Walnut Street Theatre - Theatre School

America's Oldest Theatre, Founded 1809

Walnut Street Theatre is America's oldest theatre and a National Historic Landmark on Walnut Street in Center City. The Theatre School, founded in 1984, is the largest theatre training program in the Delaware Valley, enrolling roughly 1,200 students per year.

Classes for Kids Through Teens

Three sessions a year (Fall, Spring, Summer) plus camps. Programs include:
- Theatre School classes at Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced levels
- Improvisation
- Acting technique
- Audition coaching
- Vocal training
- Dance for musical theater
- Stage movement
- On-camera technique
- Camp Walnut summer sessions
- WST for Kids mainstage productions (Disney's Newsies Jr.)
- Disney Musicals in Schools program

What's Included

• Faculty from a working National Historic Landmark theatre
• 1,200 students per year - large peer cohort
• Multiple session types (evenings, weekends, one-week camps)
• Performance opportunities on the mainstage (WST for Kids series)

Experience

Best in the Delaware Valley for serious young theatre kids - the Walnut is a working professional house with a 200+ year history, and Theatre School graduates have a direct pipeline to mainstage casting via WST for Kids productions.