Children's programming

Starstruck Players, Orpheus Theatre’s Youth Theatre Troupe, is a tuition-based theater program, with two semesters each year. Starstruck not only offers performance opportunities for area youth, but an opportunity for participants to learn theater skills and processes. Additionally, this program has proven to be a place where young thespians make friends, have fun, and grow artistically, socially, and individually.

Participants, aged 8-18 (show dependent), hone their acting skills by rehearsing and performing a fully-staged production. In addition to auditioning, staging, rehearsing, and performing; students work on theatrical exercises to build their skills, confidence, and ability to work as a team.
 
While participants audition for individual roles in each performance opportunity, each participant is given a part. As participants return semester after semester, their confidence and abilities grow; giving them better opportunities for bigger roles as they progress through the program. Bonds are also formed, and many of our kids are happy to find a “home” in theater and with their Starstruck “family.”
 
Starstruck Players is unique in that rather than segregating the multiple age groups, it combines them; allowing teenagers to be mentors to the younger actors and the younger actors to work with and look up to older actors. This unique aspect contributes to life skills, and provides a special opportunity to learn values, lessons, and certain skills that they might not otherwise be exposed to.