At Chicago Children’s Theatre, we offer a wide selection of unique weekly classes for theatre novices, accomplished performers, and everyone in-between. Led by experienced and enthusiastic teaching artists, our classes help students gain confidence, champion their artistic voices, and build lasting friendships.
The Annoyance Training Center teaches students how to develop and maintain a strong individual voice in their improvisation. Through scenework, classes address the initiation of a scene; developing and maintaining strong characters; learning to hold on to your initial choices while at the same time, expanding on (heightening) the choices you have made; and learning to become deft at creating and weaving unexpected, character-based choices into your work.
Try an Online Class! Drawing upon the groundbreaking work of The Second City and the many legendary performers who have played on its stages, we have become the largest school of improvisation and sketch comedy in the world. Our online classes are all of the fun…while wearing none of the pants. (We don’t judge.)
Try an Online Class! Drawing upon the groundbreaking work of The Second City and the many legendary performers who have played on its stages, we have become the largest school of improvisation and sketch comedy in the world.
Self-contained weekly sessions offer character, scene, and story tools to help you write and revise your script, professional actors to read the work you bring from home, and …
Whether you’re teaching remotely or looking for a fun activity for the family this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Explore education tools, centuries of critical thinking, artistic interpretation, …
Enter the world of music, drama, dance, writing, and more while practicing teamwork, communication, and problem-solving. Actors will be introduced to their actor tools, with lots of time …
Memoir Theatre: Writing the stories of our lives. Students will play writing games to unearth what you care about, what enrages you, what hurt you, what shamed you, …
Intermediate actors build on the basics to learn about building an ensemble, singing in harmony, and creating more challenging characters. Actors will write their own story paired with …
For screenwriters, playwrights, or teleplay writers, this is a class about the romance and comedy of searching for love, falling in love, being in love, staying in love…and …
Ovation Academy for the Performing Arts offers training in Voice, Dance, Tap, Improv, Acting and much more! Enrollment is open now for our January-March 2021 session. Visit www.ovationacademy.org to learn more or register.
This workshop is designed for storytellers, actors, solo artists and playwrights of all levels – who want to work on the development of a one person show or …
Prerequisites: Level 2 or instructor permission
Students will focus on treating their improvised scenes like they were fully scripted. They will learn tools that focus on compelling language, storytelling, …
How do you tell a complete and satisfying story in only ten minutes? This class, offered exclusively to Network Members is a deep dive into the intricacies and …
Explore the capabilities of Zoom, Instagram, and other platforms, to create new performances and plays designed specifically for this vibrant and invigorating time. Students will study aspects of …
This course is designed to develop the writer’s individual theatrical style through writing a One-Act play. Through the practice of writing and investigating plays, students will learn the …
This free class is being offered as a part of our initiative to combat racism, and stand alongside those who are fighting for social justice and against racial …
Self-contained weekly sessions offer character, scene, and story tools to help you write and revise your script, professional actors to read the work you bring from home, and …
In this class, you will pitch, outline, and write a long one-act or full-length play. You will add new tools to your writing toolbox that will help you …
