Junior theater festival

Produced by iTheatrics and sponsored by Music Theatre International and Disney Musicals, the Junior Theater Festival is the biggest and best festival dedicated to young people and musical theatre. The Junior Theater Festival brings together people from all aspects of theater, ranging from students and teachers to Broadway professionals, under one roof to celebrate outstanding student musical theatre productions. The festival offers an enthusiastic environment for students and teachers to interact with thousands of others who share their passion for musical theater. Each group performs a selection from a Broadway Junior or KIDS Collection musical for professional adjudication by a distinguished panel of international theater professionals. Groups participate in interactive workshops lead by Broadway and West End professionals, meet celebrities like Zac Efron (JTF 2007 guest) Skylar Astin, Stephen Schwartz (and many more!) plus enjoy professional development, fellowship, and attend a world-class professional production.

Plaza Academy at JTF

Every year Plaza Academy students attend The Junior Theater Festival (JTF). 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.

Plaza Academy has attended JTF eight times, winning awards for excellence each year. Plaza Academy has been honored to win four Excellence In Dance Awards, one Excellence in Acting Award, one Excellence in Music Award, one Inspiration Award, many Individual Performer Awards, and one Outstanding Production Award.

Plaza Academy ShowCo

This group of students grades ages 8+ will take a cut to the Junior Theater Festival in California (JTF West. This group is NOT a weekly class. They will audition in the summer and meet for rehearsals once a month, and then several times a month as JTF draws closer.

This fun and fast paced mixed-age and mixed experience level group will enjoy preparing a 15-minute JTF cut from an upbeat Junior Production!

Plaza Academy Senior Company

Senior company is our performing group for advanced musical theater students. This group will perform a full production of their junior show in the fall, and then continue on to JTF Atlanta in January. The fall production will all be done in JTF style, focusing on physicality and character development instead of using sets and costumes. The weekly Senior Company class will delve into advanced musical theater technique that will push the serious Musical Theatre student and challenge them in all aspects of their performing.

Senior Company is an audition-only class. Students interested in this class should submit an audition by following this link.