Summer – Kidstock! Creative Theater

SUMMERSTAGE 2026 at Kidstock! Creative Theater

“Your Passport to Play!”

Embark on a creative adventure this summer at Kidstock! SummerStage, where imagination takes center stage for students who have completed Grades K–8! Our 2026 theme, “Your Passport to Play!”, invites young artists to explore a world of storytelling, creativity, and performance. The first two and final two weeks of our 10-week season offer flexible individual day registrations, perfect for families balancing school schedules and vacation plans. The six exciting weeks in between feature five-day sessions that build toward original Friday presentations inspired by each week’s destination-themed prompt.

Unlike traditional summer theater programs that rehearse a scripted show, Kidstock! celebrates the imagination of every performer — encouraging kids to invent, collaborate, and create their own plays from scratch or reimagine existing scripts with their own ideas. Our dedicated team of professionals in theater, dance, music, art, and education work hand-in-hand with high school and college mentors (many of them Kidstock! alumni!) to deliver a program that’s dynamic, inclusive, and endlessly fun.

Together, our various Summerstage age groups offer a creative journey tailored to each stage of a young performer’s growth — introducing storytelling through play for our youngest actors and developing full-scale performance skills for our older students. Wherever your child begins, their Passport to Play is their ticket to imagination, confidence, and joy!

Weekly Themes & Parody Titles

JUNE 22–26

Classic Books Week

INDIVIDUAL DAYS! Turn the page into the stage! Each day begins with a beloved book that jumps off the shelf and onto the theater floor. Roar with Max and the Wild Things, sketch new worlds with Harold and his purple crayon, keep the Pigeon from driving the bus or race alongside Percy Jackson on a mythic quest. Bring characters to life and write new chapters of their own.

JUNE 29–JULY 3

World Landmarks Week

INDIVIDUAL DAYS! Pack your bags for a globe-trotting adventure! Each day kids “arrive” at a new world landmark — the leaning Tower of Pisa, the Pyramids of Egypt, or the Great Wall of China — and dive into its wonder. We'll create art, music, and drama inspired by each location. The whole world becomes our stage, one landmark at a time.

JULY 6–10

The Little Pirate Tail

When a greedy pirate trades his treasure map to a curious mermaid in exchange for her shimmering tail, neither of them gets quite what they bargained for! As the pirate flounders through life under the sea and the mermaid tries to captain a ship on land, chaos, comedy, and splashy surprises follow in this topsy-turvy tale of treasure and transformation.

JULY 13–17

The Case of Dr. Clue-N-Stein

It’s a monstrous mystery in the mansion when a thunderstorm traps a houseful of suspects — including Frankenstein’s creature, Dracula, and the Mummy — under one creepy roof! As a bumbling detective tries to piece together the clues (and the body parts), suspense turns to silliness in this frightfully funny whodunit where every suspect has a shocking secret.

JULY 20–24

Harry Poppins

When Hogwarts trades broomsticks for flying umbrellas, the skies fill with mayhem! A practically perfect professor drifts in to clean up the castle, teach a few lessons in manners and magic, and bring a spoonful of sugar to every spell. But when her enchanted umbrella goes missing, students and teachers alike must chase it through the clouds in this high-flying parody of wizardly wonder.

JULY 27–31

Jurassic Bark

When scientists clone dinosaurs as household pets, the world’s biggest dog park turns prehistoric! From T. rex terriers to triceratops toddlers, these dino-dogs dig up trouble, chew up furniture, and chase bones the size of cars. As the lab tries to call them back, it’s a race against time, tails, and total chaos in this howlingly funny prehistoric pet parody.

AUGUST 3–7

Knights of the Round U.F.O.

When King Arthur’s knights mistake a landing saucer for the Holy Grail, Camelot becomes a crash site for comedy! As aliens attempt to blend in with the court and the knights prepare for intergalactic jousting, chaos reigns across the kingdom in this royal romp where the quest for honor meets a mission from outer space.

AUGUST 10–14

A Midsummer Night's Machine

Shakespeare never imagined fairies falling for robots, but love circuits are overheating in this forest of mechanical mayhem! When a mischievous sprite reprograms the wrong androids, gears grind, hearts spark, and enchanted romance short-circuits into a hilarious mix-up of magic, metal, and midsummer madness.

AUGUST 17–21

Famous Paintings Week

INDIVIDUAL DAYS! Each day begins with a masterpiece of art that sparks a full day of creativity. Van Gogh’s swirling Starry Night inspires a shadowy dance under a painted sky, or da Vinci’s Mona Lisa smiles her way into a comic mystery scene. Paint, move, sing, and act your way through the worlds hidden inside famous artworks, discovering how a picture can truly be worth a thousand silly stories.

AUGUST 24–28

Legendary Journeys Week

INDIVIDUAL DAYS! Each day celebrates a great adventure — Dorothy skipping down the Yellow Brick Road, Odysseus sailing across the sea, Moana voyaging beyond the reef, or Alice tumbling through Wonderland. Kids will invent art that captures the journey, use music and movement to bring obstacles to life, and perform their own comic twists on these timeless travels. Every step is another scene in the adventure of a lifetime.