About
Walltown Children’s Theatre offers summer camps, teacher workday camps, year-round classes, and workshops that include dance, drama, drumming, vocal technique, creative writing, piano lab, stage production, and a Day of Dance. The program includes a Dance Boot Camp, TappEd-In, WT Conservatory, Summer Dance Sessions such as Level-Up and Saturday Ballet for all levels from Mini Explorers through Pre-Professional, and an improv class for young adults ages 16+ that is planned as a one-day weekly class for six weeks. Summer camps include nine weeks of performers’ camps with a focus on music, drama, and props/set design, with a performance each Friday at the end of camp and half-day camps available for ages 3–5.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Year-round classes, nine weeks of summer performers’ camps, 2-week and 6-week Summer Dance Sessions, and an improv class for young adults ages 16+ planned as one day per week for six weeks
• Price: Dance & Musical Theater general admission - $30; Music & Drama Sunday general admission - $20; Music & Drama Sunday priority seating - $30
Walltown Children’s Theatre was founded in 2000 and notes 25 years of impact. Its mission states that Walltown Children’s Theatre inspires positive social change by empowering and reconnecting young people from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, creating a new expression of community, and enriching their lives and those of their families and communities, through exemplary performing arts instruction and youth development programming. The organization describes a Student-to-Professional Pathway, session-based classes, big learning in bite-sized sessions through workshops and camps, full-scale productions with auditions, and original and commissioned works that reflect the voices, histories, and dreams of students and the city. Walltown Children’s Theatre offers full-scale productions that celebrate youth talent, including a 2026 Summer Production and a 2026 Fall Production, and Saturday Division Recitals, with enrollment open for summer camps and classes and facility rentals available for recitals, rehearsals, and community gatherings.
Walltown Children’s Theatre notes a relaxed and “family-like” after-school environment, community-informed programming, and a focus on equity, access, and excellence in the arts for all, with a commitment to amplifying historically marginalized voices and centering Black, Brown, and culturally diverse perspectives. Sliding scale tuition and scholarship opportunities are available, with scholarship funding available to any student who needs it, supported in part by donors including Duke University, Triangle Community Foundation, Durham County, and the Durham Arts Council. The organization states that it is embedded in and directly serves youth and families in the Walltown community, in Durham, and in the Triangle, has been a major contributor to the revitalization of the Walltown neighborhood, builds partnerships with schools, community groups, and local artists, and exists because of and for the Durham community. A testimonial in the Durham Magazine August/September 2025 issue states, “At Walltown, we’re not just teaching young people to sing, dance or act… We’re giving them tools to discover their voice, build confidence and understand their worth!”
Last updated May 11, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Year-round classes, nine weeks of summer performers’ camps, 2-week and 6-week Summer Dance Sessions, and an improv class for young adults ages 16+ planned as one day per week for six weeks
• Price: Dance & Musical Theater general admission - $30; Music & Drama Sunday general admission - $20; Music & Drama Sunday priority seating - $30
Walltown Children’s Theatre was founded in 2000 and notes 25 years of impact. Its mission states that Walltown Children’s Theatre inspires positive social change by empowering and reconnecting young people from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, creating a new expression of community, and enriching their lives and those of their families and communities, through exemplary performing arts instruction and youth development programming. The organization describes a Student-to-Professional Pathway, session-based classes, big learning in bite-sized sessions through workshops and camps, full-scale productions with auditions, and original and commissioned works that reflect the voices, histories, and dreams of students and the city. Walltown Children’s Theatre offers full-scale productions that celebrate youth talent, including a 2026 Summer Production and a 2026 Fall Production, and Saturday Division Recitals, with enrollment open for summer camps and classes and facility rentals available for recitals, rehearsals, and community gatherings.
Walltown Children’s Theatre notes a relaxed and “family-like” after-school environment, community-informed programming, and a focus on equity, access, and excellence in the arts for all, with a commitment to amplifying historically marginalized voices and centering Black, Brown, and culturally diverse perspectives. Sliding scale tuition and scholarship opportunities are available, with scholarship funding available to any student who needs it, supported in part by donors including Duke University, Triangle Community Foundation, Durham County, and the Durham Arts Council. The organization states that it is embedded in and directly serves youth and families in the Walltown community, in Durham, and in the Triangle, has been a major contributor to the revitalization of the Walltown neighborhood, builds partnerships with schools, community groups, and local artists, and exists because of and for the Durham community. A testimonial in the Durham Magazine August/September 2025 issue states, “At Walltown, we’re not just teaching young people to sing, dance or act… We’re giving them tools to discover their voice, build confidence and understand their worth!”
Last updated May 11, 2026.
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