Art Centre Theatre Opens Their Drama Summer Camp!

Check out what big discounts and special offers ACT is offering for the Summer Camps.

We are offering 10 Camps!!! That's twice the amount as last year!!

Can you believe it?! Check it out with the blue button below!

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Letter to Parents about us not being able to secure the Summer Grant from Plano. :'(

Dear Parents,

This Summer will be a little different. In the past, ACT has managed to cobble together enough money in grants and underwriting to comp your children into summer camps for free. In reality, these camps cost us about $700 per child for a 2 week stay. This year, one of our major underwriters did not have the ability to continue to donate and underwrite its portion of the Summer Camps, This leaves us with a $400 defect per child. However, through some great leadership and planning, ACT anticipated such a possibility and has successfully saved enough in concessions sales to offer an additional $100 savings to returning ACT campers on top of the $300 in underwriting from other sources and ACT families. So if you have been to ACT in the past year we can knock the camp price down to $300 from the $700 actual total cost. That is cheaper than DAYCARE! You will still get all the ACT perks; singing, dancing, music, drama and PAUL and as an added incentive this year we are going to let the kids do a show every two weeks (details are shown in each camp online). We will still offer free lunch, we will still go to Hawaiian falls at a deep discount, we will still have water wars and all the fun just like every year, with a few surprises we can talk about later, they are BIG! . We wish we could keep doing it all for free, but everyone is struggling right now. We HAVE managed to comp more than half the costs for you and we have lifted the restrictions on having to be a PLANO resident in order to join. So now ANYBODY can have "A PLACE TO ACT FOR LIFE!" We are excited to see you all!!!!!

Art Centre Theatre Invites you to Madness and Mayhem! The Musical Reefer Madness!!

Check out the cast and their insane talent! Click below to view our photos. :)

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Satire Summary:

From the destructive and terrifying mind of Clive Childress comes a musical like no other.

Reefer Madness! A sensational epic; warning "of an evil menace destroying the youth of America in alarmingly increasing numbers: Marijuana"! What will happen to the Teenage and all-upstanding-American Jimmy Harper, and his Highschool sweetheart Mary Lane once the insidious reefer makes it's way into their patriotic White, Suburban, Americana home town.

The Real Summary:

The musical is a over-dramatic satire on the original propaganda film made in 1938 to fear monger and segregate communities around the country. Using the famous tag line of: "We're doing this to save the children of America" to spread their "patriotic" propaganda message, and it worked. The Musical Version takes their work to reveal the absurd lies they would detail in the original film to mock, entertain, and be hopeful for a better future in America.

RATED R

SHOW RUNS: April 19th - May 5th, 2024

2 Hour Show Run with a 15 minute intermission

Art Centre Theatre & Legacy Seats

Dear Friends;

Thank you so much to those who have already donated to the Legacy Chair Fund and those who attended the CELEBRATION this past weekend to honor our donors. , bought an ACT legacy seat, or just sent notes of encouragement. You are all so wonderful and we feel so blessed. So far, thanks to your efforts, we have  $10,000 needed to meet program budget needs, but Summer is fast approaching and the City of Plano has chosen not to underwrite the Summer Arts Program this summer, which means that we cannot service the 500 children to whom we normally provide Summer Programming for free, as we have in years past. If you have not purchased your seat or donated to the fund, please consider making a contribution today to help us continue to support YOUTH SUMMER ARTS and the Arts in the North Texas area.

As promised, we want to keep you updated on our progress and the generosity of our supporters. So far 25 seats have been purchased or pledged. Recently we celebrated those who have already donated with the Legacy Chair Gala in which we honored those who have donated with an evening of frivolity, music, food and wine, we still have more than 30 seats unclaimed, so we chose to re-open up the chair campaign, titled “ACT LEGACY SEATING.”

In this fundraiser, If you donate $500 or more to ACT, we will allow you to pick the seat of your choice to have your name put on it for all time with a tasteful engraved 2 and 1/2 inch plaque that will show the North Texas Community that you support the arts.  We have about 50 seats to sell and when they are gone they are gone. We will have a dedication ceremony just after Thanksgiving to celebrate our gratitude and show off the new look. If you are interested in purchasing a seat. To donate and start this process, please copy and paste the link below into your browser and make your donation and the office staff will contact you to handle the rest:

https://www.artcentretheatre.com/legacy-seats 

The reason for this campaign is that, unfortunately, several of our government and private funding pledges have either dried up or fallen short of their pledges to produce. As a result, ACT finds itself still with a shortfall. Please give what you can to help us raise funds for summer programming and to keep the arts alive for so many kids who would otherwise never know the joy of creating worlds of their own through art! Thank you!

OUR DONORS:

Fortis Talent

The Hamiltons

MARS & RYAN

Mark & Tina Haug

The Dozeals

Tom Shubnell, 7/29/45 – 11/24/20

Rosalinda Perez A

Ashley Taylor Martin Wright

LoneStar Sound

Shidlofsky Family

Krystal Rodriguez

 Glenn Lorig and Sue Ann Lorig

Thomas Grail (PANGRAIL)

Ken Schwartz

Konni Eastin

Alex Whiteley & Charlie Biter

Laura Goodman

In memory of Lanny Cooper

Villians Burlerque 2023

Mary Jo Christian 

Al Escobedo

Priscilla Anderson

Greenberg family / In memory of Angie Brown

Feldman Family