26 theater programs for kids in Brooklyn, 1 free. Shows, puppets, acting classes. Includes Coney Island Circus Sideshow and Park Slope Conservatory (Danny Greenberg Studio).
Kids take small-group acting, singing and audition classes, from recreational beginners to young performers aiming at professional work. Park Slope classes run on Tuesday afternoons, split by age group.
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A long-running marionette company presenting classic fairy tales with handcrafted puppets and music, now in a theater at Industry City. Weekend shows run under an hour and suit preschoolers and early-grade kids.
A nonprofit arts organization on Surf Avenue presents a classic ten-in-one style circus sideshow with performers like sword swallowers, fire eaters and contortionists. Shows run through the afternoon on summer weekends and some weekdays, a short walk from the boardwalk.
A nonprofit that teaches musical theater to Brooklyn kids, with a Russian-language group for younger children and a youth group for older kids. Students rehearse and perform in productions and concerts.
A Brooklyn circus arts company offering cirque classes for all ages and ability levels, including aerial skills, along with performances. It also provides rigging and specialty apparatus instruction like sway pole.
Kids from pre-K through high school take after-school theater classes and workshops that lead to live performances. There are also school-break programs, K-8 summer camps and private audition coaching.
A Park Slope arts space where kids take theater, dance, tumbling and creative movement classes, starting with caregiver-and-child classes for toddlers. Older kids in grades 5-12 join Performance Workshop Ensembles that create original pieces together.
A Fort Greene community music school with an On Stage youth program in theatre and musical theatre, where kids sing, act and perform. It sits in the BAM Cultural District, and the school also teaches instruments and voice.
A Brooklyn youth theater program where small casts of up to 12 kids rehearse and stage fully produced shows, from musicals to Shakespeare. Teaching artists hold MFAs and Off-Broadway credits, and groups are organized in narrow grade bands.
Child's Play NY's Park Slope classes meet at the CBE Kids Club, where kids rehearse and perform full productions in small groups led by professional teaching artists. Programs run from preschool through the teen years.
An artist collective in Gowanus that makes puppet shows, toy theater, and parades with giant puppets, with some productions geared for families. It also leads puppetry workshops for students and community groups.
One of the country's longest-running ensemble theaters, based in a converted church hall in Fort Greene, runs youth programs including The Theatre of Empathy, which uses improv and theater games to build communication skills. It also offers a free booklet of improv games families can play at home.
A specialty track at Park Slope Day Camp where campers in grades 1-6 major in acting, singing, dancing and stagecraft over the summer. It runs alongside the camp's traditional and sports programs.
Choreographer Elizabeth Streb's Williamsburg warehouse lab offers kid classes and camps where children tumble, fly, fall and jump using the company's circus-meets-dance style called Pop Action. The company's own high-impact shows occasionally come to family venues such as the New Victory.
Kids study acting and perform in full children's theater productions, including fairy-tale stage shows with music and dance. The same studio also stages puppet shows for young audiences.
A volunteer community theater in Brooklyn Heights that stages a full season of plays and musicals and runs a Theater for Children program. Families can see shows in an intimate space on a quiet Brooklyn Heights side street.
BAM's family program brings circus, theater and film to kids at its Fort Greene campus, including the BAMkids Film Festival of international shorts sorted by age. Seasonal events include the BAMboo! Halloween party with carnival games and crafts, and a holiday circus with multi-abled performers in December 2026.
Kids from first grade through high school rehearse and perform full musical productions in after-school MainStage classes, with Saturday classes and summer camp too.
A Brooklyn acting studio whose TALENTLAND children's theatre stages puppet shows and musical plays for young audiences. The studio also runs acting education programs alongside its classical and contemporary productions.
A long-running Park Slope community theater that runs Gallery Kids and family programming, including TheatreSports improv games and participation plays where young audience members join the action. The company aims to build a love of theater in the next generation at affordable prices.
Interactive puppet shows for babies and toddlers with a different story every week, mixed with dancing, instruments, dress-up and bubble time. Each 45-minute session sneaks in early learning like counting and new vocabulary, and there are special shows for pre-walkers.
Smith Street Stage performs free Shakespeare in Carroll Park each summer, now in its eleventh season, aiming the shows at audiences of all ages. Families bring blankets and watch classic plays in a neighborhood park.
A Brooklyn children's drama studio where young kids act out stories, play theater games and build confidence through pretend play. This Atlantic Avenue studio hosts classes, school-holiday camps, summer camps and theater birthday parties with themes like pirates and fairies.
Treasure Trunk's Park Slope studio on 4th Avenue offers drama classes where preschoolers and young kids tell stories through movement and make-believe. Older kids can join summer musical intensives and a fall musical production.
LittleGotham lists 26 theater programs for kids in Brooklyn.
Yes. 1 of 26 are free to attend, including Shakespeare in Carroll Park.
25 listings are indoors, such as Coney Island Circus Sideshow, Park Slope Conservatory (Danny Greenberg Studio), Performart.
Park Slope (6), Sheepshead Bay (3), Fort Greene (3).