Studio’s Student Matinee Program connects young people with contemporary theatre. Studio offers free tickets to DCPS and DC chartered schools and reduced-price tickets to other students. Our matinee program includes a post-show conversation with artists from the production and a student resource guide on the playwright, the world of the play, interviews with artists, and enrichment exercises for classroom use, incorporating national education standards.
Studio connects students with the artists' process of creating each production and aims to provide a comprehensive experience for teachers and students, integrating the work on our stages with in-class learning.
The goals of the Student Matinee Program are to:
Provide students with the experience of live, intimate, contemporary theatre.
Enrich students' experience and extend their learning by offering support materials and interactions.
Encourage students to make connections between the play's events and characters and their own lives and experiences.
Foster an understanding of and an appreciation for theatre as an art form.
Encourage students to develop a sense of agency and ownership in the practice of theatregoing.
Teacher Tickets: Two tickets to a preview performance of the play, so teachers may become more familiar with the work before bringing their students.
Student Resource Guide: These guides offer social, historical, and artistic context for each production, as well as suggested classroom activities for students and teachers that foster connections between students and the performance.
The Performance: Free tickets to a special student matinee performance for DC Public and Charter Schools and discounted tickets for other area schools.
Post-Show Conversation: Following each matinee, a Studio staff member moderates a talk-back with the cast, allowing students to engage in discussion about the play, the production, and the actors’ processes.
Teachers of grades 9-12 in all content areas are welcome to join Studio Theatre for student matinees. For more information and to request a script or details about the content of specific shows, contact [email protected].