FREE theater program for NYC teens!

The Adler Youth Group is for low-income students, particularly those who receive free or reduced lunch. It is a a free, year-long theater/acting program. Program meets after school and week-ends in midtown Manhattan. This is a one-year program with a second year by invitation. Students must commit to participate for the full year. Classes are Tuesdays

CAT Youth Theater Summer Project

CAT Youth Theatre is hosting a two week intensive with the CUNY School of Professional Studies–MA in Applied Theatre. Working with graduate students, you will put YOUR ideas on their feet. In two weeks you’ll create your own play and perform it for family and friends. This is a rare opportunity to spend time with

The 2016 Sing for Hope Arts Intensive

You are invited to join us for Sing for Hope’s free, weeklong Arts Intensive!  The Arts Intensive offers high school students the opportunity to work with professional artists & explore a variety of art forms, including music, drama, dance, theatre, and visual art! Extended application deadline: June 22nd Click here for the application. Click here to

Auditions for the NYU Steinhardt Youth Theatre Ensemble

Auditions for the NYU Steinhardt Youth Theatre Ensemble will be held on October 16 from 3:00-6:00pm. Students in grades 7-12 are eligible. Youth ensemble members participate in NYU courses dealing with dramatic activities and contemporary plays and in a final spring showcase. It’s free to participate! YTE Audition Info 2015

Alvin Ailey Dance Program

The Ailey School’s Junior Division offers a diverse range of dance training classes and performance opportunities for students  from beginner to pre-professional. For more information, visit the program’s website.

Stella Adler

The centerpiece of the Outreach Division, this program currently interviews close to 100 high school students annually and selects 16 to train in a free year-long program. Students train in voice, movement and acting in a conservatory environment. They are led by a team of trained professional teachers and mentors, and engage daily with students

Young Dancemakers

In daily, intensive sessions Mondays through Fridays 10 AM to 5 PM throughout the month of July, the company explores dance-making processes under the direction of Alice Teirstein, choreographer, dancer, dance educator and long- time dance faculty member of the Fieldston School, where she developed and led the school’s dance program. Mr. William Catanzaro, internationally

The Possibility Project

The Possibility Project operates year-long programs that bring together vastly diverse groups of youth from the five boroughs of New York City. They go through an intense year long creative process through which they write an original musical whose stories come from their lives and their ideas for a better world, and create Community Action

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap is a free workshop in which half of the participants are elders ages 60 and up, and half are teenagers ages 14-18. Over the course of 10 sessions, participants from each age group work in pairs to interview each other and write a play inspired by their partner’s personal stories. Each session

NYC Summer Arts Institute

The Summer Arts Institute is a tuition-free, intensive, arts program for New York City public school students entering grades 8-12, held at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School in Astoria, Queens. Students can major in dance, theater, instrumental music (band), vocal music, film, string orchestra or visual arts. The program is designed for