Corey and Morgan Kersting Center Stage Co-Founders. Photo courtesy of Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture

MARYSVILLE, CA (MPG) - Center Stage Productions, Yuba-Sutter’s premiere youth performing arts program, has announced its next series of theater workshops and plans for its summer musicals. The next workshop will be all about “Choreography” on Saturday, Jan. 18 for students ages 7 to 12 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and ages 13 to 17 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Participants will learn how to create a dance including the composition and arrangement of movements to support a scene in a musical production to help move the story forward.  

In March, Center Stage will hold an Actor’s Workshop focusing on scenes and monologues suitable for young actors. Age-appropriate instruction will be given so that students can learn how to develop and create a living, breathing character based on what is in the text, what the character says, and what others say about their character.

The cost for the workshops is $10 per child and $5 for additional children from the same family. However, scholarships are readily available so there are no financial barriers to participation. Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture will be hosting the workshops at its Sutter Theater Center for the Arts, 754 Plumas Street in Yuba City. Whether your young person is new to theater or just ready to brush up on some skills, these workshops are designed to help make them better actors.

Auditions for this summer’s musicals, (still to be announced) are coming in April. Following the sold-out performances of “Frozen, Jr.” and “Newsies” by the Center Stage Productions team this past summer, this will be “must-see” theater for theater enthusiasts of all ages.

Center Stage Productions was founded in 2022 in cooperation with Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture to provide a performing arts program and performance experience to all area youth without any barriers to participation.  Under the direction of founders, Corey and Morgan Kersting along with other theater professionals, the workshops will teach students from 7 to 17 years of age invaluable skills and provide information and hands-on techniques they can use for any aspect of their work in the theater and that will also help them in everyday life. Most of all, the workshops will be fun!

Register your student online at yubasutterats.org or, for more information, contact Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture at 530-742-ARTS, or you can email Center Stage Productions directly at [email protected]. Plenty of free parking is available on the streets and parking lots adjacent to the theater.

About YSAC: Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide arts programming, education, advocacy, assistance, and service to artists, organizations, and residents of Yuba and Sutter Counties. The local affiliate for Yuba and Sutter of the California Arts Council, its programs include Arts in Education, Veterans Initiatives in the Arts, Arts in Corrections, Very Special Arts Festival, Yuba-Sutter Youth Choir, Center Stage Productions, Convergence Theater Company, the Yuba-Sutter Big Band and many more.