Centered on you.

If you’re like most of the young people who find a home at The Center for Theater Arts, you’re passionate about music and the arts. Curious about the world of ideas and culture that swirls around you. And excited about the idea of performing.

This is a place where you can explore who you are in a warm, supportive environment. Where you can find your voice, develop your style, and find out more about the role you will play as a performer and as a person. Because The Center is uniquely centered on you.

Who we are

We offer an award-winning professional curriculum of more than 80 classes in the performing arts. We will teach you the skills of singing, dancing and acting, and we will guide you through the disciplines of rehearsing, practice, process, and working with other artists to bring a production to life. Whatever you bring to this experience, we will use it as a way to help you gain confidence, self-image, and a better understanding of who you are.

 

38 years of fun and learning

We opened in 1981 with 127 students. Today, after 38 years of growth and development, we are a community of more than 500 young people of all ages and abilities, working toward the common goal of self-discovery, with a constant focus on support, development and fun.

Our alumni include Broadway stars, scholarship awardees and hundreds of young people who have gone on to rewarding careers in the performing arts. There are also hundreds of CTA alumni who are successful business professionals, teachers, doctors, lawyers and parents. Wherever they go, they all draw on their experience at The Center to play a better role in the world around them.

 

How we operate

Age groups

• Pre-School (3-4)
• Junior (4-7)
• Student (7-12)
• High School (13-18)
• Special Actors Program (all ages)

Performances

• Individual class showcases
• High School Musical
• All School Musical
• Performance Workshop
• Voice Concert
• End of the Year Showcase

 

 

Hours

Classes are held weekdays from 4:00pm to 9:00pm and Saturdays from 9:00am to 3:00pm. The Center operates two 15-week fall and spring semesters. We also offer two summer sessions, a four-week camp that begins the third week of June and a two-week camp that begins the first week of August.

 

Faculty

The Center’s faculty strives to provide students with an appreciation of the performing arts that will enrich their lives. With a faculty of 25 university-trained arts educators, we are committed to surrounding our students with instructors who have extensive performing arts and teaching experience. Guest artists also conduct workshops throughout the year.

 

Support the Center

We are a 501(c)(3) Non Profit Organization. All of our funding goes directly to our program. Your contributions and sponsorships help us do the best possible job of developing young lives and building a better community.
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Board/Advisory Council

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHAIRMAN
Chantelle Moore

VICE-CHAIRMAN
Tara O’Brien

TREASURER
Jason Appelt

SECRETARY
Lisa Dvorin

Kate Aracri
Tom Barnick
Kirsten Galvin
Marci Heckler
Robert Max Junker
Kevin McQuillan
Andrew Reinhart
Jennifer Rodriguez
Rich Sieber
Jim Tinnemeyer

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Billy Hartung

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Cynthia Gray

 

A note from Billy Hartung

Executive Director

The Center for Theater Arts is a 501 c(3)  Non – profit organization that is so very proud of WHAT we do and WHY we do it!! For over 38 years, CTA has been offering high quality performing arts instruction with a fun, creative, challenging and exciting curriculum. In addition to our dynamic classes and productions, we provide an environment where we all have a role to play!!! We are much more than a place to take voice, dance, musical theater and theater instruction.  I am confident that having classes at CTA will be something your child will value the rest of their lives!