The are NO REFUNDS the day of the performance.

Anon(ymous)
Frankenstein
A Night of Poe
Julius Caesar
The American Clock
*NATION IN CRISIS and JOURNEY


A KERA-based study guide for teachers is provided for every student matinee production. The study guide includes a synopsis, information about the genre and playwright, as well as providing open response questions, writing portfolio and performance tasks.


by Naomi Iizuka

In this daring update of Homer's Odyssey, a young refugee possessing only a traumatic past, quick wits, and the dream of someday finding his mother undertakes a journey across the frayed and fractured margins of the American experience.

Suitable for middle and high school students
Dates:
September 16 & 22 @ 10 am

Location
Walden Theatre, located at 1123 Payne Street

Cost: $7 per person (free adult ticket for every 10 students), due two weeks before the performance

by Nick DiMartino, adapted from the classic novel by Mary Shelley

The ordinary limits of science & medicine can't fetter a young scientist keen to achieve mastery over life itself. But what price must Frankenstein and his companions pay for his monstrous achievement and the folly of his ambition?

Suitable for middle and high school students
Dates:
October 14 & 20 @ 10 am

Location
Walden Theatre, located at 1123 Payne Street

Cost: $7 per person (free adult ticket for every 10 students), due two weeks before the performance

selections of works by Edgar Allan Poe

Some of Edgar Allan Poe's most eerie, suspenseful, and bizarre poems and short stories are brought to life in dramatic fashion by Walden Theatre's young company of middle school actors

Suitable for middle and high school students
Dates:
November 4 @ 9:30 am & noon

Location
Brown Theatre, located at 315 W. Broadway

Cost: $7 per person (free adult ticket for every 10 students), due two weeks before the performance

by William Shakespeare

Politicians claiming to protect the public interest attempt to reinin the ambitions of the popular, powerful Caesar. But instead of preventing tyranny they plunge Rome into chaos and civil war through a shocking act of betrayal.

Suitable for middle and high school students
Dates:
January 20 & 26 @ 10 am

Location
Walden Theatre, located at 1123 Payne Street

Cost: $7 per person (free adult ticket for every 10 students), due two weeks before the performance

NATION IN CRISIS: A Civil Rights Story by Keith McGill & Dan Welch Mixing discussion and performance this interactive production allows students to witness key events and meet leaders of the Civil Rights Era. Beginning in 1948 with a soldier of the Tuskegee Airmen returning home to an uncertain future. The audience sees the courageous act of Rosa Parks and the Arkansas Nine as well as hears the inspiring words of Martin Luther King, Jr. This performance brings to light how race relations of the past still relate to present day, while bringing a message of hope to a new generation.
JOURNEY A Trip on the Underground Railroad by Dan Welch From the early 1800s through 1865 there were secret routes that escape slaves traveled on the their way to freedom in Canada. Follow the journey of a runaway slave as travels on the Underground Railroad.

Suitable for elementary, middle, and high school students
Dates:
February 14 - 17 @ 10 am

Location
Walden Theatre, located at 1123 Payne Street

Cost: $7 per person (free adult ticket for every 10 students), due two weeks before the performance

by Arthur Miller

One family's rise & fall during Depression Era America illuminates the human consequences of economic catastrophe in this play inspired by the reportage of Studs Terkel's Hard Times.

Suitable for middle and high school students
Dates:
March 1 @ 10 am

Location
Walden Theatre, located at 1123 Payne Street

Cost: $7 per person (free adult ticket for every 10 students), due two weeks before the performance