It is well-known that theater has a very positive impact on young people. Theater fires the imagination, stimulates creativity, teaches problem solving in a collaborative environment and provides young people a positive and confident self-image. It gives children the skills and the creativity necessary to face the world, to understand it and perhaps to change it too. These qualities will be important in their future lives whether they choose to persue a theater career or something else.

Many American and British young people get this experience through a high school musical but this doesn’t exist in France. So, where do young people living in the Strasbourg area go to have this theater experience? Since 2013, Young Actors Theater Strasbourg (YATS) has provided theater workshops for young people ages 9 to 19 and theater productions similar to an American high school.

YATS is a non-profit association run by parents, friends, and theater professionals who volunteer their time. YATS depends on donations, ticket sales, membership fees, and sponsorship to pay for performance rights, rehearsal space, theater hire, costumes, sound & lighting equipment, and scenery.

By joining YATS as a member and/or a sponsor you are supporting our vision of giving every child from the Strasbourg area the opportunity to experience the joy of live theater.