Choose your adventure
Story Theater is a unique blend of storytelling and improvised theater created live from children's suggestions. Story Theater is wholesome, intelligent entertainment that stimulates the imagination and inspires creativity. What child won’t be amazed to see a show created out of the power of imagination?
Kids, don't just watch the show...be the show!
Story Theater allows the audience to participate, interact, and shape the course of the action. The improv skills necessary for this show are a result of a lifetime of professional theater experience. The result is an audience of children highly engaged and bursting with ideas!
Create your own story
Because Story Theater is improvised, any theme or holiday can be incorporated, and we have a variety of costuming. From spooky stories for Halowe’en fun to Eilzabethan language for Renaissance Festivals, ask Story Theater to create show for you!
Story Theater has delighted families from the smallest of venues to audiences of 600!
Story Theater is a wonderful introduction to professional theater, while inspiring children to create, to speak out, and to love live Theater! Of course, adults love to participate too!!!
Background
Jerzy Grotowski was a founder of theater than believed that theater should not, because it could not, compete against the overwhelming spectacle of film, and should instead focus on the very root of the act of theatre: Actors co-creating the event of theater with its spectators.
Story Theater uses this Grotowskian principle to create theater for children with children. Story Theater believes that by stripping away elaborate sets and effects, children can grasp the basic concepts of story…for without a good story, all the special effects in the world still won’t make a good show. The simplicity of Story Theater is designed to empower and inspire children to create theater and stories of their own original thought.
Story Theater is a unique blend of storytelling and improvised theater created live from children's suggestions. Story Theater is wholesome, intelligent entertainment that stimulates the imagination and inspires creativity. What child won’t be amazed to see a show created out of the power of imagination?
Kids, don't just watch the show...be the show!
Story Theater allows the audience to participate, interact, and shape the course of the action. The improv skills necessary for this show are a result of a lifetime of professional theater experience. The result is an audience of children highly engaged and bursting with ideas!
Create your own story
Because Story Theater is improvised, any theme or holiday can be incorporated, and we have a variety of costuming. From spooky stories for Halowe’en fun to Eilzabethan language for Renaissance Festivals, ask Story Theater to create show for you!
Story Theater has delighted families from the smallest of venues to audiences of 600!
Story Theater is a wonderful introduction to professional theater, while inspiring children to create, to speak out, and to love live Theater! Of course, adults love to participate too!!!
Background
Jerzy Grotowski was a founder of theater than believed that theater should not, because it could not, compete against the overwhelming spectacle of film, and should instead focus on the very root of the act of theatre: Actors co-creating the event of theater with its spectators.
Story Theater uses this Grotowskian principle to create theater for children with children. Story Theater believes that by stripping away elaborate sets and effects, children can grasp the basic concepts of story…for without a good story, all the special effects in the world still won’t make a good show. The simplicity of Story Theater is designed to empower and inspire children to create theater and stories of their own original thought.