Hone your skills as you dance, sing, and act in showstopping production numbers from Broadway and beyond! You'll learn musical theatre dance staples and character-driven combinations as you work your way to being a triple threat. All skill levels are welcome!

Students will showcase selections of their classwork as a part of our Collage Day event on Saturday, September 20th. 2 tickets to this event are included in class registration.

Class space is limited.

Looking to be a better storyteller in your improv scenes? Want to create scenes with aclear beginning, middle, and end? This is the class for you! In this class, you will learnhow to independently and collaboratively build stories/scenes with action, characters,emotion, understandable story line, and a clear resolution. This class will not only focuson narrative games but also strengthen your ability to establish premise-based scenes.

To get the most out of this class, it is recommended that you have taken Fundamentalsof Improv or have previous improv experience.

This class ends with a graduation show, date and time TBD.

Learn common musical theatre dance steps and put them together to create dances to favorite songs from stage and screen!

All skill levels are welcome!

Students will showcase selections of their classwork as a part of our Collage Day event on Saturday, September 20th. 2 tickets to this event are included in class registration.

Class space is limited.

Have some prior improv experience and are looking to sharpen your characters andrelationships you create on stage? We got you! In this class, you will focus on accessingemotion in-the-moment, building characters and relationships from emotionalperspectives, and using patterns of emotional behaviors to drive scenes forward! Eachweek you will work on creating characters and relationships that show patterns ofemotional behavior.

To get the most out of this class, it is recommended that you havetaken Fundamentals of Improv or have previous improv experience.

This class ends with a graduation show, date and time TBD.

Learn the tools every actor uses to create memorable characters and build a great performance! All skill levels welcome.

Students will showcase selections of their classwork as a part of our Collage Day event on Saturday, September 20th. 2 tickets to this event are included in class registration.

Class space is limited.

Join iri for a Musical Theatre focused workshop starting this August 12th for a 6 week series every Tuesday night from 7:00 - 8:15 pm. Designed for the beginner dancer to the seasoned mover as she will refresh dancing basics, teach stage presence/confidence, and how to pick up choreography in a jiffy. Iri has over 25 years of experience in the movement space and she is excited to bring back her love of performance to the Woodstock Arts community. She choreographed 2024 A Christmas Carol this past season, and you can find her teaching yoga and dance in the surrounding Atlanta area. 

Want to create characters and skits off the top of your head? Want to be ready the next time someone forgets a line on stage? Want to have fun playing silly games with friends? If you answered "yes and..." to any of the above questions, Youth Improv is the right class for you! Over the course of the program, you will learn the rules of improvisational acting and the fun behind improv games.

All skill levels are welcome!

Students will showcase selections of their classwork as a part of our Collage Day event on Saturday, September 20th. 2 tickets to this event are included in class registration.

Class space is limited.

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts.”

For over 400 years, the words of William Shakespeare have been held up in Western theater as the finest dramatic poetry in the English language. His great catalogue of characters—from Juliet to Hamlet to King Henry V—speak with a soaring eloquence and impassioned clarity that has attracted the world's greatest actors since the time in which their plays were first written.

But what exactly is an actor supposed to DO while they are speaking such rich, dense, complicated language? How should one's body move and change as the words are spoken aloud? Which character should they be speaking to? And why? And what if—as so often happens in Shakespeare—an actor must speak a large swath of Shakespearean text alone?

“Shakespeare and the Target” is a rigorous classical workshop designed to help maturing actors (16 and up) answer these very questions. Drawing on the foundational pedagogy of Declan Donnellan’s seminal acting treatise, The Actor and the Target, this 6-week class will provide students the tools to identify, envisage, and address the precise “targets” of Shakespearean text: be it another character, a circumstance, the audience, or one’s own self. In addition to weekly games, exercises, and discussions, students will develop both a solo speech (monologue or soliloquy) and one small-group scene, culminating in a final in-class presentation on September 17th.