2024/25 Education Offerings
A visionary season for theater lovers of all ages!
Click HERE to learn more about our Education Programming
YES Main Stage Days
Program: Youth Ensemble Studio (YES)
Our Main Stage Days begin with master classes led by professional theater artists from around the country, followed by a company pizza party before seeing a Northern Stage production. Finally, after the performance, our students participate in a talkback with the cast to ask questions about the theater industry.
This year we will have 5 Main Stage Days:
Sisters – Sunday, 10/20/2024
Beauty and the Beast – Sunday, 12/1/2024
King James – Sunday, 2/9/2025
Waitress – Sunday, 3/23/2025
Vermont Farm Project – Sunday, 5/18/2025
Registration Fee for Main Stage Days:Â $300
Financial Aid is available! Click HERE to learn more about our Sliding Scale Tuition Program and additional scholarships.
2025 April Camps
Northern Stage is excited to introduce April Vacation Camps for students ages 6-8 during the week of April 14th – 18th, 2025.
YES Spring Showcase
Program: Youth Ensemble Studio (YES)
Directed by Carol Dunne, Robert David Grant, & Kevin David Thomas
The Youth Ensemble Studio Showcase is back for a third year! Come join us for an evening of musical theater songs and scenes chosen to provide each and every actor with an opportunity to shine. All students will have small group sessions with a project director and a vocal coach, and the company will work together on group numbers. The Spring Showcase is the best opportunity of the year to take a leap forward as a performer and introduces the YES company to our community.
Program Dates: April 22 – May 17, 2025
Performance Dates: May 16 – 17, 2025
Calendar linked HERE
Registration Fee for Spring Showcase: $325
Financial Aid is available! Click HERE to learn more about our Sliding Scale Tuition Program and additional scholarships.
PAST PROGRAMMING
2024 Summer Camps
Every summer, Northern Stage offers half-day camps for students ages 6-14. All camps focus on teamwork, self-confidence, acting techniques, and singing.
We are so excited for camps at Northern Stage this summer! We had so much interest last year that we have decided to expand our programming. We will have seven camps for our 6-8 year old actors, a one-week camp for 9-12 year old actors, and a 2-week mini-intensive for 9-12 year old actors.
These camps are all great preparation for our school year YES and YES Jr. programs and other opportunities throughout the year.
2024 summer camps run the weeks of June 17-21, June 24-28, August 12-16, and August 19-23.
Financial Aid is available! Click HERE to learn more about our Sliding Scale Tuition Program and additional scholarships.
Peter and the Starcatcher
Program: Youth Ensemble Studio (YES)
A Play by Rick Elice
Based on the novel by Dave Berry and Ridley Pierson
Music by Wayne Barker
Directed by Robert David Grant
The Youth Ensemble is thrilled to be taking on this exciting and hilarious play. Based on the series of best-selling novels, this Tony Award-winning play upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan boy becomes the legendary Peter Pan. This wildly theatrical adaptation has everything: from marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes. Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair… and the bonds of friendship, duty and love. Over the course of 4 weeks, the students will rehearse and perform this piece in our intimate Schleicher Studio.
Audition Date: August 26, 2024 or by video submission
Program Dates: September 3 – October 6, 2024
Performance Dates: October 11 – 13, 2024
Calendar linked HERE
Registration Fee for Peter and the Starcatcher: $300
Financial Aid is available! Click HERE to learn more about our Sliding Scale Tuition Program and additional scholarships.
2025 February Camps
Northern Stage is excited to bring back February Vacation Camps the week of February 17th – 21st, 2025.
Disney’s Frozen KIDS
Program: Youth Ensemble Studio (YES)
Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
Book by Jennifer Lee
Based on the Disney film written by Jennifer Lee and directed by Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee
Directed by Sam Empey
Calling all 4th through 8th graders*! This year YES and YES Jr. combine for a special presentation of Frozen KIDS, a 30-minute adaptation featuring all the beloved characters and songs of Frozen. Over the course of 5 weeks, students will rehearse with one another to prepare and present this beloved story in The Barrette Center for the Arts. This exciting audition only project will allow our younger students to take center stage!
Audition Dates
Program Auditions: 12/2/24
Callback Auditions: 12/9/24
Program Dates: January 21 – February 23, 2025
Performance Dates: February 22 – 23, 2025
*4th & 5th Grade students must participate in YES Jr Fall Academy Days to be invited to audition for Frozen KIDS. For further questions, please contact Sam Empey at sempey@northernstage.org.
Calendar linked HERE
Registration Fee for Frozen KIDS: $500
Financial Aid is available! Click HERE to learn more about our Sliding Scale Tuition Program and additional scholarships.
