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Des Moines Community Playhouse



Our Classes

SUM24 Page to Stage: Hansel and Gretel

$285

with Catie Miller

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 4-7, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 10-14  · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

One fairy tale. Five days. Needed: Young actors to bring this timeless story about cleverness, courage, and creativity to life. Help make the set, choose costumes, rehearse, then take the stage!

Full Course

SUM24 Sweet Life

$175

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 2-3· 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, June 10-14· $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

We’ll write and make commercials for our very own Willy Wonka candy inventions. We’ll also dramatize the “sweetest” stories, like The Ice Cream Machine, The Chocolate Touch, The Candy Dish, and more!

Full Course

SUM24 William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls

$285

with Nate Jorgensen

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 8-10, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 10-14 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

On Wednesdays we array ourselves in pink! Mean Girls gets an Elizabethan makeover in this totally fetch comedy about North Shore High’s queen bees and wannabes. Shakespeare didn’t pen this classic story of rivalries, betrayal, jealousy, obsession, and fastidious rule-making about when one can and cannot wear sweatpants, but he could have.

Full Course

SUM24 Cat Tales

$175

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 1:30 pm, runs for 1 week

Kindergarten 2024-Grade 1· 1:30-3:30 PM, June 10-14· $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

Splat the Cat, Pete the Cat, Cat Kid. Everybody wants to be a cat! Join us for a week of fabulous felines, with cat stories, cat songs, and cat shenanigans. We’ll work on basic theatre concepts, while reinforcing literacy and cooperation skills. P.S. No dogs allowed!

Full Course

SUM24 10 Minute Plays

$285

with Allison Crain

Calendar Jun 17, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 7-9 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 17-21 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

Performers serious about exploring the art of acting are assigned roles in short plays and monologues to emphasize working in a professional environment. Beginners are challenged with learning lines and blocking. Advanced actors can delve in to the emotional life of the character and gain a finer understanding of how to manipulate stage space. Be ready to give it your all!

Will run

SUM24 Performance Academy: Alice in Wonderland Grades 4-6

$285

with Kim Van Haecke

Calendar Jun 17, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 4-6 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 17-21 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

Audition, rehearse, and perform in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Go down the rabbit hole with Alice, attend an "unbirthday" party, and drink tea with the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit. Enrollment guarantees a part in the play. 

Full Course

SUM24 Lands of Wonder Grades K-1

$175

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 17, 2024 at 9:30 am, runs for 1 week

Kindergarten 2024-Grade 1 · 9:30-11:30 AM, June 17-21 · $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

The rabbit hole took Alice to Wonderland, the twister took Dorothy to Oz, and the wardrobe took the Pevensie children to Narnia. Each day we’ll enter and explore a different magical world in which nothing happens as we expect it. We’ll even create our own magical world and characters that live in it!

Full Course

SUM24 Lands of Wonder Grades 2-3

$175

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 17, 2024 at 1 pm, runs for 1 week

Grades 2-3 · 1:00-4:00 PM, June 17-21 · $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

The rabbit hole took Alice to Wonderland, the twister took Dorothy to Oz, and the wardrobe took the Pevensie children to Narnia. Each day we’ll enter and explore a different magical world in which nothing happens as we expect it. We’ll even create our own magical world and characters that live in it!

Full Course




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