Monday through Friday
June 17-21
9:00AM – 3:00PM
For fourteen years we have hosted Clint Bierman, The Grift and a variety of successful Vermont musicians to teach the Science of Rocking -IT. Clint and his bands have recently gotten national and international acclaim.
Please join Clint and friends to build a band, write songs, cover your favorite artists, play competitive rock trivia, have crazy fun, and perform under the lights at THT on Friday the 21st at 7pm.
Tuition: $325 (limit 20 students per session) Ages: 12 and Up
Full or partial scholarships are also available.
July 8-28
1:00pm – 4:00pm
This musical has many famous songs and an array of terrific roles for musical comedy actors. Based on Meredith Wilson’s six-time-Tony Award- Winning Musical Comedy most recently on Broadway featuring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. Directed by THT Artistic Director and American Musical Historian, Douglas Anderson and a strong team of musical professionals, this is an important and iconic show to take part in. The month ends with three public performances. More info to come.
Tuition: $325 (limit 25 students per session) Ages: 12-17
July 8-12
9:00am – 12:00pm
Come and explore your creativity in many aspects of theater by immersing yourself in the magical, hysterical and sometimes frightening world of the Brothers Grimm. You will train and perform as an ensemble in physical theater and comedic acting as well as help build the fairy tale world and a magnificent golden goose. Instructors are Education Director, Lindsay Pontius, Master Puppeteer Barbara Paulson and THT Prop Master, Kate Tilton. Culminating performance at 11:30pm on Friday, July 12.
Tuition: $195 (limit 15 students per session) Ages: 8-12
9:00am – 10:00am* *Friday will be 9-noon
For our younger actors and puppeteers, we will also be working on the Grimm’s Fairy Tale, The Golden Goose. We will create puppets and put together a show with Barbara Paulson and become the puppeteers for the culminating performance at 11:30pm on Friday, July 12.
Tuition: $125 (limit 10 students per session) Ages: 5-7
July 15-19
9:00am – 12:00p
Students will explore musical theatre repertoire through acting, singing and dancing. They will develop new skills and hone existing ones through theatre games, vocal exercises, dance technique, song exploration, and scene study. The week will end with an informal presentation on the Town Hall Theatre historical stage at 11:30 on Friday, the 19th.
Instructor: Elisa Van Duyne Tuition: $175 (limit 15 students per session)
Ages: 13-18
July 22-24
Students will make pin-hole cameras and learn how to create ghost photographs in the Town Hall Theater building. Turn something as ordinary as an oatmeal container into a camera, take a picture, develop it and in the process, create a ghost image, a backward image and other paranormal phenomena. Who knows, perhaps you will capture a real theater ghost as well.
Tuition: $145 (limit 12 students per session)*
*If you sign up for both 'The Haunting of THT' and 'Things That Fly,' the total tuition for both classes will be $215. This discounted rate cannot be applied online. Please either visit or call the Box Office to reserve your spot.
Ages: 8-11
July 25-26
Students will construct giant tissue paper balloons and launch them! Come and make flight possible and goodness knows where you might go from there!
Tuition: $120 (limit 12 students per session)*
July 29-August 17
Join Young Company Classical and perform in a Tony Award Winning absurdist comedy featuring a fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet’s hapless childhood friends. It includes a Shakespearean adventure but the dialogue is contemporary. Directed by Education Director/Shakespeare & Company actor/director Lindsay Pontius, participants are guided through a rigorous training process including physical, vocal and text work. Actors of all ages come together to share their experience and build an ensemble that consistently amazes and delights the audience. Culminating performances August 16 & 17 at 7:00pm
Tuition: $350 (limit 15 students per session)
Ages: 12-23
Wednesday through Friday
August 14-16
10:00am – 11:30am
Join Barbara Paulson for an acting adventure involving favorite fairy tale characters. The very young performers will create characters and build an ensemble to present a show for parents at 11am on Friday the 16.
Tuition: $115 (limit 10 students per session)
Ages: 5-7
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