Class Acts Education Series
Welcome!
We look forward to providing your students with unique opportunities to experience professional performing arts performances that complement their classroom learning and expand their cultural horizons! Let us help you enrich your school day and plan your perfect educational field trip! Use our online reservation form above, or if you need help, please call us at 270.450.4444.
Our Class Acts Education Series offers professional theater performances and experiences that complement and reinforce core curriculum connections while entertaining and delighting students in Preschool through 12th grade. Performances are offered during the school day. Workshops and masterclasses to complete your learning experience may also be available. Let us help shape your perfect field trip! Please email us at sbeckett@thecarsoncenter.org or 270.450.4444.
NOTE - Homeschools groups and community fewer than twenty persons WILL NOT receive an invoice for their order. Please call us to secure your seats with payment at 270-450-4444 NO LATER THAN 3 weeks before the performance.
Reservations
Make reservations for any Class Acts Education Series performances:
Pricing
All shows offered below are:
$7 for Students*
$9 for Adult Chaperones*
EXCEPTION: Creole4Kids - all tickets $10 each
The 2026-2027 Class Acts Series is here!
THE FOURTH WALL - Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 10 AM
Recommended Grades: 5-8
Part chamber music group, part devised theatre company, part modern dance troupe, part circus act, The Fourth Wall blends music, theatre, dance, and acrobatics into a new hybrid art form. In their award-winning variety show Fruit Flies Like a Banana, this trio of musicians creates new interdisciplinary works and reinterprets classic repertoire - all performed in an order chosen by the audience - to make music the leaps off the stage.
DOKTOR KABOOM - THE SCIENCE OF SANTA - Wednesday, December 9, 2026 at 10:00AM
Recommended Grades: 2-5
The Doktor Kaboom Holiday Extravaganza! Are science and magic the same thing? Is Mr. Claus the world’s greatest scientist? Join Doktor Kaboom as he attempts to recreate all of Santa’s wonders using basic physics. No holiday icons are damaged in this show!
THE MUSICIANS OF BREMEN LIVE! - Friday, February 19, 2027 at 10:00AM
Recommended Grades: 2-5
This swashbuckling musical follows four very different creatures, a Hen, Mule, Bobcat, and Coyote, each on their way to a new life. The four musicians first struggle with their differences but emerge glorious as they discover how to work together and become a famous band!An epic journey from dusty crossroads to the bright lights of the big city, this show is a celebration of chasing big dreams.
CREOLE4KIDZ - Wednesday, March 3, 2027 at 10:00AM
Recommended Grades: K-5
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!! Creole for Kidz and the History of Zydeco program, is an innovative, high quality, multicultural performing arts music and information program. This educational show teaches Creole culture, traditional folk roots, and features a sing-along to Simien's song from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. Terrance Simien is a Grammy-award winning Zydeco artist, and he and his band played to a SOLD-OUT Class Acts show in 2024!
THE GRUFFALO - Tuesday, March 23, 2027 at 10:00AM
Recommended Grades: Pre K-3
Searching for hazelnuts, Mouse meets the cunning Fox, the eccentric old Owl and the party mad Snake. Will the story of the terrifying Gruffalo save Mouse from ending up as dinner for these hungry woodland creatures? After all, there’s no such thing as a Gruffalo – is there? Showcasing Tall Stories’ distinctive physical and visual performance style, The Gruffalo is full of songs, laughs and scary fun for everyone aged 3 and up.
ROMEO AND JULIET - Tuesday, April 13, 2027 at 10:00AM
Recommended Grades: 7-12
"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo" - Romeo & Juliet, Prince, Act 5 Scene 3
Romeo & Juliet - two of Shakespeare and literatures most infamous characters. Join Kentucky Shakespeare as they tell the tragic tale of two star-crossed young lovers from warring families of Verona who defy their heritage and risk it all trying to prove that love conquers all.
Art Miles Program
The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides travel reimbursement funds to Kentucky schools for field trips to The Carson Center with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Application Opens: October 1, 2026 - May 15, 2027
Application Closes: March 31, 2027
Grant Usage: For reimbursement of transportation mileage and bus driver pay.
Grant Amounts: Funds are distributed on a reimbursement basis using the following formula:
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Roundtrip mileage from school to facility x $2 x number of buses = mileage amount. (e.g., 200 miles roundtrip x $2 x 2buses = $800).
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Driver hourly rate x hours worked during the field trip = Driver pay (e.g., $25/hour x 6 hours = $150.00).
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Driver pay x number of drivers = Total driver pay (e.g. ($150 x 2 = $300).
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Mileage amount + Total driver pay = total reimbursement amount (e.g., 800 + 300 = $1100).
For more information, application guidelines, and restrictions, visit the Kentucky Arts Council website at https://artscouncil.
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