’ understanding and connections to themes and issues presented in the show.
• Students are challenged to think beyond what they saw on stage by continuing their exploration of themes and character relationships, and how they relate to their world.

• A weeklong program utilizing dramatic activities to teach lessons throughout the curricula.
• For a listing of opportunities, click HERE.

Specially designed art and music projects

• Our Education Department works individually with Partnership school art and music teachers to incorporate dramatic themes and music from First Stage productions into their existing curriculum.
• Partnership schools receive first priority in displaying student artwork relating to First Stage productions in the lobby of the Todd Wehr Theater.

Signing Up
If you are interested in become a Partnership classroom, please contact the Theater in Education office at (414) 267-2978 or email workshops@firststage.org.

*An additional charge of $1.25 per student may apply for those teachers who choose our Holiday production as the performance for their classrooms to attend.
*Schools outside of Milwaukee County will be charged an additional mileage fee (in accordance with mileage costs per the IRS) for programming that takes place at their schools (including in-school workshops).

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