Cultural Park Theatre — Attraction in Cape Coral

Wow, just WOW! Our 8 year old daughter just finished one of the summer camp sessions here and we are just blown away! So is she! She attended the Willy Wonka Session of Theatre Camp, it was a two week session from 9am-4pm and at the end of it they put on the musical. As parents we were blown and I mean blown away by the what they all accomplished in just two weeks! We went to an after party for the kids and it wasn’t just us that were super impressed, all of the parents were just amazed! Our daughter was given a small role in the musical, perfect for her age and experience. Each day that I picked her up, she would be beaming and so pumped by the experience. She has had an interest in theatre since she was young but this just solidified it. The counselors were Highschool graduates who had grown up in the program and loved it, you could tell each day at drop off. There were kids of ALL ages there, our daughter was one of the youngest at 8 years old and kids went all the way to highschool age. Even with that vast age difference, they ALL were kind to each other and accepting. It was awesome for my daughter to see some mentors. She saw older kids helping younger kids and got to experience comradeship at its best. She was taught to practice and study, to get her role right. She had to audition for her role, which gave her insight on being brave, handling nervous energy and how to push through. Theatre camp teaches so many important life lessons, we are so thrilled we found this camp. It turns out that we discovered this camp has been going on for quite awhile, I ran into partner of kids in their 30’s who went to this camp as kiddos. So they obviously know what they are doing and how to be successful! Highly recommend, it will be the highlight to your kids summer as it was for our daughter. She’s begging for next...

I LOVE this place. This year I did all 3 summer camp sessions, and I LOVED every second of it. All the counselors are so nice and everything they do is ✨ perfection ✨. The casting, the directing, the choreography, the sets, the props, everything is just amazing. In SpongeBob, I personally think the choreography was better than the actual Broadway show, in Willy Wonka, the oompa loompa choreography was stunning, and in Aladdin I was ensemble and it was SO FUN, the song "Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim" was so fun. The casting is so good. SpongeBob, Willy Wonka, and Aladdin were amazing, I played Patrick in SpongeBob, Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka and Shop Owner in Aladdin. This was the first time I got a lead and I had so much fun. No matter what part anyone got they we're happy with it Another thing is that at the end of the day we get to play games and it's really fun. I wish I could never leave camp sometimes, all the people are so welcoming and so nice. I got into James and the Giant Peach so that gives me something to do during the school year, but I can't wait for camp to start again! If you ever have a chance I highly recommend coming to see one of the shows here, you'll have the time of your life seeing or being...

The theater is nice and well-kept, and I’m sure the shows are decent enough, but my experience with the theater classes can only be described as atrocious.

We signed my 6 year old stepdaughter up for Broadway Babies, an experience that was nothing short of a nightmare. Week after week we witnessed “Miss Gerrie” yell at the children when they failed to meet her wildly unrealistic expectations for the age group, and have virtually no clue how to control a group of young children. She even got confrontational with me when I pulled my stepdaughter a few minutes early from a rehearsal (not class, as these “classes” quickly turned into grueling rehearsals, something we were not expecting based on the class description) because she was visibly not feeling well - apparently the children’s health and well being is not of the slightest importance to Gerrie.

When I reached out to the president and executive director to give a much more detailed account of my experience, I received no reply back, not even a quick apology for my experience.

Save your money. Find a real theater class with someone who actually enjoys working with children, and can set realistic expectations and help them to...