We can put you where you’ve always wanted to be. In the spotlight. In the action. Onstage!

Your Park District is creating a theatre program where all are welcome, and all can shine. Acting? Yes. Singing? Yesssss! Designing and building props? We have all the tools.

Do you love to perform? Well, we spent the last year thinking about you. We used our time creating a new Theatre program where you can use your talents, learn, grow, and show your friends and family that you’ve got what it takes! Sound like fun? It is!

This fall, you have the opportunity to sign up for any of the 8 new classes we’ve created that can start you on the road to stage (or screen) greatness. Take a look:

Introduction to Theatre. This class is all about learning stage directions. Those are all critical for any young performer, and you’ll concentrate on the basics, and the correct terminology, so you’re ready for whatever comes your way. Things like:

• How actors move onstage; where and how to stand and sit; how to enter the stage and the scene you’re in, and then how to exit (sorry, you can’t stay onstage all night).
• Important terms like blocking. Hitting your mark.
• Establishing the mood and tone of the play.
• What to do while waiting to speak your lines, and how to listen to your fellow actors.
• You’ll also learn a bit about lighting, sound, costumes, and sets.

Broadway Here I Come. Acting, of course. But also music and dance. If musical theater is your thing, then this is your class. You’ll be swell. You’ll be great. You know the rest.

Teen Improv. This is a brand new class. It’s specialized, but maybe you are, too. Check it out!

Take the Stage. Our 2023 summer camp was a great big hit! Look for details next spring.

• Learning how to inhabit a character takes creativity, concentration, memorization, and the ability to bring something of yourself to the role. You must engage your mind, and every part of your body to make the audience believe you. Hard work? Of course. Fun? More than almost anything else on the planet.
• All the world’s a stage. And as an actor, you’re on it 24/7. Watching people. Absorbing their mannerisms, so you can relate a real person to your onstage role. And as you bring that attention to detail to every other aspect of your life—school, play, work—the world becomes an even more fascinating place. Lucky you!