June 17-June 28, 2025: Stage Door The Great Cellphone Catastrophe (No Camp July 4)
This delightfully absurd play introduces us to some likable, goofy high school students who must live — briefly at least — without their omnipresent cell phones.Nerd Stevie is frustrated that Stella, the girl of his dreams and the leader of the Cool Kids, won’t acknowledge him, so he devises a way to disable all the cell phones in town. With no phones, everyone must — gasp! — talk to one another. Utilizing projections, sound effects, and video, a funny and randomly weird adventure ensues. The Cool Kids try to solve the cell phone mystery, while Stevie and the other Nerds cluelessly try to prevent them from learning the truth. Along the way they encounter wild animals at a suburban park, hostile squirrels, a trio of Fosse dancers, singing Puritans, touchy beat poets, and a chicken on the lam.
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 8:30am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)*
Price: $770 Early Bird Deal | $815 After January 31st
June 17-June 28, 2025: Tech Camp The Great Cellphone Catastrophe
With just two weeks to bring together all of the technical elements of a show, campers are challenged to bring their best, most creative selves to camp each day. Campers will focus on exploring technical skills including scenic design, costuming, stage management, and more. By the second week of camp, campers will be ready to present their designs to the public and run a seamless production of The Great Cellphone Catastrophe from behind the scenes. Camp concludes with two fully staged performances.
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 8:30am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)*
Price: $770 Early Bird Deal | $815 After January 31st
June 30 - July 18, 2025: Stage Door Aladdin Jr. (No camp July 4)
The story you know and love has been given the royal treatment! Aladdin and his three friends, Babkak, Omar, and Kassim, are down on their luck until Aladdin discovers a magic lamp and the Genie who has the power to grant three wishes. With expanded characters, new songs, and more thrills, this new adaptation of the beloved story will open up “a whole new world” for young performers! Camp concludes with two fully staged performances.
This immersive camp experience will give students a glimpse of what it’s like to work as a theatre professional. Mornings are spent sharpening performance skills. In the afternoons, students put these skills into action, collaborating with other artists in the daily rehearsal process. This program will conclude with final performances.
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 8:30am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)*
Price: $1,195 Early Bird Deal | $1,265 After January 31st
June 30 - July 18, 2025: Tech Camp Aladdin Jr. (No camp July 4)
With just three weeks to bring together all of the technical elements of a show, you’ll be challenged to bring your best, most creative self to camp every day. You’ll focus on exploring technical skills including scenic design, costuming, stage management, and more. By the third week of camp, you’ll be ready to present your designs to the public and run a seamless production of Aladdin from behind the scenes.
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 8:30am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)*
Price: $1,195 Early Bird Deal | $1,265 After January 31st
July 21-August 1, 2025: Stage Door The Dumbest Play Ever
Wow! This has to be the worst title ever for a play, right? Unless... maybe not? In a series of silly scenes that will have us laughing at the “dumbness” in everything, the real question in the end is about what matters most. And while we all can do dumb, goofy things at times (maybe a lot of the time!), we all offer something of value as well. Despite its name, this play smartly poses pertinent questions like: Is Artificial Intelligence smart or dumb? Is a tri-fork an amazing brainstorm or just another silly idea? And why are really good answers on a quiz show somehow wrong? Perhaps Mabel’s Meditative Yoga Class is what we need to just let it all go and not worry whether any of this is smart or dumb or silly or weird, because it’s definitely all of the above! Demonstrating that we can all see a bit of ourselves in this play, the opening scene has the playwright himself as a character making fun of his own dumb ideas — this very play possibly being one of them! Players and the audience join in the fun with these ditzy characters through eight more scenes with cast sizes ranging from 2 to 8. No one will walk away from this show without feeling both a little bit ‘dummer’ and a lot more smarter!
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 8:30am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)*
Price: $850 Early Bird Deal | $900 After January 31st
July 21-August 1, 2025: Tech Camp The Dumbest Play Ever
With just two weeks to bring together all of the technical elements of a show, you’ll be challenged to bring your best, most creative self to camp every day. You’ll focus on exploring technical skills including scenic design, costuming, stage management, and more. By the second week of camp, you’ll be ready to present your designs to the public and run a seamless production of The Dumbest Playever from behind the scenes.
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 8:30am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)*
Price: $850 Early Bird Deal | $900 After January 31st
July 28-August 1, 2025 Combat & Adventure Acting for the Stage
Ever wonder how actors are able to fight ferociously on stage show after show without so much as a scratch? Well, here is your chance to find out! Watch as we open your student’s eyes to the magic that is staged combat and movement. Campers will leave with the skills necessary to begin their climb to the Stage Combat big leagues! Camp concludes with a Final Share for family on the last day.
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 9:00am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)*
Price: $425 Early Bird Deal | $450 After January 31st
August 4-8, 2025: The Ultimate Audition Experience
Join us for the opportunity to develop your performance skills, grow your confidence, and showcase your talent in our one week audition experience camp. Actors will explore character development, scene analysis, and acting techniques through multiple scripts before choosing a scene to prepare. This is the week to elevate your performance abilities with the guidance of Encore's professional teaching artists through intensive focus on scene work.
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 9:00am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Encore @ St. Andrews (4000 Lorcom Ln Arlington, VA 22207)
Price: $425 Early Bird Deal | $450 After January 31st
August 11-22, 2025: Usher a Totally Teen Comedy
The works of Edgar Allan Poe are bone-chilling, dark, depressing — nevermore, quoth the raven! This skillful adaptation takes a grand mix of Poe’s writing and characters and weaves them together into a teen-savvy comedy loosely based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” but with more laughs and a much brighter ending. After the bus breaks down on a dark and stormy night, a bunch of high school students on a field trip are forced to spend the night in the spooky house of Usher. But they’re not alone! The spirits of Usher ancestors haunt the halls, cursed to stay trapped in the house forever, unless someone helps the last surviving Usher find the will to truly live life. Along with a healthy dose of entertaining teen drama, Usher touches on some weighty issues that haunt the nightmares of most teens — isolation, loneliness, suicide, and peer pressure. But lighten up, it’s a comedy after all! With characters drawn from classics such as “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Tell Tale Heart,” “Annabel Lee,” and some lesser-known works, there are countless winks, nudges, and nods to the Master of Horror. The House of Usher doesn’t fall at the end in this show, but Usher will bring down yours!
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Extended hours available 9:00am - 10:00am, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Encore @ St. Andrews (4000 Lorcom Ln Arlington, VA 22207)
Price: $850 Early Bird Deal | $900 After January 31st
Students will experience 30-minute sample classes of Encore’s award-winning camps. Parents and students will have the opportunity to meet teaching artists and Encore staff. Teens ages 16 and older can learn about our camp job opportunities!
PreK Camp Sampler for ages 3-5 (10:15-10:45)
Saturday, January 11, 2024 | 10am-11:30am
Encore @ Cherrydale
Summer 2025 at a Glance
Dates | Ages 3-5 | Ages 5-9 It's Elementary | Ages 9-12 | Ages 12-15 Stage Door + Tech Camp | Enroll |
June 23-27, 2025 | The Great Cellphone Castastrophe (Part 1) | ||||
June 30-July 3, 2025 | The Great Cellphone Castastrophe (Part 2) OR Aladdin Jr. (Part 1) | ||||
July 7-11, 2025 | Aladdin Jr. (Part 2) | ||||
July 14-18, 2025 | Aladdin Jr. (Part 3) | ||||
July 21-25, 2025 | The Dumbest Play Ever (Part 1) | ||||
July 28-August 1, 2025 | The Dumbest Play Ever (Part 2) or Combat & Adventure Acting for the Stage | ||||
August 4-8, 2025 | The Ultimate Audition Experience | ||||
August 11-15, 2025 | Usher A Totally Teen Comedy (Part 1) | ||||
August 18-22, 2025 | Usher A Totally Teen Comedy (Part 2) |
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