THEATRE FOR ALL
Allentown Public Theatre creates accessible theatre, youth arts education, mentorship, and career pathways that give young people, artists, and communities opportunities to create, perform, lead, and tell their own stories.
What We Do
Theatre. Education. Mentorship. Opportunity.
Allentown Public Theatre is a community-based nonprofit theatre serving Allentown and the greater Lehigh Valley through performance, arts education, youth mentorship, and community engagement.
Our work extends beyond the stage. Through APT Stagenators, young people develop skills in acting, storytelling, communication, leadership, technical theatre, and live production while building confidence and learning how creativity can become a pathway to future education, employment, and civic participation.
Through theatrical productions and community-based programs, APT creates spaces where artists, young people, families, and neighborhoods can see themselves represented, encounter new perspectives, and create something together.
Featured Program: Stagenators
APT Stagenators — Create. Connect. Inspire.
More Than a Youth Theatre Program
Stagenators is Allentown Public Theatre’s youth theatre, mentorship, and creative workforce initiative. Students learn theatre by doing theatre.
- Acting and performance
- Script reading and creative writing
- Storytelling and improvisation
- Voice and movement
- Sound and lighting
- Stagecraft and production
- Leadership and peer mentorship
- Communication and teamwork
- Career and college pathways
Students progress from participants to collaborators, mentors, creators, performers, and, through emerging workforce components, young people prepared for supervised paid opportunities in theatre and live production.
Theatre Beyond the Theatre
We believe theatre can happen wherever people gather. APT works in schools, neighborhoods, community organizations, cultural institutions, public spaces, and other locations throughout Allentown and the Lehigh Valley.
Our community-based work uses theatre not only as entertainment but as a means of storytelling, conversation, cultural expression, education, and connection.
Help Build the Next Generation of Theatre
When you support Allentown Public Theatre, you are not simply helping us put another production onstage. You are helping young people discover their voices, train with professional artists, learn technical skills, become peer mentors, create original work, perform for their families and communities, and explore pathways into college and careers.
Your support helps provide:
- Teaching Artists
- Youth mentor opportunities
- Scripts and educational materials
- Costumes, props, and scenic materials
- Sound and lighting equipment
- Student showcases
- Technical theatre training
- Guest artists
- Transportation and program access
- Community performances
- Future paid youth opportunities
Join Us
Whether you are a student, parent, artist, educator, community organization, business, or volunteer, there is a place for you at Allentown Public Theatre.