Encore Theatre Group’s programmatic activities are the productions of high quality live theater. This ranges from mainstage musical productions with four to five month production timeframes, to studio series productions aimed at highschoolers and young adults, as well as a young players program aimed at elementary students.

Our services include Field Trip Opportunities for students from all over Los Angeles County to attend, and our Jr Counselor training program aimed at Middle and High School Students to encourage leadership and on the job training through staff positions in our summer camps.

Encore provides our field trip performance tickets at a greatly reduced price to local schools and works with the Los Angeles Police Department to provide free tickets to more than 1500 children per year. This service and partnership has been thriving for over 8 years and Encore was thrilled to be one of the first theaters to welcome students back to live performances in the Spring of 2022 – with masking and vaccination policies in place. Through this partnership we welcome students who have never seen live theater and do not have the financial means to attend many of Los Angeles’s professional theater venues. Students come in from South Los Angeles, Compton, Watts, Wilmington, and more to enjoy a day at the theater and see their peers on stage.

Our Junior Counselor training program also returned this summer as we came out of the strict shutdowns of the COVID pandemic. Students ages 13-17 who had previously participated in Encore’s programs were invited to complete an application process and to tell Encore how they would be able to encourage and mentor summer camp participants.
All our programming has been revised to focus on theater education by developing artistic and educational learning outcomes and intentionally aligning activities to those outcomes.