NOVA Center for the Performing Arts

Musical Theater
2024-10-29 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-22 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-15 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Cost: $225Ages: Open for all agesDay: ThursdaysTime: 5:00 to 6:00Taught by: Janie Sutton

Description: Acting, singing, dancing, oh my! In this class students will learn how to become a triple threat! Students will learn the basics of musical theatre while learning music and choreography for a selection of songs. Showcase date and time TBD.

Creative Drama
2024-10-29 15:30 - 16:30, 2024-10-22 15:30 - 16:30, 2024-10-15 15:30 - 16:30
For ages 6 to 8

Tuesdays, September 24 through November 19, 2024

3:30 – 4:30pm

DeLaney Hardy Ray, instructor

Let’s play! Students will learn how to put on a play using theater games, learning how to follow stage directions, building an ensemble, and focused listening. They will also learn about their Actor’s Toolkit: Body, Voice, and Imagination! Showcase date and time TBD.

Auction of Arias
2024-10-27 18:00 - 21:00
A delightful way to support local community theater, musical theater and opera!

NOVA Radio Players
2024-10-26 14:00 - 16:00
Original radio plays written and performed by local talent!

Backstage Pass
2024-10-24 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-10-17 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-10-10 16:30 - 17:30

Tiny Tot Theater
2024-10-24 11:15 - 12:00, 2024-10-17 11:15 - 12:00, 2024-10-10 11:15 - 12:00
Cost: $120

Age: 4 to 6

Day: Thursdays, 9/26 – 11/21/24

Time: 11:15-12:00

Taught by: DeLaney Hardy Ray

Join us for this 45 minute class where we introduce the magic of theater and storytelling to your child. Your child will learn how to tell a story through theater games, imagination, focused listening, and exploring.

Dots, Lines and Squiggles: How to read music 101
2024-10-23 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-16 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-09 17:00 - 18:00
Learn how to read music 101: a skill that enables you to follow music – both vocal and instrumental. Learn how music ‘works’: notes, rhythm, rests, scales, chords, harmony and much, much more! Wednesdays from 5pm – 6pm, 9/25/24 – 11/6/24. Taught by Dulais Rhys.

Acting
2024-10-23 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-16 17:00 - 18:00
For ages 12 to 18, OR who have completed at least ONE semester of “Intro to Theater”.

Wednesdays September 25 – November 20, 2024 5:00pm – 6:00pm

DeLaney Hardy Ray, instructorIn this class, students will learn what it means to become a performer! Students will learn how to correctly use their voices through projection and enunciation, how to use their body by creating stage presence and how to use their bodies to create a character, and how to use their imaginations to fully create the world of the play. Showcase date and time TBD.

Intro to Theater
2024-10-23 15:30 - 16:30, 2024-10-16 15:30 - 16:30
For ages 9 -12

Wednesdays, September 25 through November 10, 2024

3:30-4:30pm

DeLaney Hardy Ray, instructor

In Intro to Theater, students will build on what they learned in Creative Drama by writing their own play! Students will learn basic theater and stage etiquette and write their own play using various improv and ensemble building games. Showcase date and time TBD.

Life is Improv!
2024-10-22 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-10-15 17:30 - 19:00
Life IS improv, and you have been doing it since you were born! In this adult improv class, you’ll have fun learning and performing improv games while gaining skills to help with the “improv” opportunities that life throws at you. The class focuses on communication, story, collaboration, making big choices and how they lead to hilarity onstage. Tuesdays 9/24/24 – 10/22/24. The final class session will include a performance and you’re welcome to invite friends and family. No improv, acting or stage experience necessary. Taught by Marisa Clark

Cabaret Club
2024-10-20 17:30 - 19:00
A joyful time of song and laughing! Come and join other singers at NOVA! No admission, just an opportunity to raise your voice!

Jake's Women
2024-10-20 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-10-18 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-10-13 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-12 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-10-11 19:30 - 21:30
America’s premier comic playwright, Neil Simon, makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Jake’s Women includes a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife.

Directed by Cole Johnson
