Stages Theatre

I was one of the lucky parents who got to chaperone by kiddo's class to attend The Day You Begin stage show. The staff helped up get to our seats easily and was very organized. The place was clean and had fun art on the walls and most importantly easy bathroom access which is needed for several classes of kids.The play itself was fun, engaging, and meaningful! The Day You Begin play is based on the book by Jacqueline Woodrow. It's a book about accepting and sharing our differences and once you do that things can really begin for you. This play hit it on the nose! The actors - the adults and kids alike were talented, cute, and engaging. The kids loved it as did this frown up

I love the Stages theater! I think these are mostly kids who perform popular and some less popular productions. The staff are always so friendly, and there is plenty of seating. They really know how to put on a good show that is fun for all ages. I appreciate the singing and dancing; my kids start moving and really engage with the performers.

I have been to Stages twice now, both times for youth productions. Both times I was blow away with how incredible the performances were!! The sets are amazing, the actors are brilliant and the space is lovely. Can't wait to see my next show there!!

Saw the Disney Descendants play with our 2 year old. He loved it and all the teen/kid actors did great! A fantastic venue and affordable tickets. Highly recommend seeing a play here especially with your kids.

We brought our four kids to their first musical here. We watched elf and it was fantastic!My ten year old son leaned over in the middle of the play and said, "thanks for bringing me here, this is really good!' It's a Really great place to take a family! Our kids are ages 5-12 and they all enjoyed it.The actors are very talented. Every scene was entertaining, they had excellent sets, and very good songs!The theatre isn't very big so any seat is a good one. They have booster seats for young kids.The characters lineup outside after for a meet and greet after the show. The line gets long though, so get there quickly if you want to chat with them or get signatures. The Lobby can get crowded right before or after the show. Their is free parking around the theatre.It's in a really cute town if you want to take time to shop and eat.

I've taken my kids to dozens of shows here over the years, and we've had a lot of fun watching them. I personally enjoyed most of the shows, but they are usually geared toward younger kids, not too original, and usually quite silly. For $15 or so, it's a good deal.Sometimes we've even seen more mature, out of the norm shows that they've put on in the side theater, those can be hit or miss, but again, my kids really liked them.

"To be, or not to be. That is the question."Stages Theatre offers wonderful opportunities to children of a wide variety of skill and back grounds.So if you are unsure if your child should or should not act, try this place out.They have a wonderful kids' acting summer camps, with one week long camps during the summer, where your child can try them out. They offer a wide variety of fun, interesting 'plays' firyour kids to participate in. But make sure you enroll EARLY (right when enrollment opens up) or many classes will be full.Our daughter absolutely loved being in Willy Wonka Jr this summer!Thinking of having your child do one of their regular plays (not the summer camp ones but the bigger production with public performances at Stages)? Then understand it is a serious time commitment including your child missing a bit of school for some afternoon performances, if during the school year.If you have small kids, I'd highly recommend you attend the plays as young kids love them (and they are typically short (45-60 minutes) with no intermission so most kids can sit through a whole performance without having to leave for a bio break.It's a great place for kids!

First time to the Stages Theater. I took my three year old with my friends and her four year old son to see Whoever You Are. The show was about 45 minutes and it was in the main stage. The theater seem small like a size of a small movie theater. We were in the middle section and seats were not as stadium elevated as it was hard to see over someone who is tall in front of you. They had booster seats but not very stable in the seat since it was too wide and had no ridge outline for you to know which way it should face and it was a little too short still for our toddlers to see over the head of an adult sitting in front of them. You would to grab like 5 of them stack together but then it would become unsafe so in the end both toddlers sat on our respective laps. So I'm the future we would just buy lap seats. The show was engaging and like that the cast came out at the end for pictures and autographs. The theater has a small private lot but only for theater staff so parking would have to be on street and if you're not comfortable with parallel passing them you might have to circle the block or there is a parking ramp a block away. On street parking is free and I'm not sure if the ramp is free.

Stages is flat out the best family theater in the Twin Cities. You will also want to check out the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis (top notch, top price) and Steppingstone Theater in St Paul (great fun, good value).Stages is fun for any age, but if your pre-school or elementary school has not taken a field trip to Stages, then it's time you had a talk with the teacher and schedule a field trip to the theater. The actors are mostly kids, and yes, they can act. The costumes are as professional as you could want, and allow for you to really get into the performance. One neat aspect I've seen is the actors line up in the lobby after a show and give autographs and take photos with you and your kids, in costume, following the show.The theater is large, clean, new looking, and very nice. The coat room is free and on the first floor to the right of the art gallery also inside the building.Lots of free parking in ramp half a block away. Lots of interesting shops and restaurants on Hopkins Main Street to check out after the show. Do you like antiques? You'll find 'em in dt Hopkins.Also pretty close to a neat looking bike trail... but we live far enough away that we drive to Hopkins. Enjoy the show!

I can't recommend the theatre for the very young enough!! We've gone to the Children's theatre and Old log kids' shows and the Orpheum opera, but Stages kills it for the under 5 crowd. My daughters 2.5 and 1 LOVED the Inch by Inch show. It was interactive and beautifully performed. The show started with quiet play and guitar music while the actors interacted with the kids at various stations. Highly recommend for young kids!