Encore Stage & Studio
Cherrydale United Methodist Church, 3701 Lorcom Ln, Arlington, VA 22207
About
Encore Stage & Studio offers theatre games, storytelling, movement, imaginative play, acting, musical theatre, and performance and production experiences. Participants can act, sing, dance, and create, and may also take part in backstage tours, meet-the-cast access, and teamwork-focused activities. The program also provides private voice and acting lessons, as well as school residency programs and touring productions that go directly into schools.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm; box office opens 1 hour before showtime
Encore Stage & Studio was founded in 1967 as The Children’s Theatre of Arlington. Its mission is to make high-quality theatre education and performance opportunities accessible to children and families while helping young people build creativity, confidence, empathy, and connection through the arts. Encore’s professional educators, teaching artists, and production teams help children develop performance skills.
Encore Stage & Studio serves families in Arlington, Alexandria, Washington DC, and McLean. It runs school residency programs for Arlington and Alexandria elementary schools and touring productions that go directly into schools. The organization offers performing arts for kids across the DC metro without charging families to participate in school-year productions and works to remove barriers through free productions, scholarships, fee reductions, and Passport Program support. Its youth-only productions follow a “theatre by kids, for kids” philosophy, and every production role onstage, backstage, front of house, and technical belongs to a student. Programming includes summer theatre camps, weekend classes, after-school programs, holiday mini-camps, private lessons in voice and acting, school residency programs, and touring productions, with weekend and Monday classes organized by age group and experience level. Holiday mini-camps on school-off days have run for more than 15 years across Arlington and Alexandria.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm; box office opens 1 hour before showtime
Encore Stage & Studio was founded in 1967 as The Children’s Theatre of Arlington. Its mission is to make high-quality theatre education and performance opportunities accessible to children and families while helping young people build creativity, confidence, empathy, and connection through the arts. Encore’s professional educators, teaching artists, and production teams help children develop performance skills.
Encore Stage & Studio serves families in Arlington, Alexandria, Washington DC, and McLean. It runs school residency programs for Arlington and Alexandria elementary schools and touring productions that go directly into schools. The organization offers performing arts for kids across the DC metro without charging families to participate in school-year productions and works to remove barriers through free productions, scholarships, fee reductions, and Passport Program support. Its youth-only productions follow a “theatre by kids, for kids” philosophy, and every production role onstage, backstage, front of house, and technical belongs to a student. Programming includes summer theatre camps, weekend classes, after-school programs, holiday mini-camps, private lessons in voice and acting, school residency programs, and touring productions, with weekend and Monday classes organized by age group and experience level. Holiday mini-camps on school-off days have run for more than 15 years across Arlington and Alexandria.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
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