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Page to Stage

Feb 10, 2025

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"Page to Stage," provided by Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, is an engaging course for students aged between 10 and 15. It focuses on using scenes from plays to establish characters and their relationships, effectively connecting literature to the actor's choices to authentically motivate the action of the play. The course is designed to enhance students' life skills of empathy, reading comprehension, and reading fluency. The curriculum is differentiated to cater to varying learning levels, and material is tailored to individual performers, ensuring a personalized learning experience. The course is delivered in-person, providing a conducive environment for hands-on learning. The duration of each class is 1.5 hours, with a start time of 11:15 a.m. and an end time of 12:45 p.m. Students are expected to be dropped off and picked up within a 15-minute window before and after the class, respectively. The instructors leading this course are part of the professional team at Actors’ Playhouse, an award-winning theater company with over 35 years of artistic excellence. However, specific information about the instructors’ individual backgrounds and qualifications is not provided. There are no explicit prerequisites or eligibility criteria mentioned for participating in the course, suggesting that it is potentially open to all interested students within the specified age range. By the end of the course, participants are expected to have developed a strong connection to and personalization of the written word, alongside improved empathy, reading comprehension, and reading fluency skills. The course fee is $375, reflecting the high-quality, personalized instruction provided by the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre.

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Rishab Jain

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