What We Do
Music Theatre of Connecticut is the premier provider of musical theatre performance and training. Founded in 1987, we produce an annual series of Equity productions featuring New York professionals (MTC MainStage), six annual student productions, and a conservatory-style school of performing arts with curriculum-based training for students ages four through high school, including the nationally-recognized College-Bound in the Performing Arts program for performance career-focused high school students.
Why It's Important
The unique synergy between our professionals and students not only fosters an atmosphere where both can achieve their full artistic and creative potential in a nurturing, non-competitive environment; but also endows students with the vital life skills of mutual respect, self-confidence, problem solving, socialization, and collaboration which provide fundamentals of success in all professional and personal life paths. Our educational focus is on each student’s individual growth and development through sequential training, multiple performance opportunities, and mentoring by our full-time professional faculty and MainStage Artists-in-residence; so that continuity of a vibrant legacy of the art and craft of musical performance is ensured for ensuing generations.
DTA Introduction to Teaching Mask
What makes a neutral mask? – Making Faces Theatre
What's behind the mask? - Geese Theatre Company
What Actors Need to Know About COVID Protocols
Greek masks for schools and theaters at The Maskery
Mask theatre terms
Teaching History with 100 Objects - A Greek theatre mask
Happy & Sad Drama Masks Layered SVG - Craft with Sarah
What's behind the mask? - Geese Theatre Company
Didaskalia - The Journal for Ancient Performance
Actors in Masks, 2020 - Hanover Theatre and Conservatory
Resources on Masks in Actor Training
Mask-maker to showcase unique work at first Stark County exhibit
