Program Development

Annual High School Musical Project

This musical starring high school students creates a cluster of arts-related activity. It draws students from high schools with positions available in all aspects of performance and production, including stage management, technical, set construction, and wardrobe. The program is offered free of charge, thereby removing some of the financial barriers to participation.

Youth Musical Theatre Training Programs

These classes and workshops – which are offered year-round throughout the province of Ontario – foster and develop skills useful not only for performers, but well-rounded, socially engaged young community citizens.

Youth Education & Outreach Programs

This hands-on learning complements our popular School Matinee program, which provides subsidized access to over 10,000 students each year, along with free study guides to help teachers link content to the provincial curriculum. Future program expansion will include in-school workshops, classes, and readings that provide grassroots access to the arts by taking live theatre directly into the classroom.

Technical Arts Learning Opportunities

Opportunities to learn about the technical components of live theatre production (sets, lighting, sound, wardrobe, paint, and props) serve as solid building blocks for exploring hands-on training through high school co-op placements and our Technical Arts training program for young adults.

Theatre For Young Audiences

This initiative will gear programming towards young people, their families, teachers, and peers in a space of joy, wonder, surprise, and connection. With roots in education, it will encompass the presentation of musicals, plays, dance, music and puppetry attended by, and created for, younger audiences.

The Young Company

This year-long advanced training and mentorship program will be geared to aspiring artists wishing to pursue post-secondary education and a career in the theatre. Youth will creative and perform a topical production on stages and events across the province, while receiving training towards their continued professional development.