Ovation Academy for the Performing Arts is an award-winning performing arts program dedicated to creating extraordinary theatre experiences in an empowering, inclusive, and enriching environment.
WINTER IS COMING!
Winter 2025 Classes run January 6 – March 23, 2025
MUSICAL THEATER PRODUCTIONS
The Wizard of Oz
Rehearsals start October 15
Performances: December 13-22
Performers age 8+
Tickets Available Now!
The Magic Treehouse:
Dinosaurs Before Dark KIDS
Rehearsals start January 8
Performances: February 21-22
Performers age 6-9
Enrollment Opens November 15 at 12pm CST
Summer 2024 in Review
9 weeks. 13 musical theater productions. Over 360 kids aged 5-18.
Thank you to our amazing staff, artistic teams, families, and campers for participating and making 2023 a summer to remember!
Join us for the
JUNIOR THEATER FESTIVAL
Junior Theater Festival (JTF) is the world’s biggest and best celebration of young people performing musical theater. JTF brings together student musical theater troupes from all over the world for a weekend of musical theater mayhem and madness!
AWARDS
- 2024 Outstanding Performance, JTF Sacramento (Shrek, JR)
- 2024 Outstanding New Works Showcase, JTF Atlanta (Hans Christian Andersen, JR)
- 2024 Outstanding Choreography, JTF Atlanta (Newsies JR)
- 2024 Outstanding Performance by an Individual, JTF Atlanta (Oliver Schnizlein, Newsies JR)
- 2023 Outstanding Performance, JTF Sacramento (Music Man, JR)
- 2022 Outstanding Showcase (Broadway Junior Revue: Pure Imagination)
- 2022 Excellence in Music (The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, JR.)
- 2022 Outstanding Performance by an Individual, (William Daly, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, JR.)
- 2021 Outstanding Performance (Seussical, Kids)
- 2021 Excellence in Dance (Shrek, JR.)
- 2021 Overall Best Male Performer (Alejandro Medina, Shrek, JR.)
- 2020 Excellence in Dance (The Little Mermaid, JR.)
- 2020 Outstanding Production (Aristocats, Kids)
- 2020 Overall Best Male Performer (Mateo Haro, Aristocats)
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MADISON STREET THEATER: OUR ARTISTIC HOME
Ovation Academy is the resident performing arts company of Madison Street Theatre (MST) in Oak Park, IL. Located just 5 minutes from Chicago's western border, MST rents space to companies of all sizes in its 192-seat mainstage, 50-seat black box, dance studio, and lesson rooms.