FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3/17/20): Orpheus Theatre, Inc. is suspending all programming until further notice. Productions of Big the Musical and Newsies will be postponed to a later announced date, and ticket sales are on-hold at this time. If you have already purchased tickets, please email orpheus.orpheustheatre@gmail.com where we will assist you in either getting a refund or a credit for tickets when the productions occur. Orpheus is committed to adhering to the CDC guidelines at this time, and will be re-evaluating our programming throughout this pandemic. Please direct any questions to the aforementioned email address.
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The Starstruck Players, Orpheus Theatre’s Youth Theatre Troupe, is a tuition-based theater program, with two semesters each year. Starstruck not only offers performance opportunities for area youth, but an opportunity for participants to learn theater skills and processes. Additionally, this program has proven to be a place where young thespians make friends, have fun, and grow artistically, socially, and individually.
Participants (aged 6-18) hone their acting skills by rehearsing and performing a fully-staged production. In addition to auditioning, staging, rehearsing, and performing; students work on theatrical exercises to build their skills, confidence, and ability to work as a team. While participants audition for individual roles in each performance opportunity, each participant is given a part. As participants return semester after semester, their confidence and abilities grow; giving them better opportunities for bigger roles as they progress through the program. Bonds are also formed, and many of our kids are happy to find a “home” in theater and with their Starstruck “family.” The Starstruck Players troupe is unique in that rather than segregating the multiple age groups, it combines them; allowing teenagers to be mentors to the younger actors and the younger actors to work with and look up to older actors. This unique aspect contributes to life skills, and provides a special opportunity to learn values, lessons, and certain skills that they might not otherwise be exposed to. |
Orpheus Theatre offers theatre workshops twice per year.
Our Winter Break Theatre Workshop is an intensive designed for children in grades 1-6 during the school break each Winter (usually in February - based on Oneonta City School District break schedule). Our Summer Musical Theatre Workshop has two sections (children & teens), where participants spend the first two weeks after school is out to rehearse and perform fully-staged musicals. Both programs are tuition based, with scholarships available (summer only). When applicable, scholarship information will appear here. Subscribe to our newsletter for up to date information and/or to be notified when registrations open. |
ORPHEUS THEATRE
P.O. BOX 1014 ONEONTA, NY 13820
PHONE: (607) 432-1800
EMAIL: orpheus@orpheustheatre.org
P.O. BOX 1014 ONEONTA, NY 13820
PHONE: (607) 432-1800
EMAIL: orpheus@orpheustheatre.org