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The first iteration of Main Stage began as a DreamMaker project under the Ink People Center for the Arts in the fall of 2014 with a group of seven local youth artists debuting segments of British Composer Ethan Lewis Maltby's Ada Lovelace at the Morris Graves Museum of Art.  In 2015 Main Stage continued to grow, collaborating with local and guest adult performers to produce the first full production, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts (July, 2015). From 2015-2019 Main Stage continued to produce full scale community musicals at the Arkley Center, in addition to programming a variety of youth performances throughout the year.

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In 2021 Main Stage incorporated as a non-profit organization with a renewed vision for a collaboration between our Main Stage productions and educational programming. Based on Goodspeed Musical's Kids Company model, our productions are composed of a local Young Performers Company and guest teaching/performing artists from all over the country. Students  train with a variety of these arts professionals throughout the year and then have the opportunity to work and perform alongside them locally in either a full scale production or concert experience. This model has also allowed for continued collaboration with YPC alumni who have the opportunity to return to Humboldt as employed performers, technicians, and/or arts administrators after graduating high school. ​

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                                                                                                       NEW WORKS 

Beginning with the Ada Lovelace project in 2014, Main Stage has always been passionate about producing new works, Most recently, Battle of the Boat (Young Performers Company, 2015), Jane Eyre in Concert (Revised Chamber production, 2022) and Ladyship in Concert (2024) 

                                                                                           

                                                                                                 YOUNG PERFORMERS 

  Main Stage was created by and for a passionate group of local youth artists with a vision of expanding performance and arts education opportunities in our rural area.  Starting as a group of seven elementary school performers, The Young Performers Company program now provides over 60 local children, Grades 1-High School, with arts programming and production opportunities all throughout the year. 

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