Shea’s Performing Arts Center and iTheatrics join forces to offer schools and arts organizations the opportunity to participate in Shea’s Junior Theater Celebration. Traditionally, all organizations and schools that produce a musical with upper elementary and middle school students in the greater Buffalo area are invited to apply.

Interested organizations and schools should submit the registration form using the link below. Registration will officially open on Monday, November 25th, 2025, at 9:00am. Registrations will be accepted until all spaces are filled. An official deadline will be announced. Questions about the Junior Theater Celebration should be directed to Arts Engagement Coordinator, Alicia Rainey at arainey@sheas.org.

Founded in 2006, iTheatrics is the world’s leading authority on musical theatre education. They adapt Broadway musicals for young people to perform and have over one hundred different titles currently available. It is estimated that over 36 million people attend a performance of an iTheatrics adaptation each year, which is three times the number of people who see a Broadway show. Additionally each year iTheatrics trains thousands of teachers to become skilled musical theatre educational practitioners, and works to build sustainable musical theatre programs in underserved schools across the world with the goal of making the world a better place, one musical at a time.