Engaging, Enhancing and Inspiring Learning
Founded in 1976, Enchanted Circle Theater (ECT) is a non-profit, multi-service, educational theater company which engages, enhances, and inspires learning through the arts. We are a theater company, a teaching institution, and a community-based arts organization which specializes in arts integration. We work in schools, professional theaters, community centers and human service agencies, with people of all ages and abilities.
Enchanted Circle serves an essential need in the community by bringing the “joy back into learning.” We offer arts integration programs that integrate theater arts - theater, dance, music, visual, media and literary arts – with academic and social curricula to improve academic achievement and support social and emotional health.
Our school residency programs help youth become active, engaged, and resourceful learners by making classroom curriculum relevant and compelling.
Our professional development programs support teachers in the development of creative curriculum projects, and provide effective techniques for using theater arts as a dynamic teaching tool, on a daily basis, across core curricular boundaries.
Our site-based and touring productions spark new interests and broaden understanding of the world around us through original history plays, cultural productions, and curricular plays on science and literature.
Our community collaborations embrace and build community through creative education programs on topics of social relevance.
You bring the joy back into learning.
— John Skipper, Principal, McMahon School, Holyoke, MA
