Community

Discover, learn and get involved.

Find everything from recurring weekly sessions to special community events and performances happening at your local theatre.

What we do

Annual Christmas Show

Every year we co-produce the annual family Christmas show in the Studio.

Creative Learning Week & Work Experience

We produce Creative Learning Week, our annual takeover of the theatre and run Work Experience Week for students.

Champion Accessibility

We offer a range of activities to support those with access needs including our relaxed, dementia friendly sessions of Memory Cinema.

Classes

Please check out our classes page for dates, times, and more information about the individual classes. If you have any questions, please email classes@churchilltheatre.co.uk

12-15 | Young Company

Young Company 1 These extremely popular classes are run by 2 professional experienced theatre practitioners/directors. There are no auditions, and everyone is welcome.

The group play lots of exciting drama games which all are designed to do something different e.g encourage sociability, working together, building confidence etc.

The theme and style of each term varies and can include script work, improvisation, devising, writing, and performing sketches amongst others and the main aim of each session is to instruct in a fun and an engaging way so every single young person is actively involved.

We work towards 2 main performances a year, a Christmas cabaret, plus a performance in July where the group takes part in a larger end of year show; In 2025 Young Company 1 devised their own play " Saving Romeo and Juliet" for the Main Stage.

To book, please complete our online Registration Form

16+ | Young Company

The groups are small and are run by 2 professional experienced theatre practitioners/directors. Each session is designed to allow everyone to explore their own creative self, and our Directing team are there to inspire and lead you introducing a whole range of skills and support. Although music is an important part of the work, this is not musical theatre, the focus is on improvisations, script work, character work and developing specific skills in a fully accessible way. There are no auditions, and everyone is welcome. The theme and style of each term varies, and the main aim of each session is to instruct in a fun and an engaging way, so every single young person is actively involved. There are 2 main productions each year including a Christmas cabaret and a larger show - in previous years this has included taking part in National Theatre Connections and FUSE International. We also support any young person wanting to go on to drama school and have a impressive list of past members who have gone on to win places at prestigious drama schools including Arts Ed, Rose Bruford, Mountview, and East 15 amongst others.

Classes are small, so we encourage early booking, and we offer a variety of payment options to help spread the cost.

To book, please complete our online Registration Form

6-8 | Young Drama Juniors

Young Drama Juniors is an introductory class for children of all abilities. The children have the opportunity to learn key drama skills, try out a range of different genres for example mime, improvisation and comedy and tell their own stories!

The classes are small and are run by two professional experienced theatre practitioners/directors. The idea of the classes is to encourage creativity in each individual child and to explore imagination and storytelling, at the same time learning about theatricality and stage craft in an easy, age-appropriate way. There are no auditions, and everyone is welcome.

The groups play lots of exciting drama games which all are designed to do something different. For example, to encourage sociability, working together, building confidence, etc and quickly we find the group all have their favourites which they return to and evolve themselves!

At the end of each full term, we invite parents and carers into a sharing where they can experience what the children have been doing, and in the summer the children have an opportunity to perform on a professional stage! Classes are small, so we encourage early booking, and we offer a variety of payment options to help spread the cost.

To book, please complete our online Registration Form

9-11 | Young Drama Seniors

In this follow on class the children add more skills and specialisms to their repertoire, working with masks, scripts and more sophisticated stories that they work on together in small groups. The classes are small and are run by 2 professional experienced theatre practitioners/directors.

The idea of the classes is to encourage creativity in each individual child and to explore imagination and storytelling, at the same time learning about theatricality and stage craft in an easy, age appropriate way. There are no auditions and everyone is welcome.

The groups play lots of exciting drama games and quickly we find the group all have their favourites which they return to and evolve themselves!

At the end of each full term we invite parents and carers in to a sharing where they can experience what the children have been doing, and in the summer the children have an opportunity to perform on a professional stage!

Classes are small so we encourage early booking, and we offer a variety of payment options to help spread the cost.

To book, please complete our online Registration Form

Work experience

Applications for 2026 will be opening in the New Year.

Our Award-winning weeklong work experience programme will be taking place in 2026 inclusive of weekend and evenings; and it is open to students aged 16+

All applicants need to send in a CV and a letter outlining why they would like to do a placement at the Churchill Theatre and we will select up to 20 young people to take part.

Please note that the work will be largely in supporting roles and NOT acting or directing.

We will prioritise applications from the Bromley area as this project is funded by the London Borough of Bromley,

Please send any applications to classes@churchilltheatre.co.uk and put Work Experience 2026 in the subject line.

Weekly Classes

The Creative Learning department offers a range of weekly classes from drama to dance, as well as singing and Stand-Up comedy! Please click on each class for further information and booking details.

To join please complete this Registration Form and a member of the team will then contact you via email to confirm your place. If you have any questions, please email classes@churchilltheatre.co.uk

Theatre

Movement & Dance

Music & Singing