What does the musical, Six, BTS, and Blackpink have in common? They are all girl or boy groups that are topping the charts and playing sold out shows to adoring fans. What would it be like to form a pop group? What does it take? Come join Making the Band and build your voice, sound, and style!...
Whether you’re In the Heights or taking the A Train downtown, New York City is full of culture and stories. Join us as we explore the boroughs of New York and learn about their cultures, songs, and dances. Summer in the City means a festival on every block, what kind of festival will the actors at BAL build? What are the neighborhood characters in each borough up to? Whether you're Mets or Yankees, Uptown or Downtown, this Play in a Day will put you in a New York State of Mind!...
We all love Encanto and SHHH We Don’t Talk About Bruno! But on this Play in a Day we will learn about and build our own mysterious characters! Do they have magic powers? A mystery to solve? A secret life that no one knows about? We will talk about it AND act it out! We can’t wait to bring these complex and captivating characters to life!...
Come on down to the Big BAL Game Show! Where contestants compete in the zaniest challenges and perhaps make some of their own! Do you have the skills to work as a team, solve puzzles, be silly and expressive, and use your actor tools to win the big game? Or maybe even the game show host needs a couple replacements! Live from Brooklyn, phone a friend and join us!...
Come join us as we spend a magical day exploring the worlds of unicorns, wizards, dragons and fairies! We’ll use art materials together with our voices, bodies, and imaginations to create magical, theatrical landscapes, sing songs of adventures and travel on a mystical journey....
Ever really want to just be a clown? Now’s your chance! We’ll each develop a clown persona, learn what skills clowns use to make people laugh, use theater games and exercises to create a clown troupe, develop skits from our own ideas and write some silly jokes. Hey, it’s really ok to spend a day being silly! ...
Ever wonder what happens at the Zoo after all visitors leave and the zookeepers lock up for the night? Let’s find out! We’ll create our own theatrical BAL Zoo and become the animals! We’ll create costume pieces and explore what it feels like to be different animals. As we navigate the basics of acting techniques, we’ll devise our own animal celebration through theatrical games, improvised scenes, dancing and singing! Remember, “It’s all happening at the Zoo!”...
Things aren’t necessarily the way the stories have been told! We’ll explore some alternative twists to well known tales, to question and uncover what really may have happened! We’ll use our voices, bodies and acting talents to explore other perspectives from characters we thought we knew well!...
Never fear! The Superhero Squad is ready for a day of action! We’ll use theater games and exercises to stretch our imaginations, create and act out our own Superhero story. We’ll discover what makes Superheros so super!...