Children's Theatre Workshop

*Please note: The Children's Theatre Workshop is currently not on offer as we take a moment to reconfigure our efforts to better serve our community partners! Stay tuned for further information in the coming months.*

About Children’s Theatre Workshop

Stage Center Theatre’s Children’s Theatre Workshop (CTW) provides vital educational theatrical experiences to hundreds of children from more than 20 Chicago-area public schools to NEIU each semester (reaching an average of 1,100 elementary/middle school students and teachers). These schools are regular visitors to the Stage Center Theatre and NEIU, and each year we work to maintain this interest and involvement by continuing our Theatre and Theatre Education promotional campaign, which targets counselors and teachers at high schools around the Chicago area, as well as schools from which many NEIU students graduate.

We are proud that our CTW curriculum is not only a valuable “hands-on” experience for our students but also serves as important community outreach and as a way to entertain, teach, and cultivate a love of theatre among children.

Children's Theatre Workshop is an upper-level course series offered in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre. It is designed to cover all aspects of performance, design/technical production and management, which culminates in a performance for elementary, middle school, or high school students. CTW productions are the creation of two courses: