Live theatre in downtown Staunton

Book cover titled 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' by Raivj Joseph, featuring a blue textured surface with blood splatters.

NEXT PERFORMANCE

Gruesome
Playground Injuries

by Rajiv Joseph
directed by Peter Zazzali

Select dates July 10-26 at 7:30 p.m.

Staunton’s professional theatre-next-door

2024/25 Season 

Five full-scale productions in our intimate warehouse blackbox theatre in downtown Staunton. The 2024/25 season includes one pre-professional, two professional, and two educational shows. And new this season: play readings and pop-ups!

Book cover titled 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' with a blue textured background and red blood splatters.
Book cover titled "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" by Bertolt Brecht with a red background and white circular pattern in the center containing the title in bold black text.
A person with pink hair and glasses is performing a high leg stretch on a stage, wearing a blue long-sleeve shirt, gray shorts, and black socks. Two children are in the background, one wearing a pink jacket and the other in a beige top, watching the performance.
Young boy and girl holding hands, standing in a circle with other children, in an indoor setting, possibly a classroom or play area.
A young girl with red hair and glasses kneeling on the floor, smiling with her eyes closed, surrounded by other children in an indoor setting.

Human-first performing arts education

SLTE offers year-round performance training for students from pre-kindergarten to adult. Our classes and camps offer the opportunity to explore all aspects of performance, from acting techniques, to contemporary dance, to improv. Our faculty are professional actors, dancers, and experienced practitioners.

Summer camps start June 2!

Upcoming Events

Instructor and student dance in front of mirrors

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Education-led

Learning is at the heart of everything we do: learning about ourselves, each other, our craft. Every class and performance is an opportunity to be engaged in personal growth. More practically, we also offer enriching opportunities to students and pre-professionals throughout our season, as they hone their technical, management, performance, and front of house skills. It takes a village to run a theatre, and ours is hungry to learn.

Human-first performing arts education

Strengthening awareness, confidence, and empathy turns people into better better humans and better performers. That’s why we obsessively nurture these traits with every student and in every class. Our classes are taught by professional actors and experienced practitioners who are 100% on board that we go farther together, and that there’s room for everyone.

Staunton’s professional theatre-next-door

Our warehouse-turned-blackbox is a magical, malleable, and intimate space where we produce small-scale theatrical works and play readings. Our five-show season spans performances by professionals living as artists in our community, to committed high school students exploring their creative voices. We hope you come early and stay late, lingering at the bar over meaningful conversations.

Three actors performing on a vintage radio station set, with a vintage microphone labeled WBFR, dressed in period costumes from the 1940s or 1950s.
Two young women on stage during a theatrical performance, one in black with crossed arms looking down, and the other in light-colored dress with a blue sash in the background.

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