Student Matinees

      Schools attending TheatreWorks’ student matinee performances receive in-depth study guides to help integrate the shows’ lessons into the classroom, a pre-show classroom workshop with TheatreWorks artists, and a post-show discussion with the cast.

      Student tickets are just $10. 

      To book tickets, email learn@theatreworks.org or 650.463.7154.

      BIG RIVER
      Music & Lyrics by Roger Miller
      Book by William Hauptman
      Adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
      Dec 6 & 20, 2012 at 11am  •  Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto  •  GRADES 5–12

      Hilarious and heartwarming, Mark Twain's classic Huckleberry Finn sweeps down the mighty Mississippi, where runaways Huck and Jim discover a friendship that defies convention and defines the American dream. Propelled by an infectious, award-winning score and a dazzling array of unforgettable characters, their uprorious adventures chronicle the best and worst of our heritage in a joyously theatrical journey to delight the entire family.

      "A classic American musical with the most fetching score of the decade."
      TIME Magazine

      SOMEWHERE
      By Matthew Lopez
      Feb 7, 2013 at 11am  •  Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts  •  GRADES 6–12

      Dance, dance, dance! As the film of West Side Story shoots on their doorstep, redevelopment threatens a Puerto Rican family striving to match sky-high hopes with low-end reality. But nothing can quell the starry-eyed dreams of the Candelarias, a talented clan of hoofers determined to crash the boards of Broadway, Hollywood, and ultimately America itself. Told in exuberant dance as well as drama, it is a comic, captivating journey of the heart.
      Contains some mature language.

      "A robust, entertaining, compelling gem."
      San Diego Union Tribune

      MOUNTAINTOP
      By Katori Hall
      March 28, 2013 at 11am  •  Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto  •  GRADES 9–12

      A Memphis motel, 1968. First night for a sassy maid--last for an icon of our time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fresh from the speech of a lifetime. In a breathtaking journey beyond realism, this provocative London/Broadway hit imagines the night before tragedy, burnishing a legend while revealing the flesh-and-blood man behind it. Humorous, magical, it is a daring rumination on life, legacy, and conviction that connects each of us in a rememberance of unforgettable things past.
      Contains mature language.

      "Crackles with theatreicality and humanity."
      Newsday

      BEING EARNEST
      Music by Paul Gordon and Jay Gruska
      Book & Lyrics by Paul Gordon
      From the play by Oscar Wilde
      April 25, 2013 at 11am  •  Mountain View Center for Performing Arts  •  GRADES 6–12

      London, 1964. The sounds. The colors. The Beatles. Skirts are getting shorter, hair is growing longer, and times are changing faster than ever. The latest romatic musical from Paul Gordon (TheatreWorks' hits Emma, Daddy Long Legs, and Broadway's Jane Eyre) moves Wilde's comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest to a bachelor flat near Carnaby Street, where the exuberance of mod fashion, music, and morality inspires a quartet of lovers and incurs the wrath of Lady Bracknell, the cantankerous keeper of tradition's flame.