About Prime Stage

Message from Founder and Artistic Director

We have selected a range of entertaining, imaginative, and enchanting stories for you and your family this season.

Our commitment to you is to consistently produce the finest entertainment by bringing literature to life in ways that you and family can always enjoy.This season we are working with local organizations to add more fun and meaning to the experience.

Our 15th anniversary season has been expanded for your enjoyment – It features three great stories, a new Dark Night Reading Series that kicks off The Last Lecture by CMU's late Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow, Desserts with the Director on Saturday nights a book club and Five Minutes of Fame for teens, opening night receptions with live music by members of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony and other special events. Celebrate live theatre with Prime Stage this year!

Our Teen Advisory Board is planning an incredible event for all teens, teachers, and parents. Click on the Teen Programs tab for more information.Teenagers can see what happens backstage and actually work on the shows with professional artists by clicking the Teen Programs tab and Technical Theatre Mentor program.

Student matinees are only one part of our Education programs. I invite you to click on the Education tab to discover what is available for you and your students.

Become a Facebook Fan, follow us on Twitter and join our e-Letter group to discover what is coming up for this and the next seasons.

I look forward to seeing you and your family at Prime Stage at the beautiful New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh's North Side.

Dr. Wayne Brinda
Artistic Director
wbrinda@primestage.com
(bio)

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Our Mission

The mission of Prime Stage is to entertain, educate, and enrich families, students, and educators in the discovery of live theatre and literature. We accomplish this by producing adaptations of literature drawn from middle and high school reading lists, new plays, and other works which celebrate young people and adults.

We are passionate about creating high-quality experiences that are affordable and accessible. Through educational programs and the Theatre Mentor Program, Prime Stage provides opportunities for middle and high school students to participate in the creation and presentation of live theatre.

With education being a cornerstone of our mission and vision, Prime Stage offers several unique programs for educators and home school families that encourage adolescents to attend the theatre, participate in the creative process, and read the literature. We invite you to visit our Education pages, the Technical Theatre Mentor Page, the Teen Advisory Board, and the Support pages of this website.

The Vision of Prime Stage

As our region’s theatre that enlightens and educates, as well as a theatre that entertains, we:

• Present artistically exciting, wholesome and compelling experiences to which students and families can attend to "bridge the gap between theatre for children and adults".
• Produce productions and programs that encourage adolescents to discover enjoyment with literature.
• Develop resources for educators to enhance how they address adolescent literacy issues, critical thinking, and appreciation for the theatre arts.
• Encourage young people to participate in theatre.
• Showcase the work of young people, educators, writers and artists

Prime Stage produces programs that entertain and enrich the lives of adolescents, educators and families in creative, relevant, affordable and accessible ways.