Theatre arts classes and workshops

Milwaukee Youth Theatre offers theater classes, audition workshops, improv training, Shakespeare and other performing arts for children ages 8-Senior in high school.

All classes and workshops take place in person, at one of our Milwaukee locations:

Improv with ComedySportz instructor Dave Nelsen

Improv is a great way to build listening skills, practice teamwork, and express yourself creatively. It’s also a lot of fun! In this class, students will learn to work together in basic improv games and scenes, using audience suggestions to tell stories, build worlds, and challenge themselves. This class ends with a performance for family and friends.

Dates: Tuesdays, February 4 – April 8, 2025
Length of class: 2 hours, 6:30pm – 8:30 pm
Cost: $45
Ages: 13-Seniors in high school
Location: Lincoln Center of the Arts (LCA)

It’s Hard to be a Bard!

Hone your acting skills while you unpack the words of the greatest playwright in written history. Do you like Romance? Revenge? Murder? Comedy? Pathos? Slapstick? Fantasy? History? Shakespeare wrote it all and now you can perform it all! In this class students will work individually and in groups to understand and perform monologues and scenes from Shakespeare’s greatest works. This class ends with a performance for family and friends.

Dates: Thursdays, February 6 – April 5, 2025
Length of class: 2-1/2 hours, 6:00pm – 8:30 pm
Cost: $45
Ages: 10-Seniors in high school
Location: Lincoln Center of the Arts (LCA)

For questions about our classes email
contact@milwaukeeyouththeatre.org.