Enhance your students classroom learning with SchoolStage, the MAC’s educational performance series for kids in preschool through 12th grade. Complete with study guides, SchoolStage performances can help children and teachers meet Common Core Standards in a fun and entertaining way.

Make a reservation today by calling (630) 942-2220 or emailing grouptix@cod.edu. Tickets are not available online. Individuals, Home School and groups of any size are welcome based on availability.

Attendance at any show, combined with pre- and post-performance activities, connects with one or more of the following standards:

  • Language
  • Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
  • Reading for Literature
  • Speaking and Listening
  • Writing

Additionally, in the Common Core Standards for Reading, the definition of the word text can be expanded to include non-printed works such as dance, music, theater and visual arts. A field trip to a live performing arts show offers a different way of perceiving and learning, and is a means to expand the toolbox of knowledge.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Study Guides

Detailed study guides are available for many performances, which introduce the material and offer historical/cultural context to aid in understanding what they are seeing.

Friday, Oct 24 | 9:45a & 11:30a

Ada Twist, Scientist & Friends TheaterWorksUSA Grades: K – 4th Ms. Greer’s classroom includes three inquisitive out-of-the-box thinkers. Rosie Revere has big dreams. Iggy Peck has a relentless passion for architecture, and Ada Twist’s curiosity can drive her teacher crazy. On a field trip gone awry, they are faced with the ultimate test of their…

Wednesday, Mar 18 | 9:45 & 11:30a

  TheaterWorksUSA Click, Clack, Moo Grades K–4 No more milk and eggs… the cows and hens are on strike! Will Farmer Brown give in to the animals’ demands? Find out in a hilariously moving musical about negotiation and compromise, based on the Caldecott Honor Book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. SchoolStage daytime performances do…

Friday, Mar 27 | 9:45 & 11:30a

TheaterWorksUSA The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System Grades K–5 When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip! But when rivalries both old and new threaten to tear the students apart, our young heroes…
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