Performers Theatre Workshop
Performers Theatre Workshop, 131 Millburn Avenue, Unit #1, Millburn, NJ 07041
About
Performers Theatre Workshop offers acting classes and drama lessons for kids, dance classes, and singing lessons including private voice lessons. The program also includes combination classes such as acting, dancing, and singing together, as well as acting and singing, plus instrumental private lessons in guitar and piano, song writing and recording, and theory and sight singing classes and private lessons. Students can take part in PTW Comedy Crew, summer programs, school show audition prep, PTW productions, auditions, a professional track, a college prep track, NYC Broadway showcases, Night of Scenes & Songs, Cabaret Night, and a private lesson recital.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Performers Theatre Workshop’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of performing arts education to students of all ages and abilities, and to foster individual growth in a caring, supportive artistic community. Founded in 1981 and established in 1983 by Juilliard graduates and career performers Esther and Howard Kravitz, PTW has empowered young artists for over 40 years and has increased its student enrollment more than ten-fold over the past 30+ years. The leadership team includes Founder Esther Kravitz, Founder Howard Kravitz, Executive Artistic Director Dean Kravitz, and PTW Executive Program Director Elisabeth Kravitz.
PTW is described as New Jersey’s premier performing arts school for young people and as the #1 New Jersey Performing Arts School. PTW provides top training from a faculty of conservatory-trained experts, including master teachers who are conservatory trained and have performed on Broadway, TV, or film, and teachers are chosen for their success in the arts and their ability to train students. The program offers more than 100 classes, private lessons, masterclasses, summer programs, and performance opportunities, with small class sizes that enable one-on-one attention and differentiated instruction techniques to support students at every level.
The environment at PTW is described as warm, supportive, and culturally rich, with a non-competitive, supportive atmosphere often called a “theatre family,” where older students mentor new and younger students. Each student follows a personalized path of study, with careful placement in classes appropriate for age, level, and experience, and custom courses of study designed to meet individual needs and goals. PTW provides a framework for students to develop focus, responsibility, and a strong work ethic, and offers diverse performance opportunities, with musical arrangements and choreography customized to fit the range, ability, and growth of every performer, and a celebration of professional successes, personal achievements, and “happy accidents” of all students.
PTW has been described as an integral part of the local community and the global performing arts space and serves students from Essex, Morris, and Union Counties, throughout New Jersey, and across the tristate area. One student, Molly S. from South Orange, age 16, says that the teachers are always there to help, are supportive, try to bring out the best in students, and are always caring. PTW parent Holly Palker notes that past students have gone on to “great things,” which gives her confidence in the teachers and philosophy, and she believes the education her daughter receives at PTW will benefit her in any field or path she chooses in life. PTW parent Diane Lilli shares that when her son first arrived he did not have the confidence to be onstage or to speak publicly, and within two or three years, she describes him as “unstoppable.”
Last updated July 28, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Performers Theatre Workshop’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of performing arts education to students of all ages and abilities, and to foster individual growth in a caring, supportive artistic community. Founded in 1981 and established in 1983 by Juilliard graduates and career performers Esther and Howard Kravitz, PTW has empowered young artists for over 40 years and has increased its student enrollment more than ten-fold over the past 30+ years. The leadership team includes Founder Esther Kravitz, Founder Howard Kravitz, Executive Artistic Director Dean Kravitz, and PTW Executive Program Director Elisabeth Kravitz.
PTW is described as New Jersey’s premier performing arts school for young people and as the #1 New Jersey Performing Arts School. PTW provides top training from a faculty of conservatory-trained experts, including master teachers who are conservatory trained and have performed on Broadway, TV, or film, and teachers are chosen for their success in the arts and their ability to train students. The program offers more than 100 classes, private lessons, masterclasses, summer programs, and performance opportunities, with small class sizes that enable one-on-one attention and differentiated instruction techniques to support students at every level.
The environment at PTW is described as warm, supportive, and culturally rich, with a non-competitive, supportive atmosphere often called a “theatre family,” where older students mentor new and younger students. Each student follows a personalized path of study, with careful placement in classes appropriate for age, level, and experience, and custom courses of study designed to meet individual needs and goals. PTW provides a framework for students to develop focus, responsibility, and a strong work ethic, and offers diverse performance opportunities, with musical arrangements and choreography customized to fit the range, ability, and growth of every performer, and a celebration of professional successes, personal achievements, and “happy accidents” of all students.
PTW has been described as an integral part of the local community and the global performing arts space and serves students from Essex, Morris, and Union Counties, throughout New Jersey, and across the tristate area. One student, Molly S. from South Orange, age 16, says that the teachers are always there to help, are supportive, try to bring out the best in students, and are always caring. PTW parent Holly Palker notes that past students have gone on to “great things,” which gives her confidence in the teachers and philosophy, and she believes the education her daughter receives at PTW will benefit her in any field or path she chooses in life. PTW parent Diane Lilli shares that when her son first arrived he did not have the confidence to be onstage or to speak publicly, and within two or three years, she describes him as “unstoppable.”
Last updated July 28, 2026.
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