… a vision of redeeming the Arts and teaching the classics revived Shakespeare, Dickens, and Cervantes for children!
Poetic passages! Costumes! Great speeches! They improvised. They developed their inner character while learning literature!
We celebrate confidence and encourage teamwork. We master timing, tone, movement, and understanding. We cast leadership roles and offer real-world problem-solving experiences. Students become Choreographers, Directors, and Production Tech Team MVPs.
The Pilgrim’s Progress will be our 26th script performed! Some seasons we had up to four separate casts! In Summer 2020 we still performed outside while others shut down, with 5 separate Shakespeare scenes as one show. In Spring 2023 we added a new Improv group that has generated more than 18 storylines, all student created! Here’s our 7-year history!
We stage classical literature from an educational standpoint that is affordable and without competitive auditions. This is a great way to try theater, especially for beginning students. We are excited to develop year-round opportunities to serve local families and the community.
May 2024 marks our sixth year! A Telling of Job was our Spring 2023 show, our first musical! Here’s a sweet video created and gifted to us by our Spring Student Director that features just a few current and past actors over the years: https://share.vidday.com/e/c-uvtw04
Playwright
About the Director… Lisa’s theater background started on stage with musical theater as a child. Her first role was in fifth grade as Maid Marion in a Summer community theater production of Robin Hood. Her leading roles as a teenager included Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Cousin Nettie in Carousel, and Nimue in Camelot. Her work with Center Stage Productions in Aston includes both stage in The Man of La Mancha and various production and tech roles for The Miracle Worker, The Sound of Music, and The King and I. Lisa also performed with The King’s Players ministry theater team at Liberty University.
Since then, she has built Pages Alive Theater from conception to promotional design, from booking to audio book mixing, from writing lyrics to splicing soundtracks to set projections. But her heart is in watching every student stretch with their wow moments during performances.
Lisa has taught with Drama Kids, Gymboree, the Compass Homeschool Co-op, Classical Conversations, Classical Civitas, and currently at Delaware Valley Classical School. She has served regularly at church, on the Tri-State Homeschool Association board, and anywhere her children’s activities take her. This will be her eleventh year homeschooling. Lisa and Eric celebrated 20 years married in October 2024 and have three children ages 11-14.
Videographer
Photographer
About the Composer… Eric Corrado made his theater debut with Pages Alive Theater in 2018 as the voice of Prime Minister Chamberlain in The Hiding Place. As a production advisor, his gift of analyzing stage audio has been crucial to PAT’s growing production capabilities. Eric became a composer and sound engineer for A Telling of Job, while taking on two voiceover roles. He also registered both A Telling of Job and Pandora’s Hope as the first copyrighted works for Pages Alive. In 2023, he finally took the stage as the Grandfather in The Princess Bride. A musician at heart, Eric is currently creating new soundtracks for Fall 2024 and an original musical set to kick off 2025!
From the beginning, Eric has been recording and editing all Pages Alive performance videos. He is seen doing everything from heavy lifting crew to voiceover work, but his unseen hours editing thousands of performance photos has become legendary. Eric’s creative characterizations started as a child while creating stop-action videos with friends. He started writing music in his teens, and plays guitar, bass, and drums and all keyboard work is Eric. Pages Alive Theater merely created an outlet for his already creative gifts with audio and visual storytelling.
Shakespeare and the Classics for Families 