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.
MUSICAL THEATER PRODUCTIONS
Seussical, JR.
Performances
Tuesday, June 30 at 7pm
Wednesday, July 1 at 1pm
Wednesday, July 1 at 7pm
Tickets
$15 General Admission
$12 Kids age 12 and Under
All Performances will take place at Kehrein Center for the Arts
5628 W. Washington Chicago, IL 60644
Introducing the 2026 Summer Intensive:
Encore Presents: Legally Blonde
Performances
Friday, July 17 at 7:30pm
Saturday, July 18 at 2pm
Saturday, July 18 at 7:30pm
Sunday, July 19 at 2pm
Tickets
$15 General Admission
$12 Kids age 12 and Under
Performed by teens ages 14-18
Runtime is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission
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
Performed by students ages 5-14
Summer 2025 in Review
10 weeks. 15 musical theater productions. Over 400 kids aged 5-18.
Thank you to our amazing staff, artistic teams, families, and campers for participating and making this 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
- 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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