theater-in-a-box

Think “inside the box”!  Simplify your schedule, save time, and create an experience your campers won’t forget!

We know how busy a camp office can be during the summer and mainstages is designed to make your life easier.  Behind the happy campers at camp are a sea of schedules, phone calls and emails.   Why add the stress of copying scripts, buying costumes, and getting a performance produced when you can use mainstages’ unique “theater-in-a-box” to do it for you?  We take away the stress of stage management without sacrificing the individual elements that make your camp special.

Our customizable “theater-in-a-box” camp package includes:

• Teaching artists placed at your camp from elite Theater Schools
• Pre-Camp teaching artist training and orientation.
• Ongoing Mainstages faculty support and site visits.
• Curriculum guide and camp monologue/scene book.
• Full-scale productions including all royalties, copies of scripts, playbills, costumes, and backdrops.
• Camper inspired variety show.
• Unique “nature’s theater” program of creative outdoor games.
• Over 40 “Camp Approved” improv games.
• A Certificate of Achievement for campers participating in the Main Stage production.
• Specialty programming including Magic, Juggling, clowning , comedy, Improv, Poetry, Voice and Dialect, Debate, Shakespeare,Yoga, Meditation, Stage Combat, and monologue coaching (offered based on teaching artists particular strengths)

Every camp is different.  Want an idea of how the program works for you?  Get a quick camp checkup!