Hartford Stage to Host 'Broadway Dreams Triple Threat Extreme Workshop,' Begin. 8/16

Hartford Stage will host the Broadway Dreams Triple Threat Extreme Workshop for local teen performers, Friday, August 16, through Sunday, August 18. The Final Showcase will take place at 6 p.m. on Sunday, August 18, at Hartford Stage.

Broadway professionals Craig D'Amico (Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler on the Roof); Tony Vincent (NBC's The Voice, American Idiot); and Deidre Goodwin (Chicago, A Chorus Line) will lead the three day workshop. Students will also have the unique opportunity to meet and work with a top NYC casting director.

The Broadway Dreams Triple Threat Extreme is an immersive experience that focuses on each of the major disciplines in Musical Theatre: acting, voice and dance. Working with a faculty of Broadway professionals, students will take part in an "extreme" artistic process that will push their abilities and talents, giving them the skills required to be a professional in the industry.

Students must be 13 years old or older and there is no audition required to take part in this program. For more information, please visit www.hartfordstage.org/education/youth.

Now entering its 50th Anniversary season, Hartford Stage is one of the nation's leading resident theatres, known internationally for producing classics, provocative new plays and musicals, and neglected works from the past, as well as a distinguished education program that reaches about 20,000 students annually. Hartford Stage has earned many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Margo Jones Award for Development of New Works, OBIE awards, two New York Critics Circle Awards, a Dramatists Guild/CBS Award and an Elliot Norton Award, and has produced nationally renowned titles, including the Broadway productions of Enchanted April and Our Country's Good and the Off-Broadway productions of The Orphans' Home Cycle and The Carpetbaggers Children.In the fall of 2013, the Hartford Stage production of A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder will open at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway. The leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage's education programs include student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults, afterschool programs and professional development courses.