Stage One

Stageone serves the region's children, teachers and families by providing high quality, entertaining, and professional theater for young audiences and by fostering an appreciation of the arts that develops the whole child, supports the learning environment and builds strong family bonds. Both on Stage and in the classroom, stageone has, for decades, been a key partner with area school systems in providing tens of thousands of young people their first performing arts experience, many at no cost, supporting Children's and family Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. Approximately 62,440 school children, classrooms and families attended theatrical productions of our 2 mainstage shows for ages 7-18 and five interactive storytellers performances for pre-school aged youth. In 2022, One of three mainstage plays was canceled due to covid-omicron surge, however the production was filmed & distributed virtually to all jcps elementary students. Theatre for everywhere productions were also distributed to participating schools, and a new tfe production was filmed & distributed to all jcps ece. the numbers served in this section reflect distrubtions and views of both in-person and virtual programming.

Stageone provides in-class residencies that provide arts-integrated instruction to complete core curriculum and meet state educational standards. Each customized residency or performance support is customized for the needs of the school and the students. Approximately 3,583 were served through educational workshops and classes in 2022. Total numbers include both virtual and in-person instruction.stageone dramaworks provided theatrical instruction in acting, singing, dancing, movie-making and technical Theatre to 422 youth in year round classes & performance-based camps.