School Programs
Engaging the Next Generation
Arts Experiences. Arts Integration. Arts Training.
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D.C. Ticket Partnership
Arena Stage welcomes teachers in D.C. public and charter schools to the theater for a complete performance experience, including subsidized tickets, in-class workshops and study guide materials.
The 2024-2025 application deadline has passed, and all DC Ticket Partnership tickets have been assigned for the season.
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Moving Stories
Moving Stories is a vibrant and interactive experience that brings stories to life in your classroom. Using song, movement, sign language and storytelling, Moving Stories explores a beloved children’s book through creative drama and promotes literacy skills.
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Study Guides
A Student Study Guide provides context and activities to prepare students to attend Arena Stage productions.
D.C. Ticket Partnership
Through the D.C. Ticket Partnership
- Students are exposed to professional theater of the highest quality in their community, developing and deepening a connection to and love of the arts.
- Students engage with Arena Stage teaching artists and one another to think critically about theater and connect it to their lives.
- Teachers can integrate the arts into their required curriculum with the support of Arena Stage.
2024-2025 Application
The 2024-2025 application deadline has passed, and all D.C. Ticket Partnership tickets have been assigned for the season.
If you would like to bring your school group to see a show at Arena Stage, please call Group Sales at 202-488-4380 or email groups@arenastage.org.
If you would like to be notified about future program opportunities, please email Grant Emerson Harvey, Learning Engagement Manager at gharvey@arenastage.org.
Participants
D.C. public and charter school teachers (grades 5-12, all content areas) apply to bring their classes to up to two Arena Stage matinees during the academic year.
Schools that do not qualify for the D.C. Ticket Partnership can purchase tickets through Group Sales.
Program Format
Open to a limited number of D.C. public and public charter schools each season via an application process. Partner teachers and students receive:
- $4 tickets; up to 30 tickets including chaperones
- Preview tickets for the teacher or principal
- Arena's Page: A Student Study Guide for each student
- A pre-show and post-show workshop with Arena Stage teaching artists
- Curriculum Connections, a teacher resource suggesting discussion topics and activities that connect each play to Common Core standards
Contact
Sponsors
The D.C. Ticket Partnership is generously sponsored by 
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Moving Stories
Moving Stories
- Promotes early literacy skills, such as increased vocabulary and reading comprehension while forming personal connections to stories.
- Augments existing language-based curriculum.
- Introduces effective techniques for self-control of body and voice.
- Encourages imagination, problem solving and teamwork.
- Provides innovative, theater-inspired classroom management techniques and vocabulary.
Participants
Moving Stories is for Pre-K3 through first grade classes or community groups throughout the D.C. Metro area.
Program Format
Each Moving Stories residency consists of three lessons/classroom visits centered on one book. Book list available upon request.
Cost
Moving Stories is priced on a need-based sliding scale. Please contact us for further information.
Contact
Mauricio Pita, Community Programs Manager at mpita@arenastage.org.
Study Guides
To reproduce study guide in part or whole, please contact Rebecca Campana, School Programs Manager, at rcampana@arenastage.org.
2024/25 Season
Study Guides from Past Seasons
Sponsors
Arena Stage’s community engagement efforts are generously sponsored by Denie and Frank Weil; The Estate of Ms. Toni A. Ritzenberg; Joanne Barker; The Robert and Natalie Mandel Family Foundation; Boeing; Exelon; AT&T; Comcast; The National Endowment for the Arts; Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.; Alice Shaver Foundation; Venable Foundation; Friends of Southwest D.C.; GEICO; Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation; Hattie M. Strong Foundation; The Lois & Richard England Family Foundation; Enterprise Holdings Foundation; and Actors’ Equity Foundation.