All Children’s Theatre
1180 Rt. 46 W., Parsippany, 973-335-5328, email: allchilldrensth@aol.com. School year programs (Saturdays) in spring and fall in musical theatre, creative dramatics and comedy. Boys and girls ages 4-5, 6-17. Saturday Spring programs, Cabaret Cafe, Touring Performing Arts Troupe and summer day camps also offered. Holiday vacation camps offered in Parsippany in Nov., Dec., Feb., and April. Established 1983.
Brightest Star School of Performing Arts
Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Rd., Morristown, 973-971-3726. Year round musical theater prep and interpretation classes for preschoolers to adults.
Brundage Park Playhouse
Carrell Rd., Randolph, 973-989-7092. Youth theater and improvisational comedy classes. Auditions for summer workshop for experienced teens ages 13-17 held in Mar.
Centenary Young Performers Workshop
715 Grand Ave., Hackettstown, 908-979-0900. Professional theater training open to beginning-advanced performers ages 8-18. 15-week fall, spring and intensive 5-week summer sessions culminate with a 10-day Festival of Shows.
Circus Place
3 Jill Court, Hillsborough, 908-829-3784. Offering exciting classes in circus skills, aerial arts including trapeze and silks, juggling, stilt walking, unicycle, acrobatics, tot programs, magic, birthday parties and more. Adaptive Circus and special needs classes also offered using modified equipment.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre
Baird Center, 5 Mead St., South Orange, 973-378-7754, ext. 2228. Professional theater in residence at the Baird Center offers an internship program for high school and college students and a summer Teen Actors Conservatory.
Elefante Music & School of Performing Arts
1790 Springfield Ave., New Providence, 908-464-5928. Year round and summer theater arts programs include classes in dance, music, voice and theater arts.
Essex Youth Theater
In residence at The Studio Playhouse, Upper Montclair, 973-746-3303. Fall, spring and summer sessions of classes in theater arts for ages 4-12.
Growing Stage Creative Drama Classes
The Palace Theatre, Rt. 183, Netcong, 973-347-4946. Theater arts classes for grades K-teen, modern jazz dance troupe for grades 4-adult, summer camp & intern program.
The Institute of Music for Children
780 Salem Ave., Elizabeth, 908-469-1211. Office: Mon.-Fri. 10am–5pm. Five-Week Summer Institute: PreK–2nd Grade 8am–12pm and 3rd–9th Grade 8am–3pm begins June 27. Afterschool Institute: Group and private classes for children,
teens and adults.
Non-profit organization offers year-round classes and private lessons in instrumental music, voice, dance, visual arts and drama to children, teens and adults. Our mission is to create H.A.R.M.O.N.Y—Helping Achieve Responsible Motivated Optimistic Neighborhood Youth by providing in-depth arts experiences. Call for more information.
Judith G. Wharton Music Center
60 Locust Ave., Berkeley Heights, 908-790-0700. Music and performing arts center offering private lessons, group classes and summer camp; all instruments, musical theater, voice, dance and drama; children, teens and adults.
Kelsey Theatre Youth Programs
Mercer Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Rd., West Windsor, 609-570-3566. 10-week sessions of performing arts workshops for children and teens grades K-12 are held on Sat. mornings in fall and spring.
Luna Stage
555 Valley Rd., West Orange, 973-395-5551. Creative drama classes for ages 4-college-age, creative writing for children and adults, and playwrighting workshops for adults.
Mayo Performing Arts Center
100 South St., Morristown, 973-539-0345 ext. 6582. Performance-based theatrical training program for students ages 5-18.
McCarter Theatre
91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-6510. Fall, spring and year-long training classes for children in grades K-12. Registration in Aug. for First Stage, a year-long experience in creating, producing and presenting a full-length play.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Arts Training Programs
973-642-8989. Audition applications for Jazz for Teens (open to students ages 13-18), summer arts programs, arts training for ages 8-18. Music and performing arts scholarships for the following year are accepted beginning in November. Auditions are held in spring.
New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts
593 Bloomfield Ave., Bloomfield, 973-566-9700. Comprehensive theater arts training program for ages 6-18.
New Jersey Youth Theatre (formerly WYACT)
Westfield, 908-233-3200. Offers professional classes in drama, musical theater, voice and dance from September through mid-May annually. In April holds auditions for its prestigious, free summer program for aspiring young performers and technicians (ages 16-21+), culminating with one or more professional-level productions presented at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), and at other professional New Jersey theaters.
Paper Mill Playhouse Theatre School
Brookside Drive, Millburn, 973-376-3636, ext. 2626. Theater school offers classes for ages from four to adult. Summer Musical Theatre Conservatory offers rigorous study for gifted and talented performers ages 10-18.
Playwrights Theatre
28 Walnut St., PO Box 1295, Madison, 973-514-1787, ext. 21. A professional theater nationally renowned for its educational projects. Drama and writing classes/programming for students, schools, teachers, and community organizations. All offerings are presented in a non-competitive environment by experienced teaching artists who know how the process of creating art impacts all aspects of a person's life. Private coaching is available.
Showkids Invitational (S.K.I.T.)
Hunterdon County, 908-713-1222. Performing arts experience for ages 6-18 culminates in full productions with live orchestra at Voorhees High School in Glen Gardner.
Somerset County Vo-Tech Creative Arts
Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School, N. Bridge St. & Vogt Dr., Bridgewater, 908-526-8900 x7126. Performing arts classes for ages 8-adult for fall and spring semesters. Somerset County high school students may participate, by audition, in the Gifted & Talented Performing Arts Program at SCVTHS free of charge.
South Orange Performing Arts Center Arts Education Programs
South Orange Performing Arts Center, One SOPAC Way, South Orange, 973-313-2787. Youth theater and dance programs for ages six to 17.
Tri-State Actors Theater
Crescent Theater, Main St., Sussex, 973-875-2950. Offers acting classes for children ages 6-12, teens and adults.
Villagers Theatre Arts Program
Villagers Theatre, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset, 732-873-2710. School year and summer theater arts program for ages 6-18 offers instruction and experience in acting, dance, movement, vocal training, music and production.