2023-24 Mainstage Season
Discover Kirkland’s Premier Family Theater:
Studio East is a non-profit playhouse providing theater classes and camps for kids as well as a full season of theater productions. Looking for a live event to enjoy on the Eastside? If you’re searching for fun and easy plans (with plentiful parking!) for your date night, school trip, or friends’ weekend in Kirkland, Redmond, Woodinville, or surrounding areas, join us at Studio East. Experience the magic of live theater, support a local non-profit, and witness young, Seattle-area rising stars.
What's Happening on the Mainstage?
| CAMP | GRADES | DAY | REGISTRATION | START DATE | END DATE | START TIME | END TIME | DESCRIPTION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cabaret Series: Epic Eighties | Ages 10-19 | TUE & WED | Register now | 30-Apr | 5-JUNE | 6:30pm | 8pm | Put together a cabaret of songs in the genre of “Epic Eighties” in collaboration with a Studio East teaching artist and the Creative Team behind our next Mainstage show, Les Misérables. Students will choose songs from popular eighties musicals including Little Shop of Horrors, La Cage aux Folles, Miss Saigon, Chess, Phantom of the Opera and more! Each student will work with their instructors and classmates to create a show that features every student. They’ll hone their acting, singing, and dancing skills as they work together to create a show to be performed on the Les Misérables set. This class will be 6:30pm - 8:30pm on the final two classes, May 28th & 29th. The final performance will be on Wednesday, May 29th at 7:30pm. |
Studio East’s 31st Mainstage Season theme is silver and gold.
Make new friends, and keep the old: one is silver, and the other gold.
Matilda
April 2024
Directed by Kaysy Ostrom
Music Directed by Kim Dare
Matilda has astonishing wit, intelligence… and special powers!
She’s unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, the highly lovable Miss Honey. Matilda’s school life isn’t completely smooth sailing, however – the school’s mean Headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves thinking up new punishments for those who don’t abide by her rules.
But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts. She could just be the pupils’ saving grace, using her extraordinary gifts to outsmart even the formidable Miss Trunchbull.
Les Misérables
May-June 2024
Directed by TBA
Music Directed by Kim Dare
This epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France.
Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and not only becomes an honest man, but the mayor of a prosperous town and a loving adoptive father – violating his parole in the process.
The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes a decent life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a bloody student uprising and saves the life of a young man hopelessly in love with Valjean’s adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel fully redeemed.
As You Like It
June 2024
Directed by TBA
Choreographer by TBA
Love reigns supreme, and laughter echoes through the Forest of Arden…
The Bard loves to begin his tales in the order of a refined court, before whisking us off in a grand pastoral shift to the mysticism of an enchanted forest. As You Like It is no exception as Orlando and Rosalind’s fates intertwine across these juxtaposed settings.
Banished from court, the two embark on a whimsical journey of disguise, mistaken identity, and playful courtship. As Orlando’s poetic declarations adorn the forest’s trees, Rosalind, cleverly disguised as Ganymede, engages in a charming courtship with him. When identities are revealed, joyful weddings abound, all in a world of mirth and merriment.
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Studio East is a non-profit playhouse providing theater classes and camps for kids as well as a full season of theater productions. Looking for a live event to enjoy on the Eastside? If you’re searching for fun and easy plans (with plentiful parking!) for your date night, school trip, or friends’ weekend in Kirkland, Redmond, Woodinville, or surrounding areas, join us at Studio East. Experience the magic of live theater, support a local non-profit, and witness young, Seattle-area rising stars.
