Located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, The Atlanta School of the Performing Arts serves 75 students each year, aged six through eighteen, in a nine-month program that teaches "the technique of performing Broadway and contemporary plays, as well as television." It also offers private voice, acting and dance classes.
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