MAT expands summer youth theater camps

The Montana Actors' Theater KidsMAT youth camps have been bringing local children to the stage for almost 20 years and are now expanding across north-central Montana.

"It's evolved as it's gone along," said Jay Pyette, the artistic director of MAT.

Chinook, Chester, Hays, Great Falls and Malta will all be able to enroll their youth in the camps and Havre is getting another camp for a total of two due to the high demand for the program every year.

Pyette said the youth acting camps are more like workshops than camps. The camps last four days long from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day and culminate in...