Youth Theater

Extraordinary Theater Experiences for Young People
Tue, Jul 7
Jul 9

She Kills Monsters

Auditions for the 9th-12th grade production

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Mon, Jul 6
Aug 1

Theater Discovery Camp – The Jungle Book

Theater Discovery Camp + a full production of Jungle Book – A Musical!

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Upcoming

2025-2026 Season

Finding Nemo Jr. | October 16 – 19

Hadestown | February 12 – 15

Beetlejuice Jr. | May 14 – 17

About

Since 2004, The Franke Center Youth Theater has been providing extraordinary theater experiences for young people!  The Youth Theater stages plays, offers performance workshops, and performs educational outreach throughout Calhoun County. Director Allison Ebner, along with many devoted artistic staff members and volunteers, are committed to promoting education, creativity, imagination through the performing arts.

Full and partial scholarships to all Youth Theater programming are available upon request.

Our staff and performers recently won 13 National Youth Arts awards! Click here to learn more.

Get involved!

We announce our upcoming auditions, plays, and workshops in the newspaper, on social media, and on our email list. To stay up to date with upcoming opportunities:

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  • Scroll to the bottom of this page and enter your email address to get on our email list

Youth Theater Supporters

  • Battle Creek Community Foundation
  • Marshall Community Foundation
  • Binda Foundation
  • The Miner Barber Fund

Past Shows

The Franke Center Youth Theater is a place where magical memories are made! Take a tour of some of our past shows.