Theatre for kids near Chicago, IL

Middle School Programs at The Chicago Academy for the Arts offers weekend classes, seasonal workshops, camps, and summer intensives in dance, media arts, music, musical theatre, theatre, and visual arts for students in grades 6–9. Saturday Classes...

Beverly Arts Center Youth Programs and Camps include a Summer Arts Camp, a Youth Theatre Company, and a 2024 season production of Disney’s Camp Rock: The Musical. Disney’s Camp Rock: The Musical is presented as part of the four-week Summer Arts Camp...

Griffin MSI Camps give kids time to explore, create and discover through hands-on projects that dive into science, engineering and design. Campers collaborate, build and tackle design challenges, craft and build mini-machines, experiment with tools...

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Student Matinee & Education Programs offers student matinee performances reserved entirely for students in grades 6–12. Student Matinee offerings range from full-length productions to the Short Shakespeare! program. Two...

Child's Play Touring Theatre Educational Programs offers writing workshops for students in school, after school programs, and summer camps for children and teens. The program also presents workshops and residencies that include performing original...

Summer Job Training for Youth is connected to the Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, which includes a new 150 seat flexible studio theater space within the current facility. This space is described as supporting additional original plays,...

CervantesKids Spanish Courses are offered through Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization founded by the Government of Spain in 1991. Online registration is available for these Children Spanish Courses for 2026, and an online placement test...

Acting Studio Chicago Kids & Teens Acting Classes are offered as part of Acting Studio Chicago’s Kids and Teen Acting Classes. The program includes Kids/Teen On Camera Acting and Kids / Teen Acting Specialty Classes, along with Summer Camps and...

Stages Chicago offers classes, Day Off Camps, Summer Camp, developmentally appropriate music classes for infants, and after school programs. The program’s Day Off Camps are inspired by children’s favorite Broadway shows and movie musicals, and its...

Skyline Children's Theater gives actors a musical theatre experience that includes creating a fully-staged musical with auditions, learning a dance routine, and learning a song from the seasonal title. Actors use scripts, read lines for various...

Chicago Kids Company Summer Camp and Theatre Classes offers summer camp and theatre classes that focus on live theater. The program features original musicals based on fairy tales and children’s stories, and also connects to field trips, birthday...

Happy Kids Preschool & Daycare Center offers preschool activities including art projects, play with sand and water during warm Chicago days, and three shows per year for parents and families for Christmas, Parent’s Day, and Grandparent’s Day....

Fit City Kids offers sport and fitness training, classes, an open-play area, and a 3-story playground. The program also hosts private play parties with three packages, a Summer Camp, School Day Camp, and School Day Camp PODS. Families can drop in to...

Dovetail Studios Children’s & Youth Dance Programs offers classes in ballet, hip-hop, musical theatre, contemporary, jazz, and dance-influenced group fitness classes. The program also includes Itty Bitty classes, pre musical theater, pre ballet, Hip...

Visceral Dance Youth Program includes dance, performances, and educational programming. The youth program provides professional training in a positive environment. Visceral offers classes for every dancer as part of its broader programming. • Ages:...

Forevermore Dance & Theatre Arts offers dance classes, acrobatics classes, theater classes, and music classes, including acting and music lessons. The program includes dance and acro classes, theatre and music classes, and performance opportunities....

Dance With Me Productions offers classes in Ballet, Modern, Tap, Jazz, African dance, and Hula. The program began as a 12 week summer intensive that focused on Ballet, Modern, Tap, Jazz, and African dance and ended in a culminating recital. It now...

The Community Dance Program offers classes and samplers in Musical Theater Dance, Hip Hop, Teen/Adult Ballet II, Basic Ballet, and Pre-Dance, as well as several themed summer dance samplers such as Summer Swans: Ballet Sampler, All That Jazz! Summer...

Refugee Education & Adventure Challenge (REACH) Programs offers a wide range of activities that include outdoor adventures such as hiking, backcountry camping, tent camping, cabin camping, canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding, whitewater rafting,...

Filament Camps offers theater-based activities such as creating new plays for young people, exploring new styles of theatre, acting, improv, singing, and using puppets. Campers take part in creative problem solving, teamwork, confident public...