Classes

Description: Audition Lab is a great way to prepare for upcoming auditions! With the help of a professional teaching artist, students will choose audition monologues that match their age, personality, and individual audition needs. Students will prepare a monologue, develop successful strategies for cold readings, and learn how to create a professional resume. The final class includes a special audition with a member of The Coterie staff for youth roles in the upcoming Coterie season. *This class offers an opportunity for consideration in The Coterie's Acting Master class. Grades 5-7 and Grades 8-12 Midtown: April 3-May 8 (Wednesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: March 30-May 4 (Saturdays 2:00-3:30 pm): $100

Description: Shrink down and crawl around with your favorite little critters. Become a stink bug or a bumblebee or a new kind of bug you just made up, as we wiggle like worms and jump like grasshoppers. Come join us as we act out stories in our very own bug garden! Shrink down and crawl around with your favorite little critters. Become a stink bug or a bumblebee or a new kind of bug you just made up, as we wiggle like worms and jump like grasshoppers. Come join us as we act out stories in our very own bug garden!

*Students registered in this class must be potty trained. Ages 3-5 Midtown: March 30-May 4 (Saturdays 10:30-11:30 am): $75

Description: Paint the world all of your favorite colors! Are you more like Pinkalicious, eating up all the pink cupcakes? Or like Harold, creating new worlds with your purple crayon? We'll explore characters from colorful books such as Rainbow Fish, A Bad Case of Stripes, and The Day the Crayons Quit and act out stories inspired by them. Grades K-1 Midtown: January 30-March 5 (Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: January 27-March 2 (Saturdays 12:00-1:30 pm): $100

Description: What happens when you dream the impossible? Does your dog turn into a sea creature? Can you fly around the moon? Students will take their original ideas and create unique adventures that explore the beautifully bizarre, seriously strange, and mystically magical worlds from our imaginations. Look beyond the ordinary and explore the extraordinary! Grades 2-4 Midtown: January 29-March 4 (Mondays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: January 27-March 2 (Saturdays 2:00-3:30 pm): $100

Description: Calling all inventors! It's time to create what's in your head like Rosie Revere or Phineas and Ferb do. Students will work together to create, build, and imagine the world's next revolutionary inventions and act out scenes exploring what happens when you use your inventions. Bring your imagination and see what we can make. Grades 2-4 Midtown: April 1-May 6 (Mondays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: March 30-May 4 (Saturdays 2:00-3:30 pm): $100

Description: Whether on the page or on the stage, Wilbur, the Naked Mole Rat, loves to dress up - you can too! In this class we'll craft no-sew costume pieces to transform into characters like Pigeon, Squirrel, and Elephant and Piggie, as you explore the world and books of children's author Mo Willems. Get ready to rock n' "mole" while you sing songs from Mo Willems' musical Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: A Rock Experience and bring your favorite books to life! Grades K-1 Midtown: April 2-May 7 (Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: March 30-May 4 (Saturdays 12:00-1:30 pm): $100

Description: Are you a monster hunter? Do you want to help us find infamous monsters such as Big Foot, Loch Ness Monster, and La Chupacabra? Then this class is for you! Students will become both monsters and monster hunters as they create stories and characters for our adventures around the world, seeking out our favorite monsters. Grades 2-4 Midtown: October 2-November 6 (Mondays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: October 7-November 11 (Saturdays 2:00-3:30 pm): $100

Description: Have you ever wanted to write your own scene or play? Well, here's your chance! Create, collaborate, and perform your own ideas with your fellow thespians. Build an original work, scene by scene, that comes outta your head! Anything is possible! Grades 4-6 Midtown: April 2-May 7 (Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: March 30-May 4 (Saturdays 12:00-1:30 pm): $100

Description: Battling a minotaur or a cyclops is no easy task unless you've trained as a demigod! At Camp Half-Blood we'll explore Greek mythology inspired by the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series and The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. Ready your shields to start your training! Grades 4-6 Midtown: January 30-March 5 (Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: January 27-March 2 (Saturdays 12:00-1:30 pm): $100

Description: Bluey and Bingo love to play pretend—just like you! Join Bluey and all her friends as you pretend to be a doctor, work in a restaurant, drive a taxi, go to the zoo, and so much more. Bring your imagination, and some silly voices, and get ready to play! Bluey and Bingo love to play pretend—just like you! Join Bluey and all her friends as you pretend to be a doctor, work in a restaurant, drive a taxi, go to the zoo, and so much more. Bring your imagination, and some silly voices, and get ready to play!

*Students registered in this class must be potty trained. Ages 3-5 Midtown: October 7-November 11 (Saturdays 10:30-11:30 am): $75

Description: Autumn is a perfect time for chilling masterpieces! Dive into scene work from your favorite frightening tales and stories as an actor or take inspiration from your eeriest ideas and nightmares and write new moody scenes to be performed by the class. Show off your talents as a playwright and as an actor!

This class offers an opportunity for consideration in The Coterie’s Acting Master class. Grades 5-7 and 8-12 Midtown: October 4-November 8 (Wednesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: October 7-November 11 (Saturdays 2:00-3:30 pm): $100

Description: Put on your disguises and prepare for a mysterious adventure. Students will transform into spies and work together to search for clues to complete a mission. We will explore characters who have something to hide and create mysteries along the way. It’s sure to be a fun challenge for all actors! Grades 4-6 Midtown: October 3-November 14 (no class November 7) (Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: October 7-November 11 (Saturdays 12:00-1:30 pm): $100

Description: Each week students will be introduced to a different book and use theatre, movement, music, and visual arts to explore that book. Together the students will journey into the book’s world and act like the characters along with their new class friends. We’ll have fun with titles such as Not a Box, The Cat in the Hat, and more!\n*Students registered in this class must be potty trained. Ages 3-5 Midtown: January 27-March 2 (Saturdays 9:00-10:00 am & 10:30-11:30 am): $75

Description: Become a more well-rounded actor! Try something new or gain more experience doing something you love. Each week we'll introduce a new workshop on a different topic: stage combat, improv, stage makeup, accents, physical comedy, and cold readings. This class offers an opportunity for consideration in The Coterie's Acting Master class. Grades 5-7 and Grades 8-12 Midtown: January 31-March 6 (Wednesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: January 27-March 2 (Saturdays 2:00-3:30 pm): $100

Description: Are you ready to become a superhero? In this class, each student will create a superhero with unique superpowers. Become your favorite superhero or create a brand new one. Together we will team up to go on adventures, protect the peace, and unite to save the world and all of humankind! Grades K-1 Midtown: October 3-November 14 (no class November 7) (Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm): $85 Overland Park: October 7-November 11 (Saturdays 12:00-1:30 pm): $100