Magic Circle Players Youth Theatre Drama Camp
Magic Circle Players Theatre, 420 South 12th Street, Montrose, CO 81402
About
Magic Circle Players Youth Theatre Drama Camp is a one-week drama camp where young actors take part in auditions, rehearsals, and workshops while producing the play “Delightfully Different.” During the week, participants memorize lines, practice voice projection, learn how to block a scene, work on character development, play theatre games, and develop character and improvisation skills. Scripts used at Drama Camp are original, and all actors have an equal number of lines.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: One-week sessions held each summer, with separate weeks for elementary and middle school participants and a separate week for high school participants
• Price: $65 per camper; t-shirts are an additional $15
Drama Camp is held each summer in the last two weeks of June, with Elementary & Middle School Week One running June 21–26, 2026, and Week Two running June 28–July 3, 2026. High School Drama Camp runs July 6–12, 2026. Elementary and middle school performances take place on Friday, June 26 at 4pm and 6pm, and Friday, July 3 at 4pm and 6pm, and high school performances take place on Sunday, July 12 at 2pm and 5pm. Drama Camp offers two classes each week, for a total of four classes over two weeks, to offer 68 children the experience of live theatre, and slots fill quickly for Drama Camp.
Magic Circle’s Youth Theatre has been part of Magic Circle Players since the 1990s, beginning as Theatre for Children and changing its name in 2018 to Youth Theatre. In 2018, the program name was changed to reflect the mission “to engage youth in a variety of live theatre experiences that educate, excite and increase community awareness of the value of the performing arts.” Magic Circle Players Theatre for Children began in collaboration with the Montrose Arts Council to bring Missoula Children’s Theatre to town, and in the summer of 1999 invited undergraduate and graduate students from CU to conduct two-week acting classes. Magic Circle offered its first independent classes in 2001, and in 2002 Cheryl Capshaw began a decade of leadership in establishing Magic Circle Players, Theatre for Children, Drama Camp, with guidance over the years from Nancy Ballantyne and Kim Santich and coordination of acting classes by Tricia Dickinson. Early Theatre for Children On Stage productions were directed by Jo Anne Sandburg, Pat Myers, Nancy Ballantyne, and Cheryl Capshaw, and Lisa Rediger had the idea to produce large musicals acted by children for children audiences.
Theatre for Children produces an on stage show each summer, sometimes with all adult casts, a mix of adults and youth, or all children, always for children audiences. For twelve years, the Theatre for Children Travel Show has performed each fall at local elementary schools, and Theatre for Children Travels performs a 30-minute play each fall in RE-1J district elementary schools, private schools in Montrose County, and in Gunnison, Ridgway, and Ouray elementary schools, bringing a live theatre experience to every child in the Montrose school district.
Last updated June 3, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: One-week sessions held each summer, with separate weeks for elementary and middle school participants and a separate week for high school participants
• Price: $65 per camper; t-shirts are an additional $15
Drama Camp is held each summer in the last two weeks of June, with Elementary & Middle School Week One running June 21–26, 2026, and Week Two running June 28–July 3, 2026. High School Drama Camp runs July 6–12, 2026. Elementary and middle school performances take place on Friday, June 26 at 4pm and 6pm, and Friday, July 3 at 4pm and 6pm, and high school performances take place on Sunday, July 12 at 2pm and 5pm. Drama Camp offers two classes each week, for a total of four classes over two weeks, to offer 68 children the experience of live theatre, and slots fill quickly for Drama Camp.
Magic Circle’s Youth Theatre has been part of Magic Circle Players since the 1990s, beginning as Theatre for Children and changing its name in 2018 to Youth Theatre. In 2018, the program name was changed to reflect the mission “to engage youth in a variety of live theatre experiences that educate, excite and increase community awareness of the value of the performing arts.” Magic Circle Players Theatre for Children began in collaboration with the Montrose Arts Council to bring Missoula Children’s Theatre to town, and in the summer of 1999 invited undergraduate and graduate students from CU to conduct two-week acting classes. Magic Circle offered its first independent classes in 2001, and in 2002 Cheryl Capshaw began a decade of leadership in establishing Magic Circle Players, Theatre for Children, Drama Camp, with guidance over the years from Nancy Ballantyne and Kim Santich and coordination of acting classes by Tricia Dickinson. Early Theatre for Children On Stage productions were directed by Jo Anne Sandburg, Pat Myers, Nancy Ballantyne, and Cheryl Capshaw, and Lisa Rediger had the idea to produce large musicals acted by children for children audiences.
Theatre for Children produces an on stage show each summer, sometimes with all adult casts, a mix of adults and youth, or all children, always for children audiences. For twelve years, the Theatre for Children Travel Show has performed each fall at local elementary schools, and Theatre for Children Travels performs a 30-minute play each fall in RE-1J district elementary schools, private schools in Montrose County, and in Gunnison, Ridgway, and Ouray elementary schools, bringing a live theatre experience to every child in the Montrose school district.
Last updated June 3, 2026.
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