Qualified Adult Instructors
Our professional instructors love working with students of all ages and levels. Our instructors strive to challenge and inspire every student as well as instill important life skills such as commitment, respect, leadership, and kindness. We are proud to provide you with a warm, caring, and friendly faculty.
Age-Appropriate Environment
You can count on age-appropriate music, costumes, and choreography at TPAC!
Program Variety
Our curriculum caters to a wide range of ages, levels, abilities, schedules, and interests. From your first steps as a dancer to preparing for your next Broadway audition, we have a class for you!
Performance Opportunities
Our motto is "Everyone gets to be in the limelight" and we pride ourselves on offering a wide range of on-stage opportunities. From showcases to recitals to large, full-scale musicals and more, if you want to be on stage you've come to the right place!
Professional Management & Excellence in Customer Service
TPAC has a full-time administrative team ready to serve you and your family. You can expect timely and friendly communication, superior organization, and a deep commitment to a positive studio environment for all.
Outstanding Facility
We are proud to have one of the largest dance studios in the region! Our 13,800 square foot facility is inviting, spacious, and clean. TPAC features 4 large, air-conditioned dance studios, 2 private lesson studios, an extra-large rehearsal studio, and our signature black box performance stage. Parents appreciate our spacious and comfortable waiting areas, complimentary WiFi access, a children's play area and the fact that we are adamant about maintaining a nut-free facility. Students enjoy two spacious dressing rooms and a designated homework zone!
Beyond the Limelight
We are passionate about giving back to the community at large. We offer scholarships and free programming to students requiring financial assistance. We hold an annual toy drive during the holidays for Toys for Tots. We help raise funds for charities such as HOPEsudbury, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Sudbury Food Pantry, and the Red Cross. Our students perform at nursing homes and hospitals, bringing the gift of music and dance! We are invested in our community and our students!
Testimonials
TPAC is an inspiring and cheery studio environment. I had the pleasure of teaching there during the first years at the current space and loved being a part of the TPAC faculty and community. Samantha inspires and leads with grace. Together with her faculty, she molds youth into poised young professionals who not only have the ability to go on to careers in the arts, but also also the ability to enter the world of adulthood prepared for whatever they choose to pursue.
Annie Thistle, Owner of Performing Arts Academy of Marin, CA
I feel so fortunate to have found TPAC. My kids are so enjoying your classes and I love what you are giving each of them...confidence, courage, and a great outlet for self-expression. I am so impressed with what you have created in your studio - both the physical appearance (clean, bright, colorful) and more importantly, the creative appearance (acceptance, encouragement, commitment). I want to thank you for always being so open and receptive to what I have to share. My priority as a mom is to find and create opportunities to build the self-esteem of my kids, while also helping them learn and understand humility and gratitude. One of the reasons I was so drawn to PAC for the very first phone call was because it felt like your core values in your business were very similar to what I prioritize as a parent. So I thank you again for doing what you do and doing it so well.
Amy Henry, Parent
You help those girls with all kinds of wonderful stuff, but to me one of the best things is the expectation, and thus habit, of being collaborative and supportive. I know that's not everyone's impulse all the time, and sometimes you're pushing against the cultural tide fostering that habit, but what a worthy pursuit... and just look at the result!
Max Hall, Parent
Thanks so much for a tremendous 10 weeks of classes that culminated with tonight's performance. I think I speak for all of us when I say we truly enjoyed the class and we learned some wonderful skills that will help us in all aspects of life. Looking forward to joining up again the fall.
Larry W, Adult Acting Student
It is difficult to convey to you, in words, how very much we appreciate your kindness. In so many wonderful ways, you have made a tremendous difference in our daughter's life. While the rest of the world can be uncertain and unfair, she can always count on you and TPAC to give her a safe haven in which to shine. She knows that she is expected to give her best, and, in return, she receives so many rewards. What a tremendous gift!
Dianne Weiss, Parent
20 Years of TPAC
"...Our daughter Natalie started with Broadway Babies a little less than 20 years ago. We have a clip of an early performance in which she steps over to one of her waist-high co-stars and sings, right up to him, “say, Mr. Producer, I’m talking to *you*, sir!” and he looked
like we all felt: “alright, show business!”
That was early in a magical run of years of classes, musicals with the
Metrowest Family Theater, dance competitions, and touring with The
Friends of Broadway.
What an education! Besides the skills of the trade - the singing,
dancing, blocking and projecting - the kids practiced so many more
other things: collaboration, trust, resilience, and confidence.
Character development isn’t just within the arc of a show, am I right?
Ah, the memories! Even those February evenings, dark and blowing at 4pm with slush everywhere outside, felt warm and light because of the energy of the families, students, and teachers swirling through TPAC, with boots and parkas swapped with costumes and tap shoes.
And the road trips! Even though Samm runs a tight ship, and you know she does, when you’re at City Hall Plaza in the heat and chaos of the Scooper Bowl, not everything is going to go according to plan. The kids really learned how to adapt and persist and keep on rocking. I think this is my favorite through-line: For Samm and the TPAC family, “the show must go on” isn’t some kind of grim marching order, it is, instead, a cheerful statement of fact. Maybe a thunderstorm is about to cut the show short, and the microphones are acting up, but here comes one last number with all the zest and finesse as ever!
The Performing Arts. Connection. The best of humanness, concentrated in this wonderful institution. To all the friends we’ve made, to all friends our kids have made, and the careers launched, all the skills learned, the shows run, the grandparents delighted, the siblings inspired; and to all the wonderful teachers, and supporters, and families, and especially to the creative dynamo that is the founder herself, Samm Hammel, happy birthday, TPAC!"
Max Hall, Parent Alum
Samantha Bower, Owner/Founder/Artistic Director
"In 1993, at age 9, I saw a production of Annie at Chiswick Park Theater, a professional theater located at 31 Union Avenue in Sudbury, MA. One year later, I auditioned for that same theater’s production of “Annie Warbucks.” I was a seasoned pro at 9, having performed in the Kindergarten Play AND the 3rd Grade Musical at Peter Noyes Elementary. Hands in my pocket, mumbling the words, nervous and awkward, I walked out of the theater after auditioning thinking I had nailed it. Is there anything more wondrous about the confidence of a 9-year-old child? When I didn’t get cast, I was devastated and cried myself to sleep...Is there anything more fragile than the confidence of a 9-year-old child? Later that week, ego bruised and a fire starting to burn inside of me, I wrote a letter to the owner of the theater and mailed it off. I told him that he should do more shows with kids, because there are lots of kids like me out there who want to be on stage. Much to my delight, he wrote me back, thanking me for the feedback and sending me two free tickets to sit front row at the show. It was a lesson in leadership and customer service that I never forgot, and watching the show feeling like a VIP only grew my passion for theater, and my belief that while it wasn’t going to be easy, nothing could get in the way of my dreams.