Classes

Play Makers (PM):

Playmakers is designed to meet the needs and interests of 6-8-year-olds. Students explore the world of theatre by using contemporary literature, media, or a theme as their source material. The sharing will use basic costumes and scenery in a wonderful presentation at the end of the week. Tuition $275

Performance Workshop (PW):

Performance Workshops allow participants to improve their acting and performance skills. Students receive classes in acting, voice, and movement. Each child enrolled in the workshop receives a speaking role in the play which rehearses every day, culminating in a fully mounted performance for family and friends on Friday evening. Tuition $290

Students must be the minimum age of a class’s designated age range by the first day of class (i.e. – a young person must turn 6 on or before the first day of a Play Makers class for ages 6-8). We do not allow students to age up into any class for any reason.

Spring Break classes at LCT will operate on a staggered start and dismissal schedule. Students may arrive no earlier than 15 minutes before their class’s scheduled start time for drop off in the mornings. For safety purposes, an adult authorized must sign your young person out each day. Students may not leave LCT with anyone other than the person(s) listed on your contact sheet. Students over the age of 13 may be released without signature pick-up if prior written permission has been submitted to your child’s teaching artist or the Education Director. Families have a 15-minute window to pick up their young person at the end of each day. Should a young person be picked up after the 15-minute window, families will be charged a daily late fee of $20. Please note that there is NO Extended Care option offered during Spring Break classes.

Additionally, if you need to pick up your young person early from class, you must do so no less than 30 minutes prior to their class’s scheduled dismissal.

Families will fill out an emergency form for their student(s) via Ludus when they register for the class. Your enrollment won’t go through without a completed student profile. Families can update their student profile at any time via Ludus.

Every class has a mid-morning and afternoon snack break. Every class will also have a thirty-minute lunch break. We ask families to pack items that don’t require refrigeration or microwaving. Please note that LCT’s Spring Break Theatre School is a peanut and tree-nut free program. Do NOT pack snacks and lunches containing peanuts/tree nuts as students will NOT be permitted to eat those items while at theatre school. Please help us keep our students with allergies safe.

All students are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle to class to assist with hydration. Students in the performance workshop class may bring money for use at the 3^rd floor vending machine. We ask that students only bring standard silver change (nickels, dimes, and quarters) and 1-dollar bills. The vending machine does not accept anything larger than a one and the Education Department will not make change for larger bills.

Students enrolled in LCT’s Spring Break Theatre School program will spend their week engaging in a variety of activities as they work toward their Friday sharings. While most of the schedule each day is devoted to preparing for the performance at the end of the week, we also include a few blocks of time throughout the week that either build specific theatre skills or allow for some much-needed downtime. Below are some of the activities your young person can expect to experience throughout the week:

Play Makers (Ages 5-7):

• Drama Time: the time when students are engaged in their class’s story where they play the protagonist in an imaginative play experience facilitated by their teaching artists.
• Art Block: usually folded into Drama Time, this time is spent creating props and other items that will enhance the story students are taken through during the week.
• Fundamentals of Drama: a series of lessons introducing and identifying key theatre terms (such as pantomime and stage directions) that students have already been engaging in during their Drama Time blocks.
• Centers: a daily period set aside for students to have free play within pre-determined activities such as reading, LEGOs, and puzzles.
• Chill Time: a daily post-lunch activity where students watch part of an age-appropriate children’s movie. This time allows students a chance to relax after a morning full of adventure during drama time.

Performance Workshop (Ages 8-14):

• Rehearsal: the time when students are engaged in practicing their play including blocking, line memorization, characterization, and more.
• Core Class: a series of lessons introducing and identifying key theatre concepts and skills (such as movement, voice, and intro to acting) that help students as they bring their characters to life onstage.
• Elective: a time set aside to either focus on elements of theatre that aren’t covered in rehearsal and core classes or to contextualize the world of the play. Popular past electives have included technical design, intro to stage combat, and trivia.
• Mid-week Movie: held on Wednesdays each week, students take a break from the busyness of rehearsals and watch an age-appropriate children’s/family movie, usually the film adaptation of the script for their class.

On Friday, your young person will have the opportunity to share what they have worked on all week. We would like to invite all parents, friends, and relatives to our last day sharing.   

• Playmakers (ages 5-7) will have their sharing @ 3:00 PM on Friday in the Learning Stage on the second floor.
• Performance Workshop (ages 8-14) will have their sharing @ 4:00 PM on Friday in the Learning Stage on the second floor.

As classes fill, we accept students on a waitlist in case of cancellations. If a seat becomes available and you are at the top of the waitlist, you will be notified via email. Patrons will have 48 hours from the time notified to accept their spot and enroll.

If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please sign up via Ludus. If you have been added to the waitlist for a class but are no longer available that week, please let us know so we can remove you from the list. For more information about the waitlist, please email education@lctonstage.org.

Financial aid is available and is awarded based solely on financial need. Generally, qualified applicants receive up to 50% of the tuition in financial aid. Applications must be submitted no less than two weeks before a class begins. Please do not submit your application after registering your young person; we will not retroactively apply financial aid.

Applications are available via LCT’s website: https://lctonstage.org/theatre-school/financial-aid/.

Submitting an application does not guarantee enrollment.

If a patron cancels more than two weeks before class begins, the patron will receive a full refund. If the patron cancels less than two weeks prior but still before class begins, the patron will receive full credit towards another theatre school class or production during that fiscal year. If the patron cancels after class begins, a partial class credit will be issued for 70% of the tuition that can be used towards another theatre school class or production during that fiscal year. After the second class, no adjustments will be made. If LCT cancels the class for any reason, the patron will receive a full refund.