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THEATER LINKS

Center of Creative Arts (COCA)
COCA presents multi-cultural performances, programs and classes to more than 75,000 people each year. Classes in dance, music, drama and the visual arts are offered in outreach, after-school and scholarship programs and summer camps.

Community Health-in-Partnerships Services (CHIPS)
Using the arts to creatively teach community members about prevalent health and wellness issues, CHIPS in Motion presents four touring productions throughout the year. The productions are geared toward school-aged children and their families, teaching them to deal with challenges that they frequently encounter.

Florissant Fine Arts Council
The Florissant Fine Arts Council, now in its 20th season, presents high quality professional touring theatre productions along with dance and cross-cultural music programs at a price affordable to all.

Jewish Community Center
The Jewish Community Center’s New Jewish Theatre, currently beginning its 11th season, examines universal themes and issues through the lens of the Jewish experience. Producing and presenting plays with broad, community-wide appeal, the New Jewish Theatre helps to build bridges to multi-cultural education and tolerance.

Junior League of St. Louis
The Family Theatre Series offers five productions of children’s theatre classics at the Florissant Community Center, as well as hosting pre-performance classroom discussions at local schools.

Metro Theater Company
The Metro Theater Company is a professional touring ensemble that commissions, develops, produces and refines original theater pieces that blend music, movement, drama and design through classroom workshops, master classes and lecture demonstrations.

Piwacket Theatre for Children
Piwacket Theatre for Children presents two shows each season. The productions tour area schools and community venues, as well as being performed at the Black Cat Theatre, Piwacket Theatre’s new home in Maplewood.

Prison Performing Arts
Prison Performing Arts’ Hip-Hop Poetry Workshop will serve the at-risk youth detained at the St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center. The workshop provides an outlet for creativity and self-expression for youth who have little access to the arts, helping them find their voices, encouraging them to take responsibility for their learning, and creating a dialogue between the youth and their families, teachers, and correctional staff.

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Each season, the Rep presents over a dozen productions of live, professional theatre in Mainstage Studio and Off-Ramo productions. The Imaginary Theatre Company brings educational performances and community outreach programs to 50,000 students through schools and community centers in Missouri and Illinois.

Shakespeare Festival
The Festival presents free Shakespeare performances in Forest Park each year and reaches more than 9,000 students with performance-oriented instruction in the works of Shakespeare. The Shakespeare Festival conducts teacher-training seminars and performances throughout the St. Louis schools.

Spotlight Theatre
Spotlight T.E.E.N. presents issue-oriented theatre for middle and high school students. In 2008, Spotlight will train incarcerated youth in acting, movement and voice and conduct interviews wit hthe youth regarding the events which led to their incarceration.

Springboard to Learning &Young Audience of St. Louis
As the region's largest provider of in-school academic and cultural enrichment programs, SBYA reaches nearly 92,000 students in the metro area, providing arts, humanities and science programs in local schools and community centers.

STAGES St. Louis
Since 1987, Stages St. Louis has produced the indigenous American art form of musical theatre. It is the largest theatrical employer of local actors in St. Louis. Stages also offers year-round workshops and programming classes at the Perfroming Arts Academy and brings the arts to schools under the Urban Arts Initiative.

St. Louis Family Theatre Series
The St. Louis Family Theatre Series offers five productions of children’s theatre classics for school-age children, as well as hosting pre-performance classroom discussions at participating schools. Performances are held at the Florissant Community Center.

St. Louis Shakespeare
St. Louis Shakespeare presents three Shakespeare plays and one classic play between July and March of each year. Since 1995, the Company's home has been the beautifully restored Grandel Theater.

That Uppity Theatre Company
That UPPITY Theatre Company has developed and brought some of the finest in contemporary performance to St. Louis. The DisAbility Project brings the stories of actors with and without disabilities to audiences all across the region.

The Black Rep
The Black Rep is the largest African American performing arts organization in Missouri and one of less than a dozen surviving African American companies. Productions are presented in the Grandel Theatre. The company is committed to education and community programs, The Black Rep presents touring shows, student matinees, workshops and summer theatre camps.

Upstream Theatre
Upstream Theatre presents an original show, SOUL ON SALE/ALMA EN VENTA, this spring. The performances will include student showings, featuring post-show discussions with students and teachers.

Washington University - Edison Theatre
The 2007-2008 Edison Series includes OVATIONS!, focusing on exploring comtemporary and international cultural influences. OVATIONS! is a family-friendly event for young people.