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Unleash your creativity with a variety of performing arts classes in NYC. From acting to dancing, you'll learn new skills, gain confidence, and shine on stage.

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Playing Opposites Acting Workshop

Shawn Wickens @ 39 W 29th St, New York, NY

An exploration of Playing Opposites Bring independent sensibility to mainstream productions. Play Comedy absolutely straight with high commitment and attention to detail. Play Drama with loose playfulness and abandon with an eye for patterns, games, irony, opportunities for levity at any cost. Play the opposite of the obvious or surface emotion. Play anger calm, play excitement understated, play rage with a smile, play joy with fire… Play...

(25) All levels 18 and older
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Exploring "the Where" in Improvisation w/ Aretha Sills

IRTE @ 411 W 41st St, New York, NY

Taking time to build a “Where" and enter into it as a group helps players into the present moment and into true relation. We’ll discover the riches the environment has to offer as we slow down and explore it. Through a combination of warm-ups and scene games, players will work with space objects to create onstage environments and allow intuitive connections to emerge. Viola Spolin’s Theater Games launched the American improvisational theater...

(2) Intermediate 16 and older
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ACT & SIP NYC

Russell Acting Studio @ 1627 Broadway, New York, NY

Climb out of the subway and into a Broadway theater! Bring a few bottles of wine, have a little party and perform your favorite scenes on stage! Act & Sip events give everyone an opportunity to be a star for a night in the big city. ​Our expert instructors will pair you off with partners and hand over the pages to a scene from a well-known iconic sitcom or movie. All while offering tips along the way to help performers discover their inner...

(6) All levels 21 and older
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Learn 5 Min Audition Technique to Book More Acting Jobs

IN Studios @ 115 W 29th Street, New York, NY

Full Course Name: Learn 5 Min. Audition Technique Guaranteed to Book More Acting Jobs Learn our 5 minute sense memory technique, guaranteed to help you Book More Acting Jobs! Knock it out of the park in the audition room and on set every time without fail. Training is led by best-selling author of Headshot Secrets and Audition Secrets, Israel Savage. Our participants can be seen on Saturday Night Live, The Good Wife, CSI, Law and Order,...

(20) All levels 18 and older
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'Hamilton' Broadway Musical Camp: Work with Professional Broadway Team

Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens @ 247 Wanaque Ave, Pompton Lakes, NJ

ATNY is proud to bring Hamilton Camp to Greenwich, CT this summer in one professional week, to train and prep young performers. You’ll be put to the task, and we’re raising the bar. Now, we’re bringing this professional instruction to you in a special summer camp week. Camp is for all levels, and by week’s end, you’ll be heads and shoulders above where you began! Join ATNY and actual Broadway Producers & Directors who will propel...

(7) All levels 7 - 17 years old
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$650

5 sessions

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And Scene

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Actors are given a scene & learn their lines, improvisers are given nothing & must make it work. New York top improvisers and actors from Broadway, TV and beyond perform in scenes from Mamet to Moliere and everything in between. The actors will know their lines and the improvisers will improvise with no prior knowledge of the scenes.  The format was inspired by Stephen Ruddy and was originally performed under the name "Gravid Water"...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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Books and Burlesque

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Books and Burlesque is proud to celebrate its 1-year anniversary during pride month on June 10th from 9-11pm followed by an after-party until 1am! Featuring exciting award-winning authors reading excerpts from their new books: David Santos Donaldson “Greenland” (finalist for the 2023 Carnegie medal for excellence in fiction), Jai Ckakbarti “A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness” (short story collection), Felicia Berliner “Schmutz”...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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$34.55
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One Week Explorations in Acting (Ages 10-13)

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 254 Hicks St, New York, NY

The Explorations Class is a great foundation for the craft and introduction to the Barrow Group approach. Students will lay the foundation of technique-based artistry through a progressive series of exercises, ensemble building games, script analysis, monologues, and scene study. Absence Policy: If your child is going to be absent for any reason, please let the instructors know as soon as possible. This is of the utmost importance. Every week we...

(66) All levels 10 - 13 years old
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$425

10 sessions

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10-Hour Weekend Intensive

Shakespeare Without Fear @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

Spend two days examining in-depth scenes from multiple Shakespearean plays and working with experienced Shakespearean actors and directors for one-on-one feedback. You will be pre-cast in a scene with one partner and will receive a video reel of your final scene. You will be contacted for a phone interview. Scripts and further details will be provided once selected.

All levels 18 and older
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$195

2 sessions

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Master Workshop: Frantic Assembly

Drama League Theater Center @ 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY

The Drama League Theater Center in Tribeca offers the theater community a range of classes, intensives and courses. With further training options for professional working artists, creative exploration for non-artists, and a deeper connection to our own imaginative creativity, The Drama League Theater Center offers short courses in a variety of specialized skills to enrich your understanding and practice of theatre. ...

All levels 18 and older
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$150
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Back Door to Broadway Self Production Workshop

Hanging Cow Productions @ 520 8th Ave, New York, NY

Full Course Title: The Back Door to Broadway, Theatrical Self Producing Workshop Ever wanted to produce a play, solo show, performance, or a musical in New York City but you just aren't sure how to do it and/or you have ZERO money in the bank to start? We will teach you EVERY aspect of non union, low budget, high quality theatrical self production at our interactive, intensive one day, self production workshop! Whether you are 18 or 80 years...

All levels 18 and older
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$199
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Improv to Standup

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

You know you’re funny. You’re an improviser but you’ve always wondered what it would be like to be onstage by yourself, even though it sounds super scary. Let’s make it happen!  Improv to Stand-Up is the perfect class for improvisers who want to try stand-up for the first time and for stand-ups who need a little more guidance.  In this class, you’ll learn how to harness funny ideas from improv scenes (and life) and translate...

(252) All levels 18 and older
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$100

2 sessions

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Advanced Commercial Class

Donna Marrazzo Studio @ 257 W 39th St, New York, NY

This class is offered to anyone who has taken the Commercial Audition Class. It is designed to help you through the callback process and being prepared for when you finally book the job!!! We will address continuity, handling props, complicated direction, the challenge of multiple takes (one student had 132 takes on just one line, yikes), plus more…

Advanced 18 and older
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$175

4 sessions

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Her Time is Now: Lempicka on Bway + Russian Tea Room Brunch

Women of Culture @ 220 W 48th St, New York, NY

Experience the captivating journey of LEMPICKA on Broadway, followed by a lavish brunch at the iconic Russian Tea Room! Delve into the sweeping musical portrait of an influential woman who defied conventions, portrayed with gripping performances and a thrilling pop-infused score. Don't miss this extraordinary Sunday matinee and the opportunity to indulge in luxury with Art-full membership perks.

All levels 16 and older
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$100
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TV Hosting Level One-Intro to On-Camera

ABEL Intermedia @ 32 Court St, Brooklyn, NY

This 3- hour intensive will change the way you think about television hosting and your career in order to help you succeed in a competitive marketplace. We cover the basics of on-camera skills and techniques along with current trends in hosting, what you need to get started, how to market yourself, where the opportunities are and how to practice. Each class participant will be videotaped on camera at least twice and receives feedback + a link to...

(2) Beginner 18 and older
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$150
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Theater, Performance and Political Activism

Cherry Lane Theatre @ 38 Commerce St, New York, NY

This class wil begin exploring the ways that the 'personal' becomes 'political' and how it relates to/coincides with the art of theater-making both past and present. It will begin with a brief history of political theater and will unfold with questions, readings, writing exercises and theater games. There will be recommended reading prior to the workshop. Note: $26 dollar for first class, $16 for second class If this is your second class, contact...

(1) All levels 18 and older
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On Camera: Film & Television Masterclass w/ Tisha Ioli

The Creative Arc @ 12 W 37th St, New York, NY

This is a one night Film and Television Master Class with Casting Director Tisha Ioli.  For actors who want to brush up on their skills or those of you who are tired of not getting it right. Do you know that you are the only one standing in your way? Learn how to take back the power that sometimes gets lost when you feel unprepared, nervous, or not right for the part. Find out how to focus on the work, check your ego at the door, and walk confidently...

All levels 18 and older
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The Agent Hour: Commercials Are My Business

The Creative Arc @ 12 W 37th St, New York, NY

Have you ever seen someone similar to you in a TV commercial and thought, "That could be me"? Have you been wondering how to get started in this area of showbusiness? ​Join Janine Cerny for a forum where you can ask anything about the biz. It's solidly devoted to giving you as much information about commercials and what's expected of them as the time allows. It's her passion to share her experience, to develop and teach actors from an agent's...

Beginner 15 and older
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Theatre Performance Workshop

Wagner College Lifelong Learning @ 1 Campus Rd, Staten Island, NY

Whether you are an actor or aspiring to become one,  our talents and ambitions are welcome as we work to become triple-threat performers. Students will learn both musical theater and pop songs, monologues and scene work, as well as dance combinations that will be practiced and performed in class.  This class will focus on material to help the student become a better performer, pick up choreography quickly and efficiently, learn proper...

(5) All levels 12 and older
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$399

10 sessions

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Singing Country Harmony

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music @ 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY

Deepen your understanding of vocal harmony by singing and analyzing the vocal arrangements of classic country groups like The Carter Family, The Louvin Brothers, Buck Owens, The Everly Brothers and more! We’ll explore basic music theory about how notes join together to form intervals and chords, and then experience those concepts in real time by singing well-loved songs that feature two and three-part harmonies.

(41) All levels 15 and older
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$325

8 sessions

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