Centennial Theater Academy

Metro Parks Theater Division on West End

Centennial Theater Academy is the youth theater program of Metro Parks Theater Division, headquartered at Centennial Performing Arts Studios on 27th Avenue North. As a city-funded program it offers a wide curriculum at municipal pricing.

Theater Classes Ages 3-17

After-school academy plus camps and audition-based productions. Programs include:
- Dramatic Play (ages 3-5)
- Acting Fundamentals (ages 5-10)
- Story Drama
- Acting Essentials
- Acting 101
- Musical Theater Boot Camp (ages 10-16)
- Stage Combat
- Children's Improv
- Acting for the Screen
- After-school Centennial Theater Academy (ages 8-17)
- Audition-based productions (recent: Aladdin)

What's Included

• Municipal pricing (most affordable in the metro)
• Long curriculum from age 3 through high school
• Stage combat and screen-acting tracks (unusual for parks-based programs)
• Performance opportunities through full mainstage productions

Experience

Best value option in Nashville - city-park pricing for a curriculum that runs deep enough to hold serious students. The audition-based mainstage productions raise the ceiling for committed teens.