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.
TRIPLE THREAT MASTERCLASS
With Award-Winning Theater Star, Michael Wordly
Date and Time
Wednesday, July 22
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Open to ages 10+
Location
Ovation Studio West
7419 Madison St
Forest Park, IL
TUITION: $75
FALL PRODUCTION!
A Year with Frog and Toad
Rehearsals:
August 26 – October 4th (Off 9/5)
Mon & Weds 5-7:30pm
Saturdays 9-12pm
Tech Rehearsals:
Sept 28, 29, 30, Oct : 4:30pm – 7:30pm
Performances:
Friday, October 2 at 7pm
Saturday, October 3 at 1pm & 5pm
AGES: 6-10
TUITION: $445
2026 SUMMER CAMPS
Summer Camp Performances
Performances
Friday, June 26th
- Disney’s The Jungle Book KIDS – 11:30 AM (30 min)
- Peter Pan, JR. – 3:00 PM (45 min )
Tickets
1/2 Day Camps: $8 adults | $5 students
Full Day Camps: $9 adults | $6 students
Performed by students ages 5-14
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
- 2026 All-Festival Performance Group Award, JTF West (Dot and the Kangaroo, JR.)
- 2026 Excellence in Pod, JTF Atlanta (Mean Girls, JR.)
- 2026 Outstanding Performance by an Individual, JTF Atlanta (Micah Puckett Reeder, Mean Girls, JR.)
- 2025 Best in Festival, JTF Atlanta (Something Rotten JR)
- 2025 Best Festival Performer, JTF Atlanta (Nolan Maddox, Something Rotten JR)
- 2024 Outstanding Performance, JTF West (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 West (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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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.